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BREWSTER – The second annual Brewster Chamber of Commerce awards banquet honoring the city’s Citizen and Businesses of the Year will be held at Camperos Restaurant at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, March 14.
Earlier in the year citizens were invited to nominate their selections for Brewster Citizen of the...
Following a course safety meeting a group of snowmobilers begins to string out along the first leg of the run.
MANSFIELD – Unlike last year’s overcast sky and stiff wind conditions, this year’s annual Mansfield Sportman Club Snowmobile Run was greeted with perfect sunny weather and ideal conditions for a day out in the open with fellow enthusiasts last Sunday, March 3.
The doors to the club house located...
Town Hall panel was comprised of, from left: Schrier staffer and Congressional federal agency case worker Tyler Mackay; Clark Hansen, Bread For the World religious based charity; Connie Spitz, Northwest Harvest (food bank advocates); Wenatchee Mayor Frank Kuntz; 8th District Congresswoman Dr. Kim Schrier; Chelan County Commissioner Bob Bugert; Trini Mayo and Kurt Pearson of the USDA.
WENATCHEE -- A town hall meeting was held by newly elected 8th Congressional District Democrat Dr. Kim Schrier as Wenatchee Mayor Frank Kuntz emceed and hosted the event in the packed city hall council chambers meeting room Saturday, Feb., 23.
Kuntz announced a new Congressional office has been...
13th District Representative Tom Dent, rear, shown here with high school FFA students, is sponsor of House Bill 1283 supporting county fair funding.
OKANOGAN – Time is running out for local county fair supporters and promoters to add their voices to a pair of bills currently making their way through the State Legislative mill.
House Bill 1283 sponsored by 13th District Representative Tom Dent and companion Senate Bill 5277 sponsored by 13th...
Special visitors at last Saturday’s Legion crab feed included, from left, Chris Brock, Ninth District Commander, Jim Pisa, second from right, National Vice Commander, and Ken Lee, right, National Executive Commander. Also pictured is Area Three Commander Denny Pittman, second from left, and Pateros senior Amanda Baird, holding her appreciation award for six years of working the annual feed.
BREWSTER – Even though it was held some weeks later than its normal January date, the annual crab feed put on by the Columbia 97 Post of the Brewster American Legion last Saturday, March 2, was another sellout as the limited number of tickets went fast to many already familiar with the palate-...
Graph courtesy of Okanogan County PUD
OKANOGAN – County power customers will see their electric base rates rise by 1.5 percent effective April 1, 2019, according to a recent announcement from the Okanogan County PUD.
The PUD Board of Commissioners approved the increase during the utility’s December 2018 budget approval for the...
The Pateros-Brewster-Bridgeport Senior Center honored Okanogan County Transportation and Nutrition Site Director Dorothy (Dot) Jess who retired last month after 24 years of service at the Senior Center. The Center served a custom-made cake with ice cream for the occasion and presented Jess with cards and gifts. She also received a dozen yellow roses from her daughter. Rose Guzman, left, cuts the retirement cake for Jess, center, as Senior Center President Kathy Lowry observes.
PATEROS – The contract for construction of Well House No. 4 in the downtown parking area that the city council hoped to award during a special morning meeting last Friday, Feb. 8, will be resubmitted for a second round of bids, said city administrator Jord Wilson.
Even though council members were...
BREWSTER – A special city council meeting was held at noon Friday, Feb. 8, to authorize Mayor Art Smyth to sign the contract for drilling of five test wells at locations around the city.
O’Connell Drilling of Brewster was the selected from three bidders to drill the test sites at locations...
Nattalie Cariker, Brewster Police Chief
BREWSTER – There was a time when burglars had to put in a little surveillance time casing a residence before pulling a job. Things like watching for newspapers piled up in front of the door, or mail spilling out of an overloaded mailbox were part of scouting residences for one where nobody was home...
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