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Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Bidders from eight firms inspect county building. Eight contractors took to the top of the county-owned building which last housed Greg’s Electric at Main and Island streets in Colfax Monday to inspect the roof. The inspection followed a call for bids on replacing the roof. Bob Reynolds, Whitman County facilities manager, said the roof has leaked for years, and the repairs are necessary for a future remodeling of the building to house the county’s elections office. The county will open bids for the new roof next Monday. Estimated cost of the...
Owners of vintage tractors will be encouraged to participate in the Palouse Empire Threshing Bee this year. The bee is again slated for Labor Day, Sept. 7, at the field across for the fairground at Mockonema. Most of the threshing will be done with horses, a push header, and stationary threshing machine. Tom Hennigar of St. John, one of the organizers of the event, said he hopes to get out flyers to alert owners of the opportunity to display their tractors. Hennigar said tractors can be in any stage of restoration. The bee organizers will... Full story
The railroad crossing signal on the south end of Main Street in Colfax sounded off Tuesday night and continued to sound off for over 90 minutes while Whitcom dispatchers scrambled to locate a person who could stop it. The railroad crossing on that end of Main has essentially been out of use since the Colfax-Pullman railroad link was cut off by the South Palouse River fire. Calls were intially made to the Union Pacific who reported they had sold the railroad years ago. The unused rail line is now the property of the state Department of...
Judge: ‘Stay out of LaCrosse’ Sean Lee of Lewiston, who was found tied up on Main Street in LaCrosse Friday night when deputies arrived at the scene to investigate an attempted robbery, was ordered Monday in a first court appearance to stay out of LaCrosse and not have contact with the LaCrosse residents who tied him up. Judge Doug Robinson set the bail amount for pre-trial release at $25,000 and added the “stay out” in the event Lee posts bail. Lee, 25, was booked into jail early Saturday morning on probable charges of first degree robbery, re...
Thousands of motorcycles are expected to be scattered throughout Rosalia this weekend, as the town will host its fifth motorcycle rally. This year’s edition will be modified from previous rallies. “It’s all coming together,” said Rita Crowl with the Rosalia Motorcycle Association. “It’ll be fun. It’s always fun.” In prior years, the rally has taken place on closed off downtown streets. Because of a lawsuit filed by Josh Bryan, originator of the Rosalia rallies, the town has declared it will not allow city streets to be shut down during the even... Full story
Stalled by Friday’s rain, a combine sits in a field beneath a mist-covered Kamiak Butte. Friday’s storm dropped up to an inch of rain around the county and set harvest back at least three days. Harvesters were sidelined again when rain returned Wednesday morning. (See back page for more harvest news.)... Full story
-photo by Mike Day-New proprietor Garth Hill stands along the shelves in the newly re-opened Empire Foods in Rosalia. Just in time for this year’s motorcycle rally, a Spokane family has opened up a grocery store in Rosalia. Garth and Song Hill opened up the renovated Empire Foods Monday, giving Rosalia a grocery store for the first time since the previous owners shut it down in November. The Hills have stocked the store with a wide variety of groceries and fresh produce. Garth said they plan to eventually have a meat department, but will w...
Escapee Christopher Davidson is finally captured and on way to jail. A manhunt that lasted over 12 hours around Colfax ended Monday at about 2:30 p.m. when Christopher Allen Davidson, 24, a fugitive from Oregon, was arrested on Railroad Ave., across the railroad tracks from the Perkins House in the Brown’s Addition section of Colfax. Davidson, who fled from a vehicle on Highway 26 in north Colfax at about 2 a.m. Monday, had been spotted several times by officers and residents in the early morning hours. He then vanished for several hours d...
