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Cashmere DUI driver sentenced to community service
WENATCHEE — A Cashmere man who injured a passenger in a DUI rollover last summer must serve 30 days of community service. Shane T. McCormick, 23, flipped his Kia after midnight last June on Mission Creek Road outside Cashmere. His passenger suffered a broken arm, neck and shoulderblade. Chelan County sheriff’s deputies said he was intoxicated at the time of the crash, with a blood alcohol level of 0.2, more than two and a half times the legal limit.
Bridgeport School District requests city help with farm project
BRIDGEPORT –The school district has reached out to the city council with a request that the city cover the cost of utility water hookup for the school farm. City clerk/treasurer Judy Brown said the cost to complete the hookup is about $3,000. Mayor Sergio Orozco said he learned from...
Free spay/neuter clinic comes to Agriplex May 6-9
BREWSTER – For about two-and-a-half years now, Brewster resident Mike Ostrom has waged a one-man campaign to capture homeless cats in and around the city so they can be spayed or neutered, receive vaccinations and medical attention before being returned to their point of capture. As of this writing Ostrom has succeeded in rounding up 177 felines, 72 of those within the city limits. What Ostrom is doing for Brewster is scheduled to happen countywide – for four days anyway – at the Okanogan fairgrounds.
Chelan City Council test drives new Transportation Benefit District
CHELAN – The city council put the pedal to the metal on its new Transportation Benefit District (TBD) during the regular bi-monthly meeting on April 23. The first order of business was the election of Mayor Erin McCardle as the designated driver (chairperson) of the TBD’s governing body.
Brewster passed over for charging station funding
BREWSTER – It appears that it may be some time before the city has its very own electric vehicle charging station (EVS) like Pateros and Bridgeport have. Director of Finance Misty Ruiz informed the city council at its April 18 regular monthly meeting that a city application submitted to the Department of Commerce (DOC) for a portion of available EVS funding did not score high enough to make the cut this time around.
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