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Klickitat County Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Klickitat County, WA.

Results 1 - 20 of 143 in Klickitat County, WA

  1. Over 300 Celebrate Completion of White Creek Wind Project

    Wednesday May 14 | The Suburban Times

    ... White Creek features 89, 2.3 megawatt Siemens wind turbines and is located on 9,500 acres of ranchland in Klickitat County (WA), 21 miles east of Goldendale. It produces enough clean, renewable electricity to meet the needs of 38,000 Pacific ...

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    Related Topix: Goldendale, WA, North Bend, WA, Cowlitz County, WA, Tanner, WA

  2. Armed services honored Saturday at Bickleton museum

    Wednesday May 14 | Yakima Herald-Republic

    ... to visit with patrons and answer questions about the exhibit. Also on display will be pictures of Eastern Klickitat County veterans dating from the Spanish American War to the present. Any Eastern Klickitat County veteran who brings in his or her ...

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    Related Topix: Bickleton, WA

  3. Favorable winds for wind farm dedication

    Friday May 9 | Yakima Herald-Republic

    About 300 people showed up Thursday to dedicate Klickitat County's second major wind farm.

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    Related Topix: Bickleton, WA

  4. Dane County 911 Center director Joe Norwick lacked 'public safety ...Read the original story

    Wednesday May 7 | Wisconsin State Journal

    ... Monona and Wisconsin Rapids, presently Charleston chief of police. Chris Mace, Glendale, Wash., sheriff of Klickitat County, former emergency 911 coordinator for Klickitat County. Wells said Norwick had never managed a 911 center but said Norwick ...

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    Related Topix: Monona, WI, Dane County, WI

  5. Powe potpourri helps Puget Energy profit

    Wednesday May 7 | The Seattle Times

    ... But Puget Energy's other sources, which included a recently acquired natural-gas-fired plant in Goldendale, Klickitat County, produced 21.7 percent more electricity than last year. The increase allowed the company to buy 7 percent less power in the ...

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    Related Topix: Weather, Avista, Energy, Goldendale, WA, Seattle Metro, Puget Energy

  6. Workshops to focus on kids' safety

    Saturday May 3 | Yakima Herald-Republic

    Law enforcement agencies in Klickitat County are hosting a new program that will offer a monthlong series of workshops to help educate parents and children.

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    Related Topix: Kids, Family, Goldendale, WA

  7. Puyallup officer receives state's highest honorRead the original story

    Friday May 2 | KOMO News

    ... to the law enforcement memorial wall. "To just touch it and let people see it, it's a blessing," Judy said. Klickitat County Officer Peter Garland's name was also added to the wall. Garland was killed by a drunk driver. His family will receive his ...

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    Related Topix: Walla Walla County, WA

  8. WSU Tri-Cities vineyard gets trellises

    Friday May 2 | Tri-cityherald.com

    ... State University Tri-Cities. Richard and Cheryl Beightol, who own the 100-acre Alderdale vineyard in Klickitat County on the Columbia River south of Prosser, donated $10,000 in materials and the labor to put up the new trellises. The vines are ...

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    Related Topix: Prosser, WA, Drink, Wine

  9. A walk on the sunny sideRead the original story

    Wednesday Apr 30 | The Columbian

    ... will be buried by snow until mid-summer. Don Willner, 82, of Trout Lake, was hiking the route in western Klickitat County in early April. "I only come now, in the spring,'' said Willner, an attorney and the 40th-ranked tennis player in the United ...

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  10. Four attorneys aspire to prosecutor's office

    Wednesday Apr 30 | Yakima Herald-Republic

    ... years and prosecutes felony cases in the criminal division. * Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Hagarty, a former Klickitat County prosecuting attorney and Skamania County chief criminal deputy who has been prosecuting federal criminal cases at U.S. ...

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    Related Topix: Yakima County, WA, Skamania County, WA, Yakima Metro, Yakima, WA

  11. Regional awards for outdoor writerRead the original story

    Monday Apr 28 | The Columbian

    ... for a feature story on Coyote Wall, a popular hiking and mountain bike riding area east of Bingen in Klickitat County. He also earned a third-place award for a column about shad fishing in the Columbia River. The association includes newspaper ...

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    Related Topix: Outdoor Recreation

  12. Condit Dam reservoir is fish hotspotRead the original story

    Sunday Apr 27 | The Columbian

    ... is five. At Kidney Lake near North Bonneville, 57 anglers were sampled with 72 trout, a 1.26 average. In Klickitat County, the numbers were: Rowland Lake, 59 rods, 130 trout, 2.2 average; Spearfish Lake, 33 rods, 70 trout, 2.1 average; and ...

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  13. Prosser digs deep for airport cleanup

    Saturday Apr 26 | Yakima Herald-Republic

    ... a petroleum oxidizing chemical. They will take the contaminated dirt to the Roosevelt Regional Landfill in Klickitat County. The problem area runs 5 to 20 feet deep and looks like an L-shaped pit about the size of two swimming pools. It sits next to ...

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    Related Topix: Richland Metro, Prosser, WA, Roosevelt, WA, Agriculture, Science

  14. Five Scouts ascend to Eagle statusRead the original story

    Tuesday Apr 22 | The Dalles Chronicle

    ... acknowledged their scouting accomplishments: Clinton Faulconer Faulconer refurbished the beef area at the Klickitat County Fairgrounds. He has earned 37 merit badges, attended five summer camps and has 76 nights of camping. In July 2005, he attended ...

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  15. In our view: We can all helpRead the original story

    Monday Apr 21 | The Columbian

    ... containers filled with garbage. The trains turn east and head up the Columbia River Gorge to Roosevelt in Klickitat County to be dumped at the sprawling landfill operated by the Rabanco Division of Allied Waste. It's all too easy to look at those ...

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    Related Topix: Vancouver, WA, Portland Metro, Clark County, WA, Opinion

  16. Rural pursuit ends in arrestRead the original story

    Apr 15, 2008 | The Dalles Chronicle

    ... into town. The Hood River County Sheriff's Office provided air search after he bailed from the vehicle. Klickitat County's tracking dogs and Wasco County's search and rescue tracking team were also called in. Swearingen who has warrants for failure ...

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    Related Topix: The Dalles, OR, Hood River County, OR

  17. There's cash in Canada's garbage

    Apr 12, 2008 | Buzzworthy

    Vancouver, B.C., has a new export for Washington state: its garbage . And Klickitat County is eager to take it.

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    Related Topix: British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  18. Driver who killed Klickitat deputy in July pleads guiltyRead the original story

    Apr 12, 2008 | Yakima Herald-Republic

    The driver in a July crash that killed a Klickitat County sheriff's sergeant pleaded guilty Friday to vehicular homicide.

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  19. Driver Sentenced for Crash That Off-Duty Sheriff's Deputy

    Apr 11, 2008 | KIMA

    ... jail Friday. Sean Kearney received 20 months in jail for causing a wreck that killed Sgt. Peter Garland of Klickitat County. Kearney passed a semi-truck in a no-passing zone on Highway 97 south of Toppenish when he hit Garland. Investigators said ...

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  20. Northwest Sportsman -- Spring is time to drop a lineRead the original story

    Apr 10, 2008 | Yakima Herald-Republic

    ... turkey hunting in some parts of the state. Most hunters in Central Washington will focus their efforts in Klickitat County. There is a pretty good population of wild turkeys in the breaks of the Klickitat River and in surrounding areas. We actually ...

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