CHELAN — School is being delayed for second graders due to a positive COVID test. As the Lake Chelan School District was bringing back preschool-kindergarten-first and second grade students this week, they received news a second-grade staff member tested positive for COVID.
EAST WENATCHEE — The Chelan-Douglas Board of Health on Monday unanimously extended the renewal of food business permits by three months.
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This page will be regularly updated as new COVID-19 cases in North Central Washington are reported by health officials.
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EAST WENATCHEE — The Chelan-Douglas Health District is considering creating six committees focused on different areas of public health that will give it public feedback.
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LAKE WENATCHEE — Rescuers recovered a lost, hypothermic Marysville hunter early Sunday morning after searching through the night near Meadow Creek.
A boat heads down the Columbia River south of Odabashian Bridge earlier this month. The new Residence Inn by Marriott hotel can be seen under construction near Walla Walla Point Park in the background.
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One of my students told me that North Central Washington has five seasons: fall, winter, spring, summer and smoke season.
Groups with opposing views gather at opposite sides of the intersection of Chelan and Orondo avenues on Saturday afternoon. The Women’s Rally for Justice was held at Memorial Park on Saturday and ended with people waving signs on the east side of Chelan Avenue while Donald Trump and Loren Culp and anti-abortion supporters stood on the west side of Chelan Avenue and can be seen in the foreground.
EAST WENATCHEE — What a difference a weekend makes.
EAST WENATCHEE — Chelan and Douglas counties are facing another increase in COVID-19 cases, but are better prepared due to public support for safety practices.
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SEATTLE — The Northwest Justice Project’s online self-help website will be redesigned to make it more accessible with help from a $224,400 federal Technology Initiative Grant.
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NCW — Tiffany Gering is far outraising her opponent Dale England in the race for Chelan County commissioner District 3.
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Tom Dent is running to hold his current position of Legislative District 13 Position 1.
WINTHROP — Adrianne Moore, 38, has spent her adult life purposefully working in the community to improve the lives of working families.
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Jeff Neher, the longtime Cordell, Neher & Co. partner, is retiring after more than four decades of public accounting, after creating a rich legacy of business leadership and community service.
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DRYDEN — Not everything can be fixed with legislation and not all laws do what lawmakers believe they will do.
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CHELAN — Dale England has faced a few controversies in Chelan County over the years and been cleared of all of them.
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CHELAN — Dale England wants to keep Chelan County’s economy strong by focusing on tourism, while still preserving the industries and lifestyle that give the county its identity.
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Tiffany Gering, a candidate for county commissioner, is concerned about the number of lawsuits that Chelan County is facing.
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A Grant Public Utilities District (PUD) project to move its customer billing and information system to a cloud server is set to be completed in November.
U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, is hoping to secure his fourth term representing Washington’s Fourth Congressional District when he squares off against Doug McKinley, D-Richland, in the general election on Nov. 3.
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WENATCHEE — Early results from the community-wide COVID testing has prompted officials in the Wenatchee School District to move ahead with plans to bring back preschool through second-grade students.
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WENATCHEE — A local business Friday was the victim of a cyber attack from an email purportedly from the Chelan-Douglas Health District with an attached zip file titled “Phase 2 Guidance.”
Fire crews check out the damage from a car that careened into Dutch Bros Coffee building at 739 S. Mission St. Friday afternoon, Oct. 16, 2020, under the walk-up window.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont School District’s waiver request to open schools to elementary students was denied by the Chelan-Douglas Health District.
WENATCHEE — Slides, spinners, seesaws, a zip line, a pirate ship, maybe? Community members of all ages who have ideas on what they would like to see included in Lincoln Park’s new playground are invited to speak their piece at a family-friendly, social-distance-enabled drive-thru meeting Wednesday.
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CASHMERE — A semi truck driver side-swiped part of the Cashmere City Hall building as he drove down Woodring Street, Thursday afternoon in Cashmere.
WENATCHEE — The Chelan County Planning Commission reapproved draft vacation rental regulations Thursday night, sending them to the Chelan County Commission.
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QUINCY — A Washington State Patrol bomb technician was called in after utility workers uncovered blasting caps Wednesday afternoon by the Cave B Inn & Spa Resort near the Gorge Amphitheatre.
PLAIN — A Plain resident accidentally lit their garage on fire Thursday while tuning a snowblower inside of it. Only a frame structure and roof remained of the 30x40 garage on Camp 12 Road by the time crews put out the fire, said Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue Chief Dave Walker.
NCW — Mass COVID-19 testing in communities across Chelan and Douglas counties since mid-August found 77 positive cases out of 4,500 tests conducted, a 1.7% positive case count rate.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee-based nonprofit Brave Warrior Project will be hosting a virtual auction Sunday through Saturday to help raise money for local children with special needs, chronic illness and cancer.
COLVILLE — The Colville National Forest will be holding a Facebook Live event in honor of Bat Week.
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WENATCHEE — Nearby flower varieties make a world of difference in the honey a beehive produces. That flavor translates through when the honey is fermented and turned into mead, leaving each batch with a unique taste — like a fine wine’s year-to-year vintage.
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OKANOGAN — Recent testing of one of the largest employers in Okanogan County, Gebbers Farms, revealed a very low rate of COVID-19 amongst its employees.
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EPHRATA — The Grant County coroner ruled that Benjamin Buckles, whose body was found Oct. 8 in an irrigation canal between Quincy and Ephrata, died by drowning.
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley residents can expect to start seeing ballots arriving in their mailbox as early as Friday.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center will reopen to the public with a new exhibit on women’s suffrage come Nov. 3.
WENATCHEE — NCW Libraries planned to open its 19 branches in Grant, Okanogan and Ferry counties on Nov. 2, but the 10 libraries in Chelan and Douglas counties would have to remain closed because those counties were still in Phase 1.5.
WATERVILLE — An error by a wireless phone company could increase property taxes next year in Douglas County by decreasing the county’s assessed value by almost 9%.
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WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley residents can expect to start seeing ballots arriving in their mailbox as early as Friday.
EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont Superintendent Garn Christensen announced this week the school district cannot move forward with its plan to bring K-4 students back to school under a hybrid model on Oct. 19.
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