Kevin Rounce
Bitmain Donates More than 22,000 Masks to Confluence Health
Bitmain, a company that supports cryptocurrency mining and artificial intelligence, donated more than 22,500 masks to Confluence Health Tuesday from their Malaga location.
The donation came as a thank you to medical professionals who are risking their lives in the fight against COVID-19
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MLPD K9 Chief Retiring
The Moses Lake Police Department announced on their Facebook Tuesday that K9 Chief will be medically retired.
He was shot chasing a robbery suspect February 28th and suffered damage to his left eye and jaw.
Despite losing his eye, Chief has made a full recovery, but will not be able to return to duty
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Update: Alpenhof Fire 100% Contained
Tuesday 7:20 p.m. update:
The Alpenhof fire is now 100% contained. The blaze's acreage has also been revised down to 12 acres.
Chelan County Fire District 3 PIO Annie Schmidt said, "Firefighters made great progress today securing the containment lines
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Chelan County Commissioners Amend Proclamation on Short-Term Rentals, Look for Funding
Chelan County Commissioners amended their recent proclamation that stopped short-term rentals from housing non-essential personnel.
Bob Bugert says they wanted to provide further clarification and refinement in that the proclamation only applied to unincorporated Chelan County, not the cities which set their own rules
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Dispatchers Playing Pivotal Role During Pandemic
We are in the middle of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week honoring dispatchers who help in emergencies.
Mike Battis with Ballard Ambulance says with the COVID-19 pandemic, the people at Rivercom or similar operations play a very important role
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First Douglas County Resident Dies from COVID-19
The first death of a Douglas County resident due to COVID-19 occurred Monday.
No details about the person were released, but data on the Chelan-Douglas Health District website indicate the person was at least 80 years old.
The two counties have 87 combined positive cases of COVID-19 with six deaths
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Grant County Officials Stressing Importance of Staying Home
The Grant County Joint Operations Center, consisting of the Health District and Sheriff's Office among others, says they are not seeing the reduction in positive COVID-19 tests they had hoped by this point.
Health Officer Dr. Alex Brzezny says, "We are not even close to containment, we are still in the active mitigation stage
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Chelan County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Uptick in Mail Thefts
The Chelan County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of 151 pieces of stolen mail from various parts of the county, with the Cashmere area hit over the weekend.
Chief Jason Reinfeld says mail theft is not necessarily anything new, but they've seen an uptick in recent weeks possibly because of what's expected this week
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Five Chelan County Residents Have Now Died from COVID-19
The Chelan-Douglas Health District reported three more deaths over the weekend from COVID-19, all in Chelan County which has had five people die from the virus during this outbreak.
There are now 71 cases in the two-county area, 55 of which are in Chelan County
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Dr. Malcolm Butler Says the Peak of COVID is Not the End of the Pandemic
The Puget Sound area was expected to pass the peak of their COVID-19 cases by some models from the University of Washington.
Chief Medical Officer at Columbia Valley Community Health Dr. Malcolm Butler says we're a couple of weeks behind them, but that's not the end
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