Tonasket News

The first Okanogan County baby of 2010 was born Jan. 2 at Mid-Valley Hospital. Baby Logan Cate, a boy, was born at 5:25 p.m. Saturday to mother Katherine Seyler and father Alex Cate.

Leanna Compton, Wenatchee, won a queen-sized quilt raffled by the Tonasket Garden Club.

Readers will be riveted by the authora TMs faithful impressions of race relations, human rights, and the roles of women in a society ruled by rigid race definitions.

By Brenda Starkey Chronicle staff TONASKET - The city council met with engineer Mark Varela Dec.

Tickets for the May production of "Annie Get Your Gun" will be sold at the Omak High School holiday concert Dec.

Posted: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 - 8:30 a.m. PST Omak gives belated diploma By Mary Koch Special to The Chronicle OMAK - At age 84 and a half, Leonard Paulsen, Tonasket, may not be Omak's oldest high school graduate, but he surely waited the longest to get his diploma.

Posted: Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 - 10:27 a.m. PST Several free dinners will be offered in Okanogan and Ferry counties for those needing a place to go on Thanksgiving.

But, but, but...Obama told us if we did NOT pass the stimulus package, unemployment might reach 9%!!! Uh, no.

Fact of the matter. But the majority is what counts, and the majority was counted.

By Dee Camp Chronicle staff OKANOGAN - Patrick Plumb leads Joyce Fancher in the race for Tonasket mayor and incumbent Lee Webster is ahead of challenger David Smith in the contest for Brewster mayor, according to election night returns.

Unusual pumpkins The deadline for Okanogan's first unusual pumpkin contest is 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

General rifle season for deer hunters begins Oct. 17 and Okanogan County public land management agencies are hosting their annual hunter information booths in Omak and Twisp.

By Brenda Starkey Chronicle staff TONASKET - The Okanogan Family Faire will bring trading goods, sharing arts and crafts, dancing and singing to the county this weekend, Oct.

A Tonasket man was injured about 1:20 p.m. Oct. 3 when his vehicle overturned on U.S. Highway 97 about 4.6 miles north of Riverside.

The old problem for the Ellensburg Film Festival was finding enough worthy films to make up a three-day program.

Posted: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 - 10:35 p.m. PDT Goldmark: DNR doesn't make calls on fire mobilization contractors By Sheila Corson Chronicle staff OKANOGAN - County commissioners sat down Sept.

The body of a man found in the Okanogan River near Tonasket Sept. 20 has been identified as that of Ronald S. Johnson, Wauconda.

Kayakers found the body of a man floating in the Okanogan River south of Tonasket.

On Sept. 13, after packing up from the Okanogan County Fair, Ridgeline USA owners Yvonne and Robert Swift found that their van had been stolen with equipment, personal items and all their customer contact information inside.

A car and district fire truck responding to the blaze south of Nespelem crashed Sept.