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Updated 1 week, 6 days ago

Celebrating National Library Week

What brings you joy? For me, it’s driving through our beautiful region to visit our branch libraries, serving ice …

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader backs Mick Hansen

Is anyone paying attention? The $300,000 dredge the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District is so proud of was drug through rocks and mud so it could be removed from the lake last week. Why wasn't it remo…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
EDITORIAL: Well water tax

If you have a well, brace for a $200 annual surcharge - meaning tax, since you have no choice but to pay it.

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader voting for Bill Bailey

We are faced with an important decision. The election for director of the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District will help determine the future of our lake.

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader upset by WSU coach's salary

So help me understand.

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader thinks Bailey is best for director

As a local business owner, member of the Moses Lake Planning Commission and a property owner within the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District (MLIRD) boundaries, I encourage voters to elect Bill Bailey …

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader supports Mick Hansen for commission

I read in the newspaper where Curt Carpenter of the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District is going to get a pay raise of $100,000 a year. With a downturned economy, what would make the board decide on s…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader supports Hansen

Moses Lake is the fifth largest lake in Washington State with up to 18 miles in length and over 120 miles of shore line covering 6500 acres. The current Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District (MLIRD) bud…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader endorses Bill Bailey

After attending more than a few Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District (MLIRD) meetings, over the past two years, we have come to several conclusions. First, the MLIRD board and staff are doing a truly a…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
GUEST EDITORIAL: Hansen writes of forum, saving the lake

MOSES LAKE - To the people that attended the candidates' forum on Tuesday, Nov. 29, sponsored by the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce,  I want to explain my not being there.

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Readers encourage people to vote

Please Moses Lake when is enough enough? I am writing in regards to the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District election. The district employs five maybe six full time people. They maintain a 6,000 acre l…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader finds flaw in Associated Press story

A recent Associated Press story you published talks about how some in the livestock industry want to change the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). They think it will drive down the price of corn used as feed. As a corn…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
GUEST EDITORIAL: Covey responds to Hansen about MLIRD

MOSES LAKE - Let's get right to the point. It has been said if one hears a lie long enough, they begin to believe it is the truth. To be very honest, I'm tired of the lies, half truths and misleading statements fro…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader likes Mick Hansen for director

People owning a parcel of land in the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District have a unique opportunity. This opportunity is not just to cast a vote, but to have our votes guarded and protected in a way t…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader wants to see Bailey as commissioner

I am writing this letter in support of Bill Bailey as Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District (MLIRD) director.  I have enjoyed a variety of aquatic activities on Moses Lake since 1975.  I have followed c…

Updated 14 years, 4 months ago
Reader supports Bill Bailey

This letter is for the people eligible to vote in the upcoming Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District (MLIRD) election on Dec. 13.