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Ernie Riley probably should have had a bad feeling. Last week he started reading Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe’s 18th Century tale of a shipwrecked man stranded on an island. But when he and wife Michele brought home their new boat, they could not wait to put it in the water when they were presented with free time Friday night. So they packed up the former 18-foot Coast Guard patrol boat, recently purchased from a fellow in Lewiston, and headed down to Wawawai to try it out on Lower Granite Lake. They arrived just about sunset. “We pro...
Whitman County Commissioner Greg Partch Monday was re-buffed by fellow commissioners in his request to return to a weekly meeting schedule. “We are a full-time board,” Partch told commissioners Michael Largent and Pat O’Neill in a workshop session Monday. “To only meet only two weeks is just too long to deal with anything.” Commissioners earlier this year opted to switch from meeting every week to every other week to reduce the workload of Maribeth Becker, commissioners’ clerk. At the start of the year, commissioners decided not to fill a rece...
Workers place a 70,000 pound concrete beam on the No. 5 Bridge which spans Four Mile Creek near the intersection of Parvin Road and State Route 27. Workers placed nine of the beams on the bridge span. Harry Johnson Plumbing and Excavation of Walla Walla is general contractor for the project on a $452,521 contract. The section of Parvin Road with the bridge has been closed since June 8 and will continue to be closed until the bridge is finished....
Whitman County elections officials were slated to send off final results of the Aug. 18 primary for certification Wednesday. The county canvas board Tuesday rejected 101 ballots, 66 of which were postmarked past the Aug. 18 deadline. Of the remaining 35 rejects, 24 could not have signatures verified, eight lacked signatures, one could not be identified and one envelope was returned without a ballot. One ballot was rejected as an overvote because all the ovals except for the one beside Democrat Glenn Stockwell’s name were filled in. The c...
An Oct. 19 trial date has been set for Sean Adam Lee, 25-year-old Lewiston man who deputies found tied up in the street at LaCrosse. Lee pleaded not guilty to a charge of first degree robbery Friday in Superior Court. The arrest report alleges Lee stopped at the residence of Larry Garrett in LaCrosse to ask for gas to get to Lewiston. When Garrett went out of his house to arrange for gas, Lee was suspected of grabbing Garrett’s wallet. A confrontation followed as Lee left the Garrett residence and attempted to leave in his car. The report s...
Fran Martin, county emergency management director, goes over a map of the Texas Lake fire with county commissioners Monday morning. Sparked by a bolt of lightning Aug. 21, the fire burned just over 2,500 acres of range land in the Texas Lake area between Winona and Ewan. Local fire crews responded in the early morning hours, but Friday afternoon the fire blew up again and crews from five different rural districts responded. A state mobilization was declared Friday at about 7 p.m. and 14 trucks responded from Cowlitz, Stevens and Spokane...
With state grant funds expiring, Whitman County towns will have to pay to keep the county’s roving chipper program running. The Department of Ecology grant behind the chipper will run out in December, say county officials, and it appears unlikely the DOE will grant them a six-month extension. The county is now sending out a brief survey to towns asking if they would be willing to pay a fee to continue the program. “It’s up to the cities if this continues,” said Judi Dunn-Gray, county waste reduction coordinator, presenting at a county worksho...
Pigeons in Spring Flat Creek channel The South Fork of the Palouse River is still hot with fecal coliform bacteria, particularly in downtown Pullman and at the north end at Colfax, Department of Ecology officials told a crowd of citizens in Pullman Aug. 27. Because of the high level of bacteria found in Colfax, DOE officials are currently narrowing down the source of the problem, but were reluctant to positively identify any sources just yet. The dozens of pigeons that make their nests under bridges above Spring Flat Creek which flows into...
Hospital district board chair Steve Moore (left) of Dusty and Jon Davis, hospital administrator, cut the ribbon to commemorate the end of the remodel project. With the snip of a red ribbon, the gleaming new halls of Whitman Hospital and Medical Center were officially opened to the world Aug. 28. “The biggest thanks I think goes to the community we serve for their support,” said Jon Davis, hospital administrator, to a 50-strong crowd of hospital staffers, patients, reporters, and citizens in the new lobby. Davis and Steve Moore, chairman of the...
The Palouse River and Coulee City Rail Authority is finalizing an application for a $60 million federal stimulus grant to replace tracks and ties on 243 miles of the eastern Washington shortline rail system. Joe Poire, executive director of the Port of Whitman, said the grant funds would be spent on track rehabilitation. The port represents Whitman County on the four-county Rail Authority. The rail authority would upgrade most of the track from Class 1 rail, which can only handle traffic up to 10 miles per hour, to Class 2 rail, which would...
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