Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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MALDEN—The smoke has pretty much subsided, and with fall officially in the books and winter ahead, the victims of the Babb Road Fire gathered Sept. 23 to learn what the path ahead looks like. Meeting in open-air tents behind the makeshift city hall which is housed in a mobile office structure, many masked — and some not — area residents heard from a variety of government officials. They outlined the steps necessary to first clean up and then rebuild following the Labor Day fire that blackened nearly 20,000 acres and destroyed an estim...
MALDEN - Almost wherever one travels on the streets of Malden, piles of ash and rubble are all that remain following the Babb Road Fire that raced through the community on Labor Day. Even the Mason's Hall was reduced to just ashes and a few small artifacts that volunteers found as they sifted through the basement on Sept. 16, a little over a week after the wind-driven blaze torched some 18,000 acres with the nearby community of Pine City also feeling its effects. While the rest of the town and s...
