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  • BoCC okays bids for graders, loader

    Garth Meyer, Gazette Reporter|Mar 1, 2018

    Whitman County commissioners approved large equipment bids Feb. 20 for two road graders and a loader. Western States Equipment Co. of Boise was chosen at a price of $494,626 for two graders, with two trade-in graders from the county. For the loader, Papé Machinery of Spokane bid $221,007 as the low number, approved by commissioners to sell the county a new John Deere loader. They will take the old one from the county as a trade-in. The bids were opened after a crowd filed into seats at the...

  • Feb. 13 election certified; April ballot called off

    Mar 1, 2018

    The February special election results were certified Feb. 23 with 36.33 percent voter turnout from the 69 precincts. Of the 22,072 ballots mailed out for the Feb. 12 election, 8,018 were counted. The elections canvass board rejected 58 ballots which arrived with too-late postmarks. The board approved 25 out of 52 ballots which were held because of mismatched signatures and rejected 27. Four out of five ballots held for miscellaneous reasons were approved. The elections office also discarded 411 ballots which were returned because voters had...

  • All about the bass

    Mar 1, 2018

    Chelsea Becker and other Colfax band members sported a unique form of Bulldog blue when the band performed Saturday night at Pullman High School in the state regional basketball playoff game.... Full story