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Eastern Washington school superintendents are lobbying the governor to veto by May 6 a portion of the state budget that slates $250,000 for a commission that would draw up a plan for combining small schools. State legislators inserted the wording for a commission in the final hours of the last legislative session. The new commission will be required to report its plan to the state by late 2012. The governor has so far received a dozen letters from education officials asking she veto the commission. Superintendents of smaller districts say...
Nicole Taflinger signs a book in the Bank Left gallery in Palouse. Stories of the haunting Holocaust resurfaced last week in Palouse at the book signing of French expatriate Nicole Taflinger, a retired Pullman resident who grew up in occupied France during World War II. More than 150 people poured into the Bank Left art gallery in Palouse to have Taflinger sign her book, Season of Suffering- Coming of Age in Occupied France. The manuscript was accepted by WSU Press last year and released March 26. To date, approximately 400 copies have been...
The Rosalia Chamber of Commerce’s second annual kite festival and city wide yard sale will be Saturday. The kite festival will be moved from the ballfield to the north playground at the school this year. Kite lovers can witness aerodynamics in action from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attendees can bring their own kites or borrow from the many different style kites the chamber will have on hand. Organizer Pat Voge said they will have a wide variety of kites, ranging from simple single line Benjamin Franklin-style kites to intricate box kites. With a d...
- photo courtesy University of Idaho A live adult Giant Palouse Earthworm stretches out in the hands of a UI researcher. Our worm has once again been found. Armed with a hi-tech worm shocking probe, a pair of researchers from the University of Idaho last month unearthed a pair of Giant Palouse Earthworms on Paradise Ridge, southeast of Moscow. Shan Xu, a UI soil science student, and Karl Umiker, a senior scientific aid, found an adult worm and a juvenile worm on a research project March 27. “And we managed not to cut them in half with the t...
WDFW Regional Director Steve Pozzanghera, standing, responds to critics at a meeting between game officials and landowners at the Plaza firehouse Tuesday night. Gazette Reporter More than 100 landowners let loose on officials from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife Tuesday night on their plan to create a 3,000-acre wildlife corridor reserve to link Bonnie, Chapman and Rock lakes. The meeting at the District 3 Fire Station on the Cheney-Plaza road was held just days after officials cancelled the plan. Wildlife regional director Steve Pozz...
The Colton school grounds will transform into fairgrounds Friday for this year’s Colton/Uniontown Fair. Students of all ages have been preening and training a host of animals to show at the fair, which opens at 8 a.m. and closes around 5 p.m. Most of this year’s event are animal shows, with a concession stand offering home-made food. Fair manager Debbie Niehenke said all the large livestock will be shown from 10 a.m. to noon. and horses will be shown beginning at 1 p.m. New to the fair this year will be the Agriculture Olympics in which stu...
Cake, door prizes and $2 bowling mark the Grand re-Opening of the Wheatland Lanes in Colfax. New owners Shelly and Michael Weller have been preparing the 50-year-old old lanes for a new era since purchasing the alley earlier this year. Shelly said she looks forward to coming down to the lanes every morning. “I love everything about a bowling alley. The sights, the smells, the people,” said Shelly Weller, who boasts a bowling average of 177. “Oh and the sounds. Definitely the sounds.” For the first time in nearly a decade, the Wheatland Lanes w...
Colfax School District’s second chance levy gained approval from voters after initial returns Tuesday night. The 1,226 ballots counted in the initial returns showed 714 “yes” and 512 “no” for a 58 percent pass rate. That number is a reversal from the 43 percent “yes” vote on the district’s first-round proposal which failed Feb. 9. The 58 percent approval rate, though, prompted concern among levy proponents about the level of community support. The Colfax school approval rate was the lowest of four measures which all received voters approval...
Weekend wranglers Sunday helped Jerry Maley’s crew wrangle their herd of approximately 160 cows and calves. The cattle were moved off pasture east of Winona. The cowboys drove the cattle across the Winona South Road and south across rangeland to the Maley holding pens two miles south of Winona. Maley said they normally get lots of volunteers and their dogs to help with the cattle drives on weekends. The cattle will be sorted and checked and most will be moved to summer pastures in the Idaho mountains....
NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE AN ADMINISTRATIVE USE PERMIT The public is notified of intent to issue an Administrative Use Permit to Avista Utilities in order to expand their onsite storage. As an existing business in the North-Pullman/Moscow Corridor District (N-PMC) this permit can be issued administratively pursuant to 19.15.025(6) of the N-PMC zoning code. Avista is acquiring 0.95 acre of property currently owned by WSDOT to the east of Avista’s current outdoor storage area. Avista is proposing to prepare the surface for parking and storage. Th...
