Washington County officials on Tuesday approved paperwork naming Deputy Nathan Schmuecker as the local government’s new emergency management coordinator, a role he’ll hold alongside his title as a deputy.
Washington County officials have renewed a contract with WEMIGA Waste Management, maintaining the county’s ties to the trash disposal and recycling business through 2029.
Washington County has joined a fast-growing list of counties eligible for payouts from a legal settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, who manufactured and aggressively marketed the addictive painkiller OxyContin for decades, causing hundreds of thousands of overdose-related deaths.
After monthslong screening of job applicants, the county is now positioned to instead delegate the authority of a former department head to a sheriff’s deputy, who also applied for the job.
Washington’s city council and school district have approved their budgets for the coming fiscal year, with the county supervisors set to vote on their finances next week. Here’s everything you need to know.
Voters will have to wait at least six more months to weigh in on a ballot measure that could help pay for area emergency medical services in Washington County, after advisers and decision-makers failed to agree on a funding level for the proposed tax levy.
Decision-makers say they’ve ‘shown their work’ as call to freeze salaries fails with 4-1 vote
The all-Republican Washington County Board of Supervisors on Monday voted unanimously to enact an ordinance that effectively bans commercial wind turbines in the area.
Washington County is one reading away from enacting a functional ban on commercial wind energy. Proponents of the ordinance say it’ll help with wildlife conservation and prevent wasteful subsidies, while critics say it risks unsustainable carbon emissions and impedes property rights.
Last week’s debate was the first of several in the coming budget season, which officials expect will prove contentious thanks to inflation, and state restrictions on local government revenue.
In a seemingly unending back-and-forth among community members, a public hearing Monday night saw several speakers voice their opposition to a Washington County ordinance that would effectively ban commercial wind energy development there. The county appears likely to move forward with the proposal.
After years of debate and countless false starts, supervisors have once more modified a proposed ordinance governing commercial wind turbines in the area, extending setback requirements and setting the date for yet another public hearing on the proposal.
Public comments are welcome at the 7 p.m. meeting Nov. 18, but may not change much as the county faces déjà vu thanks to procedural errors when it passed a similar code in September.
Washington County Supervisors have completed the process to put a new ordinance on the books that heavily regulates wind power in the area, effectively preventing any large-scale development for the renewable energy source in the foreseeable future.
WASHINGTON — Washington County Supervisors completed the first of at least two readings for a long-discussed ordinance governing wind energy …
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