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Sep 26, 20234 min read

Council authorizes chickens, amends animal codes

September 28, 2023 By: Katherine Trowbridge The Connell City Council revisited the animal code amendments at their Sept. 20 meeting,...

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Sep 20, 20233 min read

Roof is Completed!

Former American Legion Building gets new roof after spring storm Restoration of historic building underway, RDO donates to project Before...

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Jul 13, 20235 min read

Freedom Rodeo draws nearly 6,000 to Basin City

Jul 13, 2023 By: Katherine Trowbridge Photos: Lety Guzman, Katherine Trowbridge With a declaration of “Let Freedom . . . Rodeo” the...

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Jul 11, 20232 min read

2019 murder victims family gets some closure as Sheriffs seek further help in case

By: Miurlin Escalante Franklin County Sheriff Officer Marcus Conner took to the microphone to welcome everyone as Estela Torre-Rodriguez'...

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Jun 22, 20233 min read

Legion gives Historic building to North Franklin Heritage Museum

By: Katherine Trowbridge For those who have been following the fundraising efforts to save the American Legion Building in downtown...

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Jun 15, 20231 min read

Nearly $3,000 raised at “raise the roof” fundraiser

Jun 15 2023 The “Raise the Roof” fundraiser held in downtown Connell on Thursday, June 8, brought in a total of $ $2,986, just shy of...

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May 16, 20231 min read

Fire crews respond to explosion, fire at OXARC in Pasco

Pasco fire crews responded to a call Tuesday morning after 10:15 am. for what was said to be an explosion and fire at the OXARC facility...

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May 4, 20231 min read

Rollover crash backs up traffic, injures one near Connell

Franklin County Fire District 1 was called to a single vehicle rollover crash just outside of Connell (at mile post 57 on Hwy 395)...

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Apr 26, 20231 min read

Emergency Landing

Connell Police (CPD) along with local First Responders came to the aide of what they called an "emergency helicopter landing" at Pioneer...

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Apr 20, 20232 min read

American Legion Needs Your Help

updated! April, 20 2023 By: Katherine Trowbridge Since the roof blew off the American Legion, sending questions throughout the community...

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Apr 19, 20231 min read

Fire at nuisance property, causes injury

By: Clayton Trowbridge Just north of us in the town of Lind, a fire at an old house at 210, 3rd Street was responded to by Adams County...

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Apr 10, 20232 min read

DUI causes damage to Franklin County Fire District 1 truck

While crews were responding to a semitrailer fire on southbound Highway 395, Tuesday night, April 4, a drunk driver caused damage to a...

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Apr 1, 20231 min read

Storm takes roof

This afternoon's rain/hail storm huffed and puffed and blew the roof right off the historic American Legion building in downtown...

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Mar 22, 20234 min read

Cathy McMorris-Rodgers joined area leaders in Roundtable discussion

By: Katherine Trowbridge Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers made a stop in Connell on Tuesday, March 14 where she joined a variety of...

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Mar 11, 20232 min read

Daylight Savings Time to begin

Be sure to turn your clocks ahead one hour this weekend as Daylight Savings Time (DST) will begin at 2 am on Sunday, March 12, 2023....

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Mar 3, 20234 min read

Underfunded, overtaxed 1st responders seek options with County Commissioners

By: C&K Trowbridge The Cafeteria at Connell Elementary was quickly filled with first responders as the Franklin County Commissioners held...

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Feb 17, 202310 min read

Chamber Banquet honors local volunteers, businesses - brings out crowd

By: Katherine Trowbridge Conversations filled the room as just shy of 190 people gathered for the annual Greater Connell Area Chamber of...

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Jan 18, 20234 min read

Roads continue to be big topic for Franklin County

By: Katherine Trowbridge They say a picture is worth a thousand words - the picture above is of Gill Road in N. Franklin County. The...

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Jan 12, 20233 min read

Mutiple agencies work together to apprehend suspects, stolen goods

Law enforcement agencies have been busy investigating not one, but two individual cases. The first, a string of burglaries that spans...

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Jan 12, 20231 min read

Congratulations to the first baby of 2023!

Leilani S. Habana was officially the first baby born in the Columbia Basin in 2023! She was born 01/01/2023 at 9:55 AM -which made her...

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