Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Washington Department of Transportation has awarded another road safety-improvement grant to Whitman County. The money is the third grant to the county through funding of the 2015 Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. Announced in a letter received the first week of January, $635,000 will go towards installing guardrails on the 28-mile run of Wawawai Road and along stretches on Pullman-Wawawai. In addition, the money will be used for rumble strips on paved roads around the county. Some of the work may be done this year, with most of it...
Seth Anawalt of Pullman sold the St. Elmo's building in Palouse Jan. 3 to Justin and Lindsay Brown for $185,000. The Browns are the owners of Osage Woodworking, the Moscow-based company which opened a Palouse showroom in December in a street-level corner of the St. Elmo's building. The three-story Main Street red-brick property was at one-time the home of St. Elmo's Inn. An 1888 former railroad-boom hotel, it was built on old pilings, for which a steam machine was used to pound them into the ground. Anawalt bought the property in...
Andrea Miller administers a rabies vaccine to Calliope, a resident Endicott feline, at the Vaccine Clinic hosted by the town Jan. 20. According to town clerk Laura Jones, 18 dogs were registered during the two-hour event and about 30 rabies vaccine shots were given to dogs and cats. This is the third year the town has put on the event. Miller, DVM from St. John Vet Clinic, was also prepared to administer vaccines for distemper, parvo, feline leukemia, kennel cough and a feline three-in-one, as...
Pete Martin will retire March 1, 2018, after serving as the longest-running, consecutively-elected official in the state. County Coroner Peter Martin submitted a letter Jan. 22 to announce his retirement as of March 1, 2018. “I have found that the position as Coroner very challenging and satisfying. I was appointed Coroner in 1981 and have dramatically changed the office to a professional and well-respected office. My Chief Deputy Coroner, Annie Pillers, and the deputy coroners are excellent and...
The Washington state legislature agreed on a resolution Jan. 18 to the controversial Hirst ruling, affecting rural wells. Senate Bill 6091 passed 35-14 in the Senate and 66-30 in the House. The votes ended a stand-off which began last year after a state Supreme Court decision on the drilling of new wells – making whether or not the well would draw water from streams and harm fish, up to a landowner to prove it did not. The Hirst decision came out of a lawsuit brought by environmental watchdog g...
Third-grader Garin Monson confers with Principal Travis Howell Monday night at the Jennings Elementary library as teacher Amy Soncarty looks on. In the background, school board members compete to build bridges out of paper and books. Principal Travis Howell and Jennings Elementary students put on a school board appreciation night Monday in the library, followed by the board’s regular meeting. With the five members seated at a long table, neatly stacked items in front of each, a pair of s...
Mark Clinton After 18-and-a-half years in public service, Mark Clinton is not ready to give it up yet. “It’s my career duty to help the citizens of Whitman County,” he said. Clinton announced he is seeking to retain his post as Whitman County Treasurer. Clinton was elected to the post in 2014, running un-opposed following the retirement of Bob Lothspeich. Before his election, he was the city treasurer for Colfax for 14-and-a-half years. The treasurer’s office underwent a lot of bookkee...
