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Cala R. Wright, 27, LaCrosse, was taken by ambulance to Whitman Hospital after she was hurt in a one-car accident. The accident happened on the Colfax-Palouse Highway last Thursday afternoon six miles east of Colfax. Wright had to be helped out of the sedan after it landed in the ditch with the driver’s side down. The scene was just down the grade from the Mike Johnson residence east of the Clear Creek Road intersection. According to the Washington State Patrol report, Wright was driving a 1993 Pontiac Grand Am westbound at 3:21 p.m. when s...
Whitman County’s Public Works department will close Ed Hamilton Road, west of Diamond, next week while state railroad crews replace a crossing near the intersection of the Ed Hamilton and Endicott roads. The closure is expected to last from Nov. 11 to Nov. 13. The south end of the Ed Hamilton road intersects with the Union Flat Creek Road....
Corey Baerlocher poses with three of his athletes and his family. From left in back are Brittany Burke, Kayleigh Maltone, Emily Shaw and Baerlocher. In front are Baerlocher’s children, Hannah, Chase and Cole. A flash of public glory has been a long time coming for Colfax coach Corey Baerlocher, who just won the state Coach of the Year award for 2B basketball. Baerlocher has led the Colfax High School girls basketball team to the state title for five of his past seven years as head coach. Asked what his secret is to success, Baerlocher had a c...
Despite the killing frost, kids get their pumpkins. The entire pumpkin patch was dead, down to the last pumpkin. Gerald Wise of LaCrosse woke up the morning after a killer early October frost and surveyed the damage to his beloved patch. Some pumpkins were so mushy, you could poke a finder through the skin. What would he do? Citizens of LaCrosse and their Halloween-happy children have relied on Wise’s pumpkin patch on Halloween for the past 15 years. Not once had his patch suffered a frost that rivaled the seven-degree nights Oct. 8 and 9 t...
Citadel Construction, Spokane, had the apparent low bid for the Whitman County Library renovation project with a base bid of $583,200 Thursday. The library received bids from eight contractors for the project. The contract award will be made after the bids undergo review by a USDA architect in Olympia. The review is required because of the USDA financing involved in the project, according to Library Director Kristie Kirkpatrick. Because the bids were under the expected $750,000 range the library anticipates all six of the alternatives will be f...
Close races in Rosalia, Palouse and Pullman generated the only Election Night drama after the first count of ballots Tuesday. Tuesday night’s count of 7,114 ballots represented 37 percent turnout from the county’s 19,376 registered voters. The next count will be today, Thursday, at 4 p.m. Whitman County’s Rural Library District will have more tax money for operations next year because voters voted 65 percent in favor of boosting the library’s levy back up to 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value in 2010. The levy rate had dropped...
A crowd consisting primarily of landowners from the Colton area asked Whitman County commissioners Monday to reduce the legal distance allowed between a tower and a building in the pending ordinance governing commercial wind farms in the county. “I want them so close the tip of the blade just barely misses my house,” said Duane Grubb. “That’s how they have them down in Texas. Y’all need to catch up.” Landowners stand to gain income from the rent paid by wind power companies building towers on their land, but the limit on the distance between a...
Two-year-old Taylor Lindberg, costumed as a bee, considers the challenge of scaling the front porch steps of a stranger’s house for a few pieces of candy while trick or treating on the North Flat in Colfax on Halloween....
NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following Whitman County roads/bridges will be closed to vehicular traffic, pursuant to R.C.W. 47.48.01, for the time periods specified below: County Road No. 6210, the Ed Hamilton Road at milepost 0.02±, beginning November 11, 2009 through November 13, 2009 or until completion of the railroad crossing repair. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of Whitman County, Washington. GIVEN under my hand this 2nd day of November, 2009. Maribeth Becker, CMC Clerk of the Board P.O. #: R...
November story times at the Colton Library will be all about safari animals. Story times at the Colton Library are Mondays at 10:30 a.m. for children ages 1 to 5. Nov. 19, at 3:15 p.m., children can make a foam egg turkey to decorate for Thanksgiving. Renovations will start soon at the Colfax branch of the Whitman County Library, but items will still be available by request at all branch locations during these renovations....
