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There will be a power outage in certain parts of Washington for approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours from 1-3 p.m. today.
According to a city release, city crews will be making a necessary repair to utility lines, which will necessitate a planned power outage.
This will affect utility customers on the following streets:
All of D Street [...]
I’ve heard mixed reports of where power is on and where power is out in Washington. The News office has power but evidently some businesses have been out. We must be on a different circuit.
I just called city manager Kurt Hassler and he said one one circuit still out. A switch has gone bad at [...]
Any doubts that Washington citizens wanted to replaced their pool were squashed with tonight’s vote result. The 1% sales tax passed:
Yes – 292 votes
No – 139 votes
That is overwhelming and nobody should complain that the vote was too close for broad agreement.
Doug Bott, of Palmer, beat Washington banker Tim Matlack in the championship game of the hard bat ping pong tournament at The Horn in Washington. The pongers dueled with totally different styles – Matlack was a cool customer with his left hand in his pocket, a calm demeanor yet deadly accurate with his offense. Bott [...]
We are about a month away from the spring elections.
The Washington City Council has three positions open (Randy Wyatt, Tom Dragastin and Meyler Gibbs) with four candidates running – Meyler Gibbs, Melvin Brungardt, Mike Uhlrich and Ryan Kern.
What are your thoughts on this race?
What issues do you think the candidates need to be ready to [...]
Dawn Kramer said:
I know that years ago Bill Overbeck had said he would run a youth center if he could find help. At the time he couldn’t find enough people to volunteer (please correct me if I’m wrong on this). This is something I would really like to re-look at. I think a youth center is [...]
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