Town Council discusses reconstruction projects

Posted by Empire Press on May 16, 2012 in Communities, Town Council, Waterville | 0 comments By Jacquelynn metformin hcl 850 mg side effects McCarty The meeting started promptly at 7:30 p.m. After the call to order and the successful movement to pay the town’s bills, Mayor Royal DeVaney skipped ahead to item three on the agenda to the Humane Society. Wenatchee Valley Animal Control Officer Jodi White gave her quarterly report. Things seem to have gone rather smoothly over the last three months regarding Waterville’s...
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The Blue Rooster is open!

Posted by Empire Press on Apr 11, 2012 in Editorials, Voices | 0 comments By Lucas metformin hcl and pregnancy Beechinor I finally had the pleasure of experiencing The Blue Rooster cafe and bakery last week, and I cannot wait to go back. As I have stated before, my time as editor for the paper began in December 2011, when many businesses in town were closed for the season. This was a challenge for me because I knew that I would have to wait a good while before I got to experience all Waterville...
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Easter egg hunt madness

Posted by Empire Press on Apr 11, 2012 in Communities, Douglas County, Editorials, New Local, Voices, Waterville | 0 comments By Angela Richmond I read a story, recently, about an Easter egg hunt in Georgia that had to be cancelled because of aggressive parents. These so called “helicopter parents,” were apparently so concerned that their children weren’t given a fair shot at finding eggs, that they crossed the barrier and began forcibly collecting eggs on their children’s behalf. It threw the hunt into chaos....
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Taking a day to be thankful

Posted by Empire Press on Nov 28, 2011 in All News, Clear Skies, Voices | 0 comments Today, we should thank magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale for our first national Thanksgiving proclamation. Undaunted by her age of 74, by 15 years of rejections by previous administrations, and driven to tidy up the scattered statewide Thanksgiving dates of New England legislatures, she wrote to President Lincoln in 1863 that a Thanksgiving “needs national attention and authoritative fixation, only, to become an American tradition.” Lincoln assigned William Seward to write it.
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Lacy for East Wenatchee mayor

Posted by Empire Press on Oct 24, 2011 in All News, Clear Skies | 0 comments For the first time in 13 years, East Wenatchee has a mayoral race between mayor Steve Lacy and council member Dave Bremmer. Once you’ve decided who has the most attractive signs and most signs implanted in yards, what else do you need?
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Focus, PFD members: avoid default

Posted by Empire Press on Oct 10, 2011 in All News, Clear Skies, Douglas County | 0 comments Sen. Linda Evans Parlette, R-Wenatchee, arranged for Treasury officials to explain that the public facilities board should avoid default on Town Toyota Center debt on Dec. 1. I attended the meeting, reviewed it on the Wenatchee World’s livestream, read articles and commented online. I examined the three interlocal agreements that created the events center, defined the relationship between the...
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I’m still here

Posted by Empire Press on Oct 10, 2011 in All News, New Local, Waterville | 0 comments Last year, when I reduced my column submissions to bi-weekly, some people asked why I wasn’t writing for the paper anymore.
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Mayor wants to ban dumpsters during winter

Posted by Empire Press on Oct 10, 2011 in All News, Town Council, Waterville | 0 comments Waterville mayor Royal DeVaney requested during Monday’s town council meeting that council members approve a decision to ban all residential dumpsters from Nov. 15 to April 1.
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