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NOTICE OF A MITIGATED DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (M-DNS) AND A CONDITIONAL USE HEARING Whitman County Planning issued a Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance (M-DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Geneshifters, LLC proposes to build a biotech research and development facility on a 5.215 acre parcel located east of Pullman/Moscow Airport, south of Airport Road on a private driveway named “Mary Jane Lane” in the NE ¼ of Section 36, Township 15 N., Range 45 E., W.M., Whit...
Thursday, Oct. 13 Colfax – 6 p.m. – The Hyde Out in Colfax and the library are hosting Trivia Night. Bring your team of up to six people, test your knowledge and win great prizes. Must be 21 or older to participate. Friday, Oct. 14 Colfax – 4 to 7:30 p.m. – Rising Stars dance classes at The Center. Owner/instructor Keri Oldroyd is teaching fall classes for all ages. Visit the library Events Calendar for more information. Saturday, Oct. 15 Rosalia – 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Cougar Coffee Refill Station Saturdays. On the way to the game, stop by the...
Endicott Endicott resident Bill Hughes went on the Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., Oct. 3 and returned home on Oct. 4. He was in the Army from Jan. 1952 until Dec. 1953 and is a Korean War Veteran. The group had guardians available for the veterans with wheel chairs to assist in the very busy two days. Upon arrival, the schedule was as follows: Oct. 3: an evening banquet at the Hyatt Regency Chrystal City and a visit to the WWII and Air Force memorials. Oct. 4: Arlington National Cemetery, Changing of Guards at the Tomb of the Unknown...
Lacrosse LaCrosse Business Group has decided to move the day for the LaCrosse Farmers' Festival back to the fourth Saturday in June. The festival at one time had been observed on the fourth Saturday of that month but was later advanced to the third Saturday. The group decided to go back to the fourth Saturday because of the competition from other area events booked on the third Saturday of the month. The festival date for next year will be June 24....
Dusty David Stueckle, who served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955 during the Korean War, joined 95 other veterans on an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., last week Monday and Tuesday. They left on a chartered flight from Spokane Airport at 8 a.m. Monday morning and flew straight to D.C. Bill Hughes from Endicott was also in the group. Twenty of the veterans were from World War II, and the rest were from the Korean and Vietnam wars. In two days, they visited the World War II Memorial, the Air Force Monument, Arlington National Cemetery, including...
Whitman Community Hospital Foundation will host “A Taste of Hope” Friday, Nov. 4, from 6 to 10 p.m. at The Center, adjacent to the library. This wine, beer and sparkling cider tasting event features local wineries, Merry Cellars, Pullman, and Basalt Cellars, Clarkston. Local craft brewers Paradise Creek, Pullman, and Palouse Heritage Brewing, Endicott, will also be there, as well as cider maker Sheffield Ciders from the Columbia Basin. They specialize in fine quality non-alcoholic sparkling ciders. Hilltop Catering of Pullman will cater tab... Full story
--J. Leifer photo The St. John/Endicott homecoming royalty include, from left to right, seniors Adam Blakeley and Marisa Gonzalez, juniors Christoph Walz, a foreign exhange student, and Hayden Hallenius, sophomores Adysen Miller and Chelsea Bammes and freshmen Brady Pitts and Eliza Lundberg....
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. farming demonstration train is seen here during a stop in Hooper in 1910. In 1909 and 1910, railroad companies sent farming demonstration trains on tour to promote improved agricultural practices in an effort to ensure and improve reliable freight business between farmlands and marketplaces. Crowds greeted the trains at depots and looked at a variety of exhibits in the cars. Professors and scientists traveled with the trains and gave agricultural lessons at...
For the paid obituary of David A. Peterson (1944-2016), see Weekly Pages: Oct. 13.... Full story
Tom and Nancy Meise, former Washtucna residents now of Moses Lake, recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a dinner celebration at Michael’s on the Lake in Moses Lake. The event was hosted by their children, Stan and Pat Meise, of San Jose, Calif.; Randy Meise of Kennewick; Marvin Meise of Kennewick; Wayne and Monica Dainty of Moses Lake; JC and Debbie Meise of Washtucna, and Fred and Darla Meise of Moses Lake. Tom and Nancy were married on Sept. 22, 1956, in Ritzville. They h... Full story
Roger and Bertha Swan of Pullman will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Oct. 22, with an Open House at Holiday Inn Express in Pullman. The open house will run from 2 to 5 p.m. at 1190 SE Bishop Boulevard, Pullman. Their children and grandchildren encourage family friends to come with fun stories and well wishes. They were married Oct. 20, 1956, at Pullman Presbyterian Church. Reverend Toves officiated. Mrs. Swan is the former Bertha Hood....
Whitman School Retirees Association officers Penny Bettas, Alice Davis, Linda Marler, Lu Luhring and Kathy Storment. Washington State School Retirees Association has county units throughout the state, with both active and retired members. The Association is commonly called “Retired Teachers,” but includes administrators, paraprofessionals, bus drivers, maintenance workers, support staff, coaches, custodial staff and school clerical workers as well as teachers. Whitman County unit officers inc...
This Hinderer family photo shows three generations. Left to right are (top row) Fern and Ted (Theo) Hinderer, (third row) Kenny, Dorthey, Stella and Blaine, (second row) Toby, Loette, Jeanie, Robert and (bottom row) Leslie and Randy. Ted and Fern purchased what would become the Hinderer Farm in 1936. The Hinderer family is hosting an 80th anniversary celebrated Oct. 22. Randy Hinderer, center, with his dad Blaine, left, and LeRoy Cocking, right. Randy currently operates the Hinderer family...
The Colfax & Community Fund Drive will get its official start next week at the Rotary luncheon. The meeting will be at noon at the Colfax Methodist Church. The year-long campaign, which traditionally kicks off at the October Rotary luncheon, once again has a goal of $25,000. “We got close this year, but didn't quite get there,” said Jeannette Solimine, fund treasurer. The fund raised $20,088 in the last year. 'That's the best we've done in the last four years,” Solimine told the Gazette in September, noting that does not include the year when...
The library's reading bear made an appearance on Main Street Thursday to wave people on and take pictures with youngsters. The bear dressed for fall in a pumpkin costume. Sheri Miller, youth services manager, is dressed in the costume. Lynnea Vantrease, a newly-licensed massage therapist in Colfax, promotes her business in front of the library at First Thursday. Here, she massages her client Tiara Palmer while Palmer’s daughter Hallee looks on. Vantrease is located in the Warwick Building at 4... Full story
Registration opened Monday, Oct. 10, for Washington State University's annual Wheat Academy coming up Dec. 13-14. The two-day event provides comprehensive, hands-on learning for participants and will provide information about the causes of low falling numbers, how spray particle sizes and nozzle selection affect drift, wheat growth and development, herbicide resistance, among other things. Experts will present in 90-minute slots. Presenters include Dr. Ian Burke, WSU weed scientist; Dr. Arron Carter, WSU winter wheat breeder; Paul Carter, WSU...
Ken Vogel, 71, former long-time Pullman clothier, died Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, at his retirement home in Winlock, Wash. He had been stricken with cancer. Mr. Vogel and his wife, Sally, moved to Winlock after his retirement from Ken Vogel Clothing in Pullman. She retired from a teaching career in Colton. They resided in a replica train station which was located along the mainline railroad tracks between Seattle and Portland and became familiar with train crew operations on the line. The station home reflected his long-time interest in trains...
The cost to fight wildfires has risen so high that a pair of Montana’s senators suggest the U.S. Forest Service should be renamed “U.S. Fire Service.” Senators Jon Tester (D) and Steve Daines (R) told the Billings Gazette in late August the rising costs are crippling the agency’s essential non-fire related work. Fire suppression costs now consume more than half of the Forest Service budget compared to 16 percent 20 years ago. The lawmakers introduced legislation to appropriate $1.4 billion more to fight forest and range fires this year, b... Full story
We are in the midst of an epic media freakout. It is a subset of a larger liberal panic over Donald Trump's strength in the general election. The mood of the center-left is, "America, how dare you?" The outraged incomprehension is seeping into and, increasingly, driving the coverage of the race. The freakout began a few weeks ago when Donald Trump started to close the polling gap with Hillary Clinton, and picked up intensity as the race essentially became a tie. The media is going to be in a perpetual state of high anxiety and dudgeon until...
Here’s what I’m wondering: Was it Alicia Machado’s really mild sex video that caused Donald Trump to wake up with a start about 3:00 the other morning? What was he thinking about as he fired off that “unhinged” tweet about her recorded activities under the sheets? And, yes, conscientious journalist that I am, I forced myself to see the tape of her romp. Talk about boring — unless you are amused by how unexciting it really was. But apparently Donny found it far more interesting. Something got him going, whatever he was thinking, or maybe fanta...
When the historians look back at the 2016 presidential race, will they even want to? So bad, so depressing, so damaging. Or was it? This was a year when an unknown senator and a non-politician went much farther than predicted, while spending much less money than was assumed to be necessary. Bernie Sanders, who spent more than Trump, raised it from regular people, without a Super-PAC, with a famous average donation of $27. Trump's unconventional campaign was cheap, by current presidential standards. Both Sanders and Trump proved that if you run...
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. Ag pilots test spray patterns Tye Warhberg of Connell flies an Ag Tractor across the monitor line Oct. 6 at the Colfax Airport where ag pilots gathered to participate in a program to check the accuracy of the spray patterns of applicators which are fitted to their airplanes. The patterns are test...
A change to the Washington state high school basketball tournaments will allow four more teams to make it to Spokane Arena. Since 2011, eight teams have advanced to each of Washington’s three-day championship sites. The new format will increase the entry to 12 with some teams getting a first-round bye and others facing a loser-out opening round game. The new tournament format, which takes effect in March, will add one day to the state 1B/2B event in Spokane with a first day on Wednesday. The W...
Britte Harder of LaCrosse/Washtucna/Kahlotus hits against Lexi Brantner of Garfield/Palouse Oct. 6. Nicole Harder sets up one of 17 straight points for LaCrosse/Washtucna/Kahlotus. Colton, Pomeroy, St. John/Endicott and LaCrosse/Washtucna/ Kahlotus picked up wins Tuesday on the SE volleyball circuit to stay in the hunt behind league-leading Oakesdale. The Nighthawks, who pegged a three-game win over Touchet in the Thursday round, remain on top of the league with a 6-0 SE record. Pomeroy...
Colfax’s Cal Gregory lunges for Liberty’s Matt DeGon as Christopher Jones closes in. Colfax’s Dane Hall, center and Matt Hockett bring down Liberty’s Tyler Haas in a 45-6 loss at Liberty. Colfax football players will host the Davenport Gorillas in a Friday homecoming game which will match up two 3-3 teams who now stand in the middle of the league race which has been dominated by Liberty, Northwest Christian and Asotin. Liberty dropped Colfax 45-6 Friday on the Lancers' field to extend its lea...
