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PALOUSE – The City of Palouse continues its discussion over whether to adopt a flag policy – and what kind – after an estimated 70 people gathered at Hayton Greene Park June 23 for a public forum. Two days later, the city council's policy and...

COLFAX/PALOUSE – A plan to resume senior meals in person July 6 in Colfax and Palouse has been held back, with the county needing to be in Phase IV before the change would be allowed. Instead, delivery of the weekly or twice-weekly meals will...

WHITMAN COUNTY – Another week of rock work was on the schedule for Almota Road south of Colfax last week, nearing the opening of the road to passenger cars by the Fourth of July. “Then the contractor pulled all of his trucks for a week,” said...

COLFAX – The re-bids are in for the remodeling/expansion of the Moderate Waste Building at the county landfill. The new lowest bidder is $812,278 from Mangum Construction of Clarkston, for the project that originally went out to bid in March. The...

COMPUTER SCREENS – A couple dozen county officials gathered by teleconference Thursday night, June 18, for a Whitman County Mayors' Virtual Roundtable. Hosted by Paul Kimmel, regional business manager for Avista, the two-hour session covered...

COLFAX – The Colfax city council gathered Monday night on Google Meet for the last time, with two representatives missing, until COVID-19 guidelines for public meetings revert June 17. City Councilman Tom Huntwork was absent while Mark Mackleit...

The Southeast 1B League is in place for 2020-24 as a 12-team league divides into East and West. The East division will be largely what the league has been the past four years, with the addition of Tekoa/Rosalia dropping back to 1B from 2B. The East w...

The Colton School District has announced a co-op agreement with Genesee for football, to allow Colton students to play for the Idaho Class 1A-1 Bulldogs, similar to how 1B (Washington) Oakesdale kids have the opportunity to play football for 2B...

Plans for fall high school sports took a step forward last week as the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) Executive Board set what is known as philosophical guidelines for the 2020-21 school year. Meeting June 7 by teleconferenc...

Springs found on the dirt hills of the Almota Road project last week slowed down the ahead-of-schedule road-expansion as heavy equipment works in mud, hauling and placing basalt rock to form the base of the widened road. “The hill just starts...

A new medical treatment office will open in Colfax this week, following an open house Thursday for Northwest Neurological TMS. The Spokane-based practice, operated by Dr. David Greeley, will offer transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatments...

The Johnson Fourth of July Parade has been canceled. For the first time since the impromptu event began with a group of Druffel siblings in 1967, there will be no parade – which has grown to attract thousands of spectators to the route from the...

The Whitman County Library's Summer Reading Program commenced June 1 with no in-person performances this year but some substitutes. The 10-books-or-10-hours-to-get-a-free-book activity for kids continues while previous summers' visiting jugglers,...

The Colfax School board met Monday night by Google Meet and covered items such as adoption of a new math and science curriculum, two resignations and a discussion of what may come next in lifting school COVID-19 restrictions. “What I am advocating...