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With the departure of former Colfax City Administrator Mike Rizzitiello and a lack of volunteers, the traditional Concrete River Festival in Colfax may be scratched this summer. City councilwoman Whitney Aguilar told the Gazette last weekend the annual festival is likely not going to happen, and the city will instead focus on supporting the Colfax Chamber and Downtown Association’s First Thursday events. “There’s just not someone there to do that,” Aguilar said of organizing Concrete River Festival. “As long as no one is willing to step up,...
Rendell Farley, Avista’s program manager of electric transportation, poses with the recently installed electric vehicle charging station in Rosalia. Motorists may not be able to fuel with gas at Rosalia’s former Texaco Station anymore, but thanks to Avista, they can fuel their vehicles with electricity. Rosalia officially became the first community in Whitman County to have an electric vehicle (EV) charging station last week. Avista Utilities, which installed a slow charger and a DC Fast Cha...
—Gordon Weeks photo, Shelton-Mason County Journal Cinnamon Brown at a Shelton City Commission meeting last fall. Cinnamon Brown, former Whitman County finance director, was arrested Feb. 15 in Shelton on charges of forgery, theft, financial fraud and electronic data theft. Brown left her post here Aug. 31, 2016, and subsequently was hired as finance director for the City of Shelton Sept. 6, 2016. Brown, 33, was fired from that position just two months later on Nov. 14 due to poor job p...
