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If you can’t see in front of you, follow the screams. It’s something to keep in mind this weekend as the dark pathways of two haunted buildings beckon at the 13th Haunted Palouse, which opens Friday for the first of four sessions. On Shady Lane, the annual fundraiser’s other main attraction, the screams might follow you — on a ride which patrons sit in trailers pulled by utility vehicles along a darkened path above the river. This year’s dirt lane, which has revealed hillbillies and zombies b...
The Palouse Lions Club now has a license to operate a bar for members and guests. The project which started after the new Brick Wall Bar and Grill burned down in April will now come to fruition sometime in September, according to plans by the 30-member club. The state Liquor Control Board granted the group a private club beer and wine license July 24 to serve “by the glass to its members and guests.” The renewable, annual license cost is $180, which will be part of calculations about how long the bar stays open. “We hope it will generate some...
Dirt has been turned on the Palouse skate park project. After almost two years of wrangling for a site for the volunteer-driven and privately-funded project, Aaron Flansburg’s Palouse skate park committee put a sign up and broke ground July 22. The work so far has been preliminary at the Whitman Street site donated for the park by owner Tony Kettle. Flansburg got official permission from the city earlier in the month when the Palouse building inspector signed off on the critical areas c...
The estimated cost to insure a skate park in Palouse has been estimated at $100 per year. Last week’s Gazette article incorrectly listed the annual cost estimate at $100 per month. “I’m personally concerned,” said council member Connie Newman. “We don’t want to give the impression that the council had approved a location for a skate park knowing it would cost $1,200 per year in insurance.” Skate park effort organizer Aaron Flansburg indicated that what he has been told about the matter has been consistent. “It’s been assured and reassured by th...
Vote comes with contingencies The Palouse skate park effort appears to have found a location. After a slide show presentation by organizer Aaron Flansburg of four sites to the Palouse city council Nov. 19, the council voted to approve the spot next to the sewer plant. The motion carried despite a “no” vote from councilman Rick Wekenman, who expressed several concerns with the project. Also as part of the approval, council members Bo Ossinger and Senja Estes will represent the council on the skat...
The effort to build a skate park in Palouse may have a new location option. Organizer Aaron Flansburg was set to present signatures regarding how people feel about four proposed sites at Tuesday night’s city council meeting. Among the four was a new location put forth by Flansburg’s group: the former trailer park site next to the car wash at the east entrance of town. The new option is offered after two locations in Hayton Greene Park had received gaining opposition over the fall. The new hal...
“You can’t touch the zombies but we can touch each other.” “Was that truck real?” “Choose wisely.” “I’m not good at choices.” The things overheard at the 2013 Haunted Palouse came from a record-breaking four-night event, Oct. 18-19 and Oct. 25-26. On the second Saturday, attendance reached 1,688, the biggest-ever in the town fundraiser’s 12-year history. The total attendance for the four nights also set a record at 4,321, beating out the 4,251 in 2011. “We’re very happy,” said longtime vol...
Proposed Palouse skate park organizers will hold a meeting Saturday at 3 p.m. to discuss two potential sites, neither of which is in Hayton Greene Park. The meeting will be held in the main parking lot of the park. Information will be provided about the new sites, along with an invitation for feedback from the public. Skate park effort leader Aaron Flansburg said that one of the new locations is across the street from Hayton Greene toward the sewer plant. The other is a city-owned vacant lot on West Whitman Street, roughly behind where the...
A mist rises off the North Fork of the Palouse River. There is no telling what it may hide under its cover. On Friday and Saturday night, a nearby town will find out in the 12th annual Haunted Palouse. Once more for two October weekends, frights, scares, refreshments and thrills will take over Palouse. Beginning tomorrow, visitors will step close together through dark pathways of a haunted museum and haunted firehouse and ride side-by-side on farm trailers through Shady Lane, a dirt road along...
It rained on homecoming for the Gar-Pal Vikings Friday night in a 64-22 loss to Colton. Senior quarterback Jake Straughan led the Wildcats with 13 of 16 passing for 273 yards and five touchdowns. He also ran for 148 yards on six carries. Senior Dalton Patchen caught seven passes for 180 yards. The game began with Gar-Pal’s Tyler Thurman getting loose on several runs, finished by a 12-yard touchdown and two-point conversion. The Vikings led 8-0 at the end of the first quarter before Straughan s...
The effort to build a skate park in Palouse is zeroing in on a location. Two weeks ago, the skate park committee, led by Aaron Flansburg, met and decided to aim for a spot in the city park between the pool and the basketball court. Previously, the three main locations deemed feasible by the committee were the city park, downtown, which would require donated or land that is purchased, and the tennis court area behind the school. “The vote went way, way in the majority for the city park,” sai...
The Palouse Community Center is almost one-year old and board members report it will be a happy birthday. With a record gross for Needful Things, and November and December the two biggest months in rentals, not to mention an advance payment on the center’s outstanding loan, the facility is picking up momentum. “We’re really pleased,” said Janet Barstow, president of the Palouse Community Center board. The center had 22 rentals in November and 17 in December. All the while, Needful Things,...
Palouse Chamber of Commerce President Bev Pearce told Palouse City Council members Dec. 11 that chamber members have tentatively agreed to pay up to $1,500 a month to keep the public restroom open during the winter months. Palouse’s downtown restrooms at Heritage Park were set for closing during the three coldest months of the year to save city funds. The chamber's vow came after the city considered shutting down the restrooms at Heritage Park during the winter as a cost cutting measure. "...
The 11th annual Haunted Palouse completed its two-weekend run Saturday and organizers report attendance at 3,073. Gate numbers were down this year from 2011’s record 4,251 and 2010’s 3,463. “We are still very happy with the turnout,” said Haunted Palouse volunteer Janet Barstow. “Mother Nature put a damper on attendance but held off the heaviest rains until later in the evening.” Proceeds from sales of the $15 tickets have yet to be tallied. They will be distributed as follows: 35 percent to...
Something went very awry at the Roy Chatters Printing Museum in this image captured amidst the dark pathways of Haunted Palouse. At right, a fortune teller draws a card in the Lions Club hall. Haunted Palouse will continue this weekend, Friday and Saturday, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m....
Something stirs at the Brownfields cleanup site. There’s a sound coming from the old fire station. Leaves crackle outside city hall. It’s been moved and seconded that the mayor be mummified. The 11th Annual Haunted Palouse has arrived in Palouse. With dozens of volunteers at work for the past month, the town aims to be ready for Friday’s opening night of the two-weekend happening. This year will feature favorites like the two haunted buildings and Shady Lane — the haunted hayride — while new...
Preparation for the 11th annual Haunted Palouse is underway. Haunted Palouse will be Oct. 19-20 and Oct. 26-27. Palouse Chamber of Commerce organizers have a need for volunteers in the following areas: building and decorating the three stage places, making cookies for workers and babysitting children of workers. Also requested are donations of pop, bottled water, chips, snacks, mini-candy bars or other general donations to the Haunted Palouse account at McLeod’s Market. Recipients of the proceeds from the event will include the Palouse C...
Thrift shop sale The fall half-off everything sale for the Thrift Shop in Pullman will be Tuesday, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, noon to 4 p.m. The shop is located on WSU’s College Hill in the basement of the Community Congregational-UCC Church on the corner of Campus and Ruby streets. Parking in the church lot is free while shopping. A portion of the proceeds go to several local charities and non-profits. Donations are accepted 24/7 in the little house on the corner. Bank Left exhibit The October exhibit at Bank Left in Palouse will f...
After falling below the minimum number of 13 members in recent years and the closing of an agreement with the Palouse Arts Council to keep up the building, Palouse Grange No. 177 has begun anew. After the Arts Council agreement phased out last summer after not being able to come to terms on a price to buy the hall, a new movement began this spring to rekindle the local Grange chapter. “We just wanted to be able to use the Grange Hall building and to work on it,” said Heidi Kite, the new Pal...
After eight years, a project to build a skate park in Palouse has re-started. The effort went cold in 2004 when a push led by Aaron Flansburg, then a WSU student, stalled out. Now the married father of two, Flansburg is back farming with his dad, living in Palouse and working to resurrect the project. “We really didn’t get very far back then,” said Flansburg. “I wasn’t living in Palouse then. Now I have a couple of daughters and am starting to think about the future generation.” Flansburg g...
Special The new Palouse Community Center is special not only because its structure is pleasing, but also because community need, community volunteerism, community sacrifice and community generosity made it real. All who flipped burgers, haunted Palouse, baked pies, sold crafts, cleaned up, sorted rummage, served on committees, donated money or services deserve credit. The Palouse Arts Council, Palouse School and Palouse Federated Church also deserve praise for filling the void while the Community Center was incubating. Tim and Colleen Boone, Pa...
The town of Palouse has pulled off a tremendous accomplishment. Without tax money and with only its own resources, the town has created and opened a new community center. The new center has been a vision for the town for years. It became more than a vision just over a week ago with the official grand opening. This was one vision that was not easy to realize. It took time, money and a commitment from the community. The success, however, came from the fact that the community shared the vision and worked together to see it realized. Funds were...
Many years in the making, the doors are about to open for the new Palouse Community Center Building. “We got the keys yesterday,” Community Center board secretary Janet Barstow said Friday. Volunteers rolled in appliances for the kitchen. The finishing touches conclude a construction phase which began with a groundbreaking ceremony last August. “It’s been fabulous,” said Barstow. “We’ve got two rentals already in January, but first before we rent it is the grand opening. Everybody has been peeki...
A leftover pumpkin encased in the icy Palouse River provides a lone reminder of the tenth Haunted Palouse, held in October. A cold coyote peers at the camera from a frosted hilltop south of Dusty. Frost covers winter wheat growing in a field near St. John....
Cost pegged at $786,000: Four years and a few decades coming, the Palouse Brownsfield site was the subject of a public meeting last Thursday in the gym at Garfield/Palouse High school. Residents listened to representatives from the Washington state Department of Ecology, engineering firm Maul Foster Alongi and Palouse city officials. The subject was the riverfront cleanup site, which housed pollution beginning in the 1950s when it was a Conoco Station, and through the ‘80s when it was the site o...
