Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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USDA’s Risk Management Agency said it continues to see increased participation in the Multi-Peril Insurance program for crops in Washington. Sept. 30 is the sales closing date for several crops in the Pacific Northwest. Among them, all wheat, Fall Planted Barley with Winter Coverage and Fall Planted Dry Peas and Lentils with Winter Coverage. RMA says last year’s rollout of the Common Crop Insurance Policy regulations, COMBO, fundamentally revising and creating one insurance plan out of four similar plans of insurance, was a success. An add...
Michele R. Brown, who has served on the Rosalia Schoolboard since 2005, has filed as a write-in for the position four seat. Brown said she missed the deadline for filing for the position due to the "chaotic life" involved in raising four children. She and her husband, Dan V. Brown, are the parents of DJ, Jason, Steven and Paige. Brown began service on the board Dec. 15, 2005, to fill an unexpired term. She has been elected to the seat twice since then. Ken Jacobs, former Rosalia mayor, filed for the board seat and is the lone candidate listed...
Seven schools in Whitman County have been granted a total of $502,712 from the state to make repairs to their buildings. The office of Randy Dorn, state Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced Monday grant awards to Colfax, Endicott, Garfield, LaCrosse, Lamont, Rosalia and Tekoa schools. The local schools were part of a 62-school, $5 million grant award throughout the state. Funding came from the Urgent Repair Grant program, which was created by the Legislature to fund repairs and renovations that relate to student health and safety....
After many months and much work, the “Coming Soon” sign has changed to “Open.” Events on Main will open Friday as a new coffee shop in the Hickman Building at Main Street and Wall in Colfax. It has been a long time coming, both in thought and action. “I always used to drive by and think ‘that’d be a great place for a coffee shop,” said Kari Rimbey, proprietor. She told her husband Steve, an electrician at Harrison Electric. “Absolutely not,” he said. “I am not going to buy that building.” But e...
After learning last week the first draft of Whitman County’s 2012 budget is more than $1.5 million in the hole, commissioners Monday began discussing how they want to balance next year’s spending plan. “I think we all can agree we’re not here to micromanage each department’s budgets,” said Commissioner Greg Partch. Department leaders in the county’s current expense operating fund predicted revenues of $12,109,117, which is $1,549,495 shy of the $13,658,612 they expect to spend next year. Administrative Director Gary Petrovich said he doubl...
Pullman Police Department has received a $300,000 “Smart Policing Initiative” from the U.S. Department of Justice. A report from Chief Gary Jenkins Sept. 8 said the department will use the grant funds to install video cameras at public locations where they have experienced a high frequency of violent crimes and neighborhood disorders. The department was one of 12 SPI grant recipients in the United States. In addition to storing video for investigative use, they hope to include the ability to send live video feeds to the police station and pat...
An industrial accident at a rock crushing operation on Warner Road east of Oakesdale Tuesday morning took the life of a Peck, Idaho, man. James C. Husey, 38, was pronounced dead at the scene by the flight nurse from a Medstar helicopter which had been called to the scene. She made the pronouncement after consulting with doctors at a Spokane Trauma Center. According to a report by Deputy Vincent Waltz, employees of DeAtley Crushing Sevice were working with electrical lines off a generator when Husey came in contact with a line that was...
Parade starts at 10 a.m., followed by royalty crowning, the egg toss and famed Ping Pong Ball Drop. Palouse Days arrives again Friday and Saturday with a lineup of long-standing attractions like the parade, car show and ping pong ball drop, along with a list of new attractons. “Palouse Days is a pretty full day this year,” said Bev Pearce, President of the Palouse Chamber of Commerce. “We always have fun here and with the added activities, more folks should come out and check out Palou...
Oakesdale-area resident Roger Whitten’s opposition to a north county wind farm may be over. Whitten told the Gazette Monday morning he is planning to drop his appeal and move to rural Spokane County. “We wish him well,” said Whitman County Planner Alan Thomson. Whitten’s appeal was scheduled for Monday before Lincoln County Judge John F. Strohmaier who is presiding over the appeal. Whitman County Judge David Frazier recused himself from the hearing because he knew landowners involved in the project. Whitten had appealed in Whitman County Superi...
It was hot at last week’s Palouse Empire Fair. How hot was it? So hot the the lines at the lemonade stand stretched almost to Diamond. So hot, an uncomfortable bull tried to escape Thursday’s Pee Wee Cowpokes show in favor of a shady spot outside. So hot that Fair Manager Bob Reynolds said preliminary attendance figures from the fair’s 62nd edition were down about 3,000 from last year’s big show. “It was a good fair. It would have been better if it hadn’t been so damn hot!” Reynolds said. Mercury stayed above 90 for most of the blazing hot f...
