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THURSDAY Two more victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks have been identified through DNA tests of human remains from the World Trade Center site. More than eight years after terrorists hijacked two jetliners and killed 2,759 people, 8,976 human remains are still being tested in order to be linked to a victim. Alabama claimed its first college football national championship since 1992 when they defeated Texas 37-21 in the BCS championship game at the Rose Bowl. New Jersey’s state Senate defeated a bill that would have legalized same-sex m...
Allen D. Roberts, 67, St. John, sustained minor injuries, and Eric J. Heavens, 41, sustained seat belt abrasions Jan. 5 when the 2004 Ford Ranger pickup truck Roberts was driving slid into the ditch along Highway 272 just east of Palouse. According to the Washington State Patrol report, Roberts was driving westbound at 5:10 p.m. and lost control of the truck on a curve. The pickup slid sideways into the ditch on the westbound side of the highway. Shirley M. Kinch, 54, Washtucna, sustained bumps and bruises Jan. 3 when she lost control of a...
Formal charges were filed January 6 in superior court against Michael Schaub, Jr. and Pamela Rogers who was arrested the previous Sunday, Jan. 3, by Pullman police after suspected stolen TVs and other items were found in a warrant search of their residence. Schaub, who has been held in jail under a $100,000 bond set by the court, has been charged with possession of stolen property, possession of a stolen firearm, possession of methamphetamine and unlawful possession of a firearm. The gun charges relate to a shotgun which was found in a storage...
The water rights for property of the late Floyd Bailey may soon be transferred to Stemilt Growers of Wenatchee. Whitman County’s Water Conservancy Board will conduct a public hearing Wednesday, Jan. 27, on the proposal. The Bailey right allows for withdrawal of surface water from Rock Creek at a rate of 1.9 cubic feet per second for seasonal irrigation of 155 acres. Stemilt Growers would use the water right to take the same amount from the Snake River for irrigation of 1,300 acres of orchards located approximately 15 to 20 miles east of Pasco....
Clarkston Fire Department will, for the first time in two years, receive payment for providing fire coverage to the Port of Wilma. Commissioners of the Port of Whitman County, which owns the Wilma facility located across the Snake River from Clarkston, approved $12,000 in payments to the department at their regular meeting last Thursday, Jan. 7. Debbie Snell, facilities manager for the port, said the Port of Wilma Fire Association has not been able to pay the Clarkston Fire Department because it did not have all the information it needed....
Jim Stenhouse took his seat at the end of the Rosalia town council bench Tuesday night to preside over his first meeting as the town’s mayor. A member of the town council since 2003, Stenhouse admitted to a mild case of the butterflies after Tuesday night’s meeting. “I’ve been in management and overseen meetings before, but this was something completely new,” he said. He said he was up well before dawn going over the agenda for Tuesday night’s meeting in preparation for his new office. Stenhouse bested Brady Kiesz in November to be elected may...
Joyce Mayer was sworn in early January as Uniontown’s new mayor. The mayor Mayer has sat on the council for the past year and decided to run when former mayor Dave Smith stepped down after eight years. “For me, I figured if no one is going to run, I’ll try it,” Mayer said in an interview with the Gazette Jan. 11. Mayer is looking to stay the path with the construction to stop the leaks of the city’s wastewater lagoons, keep city finances steady and encourage more people to visit council meetings. Uniontown has approximately 350 residents...
Robbin Weatherly stands next to her Coca Cola machine on her second week of business. Weatherly began working toward the mini-mart after she saw the town didn’t have a convenience store. A small convenience store just opened in Uniontown now serves the only road-side stop along Highway 195 between Colfax and Lewiston. Uniontown Mini Mart opened Jan. 4 and carries basic snacks and a refrigerator stocked with basic grocery supplies. Uniontown and Colton residents now have another option of stocking up on basic groceries and snacks closer to home,...
The Myers family cemetery as seen from the Klemgard Road, which is under consideration for abandonment by the county. A public hearing will be conducted next Tuesday on proposed abandonment of four segments of county road. The four road segments have been posted to provide property owners with notice of the hearing which will be at 11 a.m. Once abandoned by the county, the roads and bridges will become private roads and upkeep will be left to adjacent landowners. The road segments under consideration total slightly less than two miles. The...
The former foundation of the PNW loading tower lies as rubble at the port entrance. The tower is pictured in the background. A portion of the 30-foot tall steel retaining wall that separates the Snake River from the Port of Almota gave way last month. As the wall gave way, so did the earth behind it, which caused the concrete foundation beneath Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative’s loading conveyor tower to shift. The 14-ton conveyor system tilted nearly a foot towards the river. The portion of the caved wall was located near the PNW Co-op b...
Colton school has hired a temporary substitute teacher, Kelly Bell, to take the place of Glenn Voshell, a Colton science teacher who died in a fall Dec. 12 while hunting on the Snake River breaks. Bell, who moved to Colton from Manson, will teach Voshell’s science and math classes for the rest of the year. Colton has 170 students and 17 teachers. Colton Supt. Nate Smith said at the end of the year, the district will make a permanent decision on filling the vacancy. Before Bell came on staff, Colton used local substitute teachers to cover V...
Removal of paint inside the Fonk’s building revealed this advertisement for the Carter White Lead Co. Like a giant coin, the logo design of an old paint company was found painted across an interior brick wall of the old Fonk’s building last week. The monolith might be an old advertisment leftover from an former paint store that went out of business in the 1970s, according to talks with several long-time Colfax residents. Construction workers discovered the long-lost relic while peeling plaster off the wall. The building is being remodeled by...
NOTICE OF MITIGATED DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE AND A CONDITIONAL USE HEARING Whitman County Planning issued a Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance (M-DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Ron Donaldson proposes to operate a wood and metal recycling center on a 5-acre site in the Agricultural District, located about 3.5 miles north of Garfield on the NE corner of Farmington Road and SR 27 in the NE 1/4 of Section 8 and the NW 1/4 of Section 9, Township 18 N., Range 45 E.,...
