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Funded by a stop-loss grant from A.W.C. Insurance, three new surveillance cameras were installed at Garfield Park in December. Police monitor the footage via computer. The project is in response to incidents of vandalism in the restrooms. "Now we can just go back and look at the tape," said Mayor Jarrod Pfaff, of catching any further perpetrators.... Full story
Gazette Reporters Columbia Bank, the financial institution that took over much of the assets of the failed Bank of Whitman last August, reported $48 million net income in 2011. Columbia’s 2011 financial statement, released last Thursday, showed profits were up 86 percent from the $25.8 million the bank made in 2010. In response, the Tacoma-based bank announced it would pay its stockholders a cash dividend of eight cents per share, plus a special one-time cash dividend of 29 cents per share. At press time, Columbia’s stocks were trading at $21... Full story
The Feb. 14 special election is more than 13 percent finished, Whitman County elections workers reported Tuesday afternoon. Karen Bafus, elections technician, said 1,583 ballots had been received through the mail, with another 700 estimated in drop boxes at the elections office in Colfax and at Pullman City Hall. A total of 16,991 ballots were put in the mail last Friday for the Feb. 14 special election. Most voters received their ballots the next day. Maintenance and operation proposals will go before voters in nine school districts around the... Full story
A May 14 trial has been scheduled in superior court for Michael J. Hellmer, 28, Pullman. He has been charged with residential burglary and theft from an apartment on NE Hillside in Pullman in September of 2010. A Pullman Police report filed with the charges alleges Hellmer climbed through a window to enter the apartment to do laundry. Charges against Hellmer were filed Oct. 19. He was arrested Jan. 16 after a warrant was issued by the court. The warrant contends Hellmer failed to appear in court Nov. 4 for a pre-trial hearing. The report also...
The dinner to honor Norma Becker has now been scheduled for Feb. 16 in the Norma McGregor room at the library. The tribute dinner was snowed out Jan. 19. Eighty people made reservations to attend the dinner. Becker concluded 20 years of service as Colfax mayor at the end of the year....
Colfax street crews Jan. 23 dropped some snow loads in the S. Fork of the Palouse River after the city provided notice to the state’s Department of Ecology. City Administrator Carl Thompson said the city has a permit to deposit snow in the river, but is required to notify the Department of Ecology before taking that option. Permission to dump the snow in the river is related to the buildup of a snow berm in the middle of Main Street. Thompson explained dumping is allowed when the city notifies the state that land traffic on Main Street has b... Full story
Construction of a high speed grain train loading facility at McCoy should get underway this spring. Sam White, chief operating officer for PNW Farmers’ Cooperative, told a lunchtime crowd at the Chamber of Commerce’s Farm City Day Tuesday that his firm expects to go “full speed ahead” with construction this spring. PNW, along with Rosalia-based Cooperative Agricultural Producers, plan to build a $16 million facility that would transfer grain from trucks to tanks and into 110-car unit trains that would ship grain straight to Portland. White s...
forecast Central County Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40. Calm wind. Mostly clear overnight. Friday: Sunny with a high near 39. Mosty clear overnight with a low around 28. Saturday: Sunny, high near 41. Mostly clear overnight with a low around 30. Sunday: Sunny, high near 41. Mostly clear overnight, low around 30. Monday thru Wednesday: Sunny with daytime highs in lower 40’s. Overnight mostly clear with lows around 30....
Pine Creek encroaches across both lanes of Seabury Road north of Oakesdale Monday morning as heavy flooding struck the northern reaches of Whitman County. Public Works Director Mark Storey said the lack of heavy snow in the northern portion of the county allowed the ground to freeze two to three-inches deep, which allowed Sunday’s heavy rains to run right into drainages like Pine Creek.... Full story
“It sounds like they’ve got a rough road ahead of them,” - Marty Brown, Budget Director for Gov. Chris Gregoire Gazette Reporter Whitman County leadership set up an outpost on the west side of the Cascades this week, when several local officials lobbied lawmakers in Olympia for $15 million to fund the county’s pledged portion of the Hawkins project. They returned, as of press time, empty handed. “We had some really good meetings. The meeting with the governor’s office was productive,” said Commissioner Greg Partch. “Only he said, basically...
