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REAL ESTATE SALES Steven K. and Carmen M. Roberts, Pullman, to Alonzo E. and Amy L. Tull, Pullman, lot on SW Barclay Street in Pullman, $29,000, July 2. Hayden Homes, LLC, Redmond, to Christopher L. and Anna L. Eagle, Pullman, house on SW Big Sky Court in Pullman, $282,274, July 2. Dolores R. Mader, Colfax, to Dennis L. and Betty Jo Gransbery, Colfax, house on E. Thorn Street in Colfax, $180,000, July 2. Brandy M. and Jesse K. Wiser, Pullman, to Andrew S. Mcharg, Seattle, house on NW Kenny Drive in Pullman, $226,000, July 2. Kayla Jean McNett,... Full story
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2008. Recently, I decided to take a “vacation” and visit my parents, which is a little like trying to “relax” by going to a tax audit. My mother and father realize it’s too late in the game to make sure I was raised properly, but that doesn’t stop them from trying. “You don’t get enough exercise,” my father bellows at me from his chair. I don’t think he’s gotten out of that chair since the Denver Broncos won the Super Bowl. I’m pretty sure he takes the thing to bed with him. “I... Full story
All a buzz The City of Colfax seems to be all a buzz about the Hullabaloo now that the Chamber of Commerce voted to let it go for this year. We have tried for the last six months to generate interest and find people willing to volunteer their time, ideas and talents to bring it together. Our last attempt was a meeting on June 11, calling for anyone and everyone to bring their ideas for the Hullabaloo. Three people showed up! Now, suddenly everyone has an opinion and none of them are very complimentary. I am also hearing people say that the...
The League of Women Voters of Pullman and the Washington Coalition for Open Government will present a panel discussion on the state’s Open Meetings Act and the state law that requires the maintaining of a permanent record of the minutes of meetings. The discussion will be Wednesday, Sept. 25 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The McGregor Company Center on Airport Road north of Colfax. All elected and appointed officials in the county are encouraged to attend. Panel moderator will be Anna King of Northwest Public Radio. Other panel members include T...
The Oakesdale city council has agreed to buy materials needed to clean up the old Richfield auto shop for use in food service for Old Mill Days July 20. Gail Parsons, food volunteer for the event, appeared at the June 17 city council meeting to ask for permission and assistance with materials. Parsons said he would like to caulk the windows and repaint the walls. “Very minimal,” he said. Once the cleaning and painting are complete, he said a refrigerator will be moved in to the empty space inside. On July 20, food will be served in a tent ere...
Finding Whitman County too distracting, county commissioners plan to have a strategic planning session in Clarkston for two days at the end of July. The session will include all three commissioners, along with commissioners’ clerk Maribeth Becker, county administrator Gary Petrovich, finance administrator David Ledbetter and Public Works Engineer Mark Storey. Commissioner Dean Kinzer said the $1,000 cost of the two-day session, scheduled for July 30-31, will come out of the general fund. “We’ll be working from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. both days,...
Future work on Cedar Street and the North Palouse River Road are included in the street project plans in the Colfax six-year street program. The listing of projects was presented to the city council at the June 17 meeting and approved at the July 1 council session. The State Department of Transportation each year requires towns to outline a six-year street plan. Whether or not projects listed on the plan become a reality is generally determined by funding. The Colfax plan includes projects listed under ADA projects, Urban Arterial Projects and... Full story
The time frame for the Colfax School District levy summer construction project is being adjusted due to high bids. District Superintendent Michael Morgan gave an update to the school board Monday night, reporting that bids came in $60,000 higher than expected for the project, which includes remodeling the Jennings Elementary main entrance, installing steel doors and electronic locks on Jennings and the high school, adding security cameras and more. Because of the high bids, Morgan said the...
The Tekoa-Oakesdale-Rosalia swim team competed in a three-team meet at Pullman Tuesday and posted several winning scores. In the boys age 9-10 100-yard relay, the team of Ryan Baljo, Tyler Bober and Shawn Bober took first with a time of 2:05.00. For the boys 13-14, 200-yard medley relay, T.O.R.’s Mikey Greybeck, Dylan Eaton, Trenton Gregory and Trenton Beardsley finished first with a time of 3:08.82. Haley Adams won the girls 15-18 50-yard freestyle in a time of 33.67 and also took first in the 15-18 50-yard butterfly (44.64). In the boys 1... Full story
Pullman Patriots played back-to-back twinbills at McDonald Park Monday and Tuesday and came with a 1-3 record. The lone win went into the books on Monday night when Colfax pitcher Patrick Jacobs threw a shutout for six innings and finished with a 6-1 verdict over the Spokane Blue Devils. The Blue Devils, who moved the games to McDonald because of field conditions in Spokane, pegged a 10-1 win in the second round of the Senior Legion league show. Tuesday, the 49ers from the northeast corner of...
What’s it like going over the edge 20 stories up? For Laura Buckley Lautehslager of Rosalia, it was a little scary, but she felt it was worth it. Lautenslger, who has been a volunteer with the Rosalia Fire District since 2010, was among 20 people who rappelled off the top of the Bank of America Financial Center builiding in downtown Spokane June 22. The "over the edge" experience was offered to area residents who could raise $650 or more in pledges for the Special Olympics. "They say $650 is a... Full story
Author Isabel Suppe` will visit Pullman as a stop on her bicycling trip from New York City to the west coast. She will meet the public and tell her story at B & L Bicycles at 5 p.m. next Wednesday, July 17. While climbing in July of 2010, Isabel fell 1,100 feet off Ala Izquierda del Condoriri’s southeast face in the Bolivian Andes. Stranded with a severely exposed fracture, Isabel crawled over jagged ice and rock for two days at 16,000 feet above sea level before finally being rescued. Soon after, she was told that she would never climb a...
“The Beast,” the monster burger prepared by Top Notch owner Pete Koerner that debuted in November for the Apple Cup Challenge, slayed two contestants from Garfield June 27. Billy Elliott, 19, and Catherynne Elliott, 26, both of Garfield, came into the Top Notch and told Koerner they were up for the challenge. “We just felt like doing it,” the younger Elliott said as he stuffed another bite into his mouth. Koerner said with all the meat on the burger, he needs at least a half hour to prepare it. “The Beast is four times the size of the Top Notch... Full story
Single stream recycling has officially arrived in Whitman County. With it have come some added costs, which may soon be reflected in customers’ bills, according to Devon Felsted, operations manager for Pullman Disposal. Felsted’s service has applied for a rate increase with the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission. He hopes it will be approved in July, expecting a $2.50 per customer per month increase. Empire Disposal, based in Colfax, has also circulated notices of the cost increase. One of the problems is the reduced val... Full story
SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF WHITMAN JUVENILE COURT Dependency of: DEVINE JONES NEVAEH WATERS KAYLEE WATERS No: 13-7-00023-3 13-7-00025-0 13-7-00026-8 NOTICE & SUMMONS / ORDER State of Washington To: Name: ALL PATERNAL INTERESTS 1. Notice of Hearing 1.1 You are notified that a petition, a copy of which is attached, was filed with this court alleging that: [X] Termination of Parent-Child Relationship: the above named child is dependent and a permanent termination of the parent-child relationship should occur. A termination Petition,...
The town of Farmington’s basketball court revitalization project is back to its original parameters after taking a turn into new territory, including the idea of moving the court to an alternate site. After much discussion of the matter at the June 17 city council meeting and further investigation by new project chairperson Noreen Ewing, the court will remain where it is in the city park, although in a curtailed, less expensive version. “We were looking at a very top-end court,” said Ewing. “I t... Full story
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee praised the entrepreneurial spirit of the Palouse Wind project Monday afternoon at a ceremony commemorating the generation of 150,000 megawatt hours of clean and renewable energy since the start of operation in December 2012. First Wind was one of three stops that the governor made while in Eastern Washington on Monday. The governor was joined by chairmen of First Wind, Avista, Vestas along with Alan Thomson, Whitman County Planning Director who also spoke. Gov. Inslee ducked out of the First Wind ceremony on... Full story
Joshua Pogue, 30, Pullman, sustained bumps and bruises in a one-car rollover accident on the Albion Road near the Christian Road intersection Saturday at 4:55 p.m. According to the report by Sheriff's Sgt. Chris Chapman, Pogue was able to get out of the 2005 Chevrolet Aveo he was driving before it caught fire. An Albion fire crew responded to the scene which was about a mile west of Highway 27. According to the report, Pogue told deputies he fell asleep while driving and the car drifted into... Full story
Spearheaded by the Kiwanis Clubs of Pullman and Moscow, the fifth annual Stuff the Bus drive for school supplies will be Aug. 8-10 in collaboration with Pullman Child Welfare and the Pullman, Colfax, Colton and Moscow school districts, “We want all students to start school with the tools to succeed,” said Sandra Woodrow, member of Pullman Kiwanis. School bus drop-off locations will be Dissmores IGA and Wheatland Mall in Pullman, Rosauers in Colfax, Eastside Marketplace and Staples in Moscow. Dates and hours are Aug. 8: 1 to 5 p.m. Aug. 9: 10... Full story
An overflow parking lot is becoming a community garden in Colfax. The lot, owned by Peace Lutheran Church, began to be transformed in mid-June, as part of an effort by the church and Backyard Harvest, a group based in Moscow. Backyard Harvest operates eight community gardens, and they received a $14,500 grant last year to build more. The grant is from the Empire Health Foundation for the purpose of growing 10,000 pounds of produce to be donated to area food banks. Earlier this year, Jeannelle Mi...
Fourteen teams with 166 people will gather at the Colfax High School track for the 17th annual Whitman County Relay for Life this Friday and Saturday, according to organizer Cozy Lueck. Relay teams will be at the track from 5:30 p.m. on Friday until after the closing ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Lueck said teams consist of participants that range in age from children to people in their 70s. Games for children begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday and at 7 p.m. the opening ceremony starts. The U.S. flag will be raised and the national anthem will be...
Whitman County is expected to go into a harvest mode starting next week with the crews starting on the breaks of the Snake River. Farmers around the county are encouraged by the above average June rainfall which in many cases helped rub out a precipitation lag which was denting crop outlook at the start of last month. Wes Claassen, who farms on Rock Gulch Road along the breaks of the Snake River south of Dusty, expects to begin a month-long harvest run at the start of next week. Claassen said he expects fall wheat yields will come in above...
Fireworks lit up the night sky in Endicott on July 4. People shouted and clapped as the displays shot into the sky. The fireworks lasted about a half hour thanks to Tony Anderson and his crew. The display was the end of an afternoon filled with children’s games, barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs, pie and ice cream and lots of visiting. Folks lined the park with lawn chairs as they listened to music and then watched the fireworks display....
