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WEATHER: May 12-18
Tuesday: Mostly sunny with a high near 90. Northeast wind 7 to 10 miles per hour.
Adams County commissioners release third round of grants
OTHELLO — The Adams County commissioners have authorized a third round of grant money to support small businesses and nonprofit groups, which will be distribut…
Remodeling project underway at Royal Middle and High schools
ROYAL CITY — Bleachers in the Royal High School gym are gone, so is one locker room and the footings are in for new classrooms at Royal Middle School.
Mike Garza re-elected as Othello School Board president
OTHELLO — Mike Garza was re-elected — on a 4-0 vote during the regular school board meeting Dec. 7 — for another one-year term as Othello School Board president.
First 1,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine arrive in Moses Lake
After traveling cross country, around 2,000 miles in all, in a container colder than the interior of Antarctica, almost 1,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine …
Buildout delayed for sections of Grant PUD fiber optic network
Delays in material delivery and obtaining permits mean some customers will wait longer than anticipated to hook up to the Grant County PUD fiber optic network.
Othello passes $21.6m budget for 2021
OTHELLO — The Othello City Council on Monday unanimously approved the city’s roughly $21.6 million budget for 2021.
Information sought in Beverly homicide
BEVERLY — Grant County Sheriff’s detectives are seeking the public’s help in their homicide investigation of a Beverly man whose body was found Dec. 8.
Grant PUD commissioners approve 2021 budget
EPHRATA — Grant County PUD customers will pay the same for electricity in 2021 they’re paying in 2020. Utility district commissioners unanimously approved a 2021 budget Nov. 24 that did not include billing increase…
Priest Rapids workers asked to stay at dam as COVID-19 numbers rise locally
PRIEST RAPIDS DAM — One of the many effects of the coronavirus outbreak is a group of workers at Priest Rapids Dam are being asked to stay on site seven days a…
Samaritan’s frontline nurses have adapted for the long haul during the coronavirus pandemic
MOSES LAKE — Usually, Samaritan Healthcare’s staff would have been able to celebrate 73-year-old Sandy Martin, an intensive care unit nurse, for her extraordin…
Confluence is building a $3 million clinic in Moses Lake
MOSES LAKE — Construction started on a $3 million Confluence Health facility on Yonezawa Boulevard last week. It will have physicians in three specialties and …
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Big Bend briefly locked down due to nearby robbery; police seek information
Big Bend Community College locked down briefly Monday morning after reports of a robbery at Airport Grocery Mart on Patton Boulevard, near the campus, according to a statement made on the college’s Facebook page.
Moses Lake Sleeping Center sees some use during first weekend
MOSES LAKE — There were around 30 occupants at the Moses Lake Sleeping Center, some of which were repeats, during its opening weekend, according to a city offi…
First Grant County inmate tests positive for COVID-19
GRANT COUNTY — An inmate at the Grant County Jail tested positive for the coronavirus, the first infection of an inmate in the jail, said Grant County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Kyle Foreman in an …