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updated: Tue Jul 08, 2008 03:08 pm

Chelan County News

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8 hrs ago | Wenatchee World

Chelan County's all-time drunkest driver?

A Wenatchee man charged with driving under the influence registered a blood-alcohol level of .46 percent, nearly six times the legal limit of .08 percent, after being stopped for driving erratically on Highway ...

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, Sunnyslope, WA, Seattle Metro

Sun Jul 06, 2008

Wenatchee World

California fires blamed for haze over Wenatchee

WENATCHEE &#8212 Smoke from fires in northern California is keeping Wenatchee skies hazy and prompting an air quality advisory.

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, Chelan, WA

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Wenatchee World

Celebrate independence, but keep safety in mind, say officials

WENATCHEE &#8212 Just in time for Independence Day, vendors are selling fireworks around the area out of tents, trailers or booths this week.

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, Life, Holidays, 4th of July, Okanogan, WA, Douglas County, WA

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Seattle Times

Handcuffed woman jumps from bridge near Wenatchee

A handcuffed woman who had been arrested on drug charges and then pressed into working as an informant jumped from a bridge into the Wenatchee River and hasn't been seen since.

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, Drugs

Wenatchee World

Washington residents respond to Clausing's death

Not long after word reached Washington that one of the victims in Sunday's helicopter crash was a resident, people who knew Tom Clausing reached out to share their thoughts.

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Related Topix: Cashmere, WA, Leavenworth, WA, Seattle, WA

Wenatchee World

Truck crash causes power outage

Firefighters wait for the Chelan County PUD to turn off power to lines near a truck fire Monday morning off Squilchuck Road near Pitcher Canyon Road.

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA

Tue Jul 01, 2008

Wenatchee World

Chelan PUD to swap Miner's Ridge land for forest access

WENATCHEE &#8212 Chelan County PUD commissioners Monday agreed to give the U.S. Forest Service nearly 372 acres of Cascade Mountain wilderness in exchange for permanent access to a key mountain snow-measurement ...

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, Chelan, WA

Wenatchee World

Chelan PUD to city: Give our parks some space

WENATCHEE &#8212 Chelan County PUD commissioners plan to send the city of Wenatchee a polite letter with a firm bottom line: Back away from our parks.

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Related Topix: Chelan, WA, Wenatchee, WA

Wenatchee World

Tree fruit official seriously injured in bicycle accident

WENATCHEE &#8212 A prominent official in the Washington tree fruit industry was in critical condition at Central Washington Hospital this afternoon from a bicycle accident on Squilchuck Road.

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, Chelan, WA

Mon Jun 30, 2008

Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle

June 25: Parlette seeks re-election to Senate

Sen. Linda Evans Parlette, R-Wenatchee, is seeking re-election to the state Senate.

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, Okanogan County, WA

Sun Jun 29, 2008

Wenatchee World

Trailer park residents can stay through August

WENATCHEE &#8212 The remaining families in the Ninth Street Trailer Park will be allowed to stay at the park through August if they pay their August rent, their attorney said Friday.

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, Chelan, WA

Fri Jun 27, 2008

Wenatchee World

9. Regional Justice Center survey: 1.6 percent of inmates report sexual victimization

WENATCHEE &#8212 Results of a federal survey released Wednesday show that 1.6 percent of inmates at Chelan County Regional Justice Center say they have been sexually victimized at the jail in the last six ...

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, US News

Wed Jun 25, 2008

Wenatchee World

2. Firefighters douse blaze near Blue Grade Road

Firefighters from Douglas County, Chelan County and the Wenatchee Fire Department responded to the blaze in an unpopulated area near Blue Grade Road just after 5 p.m. Friday.

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Related Topix: Douglas County, WA, Wenatchee, WA, East Wenatchee, WA

Mon Jun 23, 2008

Wenatchee World

AG opposes sale of major Chelan PUD customer

SEATTLE &#8212 The state Attorney General's Office has opposed the sale of Puget Sound Energy &#8212 the largest single buyer of Chelan County PUD electricity &#8212 to an international banking and investment ...

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Related Topix: Seattle Metro, Chelan, WA, Rock Island, WA

Sat Jun 21, 2008

Wenatchee World

PUD land may be used for new trailhead

WENATCHEE &#8212 A new trailhead that accesses Wenatchee's western foothills trail system could be built on Chelan County PUD land at the end of Castlerock Avenue.

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA

Thu Jun 19, 2008

Wenatchee World

Chelan PUD approves land sale for golf course

WENATCHEE &#8212 Rock Island Golf Course will get 7.4 acres of Chelan County PUD land to expand to 18 holes.

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA, Chelan, WA, Rock Island, WA

Tue Jun 17, 2008

KNDO

Wa Woman Gets Jail Time for Starving Puppies

A Leavenworth woman convicted of starving Siberian husky puppies she was raising and intending to sell has been sentenced to spend three days in jail and pay about $9,000 in fines and restitution.

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Related Topix: Leavenworth, WA

Tue Jun 10, 2008

Wenatchee World

WHS junior wins Young Writers Contest

WENATCHEE &#8212 Catharine DeLong's essay about her fictional friendship with Tom Sawyer earned her first place in the Young Writers Contest sponsored by the Chelan-Douglas Community Network.

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Related Topix: Chelan, WA, Wenatchee, WA

Sun Jun 08, 2008

Wenatchee World

Lawyer in gun case: County judges can't hear city cases

Attorney facing gun charges WENATCHEE &#8212 A local attorney who brought a gun into the Chelan County Courthouse wants charges against her thrown out because she claims county District Court judges don't have ...

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Related Topix: Wenatchee, WA

Fri Jun 06, 2008

Wenatchee World

Chelan property assessments skyrocket, tax impact still unknown

CHELAN &#8212 Gasoline and food costs just moved down a few lines on the list of financial worries for Chelan-area property owners, who received property tax assessments in the mail last week.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Leavenworth, WA, Home Listing, Home, Chelan, WA

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