Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

Colfax city wide yard/garage/moving/estate sale is Aug. 16, Aug. 17 and Aug. 18. Times vary from sale to sale. Go to your app store and download “Garage Sale Map.” Click “Find a Sale,” “Search 99111.” It shows you all the sales on a map...

SafeWise released the fourth annual “Safest College Towns in America” on Aug. 5 in anticipation of the new semester starting for college students. To compile their report, SafeWise safety experts analyze the FBI’s most recent crime statistics...

The 31st annual Lentil Festival returns to Pullman Friday and Saturday with events to span the weekend. It begins Friday at 9 a.m., with the Tase T. Lentil Mini Golf Tournament at Airway Hills Golf Center. Friday’s main events start at 5 p.m. at...

The Whitman County board of adjustment approved a conditional use permit Aug. 8 to allow St. John Hardware and Implement to open a location on the former Hawkins property just west of the Washington-Idaho border. No one spoke against the project at...

LaCrosse Community Pride silent auction during Farmers' Festival set a record with more than $8,600 net proceeds. Donations and support provide economic development and vital services to area residents. Auction proceeds assist with on-going...

Official total rainfall measured for July at the Colfax NRCS station was .21 inches with a .01 logged on the first day of the month and .20 logged on July 24. The tally also puts July below the average of .56 for the month, which is the lowest...

A formal charge of harassment with threat to kill was filed in superior court Thursday by Prosecutor Denis Tracy against Kent Kimberling, 61, Garfield. Kimberling was booked into jail Tuesday at 4:45 p.m. According to the arrest report, Kimberling...

Straughan’s Air It Out Football Academy and Lewis-Clark Valley Loggers College Football Team will host a football camp to develop fundamental and advanced skills for quarterbacks, receivers and linemen in the third through 12th grades....

In Southern California during a traffic stop, the driver of the stopped car pulled out a rifle and started shooting. The policeman on the scene was killed, later two others were wounded. The shooter fired indiscriminately at other motorists. The...

More battery operated cars and trucks are making their way on to streets and highways, so why not trains? That may not be too far off if BNSF tests are successful. BNSF and Wabtec (formerly GE Transportation) are developing a battery-electric...

#!*! WHY??? Is gas in Dusty 3.199 and in town...

At some point in the late 1960s, you could be forgiven for thinking that the FBI was in charge of the KKK. It conducted an operation that infiltrated, manipulated and ran the group into the ground. With violent white hate again on the rise, we...

I realize every writer with a second hand computer will sit down at their keyboard this week and write about the shootings in El Paso and Dayton. I hope you read them all. Some will be emphatic that the only way to stop the shootings is to...

It has become routine: President Donald Trump spends a golfing break at one of his properties. Tragically, horrific gun massacres also have become part of the routine, two of them just the other weekend, one of them clearly the consequence of a...

Well done Like Susan Barbee wrote in a recent edition of The Gazette, my wife and I recently made cemetery visits, and like Ms. Barbee we were somewhat dismayed by what we saw. We visited the Colfax Cemetery and were surprised at the dried up grass...

Rafe Carlson, Spokane, arrived last week at the farm of his grandparents, Kim and Cindy Pitts. He came to learn how to drive a wheat truck and help with harvest while his brother Tate was at basketball camp. Kim, Cindy and Rafe met Carrie Pitts,...

The National Lentil Festival will be the live music hot spot of the Palouse Aug. 16 and 17 as musicians from across the nation come to shake up the Hometown Chevy Main Stage, which will be located at Spring Street Park next to the former WSU steam...

Colfax Wednesday, Aug. 21: French toast, sausage, eggs, fruit LaCrosse Tuesday, Aug. 20: Cook’s choice Palouse Wednesday, Aug. 21: Chef salad with tomato, ham, turkey, cucumber, cheese and hard boiled egg, multigrain bread, cookie Pullman Friday,...

125 years ago The Commoner August 17, 1894 The bureau of immigration at Spokane, says the Chronicle, is kept very busy now a days. Secretary Bolster answers, on an average, about 35 letters a day, from parties who desire information about the...