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The Colfax School District has no immediate plans for layoffs for next school year, but has not completely ruled out the possibility, according to Superintendent Michael Morgan. The district must cut $195,000 from its budget for the next school year, a cut created by income loss in state funding. That cut totals almost three percent of the district’s $6,549,262 budget for the current school year, according to business manager Reece Jenkin. After an executive session during the school board meeting Monday, Morgan announced they would not be l...
Colfax was abuzz with a cinema craze Monday, as film crews shot several scenes on Main Street. At top, an actor “attacks” a storekeeper in front of a store staged in the old Sandbagger Tavern. More than 60 Japanese film crew members poured into downtown Colfax May 10, blocking traffic at times and running actors dressed in 1940s garb up and down the sidewalks. Local law enforcement helped reroute traffic from SR 195 around the city blocks used for the set, which spanned Main Street between Upton and Second streets. Make-up artists tend to an ac...
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Solid Waste Advisory Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday May 19th, 2010 at the Whitman County Public Transfer Station SR 195, Pullman WA. Mark Storey, Director of Public Works 20216 19/1c PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Whitman County Board of Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on Monday, May 17, 2010, at 10:15 a.m. in the Commissioners’ Chambers, Courthouse, Colfax, Washington, for the purpose of receiving public comments associated with a proposed revision to W...
