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Celebrating National Library Week
What brings you joy? For me, it’s driving through our beautiful region to visit our branch libraries, serving ice …
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…
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.
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.
Reader upset by WSU coach's salary
So help me understand.
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.