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Competing at the National High School Rodeo Finals in Rock Springs, Wyo., July 13-19, Rosalia’s Mattie Jo Johnson finished 11th in breakaway roping. She roped all three calves in the final round in a total of 10.53 seconds. Each participant competed in two sessions in the event or events in which he/she qualified for the National Finals. The top 20 after the two sessions in an event qualify for the championship short-go on Saturday night, July 19. Mattie’s Jo’s sister Shaina competed at the C...
Asotin County Blues, a top bracket team which rode the fence all the way to the state Junior Legion playoffs last weekend in Spokane ended the season for the Colfax-based Posse team in the first playoff round last Thursday. Asotin finished its Spokane run with a 3-1 record to get the number-three Spokane ticket in the 16-team state finals. Other Spokane finalists include Mt. Spokane in first place; Gonzaga Prep, second; Mead, fourth, and Ferris, fifth. The Ferris team eliminated Lewis & Clark, the top qualifier in the National Division, in the...
Real estate sales Orlin Reinbold, Spokane, to Daniel Brody and Sadie Boone, Pullman, house on SE Robin Place in Pullman, $331,000, July 15. Amanda L. Grimm to Jason Roberson, Ken and Kim M. Roberson, Woodinville, house on NE McGee Street in Pullman, $175,000, July 15. Robert R. and Faith E. Gross, Colfax, to GG Land & Livestock Co., Colfax, pasture land, $23,000, July 15. Netheniel and Emily Ealy, Moscow, to Sindy Zerbe, Pullman, house on SW Winter Circle in Pullman, $162,500, July 15. Mark E. and Gretchen A. Thomas, Bow, to Kinzie and Tyson Br...
Whitman County commissioners Monday approved the six-year Transportation Improvement Program which was presented by Public Works Director Mark Storey. The plan, which outlines projects from 2015 to 2020, includes work this year on countywide overlays, the Hatley Bridge, Run-Off-Road and intersection safety project, turn lane and signage and Odonnell Road work. During the next five years, projects include countywide overlays, Colfax Airport Road work at a cost of $5,000, a $700,000 county safety project, Almota Road $4 million project and...
Retired Winona volunteer firefighter and fire chief Virgil Jordan misses the people he helped through the years but doesn’t miss fighting fires. Jordan, who will be 85 in August, officially retired a few weeks ago with a reception at the Endicott Fire Station. He was presented a plaque honoring his 40 years of service to the fire district as chief. He actually served on the department for 60 years since he volunteered after moving to Winona in 1954. “I drove the Winona fire truck,” he said....
Attorneys in the civil suit by a group of residents to halt county involvement in the construction of the proposed Hawkins shopping mall on the state line have reached a settlement agreement of dismissal. The suit, filed by the Organization to Void Illegal Conduct, sought an injunction to halt county participation in the proposed development of more than 200 acres of land located north the Moscow-Pullman Highway. Attorneys for all three parties have signed a proposed order of dismissal. The proposed order has been submitted to Judge John...
The 15-year-old Colfax boy who was arrested May 30 at Colfax High School after he brought a BB pistol to school was sentenced to 30 days in confinement July 17 in juvenile court. He pleaded guilty to a charge of bringing a firearm to school. The youth was ordered to serve the first 10 days in custody and then be released to undergo a mental evaluation. Pending outcome of the evaluation he could be required to serve the remaining 20 days of the sentence. He was also placed on one year of supervision. The youth was disarmed by Principal Buck...
Another Colfax moose picture was forwarded to the Gazette last week. This critter made a stop in the back of the Gene and Queenie Leinweber home on the Walla Walla Highway. The moose munched some apples and stayed in the yard until close to dark. Mrs. Leinweber said it was the first moose they have ever seen at their place. The Leinwebers’ grandson, Nic Mayer, took the photo....
Combines are running in most of southern and western Whitman County. On the left a combine unloads on a farm between Endicott and Winona on a warm Monday afternoon. They were running two John Deere combines with two trucks. On the right is a combine cutting grain on a hillside between Endicott and Diamond. Onecho farmers were starting harvest this week as well. Depending on the area of the county, farmers are looking at light to average yields according to area reports....
It started in a pasture three miles outside of Oakesdale. LaVerne Pittmann had quit school as a sophomore in high school to help run his parents’ farm in 1938. Out in the pasture he’d see a girl on the neighbor’s property going out to pump water. “Mama always said she never had to worry about her water bucket after I met Verne,” said Ruth, who married LaVerne a day before her 18th birthday. This Saturday, 71 years later, she and LaVerne will be Grand Marshals of Oakesdale’s Old Mill Days Parade...
The third edition of the Palouse Music Festival will be Saturday, July 26, at Hayton Greene Park. Originally the Palouse Bluegrass Festival, the event has shifted under the auspices of the Palouse Arts Council, now culminating with dancing in the park for the last set. “We did that last year with The Senders and now it’s going be a thing,” said Paul Smith of the Arts Council. This year’s final two-set performance will be by Simba and the Exceptional Africans, a Moscow-based group playing...
Whitman County firefighters are being deployed to fires throughout Washington and Oregon. Whitman County Emergency Management Director and Rosalia Fire Chief Bill Tensfeld said Tuesday that Rosalia had three trucks and eight firefighters at the Watermelon Hill fire southwest of Cheney over the weekend. He said the rocks in the area hindered firefighters’ efforts as they battled the blaze. He said the firefighters and trucks were called at the beginning of the fire and the last truck arrived back...
The second edition of the Oakesdale’s Old Mill Days will be Saturday with events scheduled from 7 a.m to midnight. Featured will be area bands, headlined by a three-hour set from The Senders, a parade, dunk tank, car and tractor show, egg toss sponsored by AmericaWest Bank, a beer garden with door prizes and the Masons’ ice cream wagon. It starts with a pancake breakfast at Oakesdale Fire Station and closes at midnight. Three new attractions are tours of Hanford Castle from 3 to 5 p.m., bin...
A U.S. District Court jury in Spokane Friday ruled in favor of Whitman County Assessor Joe Reynolds when it rejected the sexual harassment suit filed by Brenda Arthur, an employee in the assessor’s office. The jury returned a verdict of “no” on whether or not Arthur was subjected to a sexually hostile work environment in the assessor’s office. They also ruled “no” on whether or not she was retaliated against under the federal Title VII discrimination law. Friday’s verdict by the district court jury was announced at Monday’s county commissi...
Runners encounter enthusiastic color applicators on the South Fork of the Palouse River during the Colfax Concrete River Festival last Saturday. The color run started at Schmuck Park and went through town and into the flood control to end back at Schmuck Park. Different color stations hit runners with pink, blue, yellow and green pigments....
NOTICE OF A MITIGATED DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (M-DNS) The Whitman County Planning Office issued a Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance (M-DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Acts Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Mark Whitmore, in conjunction with the Palouse Conservation District, is proposing to restore the aquatic environment on a stretch of Missouri Flat Creek. The project will improve fish habitat, create more wetland area, stop soil erosion, increase water retention and infiltration and fence off...
