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Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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After 24 years of a career as a hairdresser, Kim Yaeger opened the doors of Shear Hair Design as a business owner on July 15. Yaeger purchased the store from Bruce Benzel in June, which previously housed The Hair Center where Benzel worked as a barber for 42 years. Yaeger began her training as a hairdresser at Glen Dow Academy, before beginning her career at 14th and Grand Salon in Spokane. Her first three years at the salon she spent cutting hair before being hired as the...
There are over nine million acres of federal forests in Washington state alone. The federal government made a commitment over 100 years ago to actively manage our national forests and provide a percentage of revenue from that management to counties containing national forest land. First, rural communities no longer have stable funding to pay for vital services. Thirteen years ago, the Secure Rural Schools Act was intended to be a short-term solution to continue to provide funding as timber sales declined. With a national debt...
In football, players who jump on the ball carrier after he’s been tackled get a 15-yard penalty for piling on. But in a courtroom, piling on can get you billions of dollars. That’s exactly what the trial lawyers are doing in the lawsuits against BP for the Deepwater Horizon spill. In 2010, BP’s oilrig exploded, killing 11 workers and spilling almost five million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days. It was a disaster for BP and the Gulf states, but since then, the company has attempted to make amend...
Growing up in Lind was the perfect place for Megan Undeberg to find her love for medicine. The daughter of Oscar and Donna Undeberg, Megan discovered in elementary school she wanted to be a nurse, like her aunt Nettie. Once in high school Megan decided she wanted to become a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, and dove into courses in math, physics and chemistry to feed her interest and desire for the medical field. Oscar taught biology for many years at Lind High School, and...
Allan Peterson from the Small Business Development Center is the guest speaker at the Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce’s general membership meeting on Thursday, Aug. 8, beginning at noon at The Ritz Roadhouse. His areas of expertise include personnel policies and procedures, business planning and marketing, bringing new innovations to market and export assistance. All chamber meetings and functions are open to the public. For more information, contact the chamber office at 659-1936 or [email protected]...