Ephrata native joins police force

Ephrata Police Department Chief Kurt Adkins, right, swears in new EPD Officer Chandler Gribble, 26, at a meeting of the Ephrata City Council on Wednesday. Gribble, a native of Ephrata whose wife Aja works as a Grant County Sheriff’s deputy, said being a police officer in Ephrata “is everything I hoped it would be.”
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