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COLFAX — The Whitman County Developmental Services Board will select officers for 2021 when it meets digitally at noon Jan. 13. Members will select its chairman and vice chairman, as well as discuss an open board seat. For a meeting link to attend digitally, call 509-397-6238. The boards following meeting is set for Feb. 10....
OLYMPIA - When the 2021 legislative session begins Jan. 11, Rep. Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy, will lead the House Environment and Energy Committee for the state House Republicans. Committee assignments were released Friday in Olympia. The committee considers issues relating to the State Environmental Policy Act, the Growth Management Act, the Shoreline Management Act, air quality, aquatic lands, oil spill prevention, recycling and solid waste, hazardous waste, toxins, and climate change. It also...
PULLMAN — The Whitman County Health Department is now supporting the return of elementary students to campus for in-person education. While the Pullman School District has constitutional jurisdiction over all educational matters, the governor’s coronavirus shutdowns asked for health districts to provide input to local school boards. The Health Department now supports allowing high-need students to return for in-person learning in groups of 15 or fewer....
OTHELLO — A LaCrosse woman was located safe after Whitman County Sheriff’s Office issued a silver alert for her Dec. 17. Sylvia “May” Kennedy, 86, was located Dec. 18 in Othello and reunited with family, the Sheriff’s Office reported....
UNIONTOWN — A Coltan man has bought the former Eleanor’s saloon. Brian Greene bought the building earlier this month for $190,000. The two-story, late-1800s building housed the well-known bar and grill until the late 2000s. The building has a loft apartment on the second level. Greene declined to comment yet on plans, saying to stay tuned for further developments....
COLFAX — Schools Superintendent Jerry Pugh reported that Dec. 16, was the last weekly formal construction meeting for the $18.9 million remodeling and reconstruction project. Small and “punch list” items remain, such as basketball shot clocks being mounted in the junior-senior high school gym, and replacing all 80 of the new lockers installed in the locker rooms because of a manufacturing defect on the latches. It will be covered by warranty. The work began at spring break 2019....
COLFAX –– A fresh crop of survey markers have sprouted in fields along state Highway 26 between Dusty and Colfax in preparation of adding four passing lanes. According to the state Department of Transportation, the $11.5 million project includes four truck-climbing lanes to “address the platooning of vehicles behind slow-moving trucks.” The project would install two westbound and two eastbound lanes between Dusty and Colfax. Design on the project began last year and construction is set to begin the summer of 2021. Completion is anticip...
COLFAX — Whitman County officials will kickoff a process Jan. 6 to create a full, new comprehensive plan. The plan is a guiding document for zoning codes. The county has hired Seattle-based LBC Consultants to help with the work. The process is expected to take about a year. Public Works Director Mark Storey said the impetus to take on the project now was to include County Planner Alan Thomson in the process before he retires...
PULLMAN — The Palouse Regional Transportation Planning Organization has launched a survey regarding its regional transportation plan. The plan includes active modes of travel such as walking, biking and skateboarding in Whitman, Garfield, Columbia and Asotin counties. The survey seeks input on locations for improvement, repairs, new capacity and concerns related to safety and engineering. The survey will be open until Jan. 15 online at www.palousetrails.palousertpo.org/survey....
COLFAX — Whitman County commissioners Nov. 30 approved re-appointments to four committees. Ron Wachter and Michele Beckmann were re-appointed to four-year terms on the Blue Ribbon Advisory Task Committee. Dan Leonard was re-appointed to a new six-year term on the Whitman County Parks board and four people were named to new three-year terms on the county’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee: Aaron Lawhead, Devon Felsted, Michele Beckmann and Matthew Pederson. For the Veterans Advisory Board, Daryl Lord, James Woomack and Jerry Coker were re-...
COLFAX — Livestock and crop producers can apply for the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2. The program provides financial support to producers facing market disruptions and related costs due to the coronavirus shutdowns. The application is available online at www.farmers.gov/cfap; the deadline is Dec. 11. The Colfax Farm Services Agency will help farmers through the application process, spokeswoman Doreen Riedner said....
COLFAX — The U.S. Forest Service is offering Christmas tree-cutting permits for those who would rather cut one down than buy one. Areas in proximity to Whitman County to cut a tree include the Idaho Panhandle National Forest, the Nez Perce Clearwater National Forest, and Umatilla National Forest. Permits and maps are available from www.recreation.gov. “Whether for the first time, or carrying on a time-honored tradition, being able to secure a permit in advance, while learning important details of where and what to cut, will simplify this pro...
COLFAX — The Colfax Chamber of Commerce is blaming miscommunication for the early launch of fireworks Dec. 3. The Winterfest fireworks display went off at 6 p.m. instead of the planned 6:30 p.m. “It’s just 2020,” chamber President Nancy Cochran said, chalking up the premature launch to miscommunication with the pyrotechnic team, with no finger being pointed at one individual or incident. “We apologize immensely,” she said. Usually, the Colfax Downtown Association coordinates the annual fireworks. When the association opted out this year, the c...
PULLMAN — A woman has been sentenced Nov. 20 in Whitman County District Court for shoplifting. For her conviction on third-degree theft, Gratia Doerr received a fourth-month deferred sentence of 30 days in jail, 29 suspended. She was fined $1,000, with $650 suspended. She was also ordered to pay restitution of $47.17, and the court a $43 criminal conviction fee and a $300 probation monitoring fee. She is ordered to be under court supervision for four months and will have to attend a theft prevention course. Doerr is also prohibited from e...
MALDEN — The state Department of Ecology is testing properties for hazardous materials remaining in the wake of the Babb Fire on Labor Day. Under the supervision of the state Emergency Management Division, large-scale clean-up and debris removal continues. The assistance allows the community to plan for rebuilding and renewal, Spokane County Emergency Management spokesman Gerry Bozarth said....
PULLMAN — A homeless Moscow, Idaho, woman was booked into Whitman County Jail on Nov. 21 for charges of theft, burglary and two warrants after she was apprehended for taking items from Walmart without paying. According to the police report filed in Superior Court, Taylor Lydon, 30, was trespassed from all Walmart properties for life in 2015. Lydon entered the store to return a phone case, records show. She then allegedly put crayons, a bra, slippers, a phone, a necklace and a toy phone in a bag and walked out without paying....
ROSALIA — A ballot proposal to collect $95,000 for the town’s street fund fell short of the 60% supermajority required to pass in the Nov. 3 general election. The town needed 196 of the 326 voters to pass, but came up 10 short, garnering 57.06% approval for Proposition No. 1. The ballot measure sought to collect funds to defray the costs of street lights, seal coating, shoulder work, capital improvements, equipment and regular maintenance of city streets....
COLFAX — Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, The Daily Bulletin will not be published on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The Daily Bulletin will return Friday, Nov. 27, although not all carriers will be available for delivery. Email delivery of The Daily Bulletin will continue normally. In addition to the Bulletin, The Whitman County Gazette office will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. From the Bulletin/Gazette staff, have a Happy Thanksgiving!...
COLTON — A southbound tractor-trailer loaded with wood chips missed the curve one mile south of town and crashed into an adjacent field Nov 10. The name, age and hometown of the driver have yet to be released. The U.S. Highway 195 incident occurred at 11:30 p.m. Nov. 10 near Milepost 7, Washington State Patrol Sgt. Courtney Shawley said. Traffic on Highway 195 was shut down for about an hour as two tow vehicles extracted the truck and trailer from the field. Shawley assisted in clean up and traffic control, but was unsure why the driver m...
COLFAX — The Whitman County Rural Library District has been selected to receive a Washington Youth Development Nonprofit Relief Fund grant. Details of the grant have yet to be released. However, it is among 421 organizations to divvy up $9.4 million in grand funds made possible by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security — or CARES — Act....
COLFAX — Whitman County commissioners approved a road name change Monday, correcting a spelling mistake going back to the early 1980s. When the county put names on its previously only-numbered roads, it named a gravel road east of Oakesdale “Hanson Road” after a family that lived and farmed there, the Hansens. The family petitioned to have the name corrected....
PULLMAN — Bad checks caught up with a Pullman woman now accused of forging them to steal from two auto repair shops. Jan White, 53, of Pullman, was charged with forgery and theft in the third degree on Oct. 21 in Whitman County Superior Court. In July, White allegedly forged checks to pay Jerry’s Auto Repair for $729.10 and a Meineke shop in Moscow, Idaho for $296.87, according to court records. The two checks were using the same forged base including routing and account numbers for a non-existent account, according to polic...
PULLMAN — Walmart has signs stating a criminal record will impact a person’s life and for one cashier it may have. Raydgeen M. Fletcher, 26, of Pullman, was charged in Whitman County Superior Court on Oct. 21 for theft in the third degree and burglary in the second degree, The charge of burglary stems from her having been trespassed at the Salt Lake City, Utah Walmart for an accusation of theft. In Utah and Washington the company accused her of under-ringing items as a cashier. The Pullman police allege she stole $578.66 by doing it while wor...
COLFAX — A Colfax man reportedly told a deputy he took Hydrocodone before driving a car with one headlight on State Route 195 on Oct. 21. Jeffrey A. Stoner, 37, of Colfax, was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and possession of a controlled substance - methamphetamine. The deputy reported he saw a vehicle driving south on SR 195 at about 9 p.m. with a missing headlight. He stopped the car and spoke to the driver and a female passenger, according to court records. Stoner was allegedly showing signs of meth use by having u...
PULLMAN — From Oct. 9-16 Friday,the Bill Chipman Palouse Trail will be spot sprayed for noxious weeds. The times and days of herbicide application will be determined based on weather conditions. Areas will be clearly posted during spray work. Trail-goers should be alert to the ongoing activity. Users with a greater sensitivity to chemicals should be aware of these dates and ongoing operations. The Parks Department is required by law to control noxious weeds. The sensitivities of the corridor have been considered in the overall weed m...
