Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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COLFAX — In the County Commissioners’ regular meeting on Monday, Nov. 20, during the 9 a.m. workshop, Public Works Director Mark Storey presented plans for a potential north arterial on the old highway in Pullman. Storey told the commissioners that SR 276, a right of way, was purchased in the 1970s by the Department of Transportation (DOT). They approached the WSDOT, which said they wouldn’t fund that but decided to see if Pullman and Whitman County would be interested in purchasing the right of way and transferring it to local juris...
COLFAX - In the regular Whitman County Commissioners meeting on Monday, Nov. 13, Public Works Director Mark Storey told the Commissioners that the scale project at the land facility is complete. Solid Waste Manager David Nails confirmed that the project was at substantial completion as of Thursday, Nov. 16, with only 30 days until what is considered final completion, in which they fill out paperwork to close out and make sure Magnum Construction of Clarkston is fully paid. The Solid Waste...
MALDEN — The Making Aid for Local Disasters Equal Now, the MALDEN Act was introduced into legislation by Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers on Friday, Nov. 17, to improve the coordination between federal, state, and local agencies in deploying resources to rural communities impacted by natural disaster. McMorris Rodgers said that the legislation is named after the town of Malden, which was devastated by the Babb Fire in 2020, and rural communities such as Malden in Eastern Washington are at a disadvantage regarding w...
COLFAX — As of Monday, Nov. 20, the Colfax Police are still trying to determine who the suspect was in the theft of several construction items from a work trailer outside the Fonk’s building on Main Street the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 15, at approximately 3:34 a.m. Colfax Chief of Police Bruce Blood said they are trying to identify a suspect seen on video footage near the trailer, and some are of him leaving, heading towards the getaway car in the alley near Tick Klock Drug carrying the stolen items. Blood said the report was initially sus...
COLFAX— The Port of Whitman received a $2 million low-interest loan from the Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) to construct a new Hunga Dunga Brewing Company building at the Port’s Pullman Industrial Park in Pullman. The Port reports that Hunga Dunga Brewing will sign a lease with the Port to operate the production facility and taproom and will finance tenant improvements. The CERB loan will expand the business’s production capacity in Pullman by designing and constructing a 12,000-square-foot facility, inclu...
