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How strong are we? How much do we believe in our basic freedoms and rights? These questions will be put to the test when the admitted mastermind of the September 11 massacre goes on trial. It has been decided that Khalid Shiekh Mohammed and his cohorts will be put on trial in a civilian court. The debate over whether or not these men should get the publicity of a civilian trial or, for that matter, any trial, is being hotly debated. Many claim it is simply asking for more trouble and may give this country another black eye internationally. At...
With the first serious snow of the season coating the Palouse, some people may be in despair about bad road conditions, cold temperatures and ice, but the arrival of Old Man Winter only whets the appetites of Tami and Tim Southern. Tim, Laynie, Wyatt and Tami “We kind of live for snowmobiling all winter,” Tami confessed. Both grew up in the Spokane Valley and attended the same high school with about 400 other students. They met after graduation while watching Gonzaga basketball in the Sweet 16...
Fisherman Kyle Moss plunks a line into the Snake River off the rocks of the boat launch at Wawawai last Friday, Nov. 20. Moss walked away empty-handed that day, though he had caught a 12-pound steelhead the previous week. This year’s steelhead run up the Snake River has been exceptionally high, according to fish counts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. More than 300,000 have been counted at Lower Granite Dam to date, according to a count by the Fish Passage Center. Fisherman have been frequently visiting Wawawai boat launch to take a...
Dessert pastries are laid out on a counter before owner Debbie Repp The mouth waters at the selection of pies, cakes and cookies in the display case. Sparkly trinkets and delicate candies tease the eye all around the room. A menu proclaims the day’s special meal. Randy and Debbi Repp opened up St. John’s newest café and gift shop, A la Carte, on Front Street late last month. “We’ve kind of been experimenting and playing around in here for the past month,” Debbi Repp told the Gazette over a cup of apple cider Friday. “We’re having a ball...
At age 100, Kathleen Scholzs’ arthritic hands can still act out the historic tasks of using a washboard and pulling up a bucket of water from a well. Scholz celebrated her 100th birthday Nov. 17, and while time has swept away much of the culture she knew, Scholzs’ youthful days as a farmer’s wife on the Palouse are still bright in her mind. At her party, she had the delight of seeing relatives and friends she had not seen in years. “I didn’t have so many parties in my name before. Guess you have to be an old lady to get one,” Scholz said...
A 26-strong crowd packed into the Colfax school board’s conference room Monday night to ask for approval of a Thanksgiving morning football practice. The school board later that night declined their request, standing by a policy decision they made last year that prohibits extra-curricular activities on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The board last year directed Superintendent Michael Morgan to end such activities on Thanksgiving or Christmas after getting many complaints from parents about football players practicing last Thanksgiving. The C...
