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Updated 12 hours, 40 minutes ago

MLSD hiring 7 elementary assistant principals, financially unrelated to classroom staffing

MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake School District is moving to add assistant principals at seven of its largest elementary s…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Thai Cuisine closing in Moses Lake

MOSES LAKE — There’s a word Jamsri Piturachsatit frequently uses to describe Moses Lake.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Soap Lake park plan unveiled Feb. 28

SOAP LAKE — Soap Lake residents are being invited to get their first look at the plan to remodel Smokiam Park at 1 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Rise Academy, 120 East Main Street.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
REC looks at restarting Moses Lake production

FORNEBU, Norway — REC Silicon President and CEO Tore Torvund said the company is considering restarting production at its Moses Lake polysilicon facility following the conclusion of the Phase 1 trade agreement betw…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Suspects found with mail from around region

Suspects found with mail from around region

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
GOP activist sees opportunities on West Side

MOSES LAKE — One of the most important things Grant County Republicans can do is to support GOP candidates running for election on the west side of the state, …

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Quincy Valley Allied Arts to present ‘Mary Poppins’

It is the company’s most ambitious production yet

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Grant PUD under budget for 2019

Report reflects less capital project spending

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Applications open for Citizen Academy

MOSES LAKE — Applications have opened for the fourth annual Columbia Basin Multi-Agency Citizen Academy, which offers a chance for civilians to learn about law enforcement work from officers from across Grant Count…

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
MLSD seeks to make best use of schools in redrawing boundaries

MOSES LAKE — Superintendent Josh Meek said the key to making any redrawing of the Moses Lake School District’s elementary school attendance boundaries work is …

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Moses Lake man appeals sentence

EPHRATA — A Moses Lake man has filed to appeal a nearly nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence after being convicted at the end of January for accidentally shooting his girlfriend in the back.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Senior moment: Jessie Loera wraps up collegiate career

SPOKANE — Jessie Loera said it felt like yesterday when she committed to Gonzaga.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
No cases of Wuhan coronavirus in Grant County ... yet

EPHRATA — While there currently are no cases of the Wuhan coronavirus in Grant County or Washington state, officials across the state are “preparing for the ev…

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Congressional Art Competition open for submissions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — High school students in Washington’s 4th Congressional District, represented by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., are invited to submit entries to…

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Concert to benefit a local church

Violinist Jaime Jorge to visit Moses Lake

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Man arrested after raid on alleged cockfighting ring

Illegal narcotics also seized