Skamania Public Utilities Department

From federal timber funding to wildfire safety and water infrastructure upgrades, your local officials had a full docket this week. Here's what happened at the July 1 meetings of the Board of County Commissioners and Skamania PUD.

This week, Skamania PUD reviewed a rise in bad debt and outages caused by animals and tree failures, while County Commissioners advanced contracts for health and emergency services and scheduled a public hearing on wildfire and search-and-rescue funding for federal lands.