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Cost of replacing the water line which connects the city’s artesian wells at Glenwood with the reservoir system at Colfax was discussed during the July 18 city council session. The city has received funding to pay for an engineering study of the line, and the next step will be replacing of the supply line which runs along the north side of North Palouse River Road. City Administrator Mike Rizzitiello reported the city could qualify for the USDA Rural Improvement program, one of the remaining sources of grant funding. The USDA program grants u...
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories announced Thursday an expansion to the company after acquiring Sienco Energy Partners, an engineering firm founded in 2008 and based in Bogota, Colombia. Sienco has been a long-time customer of SEL and plans to transition its operations and employees to SEL during the next six months. Julian Alzate, director of international operations at SEL, said the process to expand SEL’s base in Latin America began about a year ago and included looking at four different companies for potential acquisition. Ultimately, S...
A stew simmers for Saturday’s Palouse Music Festival at Heyton Greene Park. A mix of sounds are on the list for the fifth annual event, which grew out of the original Palouse Bluegrass Festival. “It’s all local, but there’s some good music around here,” said Paul Smith of the Palouse Arts Council, event sponsor. The day begins at 11 a.m. with food, arts and crafts sellers and a new attraction, as well as kids activities led by Miriam Kent of the Moscow Renaissance Festival. Music will continue...
Colfax and Community Fund board members Mark Clinton, Carla Hall, Thelma Morris and Whitney Aguilar. Colfax and Community Fund board members have set a goal for the year of $25,000. The Fund year is from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 each year. At the end of the fundraising year, members allocate funds to eight different agencies: Boy Scouts, Community Action Center, Council on Aging, Youth League, Alternatives to Violence on the Palouse, Boost Collaborative, Families Together and Palouse River...
St. John’s Rialto Tavern The ownership of the Rialto Tavern in St. John has changed hands, passing from previous owners Ward and Kathy Pierce to Marc and Kayla Howard. Marc Howard told the Gazette he and his wife took over Wednesday, July 20, and they have enjoyed it so far. “We saw a really successful Friday night,” he said. “A lot of people said it was the busiest Friday night in a long time.” The Pierces owned and operated the tavern for 20 years, with Ward operating it with the help of emplo...
Endicott Jenny Meyer, Endicott Food Center, is very busy now with harvest underway. She makes lunches for several harvest crews in this area. She starts making lunches before 7 a.m. and hopes to have them all ready for pick-up before noon. Free hot dog dinners at the Community Park on Church and Margin are served on the first and third Wednesdays of the month from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The Community Bible Church is hosting this event. One of the wind storms split a very large pine tree in Multiflora Park. The town hired a tree trimmer to come and...
Dusty Ed and Joan Broeckel had visitors this past week. Their daughter Amber, Boise, was home from Friday through Sunday; daughter Jen Harkishnani, Seattle, was home from Saturday to Wednesday and Ed's sister Dellene Burdsall, San Jose, Calif., was a guest July 18-25. Fran Jones recently returned from a trip to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where she joined one of her nieces on a trip to Saskatchewan. They attended the 90th birthday celebration of Fran's sister-in-law, Minnie Nugent. Damien Perron, Cervinia, Italy, nephew of Bryan Jones, has been...
Whether it be for grain or grazing, agricultural landowners have seen the valuation of their land jump this year as the county assessor brings values closer into alignment with state averages. Some area farmers were recently surprised when their yearly assessed land value was returned to them: the value had gone up, a lot. “Most of my friends were shocked,” said Sandy Ridlington, who lives in Oregon but owns farm land which she rents out near Thornton. “It was across the board. There was no wa...
All 14 branches of Whitman County Library will be closed August 1-7 for annual maintenance week. During the closure, projects will be performed that are difficult to complete when the library is open, including carpet cleaning in a number of locations, painting of the Garfield Branch and installation of new carpeting in the Oakesdale Library. During the weeklong closure, due dates for library materials have been extended and no late fines will be charged. Book drops will remain open in all locations. Access to the library's catalog,... Full story
Gazette intern reporter It is harvest time on the Palouse, and growers are seeing results that contrast with last year’s dry growing season. Reports from the west side of the county carry a lot of promise as harvest moves across the county. “This is a very unusual harvest,” said Phil Bowman at LaCrosse Ritzville Warehouse. “It’s phenomenal!” Harvesters in the LaCrosse area normally expect yields of 35 to 45 bushels per acre, and this season they are getting up to 80 bushels per acre, he re...
Colfax entrant Taylor Garcia Colton entrant Kendyl Druffel LaCrosse entrant Lauren Claassen Pullman entrant Madeline Walker Spokane entrant Averie Hollis By Meghann Ferguson Gazette intern reporter Four high school seniors from Whitman County will compete in the annual Distinguished Young Women Washington scholarship program at Washington State University's Beasley Coliseum next week. Formerly known as Washington's Junior Miss, it is a scholarship program which was founded in 1958 in Mobile,...
Jeffrey Marlow of the Cougars takes a swing in one of the early games of the state American Legion A finals at Rogers High School in Spokane. Marlow pitched a complete game win over Gig Harbor in the Sunday game. Whitman Cougars Tuesday defeated Eastmont of Wenatchee 11-9 in the quarter-final round for the State A American Legion tournament at Spokane to advance to the semi-final round Wednesday. The Cougars were booked to play Chewelah, a team they topped by a run in the district finals last... Full story
