A 1^st Annual Variety Show was held at Selah Intermediate School Monday, Nov. 9, presented by the SIS Parent Teacher Student Organization.

Guns and ammunition have been disappearing off shelves quick across the United States. Here in Selah the situation has been similar.

More than 1.5 million students enter to try to win a National Merit Scholarship every year but just 8,200 of them receive a scholarship. This year Ashley Larson, daughter of Selah City Councilman Keith Larson, was one of those exceptional individuals.

The Selah Independent hosted a Mother’s Day contest for kids from John Campbell and Robert Lince Elementary Schools this past week. The contest involved the students writing a letter describing how special their Mother is to them. Winners will be announced and receive awards this Friday. These are some of letters from the finalists:

Opening a new business in an economy that has other shops closing their doors was a calculated risk 1995 Selah High School graduate Mike McCay is glad he took. After working in the auto repair industry for more than a decade, Mike, along with his wife Marisa, opened Absolute Auto, Inc. last March.

Many birds at Selah’s Raptor House Rehab Center have new pens thanks to the volunteer efforts of a group of master hunters.

This past summer the Selah City Council adopted a resolution for a Six-Year Transportation Improvement Program but when President Barack Obama signed the stimulus package, dubbed the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” that program needed a few adjustments.

Lauren Allan receives her Miss Yakima County Outstanding Teen crown.

Young ladies from across Yakima County gathered at the Capitol Theatre in Yakima to compete in the 2009 Miss Yakima County beauty pageant held Sunday, March 8.

The date and venue is set for the 2010 Miss Selah Pageant. It will be held Sunday, Apr. 25, at 2 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre in downtown Yakima.
Many changes have been made to the Miss Selah Pageant this year including that nominations for contestants must be made by a member of their community in order to be eligible to compete.

To begin the New Year, Selah National Little League President Eric Monson made it a point to try and secure the 2010 Washington 10-11 year old State Baseball Tournament at McGonagle Park. Earlier this month, Monson received the nod for Selah.