Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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8 years ago December 31, 1886 The Opera hall is gaily decorated with evergreens and tissue paper for the firemen’s ball this evening. Tickets to trip the light fantastic are $1.50. A miner who had not been shaved for thirty years was operated upon at one of our barber shops last week. DePencier’s heavy truck team are irresistible when they take it into their heads to run away, as was the case Friday. They struck out for the stable, demolishing a few awning posts en route and barely missed trampling a small team under foot. A runaway team of t...
Attorneys for The Scotts Company Friday detailed accounts of the company’s contentions of seed contract stuffing in a 57-page response filed in superior court. The response asks the court to dismiss a third amended motion filed by Seeds, Inc. of Tekoa which asks the court to drop counter claims for damages filed by Scotts. The motions are part of a massive civil suit filed by Kentucky Bluegrass growers against Scotts, Seeds Inc, and Dye Seed Ranch of Pomeroy. The motions, statements and other papers filed in the suit now fill 20 folders in t...
City Administrator Carl Thompson reported to the city council Monday night he has received responses from four other towns on their ordinances involving keeping of chickens in the city. Colfax has been asked to revise its ordinance to allow for raising chickens inside the city limits. The city now allows chickens only in the new rural residential zone which was added along the N. Fork of the Palouse River for Redtail Ridge and other proposed developments in the area.... Full story
Exterior work to begin next month Exterior work on the new grocery store at LaCrosse is expected to begin next week, according to Ed Casey, president of LaCrosse Community Pride. “I know it’s felt like a slow-go with all the work being done inside,” said Casey. “But now people will start to see the real thing happening.” LaCrosse has been without a store since Jerry Chastain closed the market in February 2009. The goal of LaCrosse Community Pride is to have the new store up and running in time for the June Farmers’ Fest, the annual LaCrosse co...
Whitman County commissioners delayed a decision Tuesday on increasing the county’s contribution to help build a shopping center at the stateline. In the week since Hawkins Companies asked for an additional $5.9 million to build public infrastructure at its long-proposed 714,000-square-foot shopping center, commissioners learned their bonding company would not underwrite bonds on the project and Prosecutor Denis Tracy advised them he had concerns about the legality of the proposal. “I guess we’ll see what we can put together over the next week,...
Six Colfax children had an entirely new experience last weekend, celebrating their first Christmas. All six children were adopted from Ethiopia by three Colfax families in the past year. “I can’t tell you how much more special this Christmas was,” said Caylene Knox, who along with husband Craig celebrated the holiday with newly adopted Landon, 5, and Rosa, 4, added to their family. “They just ate it up,” Knox said of her children’s Christmas celebration. While everyday items like vacuums, ice cubes and domesticated dogs have thrown the children...
