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WENATCHEE - Chelan PUD set aside nearly $3 million from the utility’s Public Power Benefit Program to advance three projects:
• Wenatchee Riverfront Park, $1.51 million: This project will build a new splash pad and pavilion as part of a three-phase masterplan at Riverfront Park. The PUD and City of...
PATEROS – The Pateros City Council held two public hearings and passed two ordinances and one resolution as its regular monthly meeting on Monday, April 17.
A public hearing on the 2023 budget amendments including:
• General Fund - $10,000 for firefighter compensation, repair and maintenance.
•...
OKANOGAN - Whether it’s healthcare, education, remote work or just chilling out with a streaming service, the world is getting more connected with broadband, and Okanogan County is no exception. Our local broadband action team (BAT) helps facilitate planning and fund sourcing opportunities to bring...
BREWSTER – Ice pigging and a well house project change order that saved the city $8,130 were among items on the Brewster City Council agenda for the regular monthly meeting last Thursday, April 20. Mayor Art Smyth said the change order involved removing a concrete valley gutter that was hindering...
BREWSTER – Police Chief Marcos Ruiz solved a one-man crime wave and recovered four stolen vehicles – three from Brewster Flats and one from downtown Brewster – taken by a suspect who confessed to the Chief that “he likes to drive.”
Ruiz mentioned the stolen vehicles as part of his report to the...
PATEROS – A Pateros homeowner asked the Pateros City Council to revisit its nightly rental zoning code for R-1 zoned properties during the regular monthly meeting of the city council on April 17.
Katie Sloss, who owns a home at 123 Chris Street with her husband, Paul Servino, read from a prepared...
BRIDGEPORT – Vehicle parking on city rights-of-way, the growing number of event applications, and cemetery policy and practices took up a fair share of discussion as the regular monthly meeting of the Bridgeport City Council last Wednesday, April 19.
RV park host Sue Stanley updated the park status...
In 2022, the Columbia River Drug Task Force began receiving and collecting information from School Resource Officers and other sources of adult drug dealers providing a variety of drugs to juvenile students in the Wenatchee and Leavenworth areas. The drugs that were being given and sold included...
OLYMPIA – A six-year campaign waged by trauma victim Deana Knowlton took a big step forward with the passage of SHB 1501 that was unanimously approved by the state Senate 49-0 on April 10. HB 1501 passed the House earlier on February 28 by a unanimous 97-0 vote.
The bill is now on Governor Inslee’s...
BRIDGEPORT - City of Bridgeport council member Matthew Schuh recently earned a Certificate of Municipal Leadership from the Association of Washington Cities (AWC).
AWC’s Certificate of Municipal Leadership program recognizes city and town elected officials for accomplishing training in five core...
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