Hatton mayor: Council seats filled

HATTON - Mayor Brittany Bladwin announced the open town council position has been filled.

"Mr. Terry Quandt did not resign from council, as we were falsely told," Baldwin said Monday, May 18. "Mayor pro tempore and a few council members held an illegal meeting in town of Hatton on May 13.

"The meeting was not posted or approved prior, and they appointed a council member to the council without having a vacant position to appoint her to. Linda Palmer is not a town of council member."

Linda Palmer said she was appointed to her council position May 13, and sworn in the following day at Ritzville C...