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Desperately needed supplies for the earthquake ravaged country of Haiti are being collected for kits by two United Methodist Churches in the area. Kits should include one hand towel, one washcloth, one comb, one nail file or fingernail clippers, one bath-size bar of soap, one toothbrush and several adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages. One dollar is also needed for the purchase of a tube of toothpaste, a mass amount of which has already been purchased by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR). “It’s just responding to the bas...
THURSDAY Russian hikers stumbled across nearly 100 seemingly abandoned T-80 battle tanks covered in a deep layer of snow near a railroad station outside the Ural Mountain city of Yekaterinburg. A pair of Canadian high school teachers were suspended after a videotaped performance of their erotic lap dance at a school pep rally became a sensation on internet video-sharing web sites and on the CBC. FRIDAY The Minneapolis appeals court overturned a lower court ruling and found a group of zombie-dressed protestors had been wrongfully detained for...
Pictured are scenes from the disastrous 1910 flood from the postcard collection of Patrick McDonald. “The face of Colfax is turned toward the rising, not the setting sun.” William Goodyear wrote the preceding in the March 11 edition of the Weekly Commoner, after “Colfax and surrounding country is visited by the highest flood ever known to white man.” The hills around Colfax were covered with 16 inches of snow, the accumulation of two weeks of heavy snowfall, when the citizens of Colfax doused their lamps and went to bed Sunday, Feb. 28, 1910. T...
Wireless internet will soon hit the far reaches of Whitman County- a landmark in technology advancement for many towns previously dial-up-bound. The Port of Whitman will soon have $9.8 million to bring high-speed internet to many towns throughout the county. Port officials learned Monday that the overall application put together by the Northwest Open Access Network (NOA) had been selected for funding by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Construction of the fiber optic line would create hundreds of jobs throughout e...
William W. Skelton, 61, Colfax, rolled his jeep off Highway 272 Feb. 25, sustaining head and neck injuries. According to the Washington State Patrol report, Skelton was driving westbound, went off the roadway and struck a dirt embankment. He made a U-turn, pulled back onto the highway eastbound, and then rolled into the eastbound ditch. Rescue crews had to extricate him out of the back of his Wrangler....
For four and a half years, mothers in Palouse sweated away to earn the $36,000 it will take to purchase a pre-school friendly playground set for the Palouse city park. Bake sale after bake sale and silent auction after silent auction, the unsung mothers of Palouse amassed the needed funds for their toddlers to run wild. “I’m very proud of this,” said Shelly Goertzen, leader of the Little People’s Park Project. This summer, the fruit of their labor (the playground equipment, not their babies) will be constructed at the city park. The set of...
NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in the Whitman County Commissioners’ Chambers, Courthouse, Colfax, Washington, for the purpose of receiving public comments on proposed revisions to Whitman County Code, Chapter 8.05 Food Service. Any person may attend the hearing to speak for or against the proposed revision. Handicapped accommodations are available at the East entrance to the Courthouse. Arrangements will be made to accommodate questions and provide responses to n...
A tentative levy figure of $950,000 is on the table for the second Colfax levy proposal, after the public voted down a levy of $1.3 million proposal in the Feb. 9 special election. The new levy figure comes in the wake of a three-week series of public meetings in which voters turned out to ask the district about the failed levy and voice opinions on a new figure. The Colfax School board came to the $950,000 figure after more than six and a half hours of discussion Saturday, Feb. 27, in the high school cafeteria. Four hours were spent answering...
Colton girls nab state championship for second year. The powerhouse Colton girls basketball team lifts the golden globe after claiming the school’s second straight state 1B championship last Saturday night in the Yakima SunDome. The Wildcats rolled over their opposition, beating opponents by more than 42 points per game. Colton was one of four Whitman County teams to take part in the Yakima showdown last weekend; Rosalia, St. John and Endicott qualified as well. Shots of all four teams playing at the state tournament in Yakima can be found i...
