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Updated 1 day 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, 5 months ago
Mattawa PD hiring officers, accepting reserves

MATTAWA — The Mattawa Police Department is hiring, was the report given by Police Chief Joe Harris at a regular Mattawa City Council meeting on Thursday, Dec. …

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Child care issues cost workers, employers

MOSES LAKE — One in three Washington workers with young children has had to turn down a job or a promotion because it is so difficult to find quality, affordable childcare in this state.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Mr. Leighton’s last Noel: Beloved music teacher announces retirement

MOSES LAKE — At 3 p.m. Tuesday, there are only a few hours left before showtime, and Dan Leighton flits about Moses Lake High School’s gym trying to get everyt…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Moses Lake Visitor Center moves

Now at Moses Lake Museum & Art Center

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Influenza tests come up positive in Adams County

OTHELLO — The Adams County Health Department announced that residents have been testing positive for Influenza A and B.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Big Bend, Yakima Valley colleges collaborate on class

Unmanned aerial systems class provides distance learning opportunity

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Getting in the holiday shopping spirit

‘Martin... Joel Martin...”

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Residential customers surveyed every two years

Residential customers surveyed every two years

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
MLIRD moves forward on lake quality

MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District will spend as much as $20,000 to examine a pair of options to improve the quality of the wat…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Grant PUD to have meetings on Royal power line

Meeting dates, times to be announced

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Basin briefs for Dec. 11, 2019

WASHINGTON D.C. — The House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on H.R. 5038, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, of which Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, is the lead Republican sponsor.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Miracle on Main Street

EPHRATA — Santa will be stopping by Ephrata for breakfast Saturday, and he’ll be back for the evening parade. The annual town Christmas celebration, “Miracle o…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Festive trees at Festival of Trees

25th annual fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Tip-a-Cop: Law enforcement to serve diners at Rock Top Thursday

MOSES LAKE — Diners walking into Rock Top Burgers and Brew Thursday shouldn’t be alarmed by police activity in the restaurant — Santa, who will also be in atte…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Port to issue $10 million in bonds for wastewater treatment expansion

MOSES LAKE — Commissioners overseeing the Port of Moses Lake voted unanimously to issue up to $10 million in bonds to expand the port’s industrial wastewater treatment plant.