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The dappled lighting shed from trees in a park could soon be the joy of the Palouse RV park. A $500 anonymous donation was recently received at Palouse city hall, with specific instructions to use the sum for planting trees at the new 10-site RV park across from the city park. The donor also asked that former Palouse council member Mary Estes, a horticulturist, work with the city on the project. City councilman Mike Milano and Estes plan on bringing in several trees this spring. Milano said they have yet to decide which kind to plant. Estes... Full story
Four students from LaCrosse School earned a 4.0 grade point average for the second semester. They are Samantha Bafus and Della Fleming, seniors; Anne Fleming, sophomore and David Lane Hannas, freshman. Students earning a 3.0 to 3.99 grade average were Josephine (Ali) Adams, Justin Aldrich, Kevan Grant Kelso, Lindsey Kneale, Gladys Martinez, Chelsea McKay, Maricela Michel and Kirsten Stubbs, seniors; Hillary Bennett, John Cruz, Ashley Goolsby, Jessica Hardy, James Vega, Chris Wargo, Taylor Weekes and Jeff Zimmer, juniors; Caleb Hannas and Casey... Full story
Whitman County’s planning commission began to write a new version of laws that protect the county’s ecologically sensitive areas last Wednesday, Feb. 3. The ordinance outlines the county’s rules for building near wetlands, flood plains, habitat conservation areas or areas where rainwater recharges aquifers. Washington’s Growth Management Act requires the county update its critical areas ordinance every seven years. Whitman County’s critical areas ordinance was last revised in 2003. The planning commission’s rewrite is on an accelerated...
Whitman County commissioners last week re-assigned the county’s Associate Development Officer for economic development projects from the Port of Whitman to the Southeast Washington Economic Development Alliance (SEWEDA). The move eliminates the Port of Whitman County as what County Commissioner Greg Partch called the “middle man” role in the county’s economic development efforts. Each year the county is allotted money from the state to spur business growth. For the past two years, the county assigned that contract to the port, which has sub-con...
Weeks after the “Welcome to Lamont” sign was featured in the Washington Post and the Gazette, the town’s iconic “Nuclear Free Zone” addendum was put back on the sign post. Mayor Steve Lacey informed the Gazette of the sign’s return Monday morning. The sign was hung back beneath the town’s unique “Welcome to Lamont” sign and its hash-mark population count. The Welcome sign was featured last month in the Travel section of the Washington Post after Judy Dugger, an attorney from Fairfax, Va., with ties to Lamont, submitted a picture....
Sovereignty The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may maintain control over the instruments that they have created. RCW 42.56.030 - Public Records Act Jim Farr, Palouse Clarification We, the Sprague and Lamont School Directors, wish to clarify our position as it relates to the...
W. BRUCE CAMERON I was fascinated to listen to a report on how to make one’s brain more effective, although my brain wasn’t all that interested. Apparently, there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level — the amount of concentration required to, say, delete e-mails or serve in Congress. As human beings, we spend a lot of time in Level 1, including all of our teenage years. Level 2 is mild engagement, like listening to an in-law. Our brains are burning glucose and becoming fatigued (or, depending on the in-law, enrag...
It is the ultimate no-win situation. A Catch-22. Washington employers struggling to survive our “Great Recession” are being forced to lay off employees. Those workers are receiving unemployment benefits, which deplete the state’s unemployment trust fund. To replenish the fund, the state is increasing unemployment insurance taxes on employers. Higher taxes make it harder for those employers to create jobs. Unlike workers’ compensation, employers pay for the entire unemployment insurance program because there is no employee contribution. The amo...
MY OCCASIONAL writings about the uproar in the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America over whether to ordain actively gay clergy and allow gay weddings in the church hasn’t stirred any bishops to respond until now. Bishop Martin D. Wells of the Eastern Washington and Idaho Synod, ELCA. writes. “You’ve caused some trouble for me in Eastern Washington.” He sent me a copy of his letter to the Ellensburg Daily Record where he accuses me of “several serious mistakes that must be corrected for readers to have an accurate picture of dynamics...
#!*! Steptoe school which does not fly a state or American flag during school hours. #!*! To those who teach, lying no consequences, truth big consequences. Send your Pet Peeves and Okeydokes to the Gazette P.O. Box 770 211 N. Main St Colfax, Wa 99111... Full story
Public records searches Citizens have the right to know, and, just as important, they have the right to find out. Throughout the state, municipalities and other government organizations are faced with citizens seeking information. The inquiries often cause those public entities difficulties in collecting all the information requested. Extra payroll, extra time and extra expense are all part of it. As with anything, some searches of public documents are sincere and in the best of faith, representing citizens seeking information and details... Full story
TRIVIA TEST 1. LANGUAGE: What country once was known by the Latin name of Caledonia? 2. GEOGRAPHY: Guadalcanal is part of which island group in the Pacific Ocean? 3. MOVIES: Which actors voiced the two main characters, Woody and Buzz, on the “Toy Stories” movies? 4. INVENTIONS: Who is credited with inventing the Hula Hoop? 5. TELEVISION: Who played the character Latka Gravas on “Taxi”? 6. MYTHOLOGY: What was domain of the Greek god Aeolus? 7. HISTORY: In what war were tanks first used? 8. U.S. STATES: What is the only letter of the alphabe...
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. Meth, stolen goods net arrest Monte D. Estes, 53, Farmington, was booked into the county jail Feb. 8 by Sheriff Brett Myers after an investigation involving goods stolen in at least two theft cases and production of methamphetamine. The sheriff’s arrest report said an informant had tipped the department off about stolen goods in the O...
McNeilly earns varsity minutes Dillon McNeilly, a Colfax senior who has played four years of Bulldog basketball, earned a promotion to the varsity bench and received an ovation Friday was called out in the fourth quarter for a varsity debut before the home crowd at the Reardan game. . McNeilly's game time ended senior night observances which saw many three-year veterans close out their home court careers. . Varsity players honored with their parents were Caleb Bravard, Will Hatley, Brandon Hoadley, Tanner Gay and Dustin Huber. Also, Ryan Conrad... Full story
• It was François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld and prince de Marcillac, a noted 17th-century French author and memoirist, who made the following sage observation: “Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.” • Rutherford B. Hayes, the country’s 19th president, was the first to install a phone in the White House. • It was 1948 when the first vinyl musical recording was made. The piece of music so immortalized...
Caleb Bravard clears another power rebound while Will Hatley clears out a Reardan player in the Bulldogs second-half runaway Friday at Colfax. Bravard led Colfax boards with 14. After knocking a hole in the NWC win string last week, Colfax boys came up with another defensive cruncher Friday night to defeat Reardan 58-30. The Colfax win and an NWC win over Lind/Ritzville in the last round elevated the Bulldogs to a second-place finish in the league. Colfax finished the league run at 9-3. Northwest Christian finished on top at 11-1. Colfax will...
Kayleigh Maltone sends the ball over Reardan's Bailey Wiedmer while Rachel Johnson looks for the bounce. Colfax girls Friday night came out of the gate like a rocket on the way to big 73-49 revenge win over Reardan to take the top slot in the Bi-County 2B race. The teams went into the final round at Colfax with one loss each. Colfax was ambushed 43-52 at Reardan in the first round, and Reardan was dropped the same week by Lind/Ritzville. Friday’s loss to Colfax left Reardan at 10-2 in the final standings. Both teams were on the sidelines Tuesda...
Eagle forward Trisha Luft wraps her arms around a rebound as Spartans Samantha Wilson and Briann Maley apply defensive pressure. Rosalia girls threw a wrench at the season’s SJE-Colton girls league saga when they upset the Eagles 48-43 Friday night on the Spartan court. Samantha Wilson knocked down a trey from the right sideline with 34 seconds left and her Spartan teammates canned a set of free throws in the waning ticks. Rosalia jumped out to an early lead, but the Eagles came back in the second quarter. The Spartans countered with a fiery 1... Full story
Spartan Jim Maley puts a clamp on St. John/Endicott’s Cole McCanna during Rosalia’s 59-48 home win Friday night. Rosalia polished off a perfect regular season with a pair of big wins over the weekend. The wins assured the Spartans the top seed in the league tournament, which begins tonight on home courts of the team with the higher seeds. Rosalia gets a first round bye, and Saturday will host the winner of tonight’s tilt between Colton and Touchet. St. John/Endicott and Touchet earned home games in the opening round through a pre-season draw...
LaCrosse senior Justin Aldrich, who wrestles for the Pomeroy team, gets position on Sasha Breandle in the 160 class. Aldrich placed second in the qualifier after battling fellow Pirate Tory Nebel in the title match. Breandle, a German exchange student at Reardan placed fifth. St. John/Endicott senior Jesse Nichols and freshmen Thomas Newton and Bo Niehenke will advance to the regional wrestling round at Kittitas this weekend after qualifying at the 10-team sub-regional round in Lind/Ritzville Saturday. Colfax heavyweight Ben Cochran also... Full story
THURSDAY Images taken by the Hubble space telescope show Pluto’s northern hemisphere growing brighter and the entire planet looking redder as its 248-year-long rotation around the sun changes its seasons. Chinese human rights activist Feng Zhenghu returned to Shanghai after being held in limbo for 92 days in the Tokyo airport. The Chinese government had refused to allow the 55-year old human rights activist to return home. He lived on donated instant noodles and slept on a bench near the immigration counter at the Narita Airport. A British f...
David Wold, 42, talks art in his unfinished apartment above the Green Frog Cafe. Wold plans on making a music studio and art studio in the apartment. Lauren McCleary, 26, poses with one of her paper cutting works, a day after she moved to Palouse. McCleary majored in art at WSU in 2009. Mary Rothlisberger, 26, says she is in love with people and collaborative art. Tiny antique dolls line the window sills. Paper snowflakes, dozens of them the color of swans, flutter above the bedroom in Mary Rothlisberger’s apartment. Rothlisberger and her visit...
A class of 22 WSU students will sketch up the designs for the river walk of the Brownsfield project and other river crossings in a three week project starting in early May. Palouse city staff will examine the resulting designs for creative ideas for the river crossing portion of the Brownsfield project. “I think it’s awesome for the community and the students,” said Palouse mayor Michael Echanove after a city council meeting Feb. 9. The Brownsfield project is a restoration project for a patch of land in downtown Palouse that was polluted by a... Full story
Three Colfax teachers gave a small presentation to the Colfax school board about their passing of a national teaching test at a school board meeting Feb. 8. The teachers are three of 14 in the county, not including Pullman, who have passed the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, (NBPTS). NBPTS is a national, in-depth test of a teacher’s ability to teach a classroom. A total of 3,975 Washington teachers, about five percent of all teachers. in the state, have been certified. Washington state began a program in 2007 that pays an a...
A historic run of Gazette newspapers was recently launched online by a national program, joining hundreds of other historic newspapers. Editions of the Colfax Gazette from 1900 to 1912 are now accessible online at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. The Web site is free and can be word-searched. Sections of eight other Washington state papers have also been uploaded, said Laura Robinson, manager of the Washington State Library program. “The reason they picked the Colfax Gazette is, at that time, it was the most important paper in Whitman County,” Rob...
