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County commissioners continued the discussion of Whitcom concerns at their Monday workshop session. “Whitcom worries me,” said Commissioner Michael Largent. At the beginning of 2018, it was noted that there would be budget cuts to Washington...

The 18th annual Haunted Palouse arrives Friday with change in the air. Many of the original 12 residents who founded the four-night event, and have worked it each year since, are stepping back as a new generation will take over much of it in 2020....

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla district seeks public input on the proposed Boyer Park dock replacement project. The public comment period is open from Oct. 11 to Nov. 11. The request for the project came from the Port of Whitman...

Neill Public Library, in conjunction with the Pullman League of Women Voters, will host an open forum of candidates running for Pullman City Council and the Pullman School District. The forum will be today, Oct. 17, beginning at 6 p.m. Candidates...

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. BALLOTS GO OUT FRIDAY Ballots for the Nov. 5...

Superintendent Jerry Pugh opened the Colfax School board meeting Monday night saying the Washington State Leadership Academy's first site visit to Colfax will focus on math. “The first day of really mining data,” Pugh said. He later talked...

Dusty Attic is making space for furniture with a second location called Leftovers. Leftovers is scheduled to open by Oct. 19 and will run similar hours as Dusty Attic, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. The new store will be across the street from Dusty Attic, at...

The McCoy Land Company/PNW grain pile project at Dusty continues in its first phase of construction at the intersection of Highway 26 and 127. The project was granted a conditional use permit earlier this year for four grain piles, truck scales,...

St. John residents are rallying behind Bob Simpson and his fight with cancer. Simpson was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Simpson works at St. John-Endicott High School as head of maintenance. “He is often referred to as the 'main chief' here...

Tekoa/Rosalia Timberwolves will travel to Walla Walla Friday to play DeSales in an SE football showdown. The TR team will make the trip after booking another SE win Friday with a 64-20 win over Colton on the Rosalia field. DeSales last week rolled...

The St. John/Endicott/ LaCrosse volleyball team swept Touchet Tuesday night on the road to avenge a loss three weeks ago to the Indians. Scores were 25-14, 25-15, 25-14. Ashlynn Archer led SJEL with three aces, 17 kills and eight blocks while Roxy...

The St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles went to the far edge of Walla Walla County last Friday looking to get back into the win column, and did it, beating Touchet at their Homecoming, 12-0. “Touchet came out fighting, but when it came down to it,...

Tekoa/Rosalia volleyball players came back from a 0-2 set score to defeat Reardan in five in a NE-south league match last Thursday at Tekoa. The Timberwolves finished the rally with a decisive 15-9 in the short fifth game tie-breaker. Reardan...

The Sean Spicer show continues. Remember Sean? He was the press secretary for President Donald Trump. He was contentious and madly loyal to Trump. Spicer was the one who claimed that the crowd for Trump’s inauguration was the largest ever. This...

YYYY Men that still open car doors for women. #!*! Stop with the Christmas lights, Christmas anything. Let us have Fall,...

In his "Gettysburg Address," Abraham Lincoln described a "government of the people, by the people, for the people." The problem for any democracy is that those people can make a mistake -- a dangerous mistake -- by electing someone who's severely...

The Oregonian characterized the 2019 wildfire season as the “season that wasn’t!” That’s good news for west coast states; however, it doesn’t mean we are permanently “out of the woods!” Worldwide wildfires are down as well. According...

Little did Dr. James Naismith know when he invented the game of basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891 that, more than a century hence, it would become beholden to its Chinese overlords. The NBA disgraced itself kowtowing to Beijing after the...

The United Auto Workers Union strike against General Motors has entered its second month with no end in sight. They are using tactics developed years ago when the big three automakers ruled the industry. Rather than strike across the board, the...

It is time It would be wonderful to see President Trump’s tax returns and a breakdown of all expenses of his and his family’s trips to their golf courses and hotels since taking office, along with a tally of the profits he is making while...