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Incumbant mayor candidate Ed Naillon speaks at Candidates Forum

The Oroville Chamber sponsored a candidates’ forum Oct. 5. Incumbent Ed Naillon was the only mayoral candidate who…

Candidates for Oroville City Council Walt Hart, Tasha Shaw and Robert Fuchs at the Candidates Forum sponsored by the Oroville Chamber of Commerce and the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune. Hart, the incumbent is being challenged by Fuchs, a former councilman, for Position 4 on the council. Shaw, is being challenged by Paul Bouchard, who wasn’t in attendance, for Position 1. Tonasket Councilwoman Teagan Levine, standing, served as moderator. <em>Gary De Von/staff photo</em>

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Oroville City Council candidates introduce themselves and answer questions at forum

Three out of four candidates for Oroville City Council were on hand to introduce themselves and answer questions…

Bryan Zeski, Deborah Nesper and Adam Beardsley are running for Director Position 5 (at large) on the Oroville School Board.

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Oroville School Board candidates talk about why they are running for Director Position 5

Editor’s Note: This week we ask a few questions of the three candidates for Oroville School Board, Director…

USDA ReConnect4 $30.17 million grant project area. Source: OKPUD No. 1.

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Okanogan County PUD receives over $30 million from USDA to improve fiber operations

This will significantly improve broadband access to the Nine Mile, Molson, Chesaw, Havillah and Siwash Creek areas.

Submitted photo Brooks Enzensperger, 16, arrives in Oroville after cycling 3500 miles from Vermont to his grandfather’s in Oroville as a challenge to himself. He was greeted by well wishers including his grandfather Joseph Enzenspeger and his great aunt.

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Teen challenges himself to bicycle from Vermont to Oroville to visit grandfather

The 16-year-old, Brooks Enzensperger, made the trip, his first to Oroville, as a challenge to himself.

Gary DeVon/GT file photo One of several Okanogan County ballot boxes is located at the Oroville Police Station. Gary DeVon/GT file photo

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Nesper and Zeski will head to general election for Oroville School Board

Nesper received 357 votes, Zeski 260 votes and incumbent Birmingham, 173 votes

The Okanogan County Courthouse was closed last week after election officials with the auditor’s office found an unknown substance when counting ballots on Tuesday, Aug. 1 The courthouse was opened again on Monday, after a state lab determine the substance to be non-toxic. Crystal Hawley/submitted photo

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County courthouse reopens after mystery substance determined to be non-toxic

State lab determines substance was negative for any bio-terrorism agents or toxins.

The Okanogan County Courthouse was cleared Wednesday, Aug. 3, after an unidentified substance was found by election officials in the Okanogan County Auditor’s Office. <em>Gary DeVon/GT file photo</em>

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Okanogan County Courthouse cleared due to mysterious substance found by election officials

Substance found by King County election office is fentanyl; substance in Okanogan County under investigation

A plane drops water on hot spots along the Similkameen River last Saturday evening. The Eagle Bluff Fire, which began near Blue Lake Road spread quickly northward pushed by winds, eventually jumping the border into Canada. <em>Gary DeVon/staff photo </em>

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Eagle Bluff fire near Oroville estimated at 10,000 acres, jumps border

As the fire moved northward Saturday, residents on both sides of Hwy 97, from the Canadian border to…

The Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office and the Washington State Patrol are investigating a one-car rollover accident that resulted in one fatality and two severely injured people last week on Twisp River Road. OCSO photo

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Rollover accident leaves one dead, two injured near Twisp

The incident is still being investigated to collect evidence from the vehicle, as well as blood tox reports.

Okanogan County Commissioner Jon Neal, Oroville Mayor Ed Naillon, OHA Executive Director Ashley Range and OHA Commissioners Gary DeVon, Susan Speiker and Ben Peterson, turn the first shovels of dirt at the future site of the Oroville Orchard Apartments. <em>Submitte photo</em>

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Oroville Housing Authority breaks ground for new 16-unit Orchard Apartments

The new housing is being built at the site of OHA’s first project nearly three decades ago

Part of the Sonora Shores property along Main Street/Hwy. 97 just north of downtown Oroville. The owner of the property wants to develop a Dollar General store. <em>Gary DeVon/staff photo </em>

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Developer wants to build a Dollar General store at Senora Shores property in Oroville

Oroville agrees to easement removal, wants inclusion of public trail as part of development plan along Okanogan River.

Gary DeVon/GT file photo

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Celebrate Independence Day with rodeo and fireworks

Chesaw Fourth of July Rodeo and Oroville Community Fireworks Display