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Grants available to Latino-owned businesses

The first Latino business group briefing/registration will be at WorkSource this coming Monday at 10 a.m.

Okanogan County PUD chart explaining the various customer rate increases slated to begin in April.

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Okanogan County PUD rate increases begin April 1

Energy Northwest is exploring the possibility of building small modular nuclear reactor

An artists conseption of what the Tonasket Perfect Passage Project might look like.

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Council to host public hearing to discuss potential impacts of Perfect Passage Project

Tonasket seeking public input on project March 23 at 6 p.m.

Okanogan County wants public help considering review/revision of zoning codes and the Shoreline Master Program.

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County Planning and Development is inviting pubic participation in code amendments.

Seeking public participation in review/revision of Zoning Codes and Shoreline Management Program.

From the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Washington Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/MMIWWashington/.

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Task force on missing indigenous women proposed to continue

Bill is part of Legislature’s efforts to identify root causes of the number of Native Americans who have…

The late teacher-coaches Harold Jensen and Tam Hutchinson were recently honored with facilities named after them at Oroville High School. Dedication planned for May 17<h6 style="text-align: right;"><em>Gary DeVon/G-T File Photo </em></h6>

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Oroville School Board approves naming district facilities for Tam Hutchinson and Harold Jensen

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Okanogan Valley Orchestra & Chorus Family Concert in 2017

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OVOC to present Spring-Family Concert on March 25

Okanogan Valley Orchestra and Chorus will present its final concert of the season

This young girl decided to have a look around the House chamber during Children’s Day at the state legislature. <em>Alexandria Osborne/submitted photos </em>

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Children’s Day brings a bill on a state dinosaur to the House floor

“Suciasaurus Rex” fossil was discovered in 2012 on Sucia Island in San Juan County and first to be…

NCW Libraries invites you to celebrate Womens’ History Month.

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Celebrate Women’s History Month with NCW Libraries

March is Women’s History Month and there are many ways to celebrate with your library card through books,…

McLoughlin Falls Ranch possesses key stands of riverside forests that benefit river habitat byvkeeping water temperatures low. The Okanogan River supports federally threatened Upper Columbia River Steelhead, as well as one of only two self-sustaining runs of sockeye salmon left in the Columbia Basin.
<em>Ellen Bishop/submitted photo</em>

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McLoughlin Falls Ranch purchase will protect wildlife, historic and cultural values

Prized stretch of the Okanogan River conserved and ancestral lands returned to Colville Tribes

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Jaxon Darley and Elias DeFord, left, with the robot they used to help lead the Oroville MS/HS Robotics team to a second place finish at the CWU MET Robotics Tourney held at Ellensburg on Saturday, Feb. 25. Right, Eight college teams participated, as well as teams from Oroville and Manson at the Central Washington University’s MET Robotics Tournament in Ellensburg.

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Darley and DeFord shine at CWU Robotics Tourney

Oroville Robotics Team finishes second at robotics tournament in Ellisburg

Reps. Mike Chapman, Tom Dent, Debra Lekanoff and Joel Kretz sign legislation, Feb. 17, 2023. <em>Submitted photo</em>

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Riparian habitat legislation passes Ag committee, now includes $200 million in requested funding

HB 1720 would protect and restore riparian areas by establishing a voluntary, regionally focused riparian grant program

Joel Wilson from Tonasket won a Grand Champion ribbon for his pig Zoey in 2019. Wilson had been exhibiting at the Okanogan County Fair since he was two-years-old.	<em>G-T file photo</em>

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Fair Youth Foundation dissolves ties with county fair

FYP members feel they were held to a higher standard than the Market Stock Fund had been