For the birds - Oakesdale couple uses home as shelter for injured birds
Cherie Zehm jokes with her rescued cockatoo, Tut. Zehm has worked to teach Tut to trust again, as he has had a rough past.
By Jeslyn Lemke, Gazette Reporter
Fifteen birds are loose in Cherie Zehm’s living room and not a single one is quiet. Bird droppings streak the carpet, the chairs, and the windows. Feathers blow this way and that. Read more….
County faces audit deadline…again
By Joe Smillie, Gazette Reporter
The clock is ticking at Whitman County’s finance department.
State auditors returned their 2008 financial statement last month to county officials because it improperly accounted for capital and depreciation costs of county-owned assets. Read more….
Flawed ballots spur second Colfax mailing
Harold Herman of Colfax displays the two replacement ballots he received from the county auditor’s office.
By Joe Smillie, Gazette Reporter
Voters in the Colfax School District last week received new ballots for the school’s levy request after the county auditor’s office discovered the original ballots, sent out two weeks ago, contained incorrect information about the school’s levy request. Read more….
Sports
After tracking Colton for two years, St. John/Endicott girls finally bagged their prey Tuesday night when they out-fought the Wildcats 56-52 on the Colton court. The Eagles used a mix of tough defense and outside shooting to end the Wildcats’ two-year win string at 42 games.
That string included a series of Eagle-Wildcat collisions last year that ended with the Wildcats taking out the Eagles in the first-ever 1B title game at Yakima’s SunDome. Read more….
Opinion
The mistake on the Colfax school levy election ballots is well known. Voters have been sent a second ballot to revote on the issue.
An error on the initial ballots has made it necessary to reprint the ballots and resend them. Plus, there are the additional expenses of return postage and hand counting the ballots once they are received. The error also causes confusion over those ballots already received, and those votes that may or may not be duplicated on the new set of ballots. Read more….
