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State highway crews jumped a gun on the dedication of the renamed Senator Eugene Prince Road by posting new signs Monday, a month ahead of a planned dedication. “They got the sign up?” asked a surprised Whitman County Commissioner Greg Partch upon hearing the news. “We had a big unveiling in the works, but I guess it’s a little anticlimactic now.” The road was named after the late Sen. Prince by county commissioners last November. Partch led the effort to change the name of the road, which runs west toward Prince’s home near Sunset from Highwa...
The schedules of a number of attorneys stand in front of a decision on the amended development contract between Whitman County and Boise-based Hawkins Companies. County commissioners had slated Monday afternoon to decide on the company’s proposed amendment to the $15 million development deal signed in January. As has happened with similar scheduled meetings over the past month, it was called off because attorneys are still reviewing the deal. Milton Rowland of the Spokane firm of Foster Pepper was contracted to represent the county in a l...
Palouse swim pool opened last Wednesday. The pool will operate Monday through Friday. Swim lessons will be from 10:30 a.m. to noon followed by open swim from 1 to 4:30. The pool will close at 4:30 and re-open for lap swim/water aerobics from 5 to 6 p.m. Family swim runs from 6 to 7 followed by open swim from 7 to 8 p.m. Open swim Saturday and Sunday will be from noon to 4:30 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. Group swim lessons cost $25 for residents inside the city limits and $35 for those who live outside. Sessions are slated July 2-12, and July 23 – Aug....
The Port of Whitman County again was denied federal funding to upgrade bridges on the state-owned railroad which runs down the east side of Whitman County. The port had asked the feds for $8.5 million to repair 25 bridges on 29 miles of the P&L rail line, part of the 300-mile state-owned Palouse River and Coulee City Rail system. The port is part of the four-county PCC Rail Authority which oversees the line. The repairs were intended to fix up the track to support larger trains at the $17 million McCoy unit train loader, now under construction...
Owing to the Independence Day holiday next Wednesday, July 4, the Gazette will be mailed out Thursday for Friday delivery. The staff of the Gazette decided to publish one day late in order to provide readers photo coverage of Whitman County’s many Fourth of July celebrations. The Gazette is normally printed and delivered to the United States Postal Service Wednesday for Thursday delivery....
Could there be an expanded runway at the Tekoa Airport? Is there enough reason to do it if it had to be funded by the Town of Tekoa, official owner? These are questions being discussed by the Tekoa city council after J.U.B. Engineering of Spokane turned in results of a feasibility study in May. At issue is whether to lengthen and widen the runway. That could consume sites where future hangars could be placed. Part of the proposed expansion area was obtained by the city three years ago via a...
*For full Perkins house photo spread, see full website pages. The 40th edition of the Whitman County Historical Society’s Ice Cream Social served up another Sunday of unique entertainment at the Perkins house in Colfax. At top, the lineup of models for the fashion revue pose in their vintage dresses, part of the extensive Perkins collection, on the back porch of the house. Heather Hochsprung Meyer of Colfax was moderator this year. Colfax Distinguished Young Woman Lindsay Webber, middle left, treated the crowd with her vocal talents. At middle...
Sterling Bank will open its newest branch Monday, July 2, in LaCrosse. Sterling will occupy the 1915-vintage First Savings Bank building on Main Street. The building was vacated and LaCrosse left without a bank when state and federal regulators closed the Bank of Whitman last August. Sterling will lease the building from LaCrosse Community Pride, a volunteer non-profit formed in 2010 with the goal of bringing back a grocery store to the town. McGregor Company purchased the bank building out of receivership from the Federal Deposit Insurance...
Dignitaries broke ground on the $17 million McCoy Grain Terminal in an official ceremony in the Rosalia City Park last Wednesday, June 20. The project is a collaboration between Cooperative Agricultural Producers and Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative, local grain cooperatives. The state-of-the-art train loader will be able to load unit trains of 110 cars holding 410,000 bushels of wheat in about eight-and-a-half hours before turning them around for Portland via the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad. “Those yields, and that p...
Whitman County towns will roll out their celebrations of the Fourth of July next Wednesday. Residents can select from events which begin at 7 a.m and continue through the day. From an early breakfast event to the parades, music and explosive fireworks, the holiday celebrations offer a variety of hometown attractions. Johnson Johnson Independence Day festivities will start Wednesday with their traditional 4th of July breakfast at the Johnson schoolhouse. On the menu for the meal are ham, scrambled eggs, fruit cups and large old-fashioned...
* For Full Perkins House coverage, please see Weekly Pages section. Whitman County Historical Society marked a big anniversary in style Sunday when the hosted the 40th edition of the Ice Cream Social at the Perkins House in Colfax. The social again featured displays of vintage equipment and photos mixed with pie, ice cream, hamburgers and music by the Snake River Six, now claimants the longest annual booking in the Palouse Country. More pictures from the Perkins House social are featured on page 10B....
