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I’m sure you are wondering what the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act really means. The Affordable Care Act is designed to accomplish several things including the expansion of Medicaid to many low-income adults, the creation of the health insurance exchange, subsidies within the exchange to help low-income and moderate-income families purchase coverage, and the individual mandate. The other provisions upheld include the coverage of children up to age 26 on their parents’ insurance, non-discrimination for pre-existing con...
Army Staff Sgt. Steven E. Garrett, a 1995 graduate of LaCrosse High School, has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base to serve in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Garrett is a wheeled-vehicle mechanic assigned to the 539th Transportation Company at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. He has served in the military for 15 years. He is the son of Steven and Cheri L. Garrett of LaCrosse. His wife, Olena, is the daughter of Bernadette Kock of Waitsburg.... Full story
NOTICE OF DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS) AND A PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING Whitman County Planning issued a Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Whitman County proposes amendments to its zoning ordinances, Chapter 19.06 Board of Adjustment; Chapter 19.10 Agricultural District; Chapter 19.15 North-Pullman-Moscow Corridor District (N-PMC) and Chapter 19.16 South-Pullman-Moscow Corridor District (S-PMC). The proposed change to Chapter...
8 years ago July 8, 1887 Hardly had the smoke cleared away from the wreck of his big hot air balloon on the Fourth before Prof. Stinson had sent east an order for a gas balloon, which he expects to have here in time to make an ascension during the progress of the county fair. On 11:30 in the evening of the 3rd, Prof. Stinson proceeded to inflate the balloon on a test run. This was done carefully by sending hot air through a pipe in which was placed a screen to prevent sparks from entering the balloon. The great pouch of canvas filled and...
Garfield-Palouse High School students who topped the honor roll for the final term with all-A grades included Heidi Jamison, Jeffrey Kent and Jonathan Kuehner, seniors; Cassie Thompson, junior; Chandler Pfaff, Taylor Redman and Kathryn Yoder, sophomores, and Jacob Arlt, Gabriel Cocking, Mitchell Jamison and Rachel Nelson, freshmen. Earning grade averages of 3.5 to 3.99 were Sara Bofenkamp, Derrick Bosch, Nathan Cocking, Melissa Johnson, Delanie Linderman and Mickaila Martin, seniors; Courtney Fleener, Wyatt Mitchell, Hannah Neibergs, Gabriel...
The annual Palouse Ice Cream Social will be Sunday at the Palouse City Park from noon to 4 p.m. The social will again feature homemade pies, Lions Club burgers, beverages and music. Members of Xenodican Club and the Round Table Club are coordinating the event which will benefit the new Palouse Community Center. Community Band of the Palouse will play from noon to 2 p.m. followed by Jens Hegg who will play acoustic blues and folk music. “I know that it’s been at least 20 years, if not 25,” said...
—Janet Leifer photos St. John High School graduates from the early 1960s gathered for a reunion at the St. John Community Building Saturday. The reunion included golden grads of 1962 plus graduates of 1961 and 1963. Graduates of the class of 1961: Front row, left to right: Ed Smith III, Karen Wilhelm Johnson, Beverly Robinson Seidi, Dan Ross. Back row, left to right: Lonnie Lynch, Gene Nelson, Ed Stoner, Bruce Smith. Graduates of the class of 1962: Front row, left to right: Judy Blackman Howard, Judi Gustin Overstreet, Marianne Ross. Back r...
Spare Parts, a versatile five-member band from Spokane, will return to the Empire Theatre in Tekoa Saturday, July 7 at 7 p.m. Their wide-ranging repertoire includes songs from pop, rock, folk and country genres and spans from the 1950s up to contemporary. Because of their tight four-part harmonies and expert instrumentation, the group performs many much-loved songs that other bands do not attempt. Joel Johnston, who plays guitar, bass, lap steel and percussion, got his start in traditional Country & Western music. Mandolin and guitar player Sco...
WSU Raptor Club members will bring birds of prey for a program at the Colfax Library Thursday, July 12, at 10:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to the free, family program sponsored by the Friends of Whitman County Library. The club is a non-profit volunteer organization founded in 1981 with the purpose of educating the public about the conservation of raptors. Special permits allow the club to take birds to a great variety of audiences such as libraries, schools, service organizations, etc., for educational purposes. This allows the club to spare th...
Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown this month features an exhibit by the Salmon River Art Guild. It includes paintings in a wide variety of mediums: oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastels with subjects of landscape and still life. Gourd art, antler sculptures and photography will also be on display. The Salmon River Art Guild was started in 1964 and has 44 members today. The exhibit will be on display through July 29....
Thomas daughter born Thomas, Samantha Katharine, born June 18, 2012, at eight pounds, five ounces to Tyler and Rachel Chastain Thomas of Silverdale. Maternal grandparents are Jerry and Mary Chastain of LaCrosse. Paternal grandmother is Marcia Thomas of Gloucester, Va. The baby joins two brothers, Toby, 2, and Griffin, 15. The family is residing in Silverdale where he is stationed with the United States Coast Guard....
Twenty-seven area students qualified for the dean’s honor list at Eastern Washington University for the spring quarter. To qualify for the honors list, an undergraduate is required to earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on most courses. Area honor roll students, except those who have opted to withhold their names from public release, are listed below: Colfax: Traci Hart, Jessica Carter, Victoria Benson, Alex Teade, Aby Erickson, Brittany Myers. Colton: Erin Bauer. LaCrosse: Gladys Martinez. Oakesdale: Nathan Doneen. Palouse: Elisha L...
Gazette Intern The Idaho Repertory Theatre’s summer season has been cut short this year due to construction projects in the University of Idaho’s Hartung Theater. The theater’s rigging system, as well as its stage and the flooring, are all being remodeled. “We were due for updates,” said Alexiss Turner, marketing director for the IRT. She explained that the theater had not been modified since it was constructed in 1973, almost forty years ago. Construction began May 21 and is scheduled to finish around July 20. The campus project cut down the t...
Erin Flaherty of Moscow, Idaho, daughter of Steve and Melissa Flaherty of Colbert, and Jacob Nelson of Pullman, son of Craig and Sheryl Nelson of Pullman, were joined in marriage June 9 at Red Barn Farms in Colton. The Rev. Matt McNelly of Pullman Presbyterian Church officiated. Maid of honor was Shannon Flaherty, sister of the bride, Colbert. Bridesmaids were Hannah Nelson, sister of the groom, Pullman; Sara Clark, friend of the bride, Pullman; Stephanie Hoyle, friend of the bride, Pullman; Bekki Hampton, friend of the bride, Othello, and... Full story
Carl G. Seutter and Barbara Jo Ellis were married June 23, 1962, at the Community Presbyterian Church in Oakesdale. They lived in Delaware and then Oklahoma where he was employed with General Motors at Midwest City. They then retired and lived at Hudson, Fla. After two years of RV living they returned to Oakesdale in 2002. The couple celebrated their 50th anniversary with a land/cruise trip in Alaska, accompanied by their children, Carl G. Seutter, Jr., and Carlene L. Seutter. Highlights of their Alaskan adventure were an airplane flight... Full story
Heather and Mat Smith are busy entrepreneurs who operate Smith’s Country Store in Rosalia. A graduate of Rosalia High School, Heather was raised in Rosalia. Her mother, Zana Riley Lindgren, still resides in Rosalia. Her father was the late Phillip Lindgren. Heather lived for several years in Spokane, but she and Mat are happy to be living and operating a business in her hometown. Heather graduated from Eastern Washington University where she specialized in human resource and business management. She had planned to major in computer science, b...
An open house for the new Sterling Bank branch at LaCrosse will be next Thursday, July 12. Sterling opened its new branch Monday in the former location of Bank of Whitman. The building was purchased from the FDIC by the LaCrosse Community Pride. The community group will lease the site. Next week’s open house will include door prizes, food and drinks with a special presentation to the community. Festivities run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The branch will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Aug. 3. Beginning Aug. 6, regular b...
Dusty David and Phyllis Stueckle and Ann Emerson of LaCrosse drove to Puyallup last Friday to attend the wedding of the women’s niece, Kari Aune, daughter of Norm and Barb Aune, to Eric Kelly. The traditional wedding took place in the Tacoma First Lutheran Church on Saturday. Sunday morning, they attended a brunch at the home of Norm and Barb Aune. The Stueckles stayed with Reuben and Judy Stueckle in Puyallup and Emerson stayed with her daughter, Heidi ,in Olympia. They returned home Monday. Linda Hennigar spent the weekend in Kennewick w...
Lamont Friends of the Lamont Library with Ruth Simpson at the helm conducted a book sale in the new Lamont Library June 22-24. It included a bake sale and a raffle. Gale Mann won the grand prize, an Afghan and hand crochet slippers. Proceeds will be used to finish the plumbing, electrical wiring and the framing in the building. They are planning a spaghetti feed around the end of July to further the work in hopes of opening the library in November. Grants and donations will help with the completion. Hundreds of used books of every subject were... Full story
The letter was noted at the Palouse school board meeting June 28. It was the resignation of Bev Spencer from the kitchen cook position, after 10 years. “What if we just didn’t accept it?” asked Brenda Brown, a member of the board. “It’s 10 years of wonderful experience that I had,” said Spencer. “When I look back at my past, for jobs, this was the best job I ever had. It was the best one. I consider myself very lucky to have worked in this school.” Spencer’s immediate retirement plan i... Full story
State transportation crews recently filled in the center line rumble strips on State Route 27 in eastern Whitman County. Al Gilson, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, said soft ground had sunk the low parts of the strips, and that left the peaks of the strips brittle enough to break as traffic rolled over them. State DOT crews installed rumble strips in the center of the two-lane SR 27 last year, along with rumble strips on highways 26 and 127, in an effort to reduce the number of crossover collisions on the highways. The...
The History Channel • On July 22, 1598, William Shakespeare’s play “The Merchant of Venice” is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material. • On July 19, 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. Called the Rosetta Stone, the artifact held the key to solving the rid...
Whitman County has begun the difficult process of finding how to pay for its operations next year. County commissioners put out the official call for department budgets for its roughly $14 million current expense fund last Monday, June 26. Expectations are spending proposals will outpace revenues by more than $1 million. This year’s spending plan was ahead of baseline revenues, but the budget was balanced by eliminating some capital expenses, like replacing heating and air-conditioning systems and upgrading information technology from the c...
More than 130 graduates of St. John’s Academy gathered for a reunion at Colfax’s former Catholic school last weekend. “It sure brings back a lot of memories from those tough old nuns,” said Martin Marler, a former student who still lives in Colfax. “Oh, they weren’t as bad as we’d all like to make them out to be,” said Evelyn Hinnenkamp, a 92-year-old former St. John’s student. Graduates gathered in the old school, now the St. Patrick’s Parish Hall, for two days of festivities and identifying pictures. The school operated under St. Patrick’s...
Justin J. Hardgrove, 30, Colfax, has been summoned to appear in court July 13 after a charge of theft of a motor vehicle was filed against him June 26 in Whitman County Superior Court. The charges followed an investigation by Colfax officers last November. Police received a report from a Colfax woman who said Hardgrove borrowed her 1997 Chevrolet Malibu Nov. 21. He told her he needed to use the car to transport a friend to the hospital in Pullman where the friend’s girlfriend was about to have a baby. The report said the car owner several d... Full story
