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The State Department of Corrections and local stakeholders will be meeting next week to discuss the next steps in expanding work release programs in Chelan and Douglas Counties. Chelan County Commissioner Kevin Overbay says they are working with local stakeholders through a bidding process for a new facility ...

The Chelan County Commissioners say they hope to finalize the 2020 budget before Christmas. Doug Englund says they are still working on closing the gap in requests versus available funds. "It would be nice if there were some issues that would be simple to cross off the list and say 'That's ridiculous...

Chelan County Natural Resources department has secured a grant for roughly $15,000 from the Rose Foundation for the Stemilt Partnership and its Sediment Reduction and Water Quality Education project. "This is a grant...to work with Stemilt Partnership, which is a great community group, that has identified some work to improve wildlife habitat, increase water supply and provide recreational be

Chelan County commissioners used a salary survey as a tool to evaluate and compare the county employees' payrolls to surrounding counties. At the latest commissioner meetings, some payroll changes were included on the agenda. "What we are consistently finding is that on our lower end of our pay scale, we are under in comparison to other counties...

Chelan County Commissioners adopted the preliminary budget for 2020 at Monday's meeting and will approve the final budget by the end of the year, closer to the last week of December. "It's important to remember that anytime you ask the government to do anything, it cost money," said Doug England, Chelan County Commissioner...

More than 500 people gathered in Okanogan Monday night to provide feedback regarding a plan to re-introduce grizzly bears to the North Cascades. Chelan County Commissioner Doug Englund attended and said the vast majority spoke against the plan, but it's unclear the impact...

Chelan County Commissioners could approve the Stemilt-Squilchuck recreation plan next week after they held a final public hearing September 16th. Commissioner Kevin Overbay says they've been reviewing the plan that has been three years in the making...