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Schools around the state, including those in Whitman County, will soon change school policy on online courses after a shift in state legislation asked school boards for more regulation of the courses. Colfax school board will soon finish policies that give the board more control over which courses can be taken by students. The board is also considering putting a cap on the cost of online courses. “Most schools have to be concerned: ‘Is that online program valuable for the kid in their education program or should it be supplemental and doe...
Despite a water rights fight that left a proposed mall at the stateline in jeopardy, Whitman County commissioners have decided not to protest a new well being proposed by the city of Moscow at the state line. “I don’t think they should have had standing across state lines, so I don’t think we should have standing in their state,” Commissioner Greg Partch said Monday. Moscow has applied to the state of Idaho’s Department of Environmental Quality for more than $5 million to drill the new well, which would supplement the city’s drinking wa...
Whitman County Republicans will conduct caucus sessions at various sites around the county Saturday afternoon. Steve Naught, chair of the county GOP, encouraged all Republicans to take part in their precinct caucus sessions. At caucus sessions, participants will help craft the party platform and select their delegates to next month’s county convention. Caucus participants must be registered to vote within their precinct and must avow they are Republicans and will not participate in the caucus or convention of any other party. Advertisements l...
Gary Kendall’s 1917 farmhouse will be used by film crews to shoot scenes for a mini-series about WWII internment camps that will air on Japanese television. A major Japanese production company is making a television mini-series that will include extensive scenes in the rolling hills of the Palouse. Three farmhouses on the Palouse, the University of Idaho and Spokane have all been selected by High Field Entertainment, Inc. for shooting locations. The Japanese company plans to produce a 10 hour, five episode docu-drama depicting the Japanese inte...
Gazette Reporter Whitman County is running out of space for its trash. A study commissioned by the county’s public works department found the Carothers Road transfer station and landfill should reach maximum processing capacity by 2013. To address the dwindling trash processing capacity, the county had consultant CH2M Hill look into the costs and benefits of several different options. “We’ve turned over a lot of stones, and now we’re starting to get answers,” said Public Works Director Mark Storey. The transfer station is capable of processin...
Whitman County and the city of Pullman are working to secure an estimated $15 million federal appropriation via U.S. Sen. Patty Murray for a complete rebuild and reconfiguration of the Pullman Airport Road. Mark Storey, Whitman County public works director, said Monday that the plan calls for moving the road just north of its current location and widening it to three lanes. He added the project would include acquisition of land for future expansion of the road into five lanes. In noting Sen. Murray is up for re-election this year, County...
(SEE LEVY GRID IN THE WEEKLY PAPER SECTION, PG. 2) For the first time since 1970, voters in the Colfax School District denied a levy request Tuesday night. Whitman County Elections Supervisor Debbie Hooper, left, registers the count of elections worker Mary Crawford, right, during Monday night’s special hand count of Colfax School District ballots. The hand count was required because the elections office put the wrong amount in the school’s 2012 levy request. A second batch of special ballots was mailed out to voters after the mistake was dis...
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...
8 years ago February 13, 1885 Wednesday morning at about one o’clock the horrible cry of “Fire! Fire!” was sounded on the streets of Colfax, and the citizens awakened from their slumbers to find the large two-story furniture and undertaking establishment of Frank McDonough in flames. Within fifteen minutes of the first alarm the flames burst through the roof and sides of the building, the heat driving away the fire crew workers, who by that time had increased to a considerable number, and their attention was turned to Henry Liddle’s residen...
