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With crews performing final cleanup last week on the Sand Road safety improvement work, the last items to take care of were large rocks to be removed, soft spot repairs and dispersing unnecessary dirt piles. “The final touch-up,” said Public Works Director Mark Storey. Sand Road is a $1.8 million project to improve safety over a span of four miles near Pullman. Last fall and continuing this spring, contractor M.A. DeAtley Constuction out of Clarkston blasted through a basalt rock bluff in order to lessen the angles on a stretch of S-curves two...
At its June 13 meeting, Endicott town council voted unanimously to allow chickens to be raised within the town limits. Known as the “chicken ordinance,” the measure goes into effect June 27, five days after today’s official publication date. “Everybody’s worked pretty hard on it,” said Mayor Dave Bilow. “Hopefully everybody just does what they’re supposed to.” After the council passed the ordinance Bilow vetoed it. He stated reasons for the veto being concern from citizens about enforcement of a...
While half of the year is over, the county’s $100,000 contingency fund for the operating budget has been tapped for $72,827 after requests for additional expenditures were approved Monday by the Board of County commissioners. Eight requests totaled $88,827 for a tap on the fund. The requests for added funds were offset by a $16,000 gain on the revenue side. That’s the added amount the fair expects to collect from an increase in event charges. The contingency fund was created two years ago to...
The distances increased as the field narrowed for the annual Slippery Gulch Days egg toss in Tekoa Saturday. Nearing the final round, one man stretches to keep him and his partner alive. For more pictures of Slippery Gulch Days see page 3B. One hundred years of mayors and postmasters will be recognized at this weekend’s LaCrosse Farmer’s Festival, June 23-25. A full list and display of the postmasters and mayors since the town’s incorporation Feb. 13, 1917, will be posted at Pins & Needles on Ma...
Gazette Staff From late April through May, the combined efforts of the Quad Cities Drug Task Force, Whitman County Sheriff’s Office and local police departments resulted in 16 drug-related arrests in the county, many of them on charges of delivery of controlled substances. Of the arrests, five evolved from traffic stops and 11 resulted from task force investigation and warranted home-searches. “The recent busts were a product of good police work and really pushing the enforcement on information we had that we could act on,” said Sheriff Brett...
