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Whitman County officials expect a lively hearing tonight, Thursday, on the permit application for a motocross track at the Port of Wilma. Dozens of citizens have contacted county officials about the possibility of a cross-country motorcycle track. “We should have some lively debate at the hearing,” said County Planner Alan Thomson. Eric Christiansen and his firm, EC Enterprises, is looking to set up a 30-acre motocross and BMX track near the Port of Wilma, on the Whitman County side of the river downstream from Clarkston. The site is away fro...
Washington State University President Elson Floyd wants to know what benefits the school is providing to communities throughout the state. Next Thursday, April 8, Floyd is holding a town hall meeting at Hill-Ray Plaza in Colfax to get information from Whitman County residents. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity to listen and to learn and to help our university focus on how we can make the most positive impact on our state’s present and future,” Floyd said in a press release. Darin Watkins, WSU communications director, said Floyd is hold...
THURSDAY Rodan, a male stork, made his fifth annual journey of more than 8,000 miles, from South Africa to eastern Croatia, to be with his mate Malena, who can no longer fly after being shot through her wing by hunters. After years of acting as mayor, postmaster and sole citizen of Wauconda, in the Okanagon National Forest, Daphne Fletcher has decided to put the town up for sale on eBay. Fletcher owns the post office, the zip code, a restaurant, a gas station and a 4-acre ranch. She is looking for a “starting” bid of $359,000. The “buy it no...
Palouse Open House, an open house of Palouse businesses, will be April 10. Later in the day, a separate fund-raising event with a silent auction, bingo, and baked potato bar will be at the Palouse Grange. Businesses will open at 10 a.m. The silent auction opens at 5 p.m. and most of the items are from the Needful Things thrift store in Palouse. Antique items like cookbooks and ceramics will be offered in baskets for the auction. Other items in the silent auction, including glass-blown jewelry, were created by Palouse artists. Proceeds from the...
Whitman County is looking at ways to continue its Tire Amnesty Day in the face of dwindling funds to pay for the yearly tire recycling event. The county’s tire recycling program is funded by a community protection grant through the state Department of Ecology. The grant also funds other waste disposal projects like the county’s household hazardous waste disposal program. The continuing grant was awarded to the county four years ago. Since then, the cost of recycling tires has increased while the grant money has stayed constant, said Mark Sto...
Rock crushing machinery blows rock dust into the March air at the Entel Rock Quarry. After blasting rock out of a 40-foot deep hole, tractors hauled the rubble up to the conveyor belt where it was smashed into three-inch sized rocks. Construction workers March 29 hauled out their last loads of rock from the Entel Rock Quarry north of Colton for construction of the new Wal-Mart in Pullman. DeAtley Construction has cut out 4,000 to 6,000 tons of gravel a day for the past three weeks, then loaded it on trucks to Pullman. Roughly 78,000 tons were...
Riding on the coat tails of the bigger Port of Whitman grant to run fiber optic cables through the county, one Palouse resident is working to get wider internet broadband service into Palouse. Former Palouse councilman Mark Bailey has a goal of hooking internet of a higher capacity (a wider broadband) to homes in Palouse. This is possible, he reasoned, if the port’s plan to reach many Whitman County libraries with high-speed internet happens. “I’ve just been looking at the possibilities for expanding beyond the library- kind of a last-...
The deadline for removing studded tires has been bumped to April 11, 12:01 a.m., up from April 1. Due to the threat of more severe winter weather forecast for the Cascade mountain range, Washington State Department of Transportation officials moved the date March 30. Washington State Patrol troopers enforce a $124 fine for those who use studded tires after the deadline. No one can guarantee ice and snow-free roadways, so WSDOT encourages drivers, especially those heading into higher elevations, to plan ahead and drive for co...
The Easter Bunny made a surprise stop at Jennings Elementary in Colfax last Friday morning. Jennings students pictured with the hare are, from left, Casey Fulfs, Kylie Kackman and Cassidy Schindler. The Easter Bunny’s special “assistant” for the day was high schooler Allie Vorderbrueggen. The bunny will be in action Saturday at 10 a.m. for the annual CHS League egg hunt at Schmuck Park....
State Rep. Susan Fagan discusses policy with local Republican party members. Lack of fiscal restraint by the Democratic majority in Olympia should pave the way for a Republican takeover of the state capitol. That was the thrust of discussion at the Whitman County Republican Party’s biannual convention Saturday in the auditorium at the McGregor Co.’s Mockonema home office. More than 70 members of the local party attended the convention. “November’s coming,” said Rep. Joe Schmick, R-Colfax. “And people are mad. Not just here, but across the...
A 33-strong crowd of landowners from Rock Lake and Bonnie Lake filed into the Whitman County commissioners’ chambers Monday to protest a state proposal to turn their land into a public water corridor. The land owners told county commissioners and Fish and Wildlife officials who were present under no condition would they sell land to the state for the park. The United Bonnie Lake Landowners have spread the same message in the weeks since they first heard of the proposal. Commissioners and state officials Monday gave the same response: if you don...
Whitman Conservation District Coordinator Kimberly Morse explains the tree planting to students at Maple K Farms. Dozens of little hands dug into the soil beside Spring Flat Creek March 26. Children oohed and ahhed over earthworms and the prickly feel of the saplings they were planting in the chilly March weather. “ the digging and planting because I get to get dirty,” said Colfax fifth grader Brody Yarnell. Two fifth grade Colfax classrooms descended on a pasture of Tom Kammerzell’s land next to Highway 195 Friday to plant roughly 300 young...
An avalanche in the Payette National Forest north of McCall, Idaho, took the lives of local residents Tuesday afternoon. The two men were part of a group of local snowmobile riders. Matthew Cochran and Darren Felton, both of Colfax, were killed when an avalanche swept down the mountain at 11:39 a.m., according to Deputy Trudy Slagle with the Idaho County Sheriff’s Department. Jim Kackman of Colfax was also hit by the avalanche, but other riders in the group were able to pull him free. Cochran and Felton were part of a group of nine residents f...
NOTICE OF A CONDITIONAL USE HEARING The public is notified of a hearing requested by DeAtley Crushing Company before the Board of Adjustment on Thursday, April 15, 2010, at 7:00 PM in the Public Service Building, 1st floor auditorium, N. 310 Main St., Colfax, Washington. The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for the following project: DeAtley Crushing Company is proposing to operate a temporary, portable asphalt batch plant at the Redinger (Entel) Quarry located NW of Colton, approximately 1/2 mile south of the intersection of N....
