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-Continued from Oct. 26 The township of Kirby nestled into a pocket between rolling hills, a farming settlement of a few hundred people. Sam Morgant drove his wagon up the main street that ran...

Bright wooden splinters lay smashed into the dust. Sam Morgan knelt in his neighbor's empty corral, studying the prints. "Wilma and I stayed in Kirby with her sister last night," Orville Wilkins said....

ostal Service (USPS) mail carrier Dawn Jentz, serving this city, was injured while on her delivery route, in a rollover accident on October 6. Though injured, Jentz left the accident scene and walked...

Ten Years Ago Aug 7, 2013 Pomeroy Conservation District has hired Mike Denny as its new Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Cluster Coordinator. Mike comes to PCD from Walla Walla...

POMEROY–The Garfield County Transportation Authority (CTA) announced their new General Manager Jeff Ruchert, approved a Consolidated Grant Program, and discussed design planning for a bus barn and...

POMEROY–The Garfield County board of Commissioners (BOCC) discussed the problem of shot-up signs, approved several fund transfers, and discussed bids for a key code badge system for the courthouse...

POMEROY–The West Coast Baptist College's Revival Trio visited the Pomeroy Baptist Church on July 7. WCBC has sent out trios, quartets and sextets for several years, but this is the first time they...

POMEROY–The Garfield County Public Health District discussed the danger of spreading hemlock plants and approved three resolutions at their meeting on July 24. Two strains of hemlock were...

Ten Years Ago July 24, 2013 Stephanie West Renfro, PHS Class of 2008, broke the American National Powerlifting junior women's record in the deadlift Saturday with a lift of 380.25 lbs. The previous...

POMEROY–The Knights of Columbus held their annual pancake and sausage breakfast on Sunday morning, July 16, at the Holy Rosary Catholic School. The proceeds will benefit the Pomeroy Swim Team....

POMEROY-David Manring and Patricia Nicholson will exchange vows at a wedding staged at 36 Fairgrounds Road on July 17. A potluck reception will follow at the Garfield County Fairgr...

POMEROY–The Garfield County board of commissioners (BOCC) approved a request for funding at their meeting on June 20, and approved several agreements at their meeting on June 26. The commissioners...

POMEROY– "Glory Grove" a first novel written by local resident Gary Bye, has received the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award in the Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book (Fiction) category of...

POMEROY–The Garfield County Public Health District (GCPH) discussed the community health assessment, the Summer Market, and the Second Harvest mobile food bank at their meeting on June 20. The...

Ten Years Ago July 3, 2013 Garfield County Road Department Project Manager Rod Norland received the Washington State County Engineers Association's Program/Project Manager of the Year award at the...

POMEROY–The Port of Garfield County commissioners discussed a lapsed election at their meeting on June 6, and discussed the kitchen remodel at the United States Forest Service building and the end...

POMEROY–The Garfield County Transportation Authority (CTA) discussed funding for the 2023–25 biennium at their meeting on June 20. The CTA has received $680,900 from the Washington State...

Ten Years Ago June 26, 2013 By Doris Ann Landkammer Todd-Fifty years ago, in 1963, Alvin Landkammer talked to the VFW post about giving a scholarship to some of the graduating seniors to help pay...

POMEROY–The Summer Market kicked off the season with a Farmer Appreciation Day on June 14. The first evening of the Summer Market featured food, baked goods, clothing, live music, produce, and...

POMEROY-The Garfield County board of commissioners (BOCC) signed two contracts at their meeting on June 12. The BOCC signed a contract with the Washington State conservation commission for the...

POMEROY––The Pioneer Days and Tumbleweed Festival kicked off on Friday, June 9, with the All Class Reunion at the Pataha Flour Mill and the Wine & Stein fundraiser for the Seeley Theater....

POMEROY-The City Council appointed a temporary councilman, approved two resolutions, and held a public hearing, according to the minutes of their June 6 meeting. John Hirsch has been appointed...

POMEROY–Over a hundred people gathered to celebrate the Pataha Flour Mill's 25 years of operation as a ministry and restaurant on May 20. The celebration began with one of the Mill's well-known...

POMEROY-The Junior and Senior high track and field teams held a joint awards night on June 6. The PHS track team had 13 state medal winners, including Sydney Bales' championship in pole vault and...

POMEROY-The Pomeroy Jr/Sr High School drama club performed their first production, It's All in Your Head by Frannie Dove at the PHS cafetorium on June 6. The twenty-minute, one-act play featured...