Harrington council discusses budget, newspaper article

Council’s final meeting of 2021 chiefly featured discussions surrounding a previous article in The Times, approval of the city budget and swearing in a new city mayor and councilmember.

Councilmember Justin Slack brought up an article in the Dec. 23 issue of The Times.

“The title says ‘DOE (Department of Ecology) visits Harrington Council, says records are falsified,’” Slack said. “I think this is detrimental to the city... It says something about we're back in trouble again with the (DOE), and that, Andy O'Neill was here, he came to educate us and to attempt to provide sound recommendations f...