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In the superior court of the State of Washington for the county of Whitman, Whitman County, Building Dept. Plaintiff, vs. LIA JUNE BERG, Defendant. No. 17-2-00160-38 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION The State of Washington to the said Defendant, Lia June Berg You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty (60) days after the 27th day of July, 2017, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, Whitman...
8 years ago The Commoner Aug. 19, 1892 The fire at Kendrick the other day is another practical illustration of the great danger which always hovers over a town or city which is so unfortunate as to be devoid of adequate protection from the fiery element. Two or three times since the year opened dangerous fires have broken out in wooden blocks in Colfax and threatened disaster to many blocks, if not the entire business portion of the city. But here was where the necessity of a volunteer fire department was demonstrated. A number of times in...
DRUG ARREST ON 23 Nashira Ellis, 40, Spokane, was arrested on a charge of possession of methamphetamine in a search which evolved from a speeding arrest Saturday evening on Highway 23. According to the arrest report, a deputy stopped a vehicle which was logged on radar at 68 miles per hour near mile seven on the highway. After the vehicle was stopped, the deputy noticed Ellis was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle. The deputy reported he observed a butane lighter on the back seat next to Ellis. The driver and Ellis eventually allowed a... Full story
A memorial service for Robert Young Tuttle, 98, Potlatch, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, at the Palouse Federated Church with Pastor Corey Laughary officiating. Mr. Tuttle died at his home Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017. Born April 29, 1919, to Carl and Mary Agnes Young Tuttle, in Chico, Calif., he grew up in California and graduated from Fort Jones High School. He studied agriculture at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He met Doris Ann Towle at a square dance, and they were married in... Full story
The Palouse Falls chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute has booked a traveling lecture series for the month of September. It will be presented by the chapter president, Lloyd Stoess. Stoess will present “Changing the Course of the Columbia River” at various locations throughout the Palouse. The lecture is designed to tell the story of the Columbia and Missoula floods, and it will detail the “incredible coulees, dry falls, scablands, bars and landslides” along the path of the Columbia River. Lecture dates include Sept. 7 at the Sunset Theatre...
The Palouse Empire Fair staff has moved out to their office in the community building in preparation for the upcoming fair. The fair this year will be run Sept. 7 to 10. Entry day at the fair will be Tuesday, Sept. 5. Animal entries have already been submitted to the fair office. First attraction at the fair will be the harvest bee sponsored by the Palouse Empire Fair Threshing Bee Association on Labor Day, Sept. 4....
The number of drug arrests in Colfax more than tripled in the first eight months of this year, according to a report which was presented by Chief Rick McNannay to the city council Monday night. Drug arrests totaled 26 as of Aug. 21, compared to a total of eight for the same time period in 2016, McNannay reported. He told the council he believes the drug problem was a factor in the increase in burglaries which have been investigated by the department. Total burglaries reported were 25, compared to 12 for the same time frame last year. All other... Full story
In a day and age of political correctness, where cries for justice ring in every ear, it is hard to imagine an era when citizens took the law into their own hands. Frontier justice, when townsfolk broke in to the tiny town jail and wrestled the bad guys to the nearest tree for swift judgement at the end of a rope, seems like a dramatic scene from a Hollywood western. Fact, as they say, is stranger than fiction, and two such cases happened in Whitman County at Colfax, Wash. The first case of frontier justice took place June 1, 1894. George F....
Thursday, Aug. 24 Colfax – 9:30 a.m. – Healthy Aging Yoga – This yoga class is a gentler, personal approach to yoga and free for adults 65 and older. Palouse Community Center – 9:30 a.m. – Teen Cooking – Learn how to prepare a meal that excites your taste buds. Provided for ages 12 and older, space is limited to eight participants, so sign up today. Colfax – 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. – Yoga Girls – Girls, grades 3 through 8, are invited for yoga with Suzy McNeilly. After Yoga enjoy a healthy snack, create a self-confidence collage and learn the ben... Full story
Advance Care seminar at Neill Neill Public Library will partner with Friends of Hospice for an Advance Care Planning seminar tonight, Aug. 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the library’s Hecht meeting room. Advance care planning is a process designed to help identify the level of medical care desired should one become unable to speak or act for oneself. The event starts with "Being Mortal," a documentary film featuring Dr. Atul Gawande and the hopes of patients and families facing terminal illness. The one-hour film will be followed by a group d...
Dusty Granddaughters Cherie Myrick of Roy and Deanna Myrick of Spanaway were luncheon guests of Lucky and Joan Myrick on Saturday. The afternoon was spent with grandma making alterations on Cherie’s wedding dress. They returned to their dad’s (Rich Myrick) home in Moses Lake in the evening. Guests at the home of Kim and Cindy Pitts from last Thursday to this Wednesday were grandsons Rafe and Tate Carlson of Spokane. Daughter Carrie Pitts of Yakima spent Monday and Tuesday with her parents before her school year begins at the end of August. Car...
Whitman County commissioners Monday formally approved the second two-year contract for the Voluntary Stewardship Program (VSP) for $220,000, effective July 1, 2017-June 30, 2019. The contract is similar to the original, which created the watershed work group that aims to protect agricultural activity while also preserving wetlands, flood plains, animal habitat, aquifer recharge and geologically hazardous areas. The new funding will cover the implementation of a plan created in the past two...
Librarian Assistant Trinette Hartman demonstrates experiments during the eclipse party in St. John. Cooper Schwartz and Hudson Startin use a shadow box to see the eclipse in LaCrosse. Residents view the eclipse through a telescope in Tekoa....
Judy Stone grew up on the New Jersey coast and earned a degree in nursing from Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing in Montclair before heading west to study Health Care Administration at City College in Bellingham. She stayed in Bellingham and taught Medical Assisting at Whatcom Community College for 13 years. In 1993, she made the move to Palouse to join her partner who is a professor of sociology at WSU. She began studies in nutrition, but soon returned to nursing, and worked for local family practices before taking a position at the... Full story
An unusual harvest scene was marked Saturday when two combines began cutting a 90 acre field at Hubbard, across Highway 195 from Papé Machinery. Bill Myers of Colfax and other family proprietors of Joseph’s Grainery were showcasing the harvest of Baronesse Barley with the assistance of local area brewers who use the grain. Tent shelters were located along the top part of the hill, and area brewers served samples of their products which had been made from Joseph's 2016 harvest of Baronesse. Th...
Whitman County Commissioners Monday voted 2-1 to not extend a contract for CGI services for a video tour for the county's website. The contract had been with CGI Communications out of Rochester, N.Y. When the matter came to the table, Commissioner Dean Kinzer moved to continue the contract, and Commissioner Michael Largent seconded the motion. “Is it worth having the videos on the website that are created?” Commissioner Art Swannack asked once the motion was on the floor. Clerk of the Board Maribeth Becker weighed in on the matter: “I think our...
Arthur Stone of North Plainfield, N.J., watches the fields Aug. 15. On a dusty road in the foreground of Kamiak Butte, a rental car sat parked, its silver trunk open in the sun. Just off the front bumper, a man sat in a fold-out camp chair. He looked into the distance at wheat fields and a section of a garbanzo field, listening for the sound of combines. He flew 2,100 miles for the experience. Arthur Stone of North Plainfield, N.J., came to the Palouse Aug. 14 for the second time to view... Full story
An Oct. 16 trial date has been set for Jeffrey E. Marshall, 51, LaCrosse, after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of possession of methamphetamine Friday in superior court. Marshall was booked into jail Aug. 6 after a deputy stopped the 1989 Ford F-150 pickup truck he was driving on the Walla Walla highway in Colfax. Marshall was allowed release on his own recognizance the next day and slated for the Aug. 11 arraignment.... Full story
Two felony charges against Eli Gallegos, 59, Colfax, have been dismissed in superior court. Gallegos had been scheduled for two trials Monday on unrelated charges, residential burglary and trafficking in stolen property. Court records show the charges were dismissed July 24 on a motion from the state. Deputy Prosecutor Merritt Decker asked the court to drop the charges because the state has been unable to locate a material witness. The court approved payment of legal fees for 6.7 hours of legal work which Defense Attorney Roger Sandberg of... Full story
MARRIAGE LICENSES Daniel Brian Tiengo, 26, and Jessica Margaret Humphrey, both Pullman, Aug. 16. Todd Jason Bender, 47, and Robin Elizabeth Fiorillo, 49, both Spokane, Aug. 16. Hunter James Scoggin, 25, and Genesis Francine Pearson, 24, both Colfax, Aug. 18. Evan James Moore, 23, Spokane, and Brittany Nicole Krageruel, 26, Pullman, Aug. 22. Esdras A. Santiago, 26, Pullman, and Paige Leanne Harwood, Umatilla, Ore., Aug. 22. REAL ESTATE Susan Fein and John Gonzales, Albany, Ore., to Paul and Sally McCullagh, Paradise, Utah, house on SE Kamiaken,...
The incident in Charlottesville is a tragedy. Most accounts blame the white supremacists. Their protest has been compared with KKK meetings at the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It was a white supremacist who drove the vehicle into the crowd. A few reporters, however, attribute part of the blame to the counter protesters who expressed their views forcefully and physically. No one, however, has thought to blame the city leaders who decided to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee. It was a dumb decision. Lee is a national hero....
Recently, family, friends and dignitaries gathered at Hurricane Ridge near Port Angeles to celebrate the designation of the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness at Olympic National Park honoring Washington’s distinguished three-term governor and U.S. senator. Today, America needs a calming voice of reason – a steady and measured leader with the strength, experience and ability to unify our nation. Daniel J. Evans fits that mold. At 91, Evans is still spry and fit. His legacy is that he worked with Democrats as well as Republicans to get things done. The...
Inventory Have you ever looked at the buildings along Main Street in downtown Colfax and wondered about their history, their design, who built them and why? Maybe you own one of these buildings, work there, or shop there and would like answers. On Aug. 30, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Center next to the county library, you can find out. The Colfax Historic Preservation Commission, in association with AHA!, an architectural history and archaeology firm, has conducted an inventory of the historic buildings in the Colfax business core and will be... Full story
Robert E. Lee wasn't a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying point in Charlottesville, Virginia. That doesn't change the fact that his statue is now associated with a campaign of racist violence against the picturesque town where Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. The statue of Lee was already slated for removal by the city, but the Battle of Charlottesville should be an inflection point in the broader debate over Confederate statuary. The monuments should... Full story
Finally President Donald Trump acknowledged in a statement that "Racism is evil," and described the "KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups" as "criminals and thugs." Put that in the "too little too late" file. It had taken two days before he could denounce the extremist bigots responsible for the deaths in Charlottesville, Virginia. Still, his immediate response was the one that matters, because it reveals what a toxic force he is. Originally he had condemned "this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many...
