Gleed News

A four-bay shop was damaged Saturday after heat from a woodstove ignited a nearby wall, firefighters said.

Standing on their chairs, from eft, Madison Cleem, 12, Dakota Swart, 12, Amber Hiatt, 12, Cady Calvert, 12, and Libby Novobelski, 12, sing along to worship music during their youth group meeting at Memorial Bible Church.

This editorial appears in the Oct. 1, 2009, Yakima Herald-Republic. Thanks to the U.S. Forest Service, we now have a new twist on an old saying: Where there's smoke, there's more smoke.

Large swaths of the Upper Yakima County were enveloped in smoke Monday evening from a controlled burn east of White Pass.

Northeast Yakima's first official Clean-up Day was such a success that organizers had to stretch it out a few days.

"These morning glories are the bane of my existence," says Lee Goll as she hoes the weeds in her raspberry patch July 17, 2009 near Gleed.

Crews are fighting a three-alarm brush fire at the Yakima Training Center on Friday afternoon.

At least 15 engines and 30 firefighters were needed to contain a small brush fire Monday.

A Selah firefighter throws a charred box spring out the window of a Gleed home that caught fire on east Gleed Road Monday, July 13, 2009.

Jeff Haysom sits with one of his family's goats, Gizmo, at his home in Gleed. While he was working as a civilian contractor in Iraq, Haysom was injured by shrapnel from a bomb that tore into his shoulder and also left him with a traumatic brain injury.

Firefighters have knocked down promblematic wildland and timber fires that started earlier today in the Gleed area and West Valley.

Does wearing a thong count as free speech? Will people march upon the Yakima City Hall with underwear hanging from their picket signs? Now that'd make some good photo ops ... Gleed State Alum Woodinville, WA 9 comments Mars - It's because they really are boobs.

Give and take was the order of the day for Yakima County commissioners during a study session Tuesday morning on off-road vehicle use.