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Animals in need of a home

QUINCY - It's a rainy Saturday afternoon as Jim Parmelee sits in the office of the Quincy Animal Shelter.

Soap Lake art show continues this weekend

SOAP LAKE - What does a sculpted clay dog's head have in common with a drawing of a hardware store?

Warden food pantry allegedly burglarized

WARDEN - Roughly 400 pounds of food was stolen from Warden's Community Food Pantry in an alleged burglary.

Data center tax break bill dies in House

OLYMPIA - A bill extending a temporary tax break for data centers' replacement servers died in the House during the final week of the Legislature's special session.

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McGowan supports positive direction

MOSES LAKE - Brian McGowan wants to retain his position 2 seat on the Moses Lake Port Commission because he cares about the community and wants to continue moving it in a positive direction.

Ready wants to see sweeping change

SOAP LAKE - Dave Ready is challenging incumbent Soap Lake Councilwoman JoAnne Rushton for position 7 because he wants the city to take a more pro-active approach to growth.

Mosquito district looks to expand

EPHRATA - A Grant County mosquito control district may start spraying the entire county to control the insect.

Former Republican chair still leading county Republicans

COULEE CITY – Coulee City's Dani Bolyard had to give up the chairmanship of the Grant County Republican Party in December of 2012 because of a change of residence, but she was back in political leadership almost immediately.

Manweller pushes for rural tax breaks

OLYMPIA - Boeing may have got a tax break, but now a local legislator wants to encourage businesses in rural areas too.

PUBLIC NOTICE - FRANKLIN COUNTY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Franklin County Planning and Building Department, determined to be the Lead Agency pursuant to the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) of 1971, as amended, and Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 197-11, has issued a Mitigated Determination of Non-Significance (MDNS) concerning the following proposed project:

Parhams retire from Basin Meats

County, REC Silicon settle property tax fight

EPHRATA - REC Silicon is entitled to a $16 million refund from Grant County for property taxes the Moses Lake plant paid in 2011, under a formalized settlement agreement announced this week between the two parties.

AstaReal celebrates plant completion

MOSES LAKE - Operations will soon get underway at AstaReal Technologies' Moses Lake manufacturing plant that will make an anti-inflammatory agent for health supplements.

People with chronic conditions need help to take advantage of Obamacare

Despite the significant improvements to our health care system for people with chronic conditions, like multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, or arthritis, there is still a lot of work to be done to realize the full potential of Obamacare.

Nethercutt visit promotes citizenship contest

MOSES LAKE - One of the fourth graders at Lakeview Terrace Elementary asked former U.S. Representative George Nethercutt if it was true what he heard, that the government was shut down for a while. Nethercutt confirmed the government was shut down for a few days, that it had happened before, and that it happened because the Congress and President Barack Obama couldn't agree how to spend the government's money.

Lonesome Larry has lots of friends

In 1992, a single male sockeye salmon managed to swim 900 miles from the mouth of the Columbia River to Redfish Lake in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, the end of his migratory journey. Biologists dubbed the sole survivor, "Lonesome Larry."

Glenn James Perrins

Glenn James Perrins, 68, passed away October 18, 2013, after a four-year battle with cancer. He lived a life of faith, love and commitment and was surrounded by his family at the time of his passing.

Shoreline rules still being developed

MOSES LAKE - The City of Moses Lake is about 90 percent through the draft for the Shoreline Master Program update, but many of the difficult issues, including buffers, setbacks and docks, still need tweaking.