Bulletin column - Aug. 5, 2010

These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated.

Road vacation hearing

A Sept. 20 hearing date has been set for the proposed vacation of a steep, unused segment of a city street running from E. Fairview downhill to the highway exit to Pullman on the city’s south end. The segment of street came to the attention of the city when a large poplar tree at the top the hill was blown over and hit the end of a house in the 400 block of east Fairview....