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Whitman County commissioners will again keep their committee assignments the same to carry over into the new year. The roles often remain from year-to-year as the three commissioners’ work takes them to meetings around eastern Washington and to...

Potlatch First Federal Credit Union opened its new branch in Colfax last week with a hometown manager at the helm. Anne Ellithorpe McRae, who has been in the banking business for the last six years, has been named to head the new branch. The...

The 2019 Food Summit, hosted by Palouse-Clearwater Food Coalition, will be Friday, Jan. 25, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Latah County Fairground and Events Center, 1021 Harold St., Moscow, Idaho. The program will start at 9 a.m. The annual event...

Brenda Hardy, an employee of Cougar Foodmart for the past 22 years, and husband Dan have purchased the business from Brian and Jolene Jacobs, who now reside in Post Falls. Transfer of the business became official at the start of the year. Hardy has...

'Get Out & Play' set at 3 sites Together with the Active Minds student chapter at the University of Idaho, the Palouse Advocacy League plans a fundraiser Jan. 26 at Zeppoz in Pullman, the Wild at Art ceramics and painting studio in Moscow, and...

An exhibit of photos that explores the factors driving residents of Guatemala from their homes in search of a better life opened Jan. 16, at the University of Idaho’s Prichard Art Gallery in collaboration with the university’s Martin Institute....

BAIL REDUCED ON PROWL SUSPECT Bail for pre-trial release of Hunter Haley, 25, Reardan, was reduced from $10,000 to $1,000 cash Friday morning in Whitman County Superior Court. Haley faces six charges of second-degree theft related to an...

The LRS Broncos Friday roughed up the Tekoa/Rosalia team in a league round at Ritzville. The LRS boys rolled out a 38-27 halftime lead on the way to a 78-47 win with Bryce Kelly hitting 21 and Drew Kelly hitting 15. Scoring for the T-wolves were...

The St. John/Endicott/ LaCrosse girls basketball team is tied for fourth-place in the Southeast 1B league, vying for one of four spots in this year’s district tournament in February — down from a six- team format in previous years. With an 8-6...

Washington state celebrated Temperance and Good Citizenship Day on January 16. It has been a long standing requirement for schools to observe. The day was initiated in 1923. Ostensively, it was to push prohibition and avoidance of alcohol. That...

Okeydokes 2019 looking forward to electing a new...

While many eyes are on trade talks between our country and China, America’s port leaders are positioning their seaports to compete for increasing volumes of container traffic. After container shipments surged in November---primarily from...

It looks as if the current government shutdown will set a new record with no end in sight. President Trump has avowed that he will not end the standoff unless there is funding for his wall. Nancy Pelosi is just as adamant that there will be no...

Wouldn't it be astounding if we read the morning news one day and the headline was "Everything President Trump Said Yesterday Was Entirely True"? Put that one in the "not likely" category. Donald Trump has made lying an art form (a crude art form,...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's so-called Green New Deal makes the obligatory nod to the original New Deal, but FDR's handiwork is much too modest an antecedent. The Green New Deal calls for a top-down revolution in the operation of American society so...

Credit to the Gazette for choosing to include “Colfax students walk out in wake of gun violence, others stay inside” as one of 2018’s top stories published in the Whitman County Gazette. In joining many other students across the country who...

At Pullman Regional Hospital Shelly, Jaykob Ryan, born Dec. 30 at eight pounds, eight ounces, to Autumn and Solomon Shelly, Pullman, Wash. Paternal grandparents are Kyle and Aletha Shelly, Pullman, Wash., and Jennifer and Ron Buechner, Bonners... Full story

A week ago Wednesday, Jan. 16, eight members of the Dusty B.B. Club met in the parish hall of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in LaCrosse, where they spent the day making approximately 30 baby blankets for the free maternity clinic at Sacred Heart...

Fall President's List The following students have earned placement on the Gonzaga University President's List for fall semester 2018. Students must earn a 3.85 to 4.0 grade-point average to be listed. Zoe Metzer, Colfax, and Sara Whelchel, Diamond....

125 years ago The Commoner, Jan. 12, 1894 The record of events in Colfax during the present week has been sensational in the extreme. The report Monday morning that Cashier Chas F. Russell of the First National Bank, had disappeared from the city,...

For Endicott Gun Club's weekly trap shoot on Jan. 13 visibility wasn't great, with dense fog most of the day. The scores are as follows: Open-Connor Pelissier 25, Jim Pelissier 24, Ed Scultz 24, Larry Garrett 23; Ladies-Jessica Pelissier 21, Lacey...

Lauren Ashley Claassen of LaCrosse was named to the Dean's Academic Honor Roll for the 2018 fall semester at Baylor University. More than 4,400 Baylor University students were named to the Dean's Academic Honor Roll for the 2018 fall semester....