Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Colfax again will be the short-term air hub of the Palouse when airplanes from around the Northwest arrive at the Colfax Airport Saturday for a fly-in sponsored by the Lewiston chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Host Barney Buckley who sponsored an unofficial event last year, said he can’t be sure how many airplanes will arrive on the scene. He hopes to have all planes landed and available for judging and public viewing by 9 a.m. Buckley’s hangar at 707 Flight Line Drive will be the center of the action. Buckley stressed the fly... Full story
A policy in Palouse regarding RV hookups will be reviewed after a man building a house was told to unhook. Scott Storch, who has been building a residence at Eighth and B streets since August of last year, was asked by city hall earlier this month to unhook the RV that he was living in on at the property. The hookup violated a town policy prohibiting RV’s being connected to the city sewer system outside a mobile home park. Storch requested an exception because his RV arrangement is temporary, while building the house. At the Palouse City C...
Visitors to the Perkins House in Colfax can celebrate life in the early 1900s this weekend. The 42nd annual Perkins House Ice Cream Social will be Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. The Snake River Six returns to extend what trombone player Wallis Friel has described as Whitman County’s longest gig. Whitman County Historical Society hosts the social to raise money for society projects which include maintenance of the Perkins House and property. The historical home and cabin will be open for guided tours during the social. The tours include historical f... Full story
A plan to move the Colfax School District offices from the high school building to Jennings Elementary is set to commence July 1. The move will create more classroom space at the high school while using some of the vacated space at the elementary school when the seventh and eighth grades moved to the high school building in 2012. The new offices will take up two of the five classrooms in the junior high wing of Jennings. Another will be used for the board room and other activities. “It kind o...
They called them the last cowboys in Tekoa. A new sign at the Iron Horse Arena pays tribute to the men who brought it about: Dean Gumm, Ray Harp and Rich Lawson. In the late 1980s the three of them got together to build a rodeo arena on leased Union-Pacific railroad land in the shadow of the Tekoa trestle. It was built in 1990. “A lot of people over the years helped make it what it is,” said Bill Harp, son of Ray. Since then, it’s been used at different times for weekly cow-cutting, horse shows...
Winston Royal, 11, of Tekoa considers another bite in the waning seconds of the watermelon-eating contest Saturday during Tekoa’s Slippery Gulch Days festivities.... Full story
NOTICE OF A CONDITIONAL USE HEARING Travel Demand Management operates a tour bus/dispatch center with parking on approximately 1.2 acres. The site is located at 7601 SR270, in N 1/2 of Section 5, Township 14 N., Range 46 E" W.M., Whitman County, Washington, 1000 ft. west of the Idaho/Washington Border. This project will be considered for a conditional use permit at a County Zoning Board of Adjustment public hearing set for Thursday, July 10, 2014, at 7:00 PM in the Public Service Building Auditorium, N. 310 Main St., Colfax, WA. Interested...
