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Ag spray planes are all over the skies of Whitman County, dropping second, and even third applications of fungicide on wheat in an effort to stave off an infestation of stripe rust. The applications appear to be paying off. Rob McGuire, a pilot for Fender Air Service, said while he has been busy in the sky, his aerial view has shown much less of the orange evidence of fungus than he saw during the outbreak of last spring. “It’s nothing like last year,” he said. “Everybody’s been kind of trying to keep it from getting as bad as last year.” St...
Mary Ann Mitchell lost to John Love in the 1995 election for commissioner of the Port of Whitman County. Marcia McCracken was mistakenly named the loser in last week’s article about the current port ra...
More than a year of upheaval in Whitman County’s financial leadership was put to an end Monday when Auditor Eunice Coker introduced county leaders to her newly-hired finance director. David Ledbetter, Jr., a 2007 graduate of Colfax High School, began work Monday after being chosen by a team of county officials from a field of 10 candidates. “I’m very excited. It’s a unique opportunity to get into this field and to do it here at home,” he said. Ledbetter graduated in June from Eastern Washington University with degrees in economics and finance....
Endicott Regular hot stops in Whitman County’s Fourth of July celebration are loaded for action Monday with festivities booked from the early morning hours to the final blast sometime before midnight. First free public event of the holiday weekend will be Saturday at Boyer Park and Marina. Fireworks will once again be launched Saturday night beginning at 9:45 p.m. Fireworks watchers can sit in the park, docks or out on boats to witness the display. Sack races, Civil War re-enactors and belly dancing will be part of Endicott’s celebration that i...
As schools around Whitman County begin to see the state’s 1.9 percent cut in funds to pay teacher salaries, it falls to each district how to accommodate that loss of funding. Many school districts issued reduction in force, or layoffs, in early May in anticipation of losing funding from the state education department. Now that the state has issued the final budget, school districts can more accurately examine their own budgets in light of possibly bringing staff members back on the payroll. Some districts will maintain teacher pay levels by t...
