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Camo-clad man arrested in alleged Cle Elum burglary
A Cle Elum man was jailed for first-degree burglary Thursday after he was found crawling through a field in camouflage clothing near a home that had just been burglarized. Kenneth Clyde Shoptaw, 52, was expected to be arraigned this week in Kittitas County Superior Court. Shoptaw was booked into Kittitas County Jail after he was seen crawling around on the property off Lauderdale Lane. Sheriff deputies brought in a drone...
Seasonal and sunny for now, but turning much hotter after the 4th
Today: Monday will start off with partly cloudy skies for some, but clouds will eventually breach and give way to mostly sunny to sunny skies. There could be a stray thunderstorm, or two, in the Cascades, Kittitas Valley, and the foothills of the Blues–but don’t bank on it. It’ll be a toasty one, but highs will only be a couple degrees above average. It’ll be in the low to mid-60s in the Cascades and Blues, with low to mid-80s in the Kittitas/Yakima valleys and Blue Foothills. The Lower Columbia Basin will flirt with 90-degrees. Otherwise, today will be a breezy to windy one depending on where you are. West-northwesterly wind gusts will gust between 20-45 MPH, with the strongest wind gusts easily being in the Kittitas Valley.
Wrong track/right track? Survey asks Kittitas County voters
A new poll conducted to gauge support for an increase in Kittitas County’s Road Levy sheds some interesting insights about how voters feel about local government. Kittitas County commissioners met late last week to talk about a possible November ballot measure to increase the annual Road Levy, which pays for repairs and maintenance to county roads and bridges, and also provides matching funds for outside transportation grants. County staff is expected to bring a proposed resolution for a ballot measure to the county commissioners for...
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