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The annual October fall cleanup week at Whitman County landfill may yet still happen this year after the three-year-old garbage intake building was damaged in a fire on Aug. 3. The cleanup week, normally done in the second week of October, reduces the intake fee from $106 per ton to $35 for Whitman County residents only. It was put on hold this year because repairs were being made to the intake building. “I’m still hoping to do it,” said David Nails, Solid Waste operations manager. A tenta...
The path to decide next year’s county budget took another step Tuesday as county commissioners met for a 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. workshop to figure how to cut a projected $996,000 deficit in preparation to pass a balanced 2019 county budget by Dec. 31. The local process began in the first week of August with each county department submitting an estimate for next year. Since then, Gary Petrovich, county administrative director, put the figures together and presented a first round to commissioners in an...
The imagineers of Palouse are at work again. Truckloads of lumber were brought out from the city flathouse. Hundred-foot rolls of heavy black plastic arrived. Pathways were taped on the floor of the old firehouse and printing museum. After weeks of work, the 17th annual Haunted Palouse starts Friday, to run two weekends, Friday and Saturday nights before Halloween — transforming the town into two haunted buildings, an eerie night ride along the river and general unsettling in the streets. ...
A proposal for a downtown cannabis shop sustained a setback Monday night when city council members decided not to shrink "buffer zone" requirements for the proposed location. The current buffer zone requirement of 1,000 feet makes the store location unusable for that use. Scott Hensrude of Everett in a letter to the city Oct. 11 said they were considering the former HUB Insurance office at 415 S. Main as a place to relocate their Pullman shop to Colfax. Mayor Todd Vanek Monday said it was his understanding Hensrude wanted to move his shop here...
Ashley D. Myers, 30, Friday entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity to a charge of first degree murder of Kenneth Allen, 55, Sept. 28 on the Airport Road near Highway 26. Judge pro tem David Frazier scheduled a Dec. 10 trial date for the case. Defense Attorney Steve Martonick said Myers reserves the right to change her plea later and follow the normal course to a trial. He said Myers is now undergoing examination by a psychiatrist while she is in jail. Judge Frazier informed the defendant that an insanity plea could result in her...
Distribution day for the Rosalia Food Pantry is the fourth Tuesday of each month. A story on the pantry’s one-year anniversary in the Oct. 4 Gazette listed the incorrect Thursday....
Regional Theatre of the Palouse in Pullman has received a $5,000 grant from Pullman Chamber and Visitor Center’s Community Investment Committee. The grant funds will be used to beautify a back alley which is shared by the theater, Stewart Title, Rico’s Pub, Creative Image and Daily Grind. The Pullman Chamber established the investment committee through investment activities related to Pullman 2040 initiatives. The committee accepts and reviews grant applications ranging from $250 to $10,000....
An old C-130 mail plane dropped him off at Can Tho, Vietnam, and they took him to the base at Ben Thuy – an Army combat engineer assigned to join a company maintaining a 200-truck supply unit for the Mekong Delta. David Gillman of Winona did this for two tours of duty, 1969-71, repairing shot-up vehicles, steam-cleaning off blood and stenciling a new star on the door, if needed, before sending the 2.5-ton flatbeds back outside the fence. From Adams, Ore., near Pendleton, some of Gillman's u...
They go from zero to 100 MPH in one second. In race format, the funny car that clocks closest to 6.70 seconds for the quarter-mile track is the winner. That top car for the 2018 season of the NWBBFC (Northwest BB Funny Car Association) is owned by Royce Taylor of St. John. He drove a red 1970 replica-framed Mach 1 Ford Mustang, taking top points for the year, for which Taylor will be presented a trophy at the NWBBFC banquet in Chehalis in February. "It's the satisfaction of knowing you did...
A total of six trucks responded Sunday to a grass fire at the residence of Fire Chief Craig Corbeill Sunday on the east hill. The Corbeills reside in the former Tribbett residence which is along the top of the hill. Corbeill said he was burning a pile of brush located below the house toward the point of the hill when a gust of wind hit the fire and it took off. The fire burned grass and brush, but did not damage any buildings. He said they have a perimeter of grass around the house and the fire...
The top two teams in the Southeast 1B league met Oct. 12 and came out tied for first as Sunnyside Christian handled Garfield/Palouse at Sunnyside – avenging a September loss at Palouse. With three weeks left in the regular season, the Vikings and Sunnyside Christian are now both 6-1 in league/overall, followed by Colton in third (4-3, 4-3) and Pomeroy (4-3, 4-3) fourth. Colton, which beat Pomeroy 62-30 Sept. 14, will meet them again Friday on the road. Gar/Pal will play St. John/Endicott/LaCross...
Colfax football Friday will face a tough foe when they host the Reardan Indians in their last NE-South league home battle. The two teams will collide as the league goes down the chute for the final rounds to determine the top three finishers from the north and the south for the matchups in the crossover rounds. Reardan will arrive with a 5-2 overall record after they sustained a 10-21 loss to 1-A Omak last week in a non-leaguer. They own NE-South wins over Lind/Ritzville/Sprague and Asotin, and can be expected to be hunting for a win here...
Oakesdale volleyball players, who had a bye in the SE league round Tuesday, will head south to face the Pirates tonight in what figures to be a battle. Oakesdale will travel to Pirateville with an undefeated league record at 10-0, and they have an 11-0 overall mark. Pomeroy now stands at 9-1 with their lone league loss sustained in a battle and Oakesdale in the first round. Pomeroy remained in the hunt Tuesday with a four-game win over Colton on the Pirates’ court. Line score for Pirates’ win was 25-16, 21-25, 25-15 and 25-20. Pirate ace Dea...
Colfax volleyball players pegged a solid three-game win over Asotin on the home court Tuesday night to revenge a loss sustained at Asotin earlier in the season. The Bulldogs Tuesday downed the Panthers 25-18, 25-17 and 25-10. The win puts them on top of the league with one more match left. They will play the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves at Tekoa tonight for the league wrapper. Asotin rapped Colfax in a three-game win Sept. 25 to dent an early one win streak Colfax had posted in the NE-South...
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. “GAMEDAY” TO PROVIDE BOOST Mayor Todd Vanek Monday night noted the move by ESPN's College GameDay production to broadcast from Pullman is expected to be a boost to the area. The GameDay production is expected to bring more than 75 crew members with semi trucks and buses for the Saturday national broadcast. Vanek made note of the television sho...
GameDay is coming to Pullman. It’s a big deal. GameDay is the ESPN television show that airs on Saturday mornings before most college football games are played. It is the ideal show for rabid football fans, with facts, figures, replays and analysis. It is also entertaining for those more casual football followers. Even the uneducated can enjoy the humor, graphics, game videos and predictions for the day’s upcoming games. The show takes place on a stage in front of hundreds, if not thousands, of fans. Each episode is at a different school. The...
"Country roads, take me home, To the place I belong, West Virginia, mountain mama, Take me home, country roads." If John Denver were to write that song these days, its lyrics might become "Trump country roads." After all, Donald Trump won West Virginia by a margin of more than 42 percentage points over Hillary Clinton. And West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's "mountain mama" didn't raise no fool. Sen. Manchin is fighting for his political life, doing whatever he can to make sure the state's voters don't take him home from Washington, D.C., and...
Democrats suffered a stinging loss in the fight over Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, and have concluded that the constitutional system is to blame. You see, if only the Founders hadn't forged the Great Compromise between large states and small states at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, giving each state equal representation in the U.S. Senate, they would have defeated Brett Kavanaugh handily. It's only because smaller red states have two senators just like larger blue states that the judge got confirmed. For the left, the U.S. Senate is n...
Pet Peeves Hunters who shoot over the neighbors house over pasture with cows in it and at your house. Okeydokes No dogs in the local grocery store!!...
