This just in — The Daily Record’s Business Manager Diane Ewing has agreed to add $100 to the Ellensburg Pet Center’s $200 donation to the Ellensburg Animal Shelter if Buddy gets 1,000 fans by May 24. So lets get to it Facebook users! Let’s help Buddy help out other animals!

She’s a 24-year-old self-described African beauty looking for love. Though she is young, she’s graying with grace, living her life as an entertainer for the Ellensburg masses. She’s Buddy — the Ellensburg Pet Center’s African Gray parrot. She’s on Facebook and she needs 1,000 friends by May 24 in order to have the pet store [...]

The Ellensburg Police Department collects patches. A lot of patches — four cork boards filled with patches from around the county, state and country. The collection started some 15 or 20 years ago, according to EPD Capt. Dan Hansberry — and continues on to this day with the different agencies they come in contact with. [...]

I was on my way to an interview at CWU Monday, when I noticed a woman painting a school bus bright green on 10th Avenue. I stopped, keeping this photo blog in mind, only to find out it’s Heather Bilyeu of Ravinwolf — she was painting their new tour bus. Well, kind of new. It’s [...]

My boss, Jeff Robinson, and his wife Michelle are moving to the good old state of Idaho — which means one thing for me. Time to make an awesome going away cake. The cake was enormous — six layers of a mixture of chocolate and white cake to suit everyone’s fancy. I believe at the [...]

Just a quick note to all my faithful readers — word has it that Sparky the dog has been found and is safe and sound. We’ll have more on the story in Monday’s Daily Record. Great job to all those who called in and kept watch! Pick up Monday’s paper to find out how she [...]

I’m borrowing this idea from one of my fellow CWU alums, Clare Jensen, who is doing a 365-day photo blog. Mine will be a daily photo of things going on around Kittitas County. While I’m out and about doing interviews and attending events, I’ll take some photos of my own and load them up on [...]

Sparky, a 3-year-old dog that was rescued from a Spokane woman convicted for animal cruelty for hoarding dogs this month, needs to be rescued again. The dog got loose in the Bar-14 Ranch House parking lot Friday, and has been lost ever since. “We set out a live trap for her,” said Dan Kaynor of [...]

I don’t know why we bother faxing anymore these days — but when it comes to the Kittcom report, that is how we receive it. The fax had another hiccup, so here is the blotter you missed from the main site: The following are police and fire calls received by Kittcom from March 9-10: • [...]

Dusty and I were making the trek back to Ellensburg Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend knee deep in bridesmaids dresses and tuxes in Tukwila. We passed Issaquah when we realized that we were in dire need of gas, so we pulled over to the traffic jam that is North Bend. I don’t know who [...]