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With a grand opening planned later this fall, Ag Tech Services has officially relocated its inventory and offices to a new Ritzville location. The store, now housed in the former Car Quest building on First Avenue, is operational and expected to have a grand opening in September or October of this year. Ritzville Warehouse Company purchased the 6,000 square-foot building and three surrounding lots in June and renovations of the building began soon after. Ritzville Warehouse...
If you know the expression about being out of the frying pan and into the fire – well, that’s a pretty good description of what July has been like. Last Monday marked just one month since the Legislature adjourned, yet here we are several days into harvest already. It’s quickly approaching full stride and should stay that way for the better part of the next two weeks, so this will have to be a brief report I’m still satisfied with the overall outcome of the 2013 legislative session, even if it took much longer than was nee... Full story
What makes a cliché a cliché? And how do you know a trusty old adage is true or merely trite? I’ve heard from many good-intentioned people, “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” I hear this quip most often in the context of discussions about wealth and poverty. I think the main assumption of this notion, then, is that the ‘man’ in question is destitute and therefore in desperate need of either a fish to eat or the knowledge of how to fish. This popular and well-aged s...
June 30, 1:02 p.m. – Officer Hunter Klewin responded to a suspicious person call in the 100 block of West Galbreath Way. Complainant advised of a white male in green colored clothing being abusive to his dog and aggressively panhandling in the area. Officer Klewin contacted the subject near Starbucks, who advised they were not panhandling. Officer Klewin observed the dog was fine, and the subject had food and water for the animal. June 29, 4:37 p.m. – Chief Dave McCormick responded to a possible theft in the 300 block of Sou...
The local Keystone Battery A Pennsylvania and Burroughs Tennessee Light Artillery group is providing a Living History Day on Saturday, Aug. 3. The Living History Day event begins at 8 a.m. at the Ritzville Train Depot and includes civil war and cannon demonstrations throughout the day, as well as a nighttime demonstration. The group will have tents set up in the grass alongside the depot, as well as the cannon. The group will be dressed in historic clothing and plans to portray the history living conditions by hosting... Full story