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After a two and a half hour debate, DeAtley Construction was awarded a 10-year permit to operate an asphalt plant outside Colton at the Entel Rock Quarry. The county board of adjustment granted the permit at a public hearing April 15. Two families living close to the quarry protested at the hearing. They contended heavy, loud trucks moving in and out of the quarry for the asphalt plant would be a major nuisance. Representatives from DeAtley, the rock quarry, and local residents each presented their case to the board at the hearing. Last month,...
Tekoa High School was also recognized with a Washington Achievement Award for its excellence in its gifted education program. Last week’s Gazette article about area schools that earned the awards overlooked Tekoa on the listing of award winners. The award spotlights schools which have closed the “achievement gap,” which state school officials define as the problem in ensuring students from low-income families perform as well as their peers....
A warm winter led to more building activity in the unincorporated areas of Whitman County during the first quarter of 2010. The quarterly report filed by Dan Gladwill, county building official, listed 48 permits issued during the first three months of 2010, nearly double the amount issued during the same period 2009. Gladwill said the 2009 first quarter total of 26 permits was an abnormal dip because of the heavy snowfall. In the first quarter 2008, Gladwill issued 45 permits. From 2005 to 2008, he issued an average of 43.25 permits over the...
St. John’s Front Street lost an institution last week, as the Food City market shut its doors last week. Long-time owner Bob Thompson said operation expenses had risen to the point that he could no longer cover the bills. “Basically, with the way this economy is going, there was just no way we could get enough business to pay for the overhead,” said Thompson. The Thompson family marked its 24th year of ownership of the market March 1. Prior to the Thompsons, the Freeman brothers, Ted and Joe, owned the marketplace for nearly 40 years. “I’m...
Amid a landslide of heated protest letters and phonecalls, the state fish and wildlife department announced April 21 they are canceling their Bonnie Lake water corridor proposal. Regional game department director Kevin Robinette called the Gazette April 21 to say the department had canceled. The department now cannot apply for the $3.6 million grant until 2012, he said. The corridor proposal had called for 3,000 acres along Bonnie, Chapman and Rock lakes to be turned into a state-owned natural wildlife area open to the public. Most of that...
As of April 19, 1,034 of 2,400 mailed ballots on the Colfax School levy election have been received back on the Colfax school levy proposal. The levy is up for a vote after the district’s first levy proposal failed in the Feb. 9 special election. The votes will be counted the night of April 27, deadline day for return of the ballots. Voters are asked to vote on a $950,000 levy for 2011 and a $970,000 levy for 2012. The figures are sharply decreased from the district’s first levy proposal of $1.3 million. This new levy came in the wake of a ser...
For their project for the school’s April 15 science fair, Jennings sixth graders Olivia Mellor (back) and Katelyn Scholz (front) researched if chewing gum really does stick in a person’s intestines for seven years. After putting several brands of gum in liquids resembling stomach acid, they got their answer; no. "We chewed up the gum for 20 minutes and then put it in a stomach," said Mellor....
St. John/Endicott senior Lindsay Mills, center, explains the process by which she created the painting at left to spectators at Mary Bertrand’s high school art class’ first ever art walk Monday night in the school gymnasium. Mills painted the woman in the scene by dotting paint onto the canvas using Q-Tips. The whole project took her three months to complete. Artwork by Mills and several other art students will be on display at St. John’s Stock Show and Community Fair this week. A full schedule of events is listed on page 8....
Spring is in the air, and the proof is in St. John this weekend, as the town’s annual Stock Show and Community Fair kicks off today. The big St. John show typically strikes up Whitman County’s spring fair season. The annual festival of all things St. John begins with the town’s artisans, crafters and florists entering their work in the Home Ec Building today. New this year is a special cupcake decoration contest. The finest young cupcake crafters will have their works on display. Animal judging begins at 9 a.m. Friday, with sheep judging kicki...
Lawrence shows the pump action of a shotgun. He took the stand Friday, acting as both attorney and witness, to recount his tale of the early morning events of March 17, 2009. Concluding a stormy sentencing session Wednesday morning, Judge William Acey sentenced Lewis Lawrence, 22, Moscow, to 75 years in prison. Lawrence was convicted of three counts of attempted murder Friday. The sentence was the maximum for the three attempted murder counts and three enhancement counts of using a firearm in the shooting at a Pullman apartment March 17, 2009....
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS THERA QUARRY C.R.C.P. No. 151 WHITMAN COUNTY, STATE OF WASHINGTON Sealed proposals for this project will be received by the Board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, State of Washington, at its office in the Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax, Washington, until 10:40 a.m. Pacific Daylight Savings Time, on Monday, May 17, 2010, at which time all bids will be opened and publicly read. Each proposal shall be separately sealed in an envelope addressed to the Whitman County Board of County Commissioners with the name...
