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Two self-described “crazy” moms have decided to produce a play at St. John-Endicott High School. The two moms, Kelly Lundberg and Rachel Anderson, are producing “Don’t Say No to the USO” which will hit the stage March 27-28 at the St. John auditorium. “It’s just weird insanity,” Lundberg said. The musical is set in the 1940s and includes songs from the Big Bands and the Andrews Sisters. “We wanted to do it because this year’s seniors are such a fun, great, cooperative group of kids,” Lundberg said. “It will be a fun way to end their senior yea... Full story
It started with a Palouse High all-school reunion when Colleen Boone was asked to put together a memorial poster with names of classmates who had died. “It was very embarrassing when people came up to me and said, ‘I’m not dead,’” Boone said. It was 1990 and after that she sought to correct the records she had, but most of the information had burned in the 1976 Palouse school fire. Today, after many years of keeping obituaries and other newspaper clippings of Garfield and Palouse graduates...
Laurel McDonald’s linocuts are very much like the artist herself; lively, dramatic and always different. Laurel works in oils and watercolor, but she revels in her linocut work which she calls her “kitchen table art.” What is a linocut? It is a highly graphic printmaking technique, similar to a woodcut, but using linoleum as the relief surface. To learn more about Laurel, see her art and learn about her creative process, join the Colfax Arts Council and the Colfax Library for her “Meet the Art...
The Palouse River stretches toward Winona on a cold Sunday afternoon after Saturday night’s snow flurries. Snow continued to fall Sunday and Monday but began to melt Tuesday. See Page 3 for more weather forecast information.... Full story
The National Lentil Festival will begin accepting applications for vendors March 1. The festival has approximately 120 vendor openings. The registration deadline is Friday, June 13 at 5 p.m. The marketplace vendors will be located in the Spring Street parking lot, and the Lentil Lane Food Court will be in Reaney Park. All vendor applications will be sold as two-day spaces and overnight security will be provided by the National Lentil Festival. All spaces are 10x10-feet and the fee per space is dependent upon the type of vendor. For more...
According to the National Weather Service, the latest reports on Tuesday from Endicott had the snow at 2.1 inches on Monday, Pullman with two inches, Palouse at 1.6 inches and LaCrosse at 1.5 inches. Over the weekend, Lamont reported 2.3 inches, Pullman reported two inches and Endicott reported an inch of snow. David Jones, Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Conservationist based in Colfax, reported a total of six and a half inches of the white stuff. Steve Henning, Thornton area farmer, reported Tuesday morning that about seven...
Diane Harp of the Healthy Tekoa Coalition returned from a recent conference in Washington, D.C., with a call to action. On Feb. 2-7, she was at the National Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America conference held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. While there, she attended three days of workshops and speakers, including Dr. Nora Volkow, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who talked about research on brain development. Another speaker...
Elberton residents have petitioned the county for vacation of a platted roadway on the east side of Elberton. Designated the School Road, the actual platted road never became a reality, and Elberton houses were later located close to the designated roadway. The School Road is approximtately 500 feet long. It intersects with the Oral Smith Road which is the portion of Elberton on the east side of the Palouse River. A hearing for the road vacation has been scheduled in the county commissioners’ chambers March 17. Much of the property in E...
A collision between a car and a semi truck on ice-covered Highway 195 early Friday morning in the S curves area south of Colfax took two lives and left the driver seriously injured. All of the victims were Eastern Washington University co-eds who were apparently headed back to Cheney after visiting at Pullman. According to the Washington State Patrol report they were in a 1999 Volkswagen Jetta which was northbound and slid out of control into the path of a southbound 2004 Freightliner semi truck. The two passengers who were fatally injured were... Full story
Rosalia’s special levy for street maintenance picked up four yes votes in the final count of ballots to pass with a 60.57 percent approval rate. Final count for the levy was 106 yes and 69 no. Prior to the final round of certification, the Rosalia proposition was two votes under the required 60 percent approval rate. The levy sought $65,000 for maintenance and operation of the street department. Mayor Nan Konishi noted the annual levy is Rosalia’s method for funding street operations. She said the town probably would have put the measure bac...
Steptoe Butte is getting another new tower on top. Verizon Wireless is installing a 180-foot tower within the next 60 days, according to Virginia Painter, state parks spokesperson. After Verizon is finished with construction, ownership will be transferred to the state, Painter said. She said the state hopes with the addition of the new tower, not only will cell service be improved, but some of the other smaller towers might be removed. The parks real estate division negotiated a five-year contract with the cellular company. “It’s an opp...
State licenses for Susan Bowen Small, operator of the former Rosalia Clinic, have been suspended by the Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission, according to a Friday report from the state Department of Health. The report said action was taken on allegations Small failed to properly screen or monitor patient use of prescription narcotics which allegedly led to patient deaths. The report said action was taken after an investigation of three patient deaths by the Spokane Medical Examiner found the death causes to be drug... Full story
Hawkins Companies representative Jeff DeVoe, who met with county commissioners here Jan. 27 to assure them the company is still interested in pursuing development of a shopping mall on the Washington side of the state line, met with County Administrative Director Gary Petrovich Feb. 18 to talk about possible financing for the development. DeVoe informed Petrovich he hired a Seattle firm, Pacifica Law Group, to research funding options for the county. They also discussed financing and what arrangements would be allowed by the state. The Boise-ba... Full story
Following the failure of a $7.1 million school improvement bond Feb. 11 for the Oakesdale School District, the school board is deciding what they might do next. Needing a 60 percent margin to pass, the bond was approved by a wide margin (164-53) in the Oakesdale town precinct while it failed by a similar margin in Farmington (19-51). In the rural Oakesdale precinct the measure passed 64-39, while in rural Farmington the bond was rejected 15-19. The voter returns were discussed at a public forum... Full story
Colfax girls’ basketball fans erupted in cheers of joy as the Bulldogs zapped Northwest Christian 50-49 when freshman Taylor Garcia in the last six seconds of the game got the ball in the bucket in a baseline shot. NWC posted an early lead in the championship game and kept it until the final shot. The Colfax girls won the NE-SE tournament title in the state’s regional round and the number-one slot at Mead Saturday night. Scout Cai again led Colfax with 20 points and Amara Huber hit 14. The Col...
I’ve described politics as the dark side of government, but, as usual, things have gotten worse: Politics is just about all there is to government these days, certainly on the national level. The sad election choice for Americans has degenerated into “Pick Your Poison.” Republicans largely offer a field of bizarre extremist candidates who not only should be laughed off the stage, but shouldn’t have been in the theater in the first place. They are enabled by Democrats, who are so inept that they waste every opportunity to advance their progressi... Full story
NOTICE OF MITIGATED DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (M-DNS) AND A CONDITIONAL USE HEARING The Whitman County Planning Office issued a Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance (M-DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Travel Demand Management operates a tour bus/dispatch center with parking on approximately 1.2 acres. The site is located at 7601 SR270, in N 1/2 of Section 5, Township 14 N., Range 46 E., W. M., Whitman County, Washington, 1000 ft. west of the Idaho/Washington Border.... Full story
