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Las Vegas had Celine Dion and Britney, with Aerosmith and Lady Gaga next. In Yakima, the Nighthawks-in-residence at the SunDome is held over for another year – Oakesdale winning its fourth consecutive state 1B volleyball championship Nov. 9 over Almira/Coulee/ Hartline. The Nighthawks took the final match in four sets, after ACH fought off seven championship points. Oakesdale won 25-13, 21-25, 24-14, 25-22. The third set loss was their only of the state tournament. "These girls have a lot of h...
(To the tune of The Rolling Stones' “Miss You”) Wazzu holding out so long, football season predicted for a Gong but then Minshew Oohh ohhooo oooh hoo ooo hoo, ooo hooo oo oohoo Debt been rising at the gate, Minshew comes along of late: says “May I help you?” He wasn't waiting in the hall, already taken Saban's call: “I want Minshew” Oohh ohhooo oooh hoo ooo hoo, oo hooo ooh oohoo Headed third string for the Tide, then one more time, the phone rings. “What's the matter man? You come around the Pa...
Palouse city council members were set to consider a preliminary 2019 budget at their Tuesday night meeting, a year after approving an eight percent raise for city employees. Later this month, public hearings will be held for input on the budget Nov. 13 and Nov. 27. By state law, the city is required to pass a budget by Dec. 31. The preliminary numbers Tuesday were submitted by Mayor Michael Echanove. He and City Administrator Kyle Dixon gathered input from department heads beginning in August....
John Jaeger resigned Oct. 31 after 11 years as Tekoa mayor. The city council has 90 days to appoint a successor. Troy Wilson is now the acting mayor as mayor pro-tem. Jaeger was elected to his third term in 2016. Never opposed in election, he first took office in 2007 followimg the resignation of Richard Weatherly. Jaeger had been on the city council for one year. “I thought it was just time,” he said of his resignation. “Sometimes, in this position, you make people unhappy, you can’t not. I...
The 2018 Garfield/Palouse football season ended on the Vikings' field Tuesday night in a first round playoff game against Lyle/Wishram, two towns across the river from the Dalles, Ore. The Cougars, with a bullet train of a running back, handled Gar/Pal 38-16, advancing to play next at home against Entiat – with 16 1B teams remaining in action around the state. The Viking stayed close in the first half, trailing 20-16 to start the third quarter before Lyle/Wishram began to take control. G...
Daniel Moore, a fourth-generation farmer near Dusty, has written a book which came out of what he has seen in the fields. Often, he would spot an old balloon laying on the stubble during harvest or at other times. It landed after a special occasion, sometimes with a message on it. Sitting in the cab of a combine, he wondered who they were for. In the early '90s, when his daughter Miranda was starting home-school, he began to tell her stories about the balloons. Now a grandfather to Miranda's two...
Numbers are coming in for the 17th annual Haunted Palouse, held the weekends of Oct. 19-20 and Oct. 26-27 in Palouse. Total paid attendance was 4,006, the fourth-highest total in the event’s history, with the final night this year bringing in 1,572 people, the second highest single-night ever. Palouse Chamber of Commerce treasurer Janet Barstow estimates the net profit will be between $69,000 and $70,000, the highest ever. Last year’s $59,477 net profit was the previous high, on an att...
The summer after Emily Ruskovich got her Master's Degree, back home visiting Hoodoo Mountain, Idaho, she went with her parents in a truck to a clearing to retrieve a stack of firewood. "I felt this place had a memory," she said. "I had a very, very unsettled feeling. I felt it knew something I didn't." The feeling stayed with her and she began to write a short story. In 2012, three years later, the untitled piece was about to be published in a collection by Random House when its editors asked...
In the last week of the regular season for Southeast 1B league football, Garfield/Palouse and Sunnyside Christian held in a first-place tie after both teams won Oct. 26. Gar/Pal handled Pomeroy 78-40 while Sunnyside Christian beat St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse 60-26. Colton stayed at third in league after a win by forfeit over Touchet. The Wildcats play at home Thursday in their second game against Gar/Pal this year. The Vikings won the first 90-52 Sept. 28. Garfield/Palouse 78, Pomeroy 40 Playing...
Whitman County political candidates gathered in Pullman Oct. 18 for a League of Women Voters forum at Trinity Lutheran Church, featuring two races with one taken off the slate. The question-and-answer session for treasurer candidates Mark Clinton, the incumbent, and Chris Nelson, did not go forward due to Nelson's absence for a family emergency. AUDITOR The night began in a side room in the church with the auditor's race. Eric Fejeran and Sandy Jamison started with opening statements. After...
Steptoe resident Kirk Suess presented to county commissioners Monday a list of 150 signatures as part of a request for an ordinance on unlicensed vehicles, yard debris and trash in unincorporated areas. Suess brought in a notebook with five pages of names as a follow-up after a Sept. 4 appearance in front of commissioners Michael Largent, Dean Kinzer and Art Swannack. The commissioners have held no specific discussion on the matter nor is one scheduled. “We simply received this request,” Lar...
The Colfax school board met Monday night and approved a list of items, beginning with the hiring of Ron Shirley, musical set manager; Demetria Bryson, musical costumes, and Shonda Nelson, junior high yearbook advisor. Further, they approved a $2,100 donation from Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories to Jennings Elementary School – following a similar donation to the high school earlier this fall. District Superintendent Jerry Pugh then took the board through the proposed 2019-20 school year c...
With two weeks remaining in the regular season for Southeast 1B league football, Garfield/Palouse and Sunnyside Christian remain tied for first place after each won Oct. 19. The Knights of Sunnyside Christian (7-1) got a forfeit against Touchet while Gar/Pal (7-1) blew out St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse for the second time this year. The Vikings will play at Pomeroy (4-4) Friday night followed by a re-match with Colton on the road the following week. Sunnyside Christian plays at LaCrosse Friday...
Whitman County Commissioner Art Swannack traveled to Washington, D.C., Oct. 12 for the Oregon-Washington White House Conference of Intergovernmental Affairs. A group of 120 county elected officials – commissioners, three sheriffs and others – went by invitation to the scheduled three-hour meeting, which featured short presentations and question-and-answer time with representatives from a list of federal departments. Held on the grounds of the White House complex at the Eisenhower Executive Off...
An estimated 200 people converged on farm ground off Manning Road northwest of Colfax Oct. 20 for the 27th annual Plow Day at the Morgan Ranch. Started by David Morgan, 86, and son Alan, 66, the event has kept on each year since 1992 as farmers and hobbyists bring in period tractors to plow an 18-acre stretch by the Palouse River. "We took the fence posts out, but earlier we used to lean against the fence and recollect to each other how we used to do it, and how we think these young guys should...
The annual October fall cleanup week at Whitman County landfill may yet still happen this year after the three-year-old garbage intake building was damaged in a fire on Aug. 3. The cleanup week, normally done in the second week of October, reduces the intake fee from $106 per ton to $35 for Whitman County residents only. It was put on hold this year because repairs were being made to the intake building. “I’m still hoping to do it,” said David Nails, Solid Waste operations manager. A tenta...
The path to decide next year’s county budget took another step Tuesday as county commissioners met for a 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. workshop to figure how to cut a projected $996,000 deficit in preparation to pass a balanced 2019 county budget by Dec. 31. The local process began in the first week of August with each county department submitting an estimate for next year. Since then, Gary Petrovich, county administrative director, put the figures together and presented a first round to commissioners in an...
The imagineers of Palouse are at work again. Truckloads of lumber were brought out from the city flathouse. Hundred-foot rolls of heavy black plastic arrived. Pathways were taped on the floor of the old firehouse and printing museum. After weeks of work, the 17th annual Haunted Palouse starts Friday, to run two weekends, Friday and Saturday nights before Halloween — transforming the town into two haunted buildings, an eerie night ride along the river and general unsettling in the streets. ...
An old C-130 mail plane dropped him off at Can Tho, Vietnam, and they took him to the base at Ben Thuy – an Army combat engineer assigned to join a company maintaining a 200-truck supply unit for the Mekong Delta. David Gillman of Winona did this for two tours of duty, 1969-71, repairing shot-up vehicles, steam-cleaning off blood and stenciling a new star on the door, if needed, before sending the 2.5-ton flatbeds back outside the fence. From Adams, Ore., near Pendleton, some of Gillman's u...
They go from zero to 100 MPH in one second. In race format, the funny car that clocks closest to 6.70 seconds for the quarter-mile track is the winner. That top car for the 2018 season of the NWBBFC (Northwest BB Funny Car Association) is owned by Royce Taylor of St. John. He drove a red 1970 replica-framed Mach 1 Ford Mustang, taking top points for the year, for which Taylor will be presented a trophy at the NWBBFC banquet in Chehalis in February. "It's the satisfaction of knowing you did...
The top two teams in the Southeast 1B league met Oct. 12 and came out tied for first as Sunnyside Christian handled Garfield/Palouse at Sunnyside – avenging a September loss at Palouse. With three weeks left in the regular season, the Vikings and Sunnyside Christian are now both 6-1 in league/overall, followed by Colton in third (4-3, 4-3) and Pomeroy (4-3, 4-3) fourth. Colton, which beat Pomeroy 62-30 Sept. 14, will meet them again Friday on the road. Gar/Pal will play St. John/Endicott/LaCross...
Whitman County Planning Commission last Wednesday, Oct. 3, voted to postpone the continuation of a zone change hearing on behalf of McCoy Land Company, which asked to stay their request following a meeting Sept. 5 on their proposed four-pad grain pile project just outside Dusty. The hearing will now resume Feb. 6 of next year. Before the commission’s meeting last week, McCoy, a subsidiary of Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative, sent a letter to Alan Thomson, Whitman County planner, to a...
A new business incubator opened in Garfield last weekend in the former Mitz’s Cabinets shop. Garfield Plaza, a 5,000 square-foot space with booths, dividers and an open common area in the middle, marked its grand opening Saturday with 327 tickets given out for door prizes. “The first weekend was awesome,” said Sonja Hall, the proprietor of the Garfield In-Convenience Store, who is negotiating to buy the building from Craig Mitzemburg. For Garfield Plaza, Hall rents space to various vendo...
A new community resource will kick off Oct. 16 in Uniontown for a program that will also start in Colton and is intended to expand from there across the Palouse. “Sharing Corners” was begun by a group of people who took a class last winter at the Colfax library given by Rural Development Initiatives, based in Eugene, Ore. The local group came up with an idea for a project and later used a $5,000 grant from the Innovia Foundation to bring it to fruition. Inspired by the concept of the fre...
A Highway 27 speed limit at the south end of Palouse is back to 25 miles per hour, three years after adjacent neighbors first requested a reduction, only to see the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) raise the speed limit instead. The new limit of 25 mph will be set from the south end of Palouse out to milepost 14.54, after Mayor Michael Echanove received an e-mail from WSDOT saying the request to drop it to 25 from 45 was finally approved. “We did everything on the checklist and s...
