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Colfax boys and girls booked a big track day Tuesday when they collected both sides of the District Seven championships at Whitworth. The Bulldog qualifiers will crank it up one more time next week at the state 2B finals in Cheney. Both Colfax teams rolled home with District 7 titles Tuesday in the NE qualifying round at Whitworth. The Bulldogs hit a storm rolling north, but the clouds parted and Colfax went on to post the double win. “It was just phenomenal, a great day for Bulldog track,” Coach Jason Cooper commented. He noted it was the fir...
THURSDAY New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo began investigating eight banks to determine whether they misled credit rating agencies. The eight banks are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole and Merrill Lynch, now owned by Bank of America. New home foreclosures fell in April, the first year-over-year drop since January 2006. Lenders filed default notices on 103,762 properties in April, down 12 percent in the month and 27 from a record 142,000 one year ago. Scientists in China...
A massage therapist jogging a mile for every American soldier killed in the Iraq war passed through the Palouse region over the weekend. Mike Erhert is jogging 4,300 miles across the country, at up to 30 miles a day, for the American Massage Therapy Association. He spent May 14 and 15 in Pullman and Colfax. At every mile on the highway, he places a small flag with a soldier’s name. A massage therapist and physical therapist assistant at Whitman hospital gave him a free massage on Saturday. Chief clinical officer Danise Fowler said the t...
Transportation officials from around the area gathered to pinpoint road project priorities for a five-year-plan at a meeting of the Palouse Regional Transportation Plan Organization (PRTPO), May 12. A major focus should be the ongoing maintenance and preservation of existing Whitman County roads, said county public works director Mark Storey in a later interview. COAST, Pullman public works director, Moscow city engineer, SWEDA officials, the mayor of Malden and two Whitman County commissioners were in attendance to give suggestions. PRTPO, a...
A notice of appeal for Lewis Lawrence, 22, former Moscow resident, was filed Friday in Whitman County Superior court. Lawrence has been sentenced to a maximum 75 years in prison after being convicted of three counts of attempted murder. An order of indigency was also issued by the court to provide Lawrence with legal services in pursuing the appeal to Division III court in Spokane. Lawrence was sentenced by Judge William Acey of Asotin County April 21. He is now undergoing assessment at the Department of Corrections facility at Shelton. He was...
Volunteers with tales of Palouse lore will return to the Kamiak Butte natural amphitheater this summer. Volunteers will present the summer series of lectures on topics relating to the Palouse or just plain campfire fun. Participants can sit around the fire and listen to a lecture, most of which go for 45 minutes on Saturday nights. The fire and lectures are free. Participants can bring their own snacks to enjoy around the fire. The series was put together by Dan Leonard of Johnson, former president of the Whitman County Historical Society. The...
The Washington State Conservation Commission toured Whitman County Tuesday before conducting its regular meeting in Pullman. The commission meets every other month at locations throughout the state. This was the commission’s first meeting in Whitman County since 2006. “It’s great to get out and see how the projects our conservation districts help put together actually pay off on real ground,” said Jim Peters, a conservation commissioner from Olympia. Officials with the Whitman, Palouse, Rock Lake and Pine Creek conservation districts gave th...
The town of Palouse is experiencing a lull in public records requests, but state and city officials met at the Green Frog May 15 to discuss possible public record legislation for future situations. For 10 months last year, the two-person city office staff received dozens of requests for information from Steve McGehee and Jim Farr of Palouse. The research requests had both clerks staying late and even on weekends. McGehee and Farr subsequently used the record requests to research what they contend is financial and political misdeeds. In light...
Spokane Attorney Brian Werst gives his report on the Public Development Authority Request at LaCrosse while council members Patti Meyer, Dennis Mackleit and Tom Cauley listen. Proponents for the creation of a Public Development Authority at LaCrosse will have to wait at least another month for a green light from the city council. A PDA could be used to help raise funds to restore the former LaCrosse Market building. Members of the council, and members the LaCrosse Community Pride group, heard a report from Spokane Attorney Brian Werst on the...
Monica Peters of Pullman, a member of the Whitman County Genealogical Society, did some of the initial research on the accounts of the 1892 death of Whitman County Deputy William Spencer. She was not given attribution for her research in the Gazette story last week. She did the research at the request of Doug Mobley of Powell River, B.C., a descendant of Deputy Spencer’s widow. He and a cousin Con Mobley of Armstrong, B.C., have researched family history. Peters also should be credited with taking the photo of Deputy Spencer’s tombstone in the...
Colfax Police were notified about 3 p.m. Saturday that a 92-year-old resident of Whitman Health & Rehab was missing. The man was last seen about noon that day and staff members were unable to locate him in the building. The man was last seen with a visitor. The alert was called off Sunday morning when the 92-year-old called the center to report he had returned to his hometown in Arizona. He reported he had caught a ride to the Spokane Airport and took a flight to Arizona. Colfax police called the sheriff’s office in Pima County, Ariz., and t...
The toddlers’ pool at Schmuck Park will probably remain closed this year because it fails to meet federal regulations for drain safety. City Manager Carl Thompson reported the single drain system for the pool fails to meet new regulations which have been passed to protect youngsters from possible suction of drains. Councilwoman Jeanette Solimine predicted a shutdown of the toddlers pool again this year is "going to cause a riot." Families with small children last year complained when the city shut down the todders’ pool. At that time the poo...
Emergency crews treat Daniel J. Just, 34, Tacoma, for a face cut sustained Monday when the 1995 Isuzu Rodeo he was driving went into the ditch on Highway 26 nine and one-half miles west of Colfax. According to the Washington State Patrol report, Just was driving westbound at 4:25 p.m. and attempted to turn into a field access road on the east side of the highway. He misjudged the access and went into the ditch. His 12-year-old son sustained a head bump. They were taken by ambulance to Whitman Hospital for a checkup and relea...
Port of Whitman County officials have to make a selection from among a rancher, a farmer, an accountant, an engineer and a retired school administrator to serve as District 3 port commissioner for the next 18 months. The seat became vacant after the death of Bob Gronholz of Colfax. Commissioners Dan Boone and John Love, along with port staff, interviewed five candidates Monday. “It’s unfortunate we have to do this,” Love said after the interviews. “But we are very fortunate in that we have some real high-quality candidates for this positio...
Flaggers unload signs to block off Uniontown’s main drag. The state Department of Transportation project to repave eight miles of Highway 195 from Colton south to the Idaho state line is now in full swing. Crews Monday began the first phase, 10 days work through Uniontown. Crews should be wrapping up in the town by May 26. The second phase of the construction will focus on resurfacing the highway between Colton to Uniontown and from Uniontown to the Idaho/Washington border. The DOT expects the total project will take two months to complete. T...
Mullen leans on her car, Hanako, in front of the Palouse River Valley north of Endicott. Marty Mullen of Pullman wheels her Subaru wagon down a gravel road into the Palouse River Canyon. “I just love this road,” she says as she looks over from behind the steering wheel. Beginning in 2006, Mullen set out with her Subaru, which she has named Hanako (Japanese for flower child) to drive down every road in the county. As she reaches the bottom of the Grove Road grade, the gravel road turns into a literal goat path. Wary of pressing too far onto pri...
Tekoa was recently awarded close to $1 million from the state to repair a collapsed city well and the roof of the city water tower. Farmington will also receive $113,000 from the state for repairs to a city well. Inspection crews discovered two years ago the Tekoa city water tank roof was badly deteriorating along with the tank’s exterior concrete walls. The city tank is more than 40 years old and holds 450,000 gallons. “It’s near the point it could collapse on itself,” said Matt Morkert, group leader and engineer with Century West for the pro...
Hoping to catch on with the big club, a young Eagle rooter looks to hop on the St. John/Endicott bus outside Kramer Field after the SJE softball team squared off with league champ Colton....
NOTICE OF DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS) AND A CONDITIONAL USE HEARING The Whitman County Planning Office issued a Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Wired or Wireless, Inc. is proposing to erect a 120 foot tower in order to provide internet service to Malden. The site is located near Malden, WA in Section 13, T. 20 N., R. 42 E. W.M., Whitman County, Washington. After review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on...
Foryan, Seth Dayrk, born April 30, 2010, at seven pounds, 10 ounces, to Eric and Tracy Foryan of Pullman. Paternal grandparents Stephan and Natalia Foryan and Mike and Mary Baker, Moses Lake. Maternal grandparents are James T and Lois Ann Nelson, Moses Lake. The baby joins one brother, Gray, 23 months. Islam, Tanisha, born April 25, 2010, at eight pounds, to Mohamed Shazedul Islam, Sougia Afroz, Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Munsur Ali Biswas, Moriom Begum, Hotinakundu, Jhenaidah, Bangladesh. Maternal grandparents are Rafiqul Islam, Sufia...
