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    Articles by Gary DeVon
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    Gary DeVon is the managing editor of the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and celebrated his 25th year at the newspaper in August 2012. He graduated from Gonzaga University with a degree in Communications - Print Journalism, with an emphasis in photojournalism. He is a proud alumnus of Oroville High School. His family first settled in Okanogan County in the late 1800s. His parents are Judy DeVon and the late Larry DeVon and he has two younger brothers - Dante and Michael. Many family members still call Oroville home. He has a grown daughter, Segornae Douglas and a young granddaughter, Erin.
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    Dam safety state priority; few failures in over century
    Dam safety state priority; few failures in over...
    By Gary DeVon • April 3, 2017 9:48 am

    OLYMPIA – After the Oroville Dam crisis in February forced nearly 200,000 people to evacuate their California homes, Washingtonians may…

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    Oroville Elementary hosts Leadership Day
    Oroville Elementary hosts Leadership Day
    By Gary DeVon • March 27, 2017 4:32 pm

    OROVILLE — Oroville Elementary School hosted Leadership Day as a way of showing how the Leader In Me Program is…

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    West Family Homestead opens in Tonasket
    By Gary DeVon • March 24, 2017 9:00 am

    TONASKET – Recently, Kris West and her daughter in-law Amanda West have opened their new shop, West Family Homestead in…

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    10th Annual Kite Day
    10th Annual Kite Day
    By Gary DeVon • March 18, 2017 9:01 am

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    Canadian suspected of human smuggling arrested near Molson
    Canadian suspected of human smuggling arrested near Molson
    By Gary DeVon • February 23, 2017 2:23 pm

    OROVILLE – U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Oroville Station arrested six people involved in alien smuggling on Feb. 8.

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    Paz Lopez selected 2017 May Festival Queen
    By Gary DeVon • February 22, 2017 7:17 am

    Hannah McCoy and Estifenny Carillo are May Fest Princesses “If I could accomplish only one thing in life it would…

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    Local school bonds still failing to get 60 percent
    Local school bonds still failing to get 60...
    By Gary DeVon • February 17, 2017 1:53 pm

    OKANOGAN – The second count of the Tuesday, Feb. 14 election, which included ballots for school facilities improvements in three…

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    No Valentine for area school bonds
    No Valentine for area school bonds
    By Gary DeVon • February 14, 2017 8:29 am

    OKANOGAN – Early returns on the Tuesday, Feb, 14 election, which included ballots for school facilities improvements in three school…

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    Vote for TSD bond, vote for the future
    By Gary DeVon • January 26, 2017 5:32 pm

    I still remember the days when the hallways at Tonasket High School were lined with plastic garbage cans as water…

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    Last Stand: Mountain Caribou and the Inland Rainforest
    Last Stand: Mountain Caribou and the Inland Rainforest
    By Gary DeVon • January 26, 2017 2:30 pm

    TONASKET – On Friday, Feb. 3 David Moskowitz – expert wildlife tracker, photographer and author – returns to Highland Wonders,…

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    Pot producers and retailers in county generating millions...
    By Gary DeVon • January 12, 2017 7:00 am

    If the state legislators are trying to figure out how to fully fund education they might look at all the…

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    Judge denies county’s motion to dismiss suit
    Judge denies county’s motion to dismiss suit
    By Gary DeVon • December 30, 2016 6:23 pm

    OKANOGAN — Superior Court Judge Veronica Galván issued a ruling last Thursday that said Okanogan County Commissioners Jim Detro, Sheilah…

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    Chris Branch tenders resignation to City of Oroville
    Chris Branch tenders resignation to City of Oroville
    By Gary DeVon • December 30, 2016 6:07 pm

    OROVILLE — Chris Branch, Oroville’s director of Community Development tendered his resignation at the Tuesday, Dec. 20 city council meeting….

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