Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Clocks will have to be turned back an hour. That means an extra hour of sleep. It also means it will be darker earlier in the evening and brighter in the mornings. Daylight Saving Time will return in March 2014....
James Hughes, Endicott, was sentenced to a year in jail Friday, Oct. 25, in Whitman County Superior Court after being convicted of four counts of first degree theft involving grain rustling. Hughes entered an Alford plea to the charges which were the result of a plea bargain agreement. Defense Attorney Steven Graham told the court he advised Hughes to enter the Alford plea in light of possible IRS charges in federal district court. Under an Alford plea a defendant opts to not contest the charges filed by the state but does not admit to the...
In spite of gaining additional sales tax from the First Wind turbine project, the county still faces a $1.3 million deficit. Gary Petrovich, county administrative director, said the county received construction sales tax from the wind farm in 2012 and this year. The first year for property tax income from the wind turbines will come in 2014. “That’s spoken for by a public works loan for a heating and cooling system in the sheriff’s building,” Petrovich said. He said the county had to take out the loan from public works funds because there w...
The future of the Rosalia Medical Clinic was put into limbo Friday when Susie Small, operator of the clinic, ceased operating under federal Drug Enforcement Agency certification. Small told the Gazette Tuesday, the DEA action came about as the result of an inspection at the clinic Sept. 26. She said a six-member team inspected the clinic on that date and found testosterone medication being kept in unlocked storage. Small said after the inspection she opted to relinquish her DEA certification instead of undergoing enforcement actions by the...
Big black spiders with red eyes creep toward the sidewalk, ghosts hover over the graveyard, spooky clowns grin frightfully from the porch. It’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s just Lee Root’s house in Rosalia. Root, a mill retiree from Potlatch who moved to a house on S. Whitman Street in Rosalia five years ago, helped out with the haunted house in Rosalia. When organizers discontinued it he decided to create his own haunted house. “There wasn’t much for kids,” he said. He borrowed some decora...
