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QUAD CITIES – March is Ag Month and what better time and place to bring food to the forefront of life’s other basic needs of air, water, and shelter. In The Quad Cities and Okanogan County, 2023 has been off to a rocky start where food supplies are concerned. Second Harvest food deliveries were...
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OLYMPIA — After successfully advancing through three Senate committees this session, Senate Bill 5001, sponsored by Sen. Brad Hawkins, has been approved unanimously by the Washington State Senate.
“This bill would give us the option of forming a second Public Facilities District, which would...
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WENATCHEE - The Columbia River Drug Task Force (CRDTF) reports a long-term human trafficking investigation that has resulted in the service of five search warrants at various locations across the state. In 2022, CRDTF detectives were made aware of two local massage parlors which were a front for...
Editor’s note: The following meeting summaries of the Board of Commissioners of Okanogan County (BOCC) for the second week of February, and the Board of Health meeting of Feb. 24, is taken from notes provided by County Watch (countywatch.org)
OKANOGAN -- The Board of Okanogan County Commissioners...
Darren Curtis Courtesy Darren Curtis
BREWSTER – The latest addition to the ranks of the Brewster Police Department comes with extensive experience in law enforcement. Darren Curtis, former Tonasket Police Chief and Okanogan County Sheriff’s deputy, joined the Brewster Police Department last November. He spent most of his career with...
BRIDGEPORT – About a year ago the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce got a new president following some years of dormancy when Carlos Henriquez, the co-pastor of the Foursquare Wellspring of Life Church, resurrected the organization with the goal of bringing more cooperation and communication between...
Don Childers Mike Maltais/QCH
BREWSTER – Lifelong Brewster resident Don Childers was selected to fill a Brewster City Council vacancy during the council’s regular monthly meeting on February 16. He was sworn in to his new position by city attorney Chuck Zimmerman. The vacancy occurred after the passing of former council member...
Zuni and Carlos Henriquez, co-pastors of the Bridgeport Wellspring of Life Church and food bank cut the ribbon at the new church in 2019. Courtesy Wellspring of Life Church
BRIDGEPORT – In a surprise announcement last week the co-founders of the current Bridgeport Food Bank headquartered at the Wellspring of Life Church at 1300 Foster Avenue said the food distribution service will cease operations immediately.
Church co-pastors Carlos and Zuni Henriquez, who re-...
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Sheriff Mike Morrison reports on February 22 no rescuers were sent into the avalanche scene near Colchuck Peak. Two avalanche experts from Northwest Avalanche Center deployed to the Colchuck area to assess the current avalanche hazard. The bodies of the climbers killed in the avalanche remain at...
Police, Fire, Health & Safety Committee member Chantel Poole Mike Maltais/QCH
PATEROS – A public hearing about city development standards was on the agenda of the regular monthly meeting of the Pateors City Council on Tuesday, Feb. 21. The hearing was held to review final project performance for the planning-only grant funded by a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)....
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