Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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RITZVILLE – When he's not waving to the crowd from a classic car in the Labor Day parade, Jerry Snyder, this year's grand marshal, steers tractors over ground homesteaded and plowed by his great-grandfather. As a fourth-generation farmer, the 72-year-old traces his Eastern Washington roots to the early 1900s when Birney Moses Snyder first arrived from Michigan. "My great-grandfather didn't like the mess after the Civil War, so in 1909 he traveled here in a covered wagon w...
OTHELLO – Democratic leaders say they are willing to let a federal court redraw the disputed boundaries of the 15th Legislative District to better reflect its Latino population. The district includes Othello, Pasco, Grandview, Sunnyside and other communities surrounding the Hanford Nuclear reservation, as well as the western panhandle of Adams County. Last month, in Soto Palmer v. Hobbs, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lasnik concluded legislative maps drawn in 2021 by the Washington State Redistricting Commission for the Y...
The Ritzville Rocks float wrapped up its last trip of the year Saturday, Sept. 16, in the Deutschesfest Parade in Odessa. Brian Hille piloted the float supported and organized by the Ritzville Festivals Association and the Miss Lind-Ritzville group. The float will make one more local appearance this year in the annual Ritzville Christmas Lighted Parade. Next year's royal tryouts will take place tentatively in January or February....