Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Deadeyes from all over Eastern Washington showed off their skills at the LaCrosse Gun Club’s annual bacon shoot Sunday. The shoot drew a big crowd which took home 720 pounds of bacon and 275 pounds of crab for their rewards. Junior shooters Trevor Bennett and Jason Heitstuman claimed 13 wins on their cards, and the Rattlesnake Shooters from the Tri-Cities also booked a slough of wins.... Full story
A Colfax fire crew was called out to a report of smoke in an apartment building in the S. 1000 block of Mill Street Jan. 29. The smoke came from a washing machine in the laundry room of the apartment. The motor apparently overheated in the washing machine when the washer was overloaded....
An order extending judgment for another 10 years was added in each of the 41 files of criminal defendants who have not paid off fines or fees as required by the court. State law allows the court to extend judgments beyond 10 years when payments which are normally included in sentences remain due. The court here extends the judgments after nine years as a precaution. Defendants in the 41 cases from 2001 have $133,041 due on payments ordered by the court....
Pazen Road and part of Klemgard Road now belong to their neighboring landowners after Whitman County commissioners officially abandoned them in a unanimous vote Monday. Commissioners delayed a vote on the Campbell and Mac Hatley roads Monday to await legal advice on abandoning roads with bridges. Campbell Road, near Tekoa, and the Mac Hatley Road, near Ewartsville, were also listed for abandonment by public works director Mark Storey. Abandonment of the roads means neighboring landowners now have the responsibility of maintenance. Neighboring...
A 16-year-old Palouse student has been summoned to appear in juvenile court Feb. 18 on a charge of taking a teacher’s iPod at the school. The arrest report filed by Palouse Officer Joe Merry said the suspect was seen taking the iPod by another student. The iPod was located at a pawn shop in Moscow. Records at the shop indicated it was pawned by another student who told Merry he was asked by the suspect to take the iPod into the shop and didn’t know at the time it was allegedly stolen. The suspect allegedly received $30 from the shop. The iPo...
Harold Herman of Colfax displays the two replacement ballots he received from the county auditor’s office. Voters in the Colfax School District last week received new ballots for the school’s levy request after the county auditor’s office discovered the original ballots, sent out two weeks ago, contained incorrect information about the school’s levy request. The original ballots listed the wrong figure for the 2012 levy proposal. Colfax school district requested a levy proposal which asked voters to approve a $1,300,000 special levy for 201...
Over 20 years, a now-defunct fertilizer company in Palouse has racked up a $22,811 legacy owed on back-taxes for a plot of land polluted by that company. That plot of land is the brownsfield site, which the city of Palouse and the department of ecology are now working to clean up and restore into a usable city entity. A consulting firm hired by the city on a grant from the DOE has held a series of community meetings over the past few months to hear citizen input on the eventual use of the site. The city of Palouse is currently working to buy...
The clock is ticking at Whitman County’s finance department. State auditors returned their 2008 financial statement last month to county officials because it improperly accounted for capital and depreciation costs of county-owned assets. In some cases, the financial statement counted depreciation twice, County Commissioner Michael Largent said. If the county does not return its 2008 year-end financial statement to state auditors by Feb. 16, this will be the fifth consecutive year a Whitman County report has not made it to state auditors. ...
Cherie Zehm jokes with her rescued cockatoo, Tut. Zehm has worked to teach Tut to trust again, as he has had a rough past. Fifteen birds are loose in Cherie Zehm’s living room and not a single one is quiet. Bird droppings streak the carpet, the chairs, and the windows. Feathers blow this way and that. Two parakeets flirt on the curtain rod, bursting into the air to fight and then settling back on their perch again. A young cockatiel, one of four born this year, starts up a racket when she clamors for food from her father. This is the house o... Full story
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS Bid for One (1) Articulated Crane and Auger System for Sign Truck WHITMAN COUNTY STATE OF WASHINGTON Sealed bids will be received on the following proposal by the Board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, State of Washington, at its office in the Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax, Washington, until 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time, on March 8, 2010 at which time they will be opened and publicly read. Handicap access may be obtained by the Mill Street entrance to the Courthouse. Each bid is to be separately sealed in an...
