Grant County looking at gun club lease

GRANT COUNTY — The Grant County commissioners will hold a public hearing on whether to renew Moses Lake Gun Club’s lease.

The hearing starts at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, May 18, in the commissioner’s hearing room in the Grant County Courthouse in Ephrata.

The club leases a building at the Grant County Fairgrounds, next to Paxson Drive in Moses Lake. The last lease the county could find for the club ran from 1998 to 2002, Commissioner Cindy Carter said.

The county found out about the lack of a lease, when the club asked to place a berm on the fairgrounds to help with noise, she said.

“There’s just been some complaints from people around there about the noise,” she said. “We thought this would be a great opportunity to get some public comment, and if everybody is happy we’ll probably renew it.”

The club has been paying $500 a year since 1998, Carter said. There aren’t any plans on the details for the new lease.

“We’re looking for organized public comment,” she said.

For more information, contact 509-754-2011.