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Meet Twizzle
Twizzle is going to work her way into your hizzle … er, heart. She’s an adult Australian cattle dog, blue heeler a…
Farmer Consumer Awareness Day draws hundreds
With harvest season well under way and farmers hard at work preparing all of the produce that makes its way onto dinner plates across America, Quincy held its …
Annexation shelved
E-mail from Cheryl
Growing conditions in the Columbia Basin
The Columbia Basin of Washington State is a place of lush gardens, native and drought-tolerant vegetation and a variety of crops grown to feed our country and sent to other countries as well.
What to do about corn suckers?
My father grew corn in his garden, but I never paid much attention to how he tended to it. I just ate it when it was ripe.
Columbia Valley Administration proposed
E-mail from Cheryl
The busy life of Miss India USA
MOSES LAKE — Sixty cities. Eleven U.S. states. And four countries.
Yonezawa students have a blast in the Basin
MOSES LAKE — We may not appreciate it all of the time, but the area we live in is full of rich beauty and countless sights to see. Three special visitors from …
It's fair and rodeo time
Today we offer a few Bits & Pieces of past Grant County Fairs and Rodeos. Enjoy.
Ephrata Eagles Car Show small but star-studded
EPHRATA — It wasn’t the biggest car show of the season, not by a long shot. But there was no shortage of enthusiasm at the 13th annual Ephrata Eagles car show …
Trailorboat made in Ephrata
OK, readers, we have a mystery on our hands. Karen Crook called me a week or so ago. She and her husband Clay are big car buffs, attending several car shows du…
Pruning clematis: It's complicated...
Clematis vines, like most roses, grow well in our part of the state. There are more than 200 hundred species, with many cultivars.
ML police, community join in lip-sync challenge
MOSES LAKE — When the Longview Police Department challenged the Moses Lake Police Department to do a lip-sync video, it was something the MLPD simply couldn’t …
Samaritan Hospital expands in 1949
OK, the facts are a bit sketchy from this article, but it was a beginning. The main photo this week is a blueprint of what was, apparently, the beginning of Sa…
Puncturevine: Tribulus terrestris
This week’s article will focus on one of the more common weeds in Grant County, puncturevine. A native of Europe, puncturevine grows in dry, gravelly or sandy sites like roadsides, rangeland, orchards and edges of …
Keeping cool is easier at the pool
MOSES LAKE — Okay, it is mid-July, so it’s reasonable to expect triple-digit temperatures. The question is, how to stay cool? Or at least, stay cooler?