County Master News Today

The Washington State University Lewis County Extension Master Gardening Program will offer a day of free classes as part of its Spring Gardening for Everyone event. The series of classes will be …

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The U.S. Forest Service is still waiting for input from state agencies on the Mad Rabbit Trails project, further delaying the much-anticipated release of details about the proposed trail network on Rabbit Ears Pass. Hahns...

The Daily Reporter BRANCH COUNTY — It will be June before the Branch County Planning Commission can act on a proposed final draft of its update of the 1993 county Master Plan.  According to consultant Patrick Hudson, of the Southcentral Michigan Planning Council, one issue hampering the work is lack of 2020 census information.   The plan will tell “where are we now and where are we going,” Hudson said of his work. “They cut so much out of the census, it doesn’t tell us what we real...

Seagull flying over fence with barbwire mesh at sunset Lisa Valder Overview Historically, the roughly 3,000 local jails operating in the United States have received less public and policymaker attention than prisons. 1 But now, the COVID-19 pandemic has put jails—secure correctional facilities, generally operated by county or municipal governments, where people are detained before trial or confined post-conviction for periods usually lasting less than a year—under additional scrutiny. 2 Jai...

Payson and Rim Country have abundant examples of badly pruned trees: from mangled maples to pitiful Ponderosa pines. Don’t force your beautiful shade trees to suffer from improper pruning. Winter is the optimal season for pruning — trees have dropped their leaves and are dormant during the coldest months of January and February — making them more adaptive to pruning. Cooperative Extension Agent Chris Jones and Master Gardener Jan Groth team up this week to host an online webinar ...