The North Beach News

The OS councilman promised to give his home city “a seat at the table,” after being appointed to the PUD commission. You can watch today’s ceremony online: “Newly appointed PUD Dist. Three Commissioner Jon Martin will be sworn into office this afternoon at 3pm.  Join Zoom Meeting (via video and/or audio): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88185018285?pwd=T0NRc0t0U014RHFweXBnNEgyU0gxQT09 Meeting ID:  881Continue reading “Jon Martin ‘swearing in’ today”

Two OS City Council seats are on the primary ballot, with a field of eight soon to be trimmed to four (top two vote winners for each seat). Deadlines for the August 3, 2021 Primary Election. 7/16/2021 Local ballots mailed. Accessible voting units available at Grays Harbor County Auditor’s Office for Primary Election (RCW 29A.40.070) 7/26/2021Continue reading “Who’s ready … to vote?”

Using the kind of eagle-eyed, crystalline logic that is apparently in short supply at City Hall (the idea, even if there isn’t one), city watcher Donald Williams again lowered the boom, harshly criticizing Mayor Crystal Dingler’s costly (to the tune of a $690,000 check) firing of the former fire chief Bathke. If you’re about toContinue reading “‘The Don’ drops another bomb”

As council talks about — stop me if you’ve heard this one before — how we need to “stop kicking the can down the road” on the water weeds, is there a low-cost, natural solution? “Even though there are a wide variety of safe, effective, and environmentally responsible herbicides that one can use, most folksContinue reading “How about weed-eating fish for the lake/canals?”

Not at tonight’s City Council meeting, the first in-person council meeting in quite a while.

Press release: “The Grays Harbor PUD Board of Commissioners have voted to appoint Jon Martin of Ocean Shores to fill the District Three seat vacated by the retirement of Russ Skolrood.  Martin was one of six applicants for the seat and is tentatively scheduled to be sworn in by the board’s next meeting on AugustContinue reading “Councilman Martin appointed to PUD board”

Mayor Crystal Dingler has been diligent about providing COVID updates, which helps put the most recent figures in perspective. While 27 COVID-19 cases in Ocean Shores over a two-week period ending July 23 might not seem alarming, considering the city has a population of around 6,000 — it’s more than a touch concerning, from aContinue reading “OS COVID spike perspective”

1. Waterway improvements 2. Tsunami tower 3. Police/fire 4. Public works projects 5. Other

At the last council meeting, where her statements could conceivably be challenged, Mayor Crystal Dingler wouldn’t say a peep about writing a $690,000 check to the fire chief she fired (after losing the Bathke lawsuit). But, nine days later, she spent 10 minutes rattling on about it on her KOSW radio show, answering one questionContinue reading “The Bathke case: Mayor clams up in council, rambles on radio”

Facebook commenter: “What I’d like to know is let’s say 3 years ago, what was the percentage of people who had the flu and how many were hospitalized and how many died.” Answer: