Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Rosalia Fire Chief Bill Tensfeld tossed his hat in the ring Monday for Whitman County Commissioner from District 1. “I’m at the point in my life where I think I’ve got the background, education and experience to make a good commissioner,” Tensfeld told the Gazette. Tensfeld, 50, works as a traffic systems safety operator for the state Department of Transportation’s Spokane Regional Transportation Management Center. He has also served more than 25 years as a firefighter and EMT with the Rosalia Fire Department, the last 12 years serving as the d...
Cuts and the possibility of more cuts in state funding have prompted five school districts in Whitman County to increase their levy requests. Colfax, Endicott, Oakesdale, St. John and Colton are all asking voters in their districts for increases in their maintenance and operations levies. Ballots are scheduled to be mailed out Thursday for arrival to the voters by the Jan. 27 deadline. A total of 10 levy proposals are going in front of Whitman County voters Feb. 14. In addition to the previously mentioned districts, levies will be on the...
Colfax city worker Robert Wride uses a city excavator to remove the snow berm in the middle of Main Street Friday. The berm piled up from plows keeping one lane of traffic open through town in each direction. As rain replaced snow Friday, clean up crews hauled the snow from Main Street, dumping it in the concrete Palouse River....
A group of Whitman County citizens filed suit in Superior Court Monday to stop the county’s development agreement with Hawkins Companies of Boise. Pullman Attorney Timothy Esser filed the suit on behalf of a group identified as the Organization to Void Illegal Conduct. Ten people Monday formed the corporation to file the suit. “These are, without exception, men and women who have been successful in business in Whitman County for decades,” said Esser. “They are not the usual suspects that come out of the woodwork anytime growth is propose... Full story
