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Kushlan To Act As City Manager In McCall As City Searches For Permanent Replacement

The City of McCall has appointed an interim city manager.  Last week, BoiseDev reported that Anette Spickard was leaving for Arizona. Phil Kushlan will now fill in as city manager. Kushlan was the Executive Director of Boise’s Capital City Development Corporation, and the city manager in Bellevue, Washington, and Cottage Grove, Oregon. He was the Interim Executive […]

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Possible Change Coming To The Columbia County Commission With May Election Ahead

The May election ballot for Columbia County will not only feature a sheriff’s office jail levy and a levy supporting the Columbia 911 Communications District, it will also include a race for Position 1 on the Columbia County Board of Commissioners, a seat currently held by Margaret Magruder. Brian Brust, Alex Tardif and Magruder will

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Possible Change Coming To The Columbia County Commission With May Election Ahead

  The May election ballot for Columbia County will not only feature a sheriff’s office jail levy and a levy supporting the Columbia 911 Communications District, it will also include a race for Position 1 on the Columbia County Board of Commissioners, a seat currently held by Margaret Magruder. Brian Brust, Alex Tardif and Magruder

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Cowlitz County Landfill And Others Could Be Now Funded By WA Legislature

The Cowlitz County Landfill, captured on Thursday, Feb. 29 in Castle Rock. Millions in the state Legislature’s draft budgets could be approved to capture the methane produced at the landfill for energy. Data from the Environmental Protection Agency indicates the landfill produced around 290,000 metric tons of methane from the breakdown of organic waste in

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Increased Jail Levy Coming To Columbia County Ballots In May

With the expiration date for Columbia County’s jail levy looming in the distance, voters will decide on passing a new, higher tax to fund its operations. The new levy will be on Columbia County ballots this May, and will ask voters to raise property taxes 29 cents per $1,000 assessed property value — to 87

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Lawyers Asking For $6 Billion From Elon Musk

Lawyers who sunk Elon Musk’s big pay package are now asking for nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk doesn’t seem happy. Lawyers for a Tesla shareholder successfully argued in a Delaware court that Elon Musk doesn’t deserve a $55-billion compensation package for his work at the EV company. Instead, some of that compensation package should go to

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Case Dismissed Against Teen Migrant Accused In Police Officer’s Death

The case has been dismissed against a teen migrant from Guatemala almost a year after he was arrested following the death of a Florida police officer, according to Jose Baez, the teen’s lawyer. Virgilio Aguilar Mendez, a 19-year-old migrant, was arrested in May 2023 after Sgt. Michael Kunovich, an officer with the St. Johns County Sheriff’s

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Green Thumbs Can Apparently Unite At Weekend At Veterans Park

If you want to put your green thumbs to work this weekend, you’ll have a chance on Saturday, March 2. The Scappoose Bay Watershed Council is holding a volunteer work party at Veterans Park in Scappoose. Taylor Theel, project manager with the council, said the volunteer work party runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Awarded: Jenny Dimsho recognized as Employee of the Year

The City of St. Helens named St. Helens Associate Planner and Community Development Project Manager Jenny Dimsho employee of the year. “I’m incredibly honored to have been selected,” Dimsho said. “To the management staff who nominated me and to the reviewers who selected me, it is incredibly rewarding to be appreciated for the work I

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