Serving Franklin County, WA
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LIND – Hundreds turned out Saturday, July 16, to remember a local pilot and family man who died in a plane crash earlier this month. Gavin Morse, 38, of Lind, died July 2 when his Air Tractor AT602 agricultural plane went down in a field in the 300 block of Lind-Warden Road, near the North Roxboro Road intersection, according to the Washington State Patrol. Morse, a cropduster known throughout the region, was remembered at the GEM Air, Inc., complex east of Warden. He c...
MESA – An Othello man was booked into the Franklin County Jail on Sunday, July 17, for a driving while under the influence charge after crashing his pickup. Narciso A. Gomez Sanchez, 53, of Othello, was booked into the Franklin County Jail, where he remained Monday morning pending a court appearance. He was booked Sunday after his 3:51 p.m. crash on state Highway 17, about 10 miles north of Mesa. Gomez Sanchez was southbound on the highway when his 1994 Ford Ranger pickup left the roadway near Milepost 20, the patrol r...
Normally, I would have written a story or two about the Mariners season by now, but I have only been able to watch one game thus far. Why? Well, like many of you, we had Root Sports to follow the Emerald City nine. That is no longer the case. The television provider that we have no longer gets Root Sports. The provider that we once had purchased Root Sports, I’m sure figuring that we were going to change providers just to see Seattle baseball. In the words of Dan Carvey when he was impersonating President George H. W. Bush o...
According to the ASPCA, 23 million households in America – and 3.7 million in Canada – welcomed a new pet into their pack during the pandemic. People have been using their backyards more in recent years for everything from working and entertaining to vacationing and working out. But for dogs, this backyard business is old hat. "No one loves the family yard as much as the family dog," notes Kris Kiser, President of the TurfMutt Foundation, an organization that advocates for the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Washington state’s congressional delegation doesn’t make the grade. That's according to a report card prepared by the Washington, D.C.-based National Taxpayers Union for their votes on taxing and spending. Three members of Congress representing Washington state – Reps. Jaime Herrera Butler, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse – were given a “C+” grade, and those were the best grades out of all the elected representatives state voters send to Congress. The rest of the state congressional delegation ...
MESA – An Othello man was booked into the Franklin County Jail on Sunday, July 17, for a driving while under the influence charge after crashing his pickup. Narciso A. Gomez Sanchez, 53, of Othello, was booked into the Franklin County Jail, where he remained Monday morning pending a court appearance. He was booked Sunday after his 3:51 p.m. crash on state Highway 17, about 10 miles north of Mesa. Gomez Sanchez was southbound on the highway when his 1994 Ford Ranger pickup left the roadway near Milepost 20, the patrol r...