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Catch these shows at the Gorge Amphitheatre this summer
QUINCY, Wash. - As the weather warms up, more and more people are thinking ahead to outdoor concert season. The Gorge Amphitheatre (754 Silica Rd NW, Quincy, Grant County) will be having its first show of the season on Saturday, May 25, which is Memorial Day Weekend. Catch these shows...
Ephrata Senior Center gets new wheels
EPHRATA — The Ephrata Senior Center will ride a little better now, thanks to a grant from the Paul Lauzier Foundation that bought the center a new van. The van replaces a 14-passenger bus, said center Manager Kathy Anderson. “It traveled so rough that nobody wanted to ride on...
Grant County Sheriff's Office searching for information on rape case, suspect known to frequent Yakima
GRANT CO., Wash. -- Grant County Sheriff's Office is searching for more information on 41-year-old Isidro Cruz-Amaro, of Mattawa and believe there are more victims that haven't come forward. It is also known Cruz-Amaro frequents the Yakima area.
Washington Trust to cut ribbon on new location
EPHRATA — Washington Trust Bank will celebrate the opening of its new Ephrata location with a ribbon cutting at 10:30 a.m. May 23 at the new branch, 261 Basin St. SW. The former Washington Trust branch did business at 12 Basin St. NW for about 80 years, according to a press release. The new branch opened Feb. 5.
Ephrata Chamber to host community clean-up day
EPHRATA — The Ephrata Chamber of Commerce will be conducting a community clean-up and beautification event May 18 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Volunteers will be cleaning parking lots and sidewalks, picking up garbage and pulling weeds along Basin Street from Second Avenue SW to Second Avenue NW — from Les Schwab Tires to just before Tequila’s Mexican restaurant —during the event.
Late outlaw gang leader's sons sentenced for 'pumping poison' into Eastern Washington
A drug dealer responsible for much of the fentanyl outbreak in the Tri-Cities and Eastern Washington was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison. Kyle Rae Campbell along with his younger brother "distributed a shocking amount of deadly illicit fentanyl into the Tri-Cities area," said Eastern Washington U.S. Attorney Vanessa Waldref after the sentencing at the federal building in Richland.
Little girl, big fight
MOSES LAKE — The parking lot at Third Avenue and Alder Street took on a life of its own Saturday, as businesses and volunteers turned out in support of a very sick little girl. Eleanor Marcum, who is almost 4, was diagnosed Feb. 28 with stage 4 rhabdomyosarcoma, said...
Metal by the lake: Springfest offers hard rock and R&B lineup and family fun in the park
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake Spring Festival just keeps getting bigger and bigger. “A representative from the county called us (after last year’s Springfest) and said, ‘Hey, just so you guys know, your fest is no joke.’” said Spring Festival Committee Member Lori Valdez. “They counted 57,000 attendees from Thursday to Sunday at our festival.”
Grant PUD to buy land in Ephrata for service center
Commissioners on April 9 unanimously authorized Grant PUD to purchase 34 acres from Grant County for $525,000 for a new Ephrata Service Center. The parcel is near the Ephrata Walmart, south of State Route 282. The site is east of the old Ephrata Raceway property. Grant County has agreed to install a traffic roundabout at the nearby intersection of SR 282 and Nat Washington Way. The site was chosen over several other properties evaluated for cost, infrastructure, size, land use and constraints.
Breezy sunshine across Eastern Washington and Oregon for the start of May
A deep upper low is slowly drifting east by southeast across the region through the entire week after stalling offshore to our northwest. A ridge to the southwest is pushing hard against these incoming lows keeping the pressure gradient tight and elevating wind speeds into the 15-25 mph range with gusts 25-35 mph and in some places, like the Kittitas Valley and Columbia River Gorge, gusts will be above 35 mph.
Historic view: Things have changed a lot over Lillian Tokumaga’s life
MOSES LAKE — Lillian Tokumaga was born in 1924, into a much different world. Tokumaga turned 100 last week, and has lived in Moses Lake for 76 years. (She’s always liked Moses Lake, she said.) But before moving to Moses Lake her life took her halfway around the world, into some very challenging places.
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