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Donald Redinger is the owner of the Entel Rock Quarry outside Colton on SR-95, not his son, Steve Redinger, as was incorrectly reported by the Gazette in the April 1 edition. Incorrect information was provided to the Gazette. Also, the piles of dirt now deposited at the quarry will be graded out as part of a reclamation project at the site....
Washington State University President Elson Floyd will be in Colfax today, Thursday, to discuss the university’s impact on Whitman County’s economy. The stop is part of a statewide tour to hear from business leaders on the quality of WSU graduates, which programs need to be given more emphasis and which need less. Floyd begins his Colfax stop at the Methodist Church, where he will speak at the Rotary Club’s noon luncheon. At 4 p.m., the president will hold a meeting with local political and business leaders in the Public Service Building audit...
Snow-dusted Kamiak Butte lies quietly on Easter weekend. New spring daffodils on Kamiak greet the Easter sun....
Kayla Johnson and Marlena Olson Two teenage Colfax student artists spent the past month and a half painting 14 ceiling tiles, each a reflection of a school program. Their work now spreads across the ceiling outside the school art room on the high school’s second floor. Seniors Kayla Johnson and Marlena Olson started working on the panels in January, carefully wiping the colors of the rainbow on the dark side of some extra ceiling tiles. “We wanted to leave our mark on the school somehow,” said Olson, 17. Together, the two researched the logos a...
A levy figure of $950,000 is on the county April 27 special election ballot for the second Colfax levy after the public voted down a levy of $1.3 million in February. The levy figure comes in the wake of a series of public meetings in which voters turned out to ask the district about the failed levy and voice opinions on a new figure. The board came to the $950,000 figure after more than six and a half hours of discussion at a public session in the CHS cafeteria Feb. 27, four hours of which was spent answering questions about school finance to...
Within the month, construction crews will be tearing up 8.6 miles of Highway 195 south of Colton in a federally funded project to resurface the highway. From the south Colton city limits to the Washington/Idaho state line, the project calls for removal of the present surface, a new base layer and re-surfacing. Poe Asphalt out of Pullman won the contract for the project with a bid of $2,014, 000. The DOT is paying for the project from federal stimulus dollars granted to the DOT. DOT spokesman Al Gilson said the aim is to stabilize the base of... Full story
All the ingredients for a nasty explosion were in place: the Garfield Meat Shop smokehouse room was full of leaking propane and no oxygen. A few burning wood embers were on the floor of the closed room. All it needed was oxygen. When Garfield butcher Tom Tevlin opened the door, the explosion blew him across the room, nearly removing both of his hands and an ear and singeing off his hair. The accident three years ago burned almost a third of Tevlin’s body and landed him in Harborview Medical Center at Seattle for a month. Today, Tevlin’s dog...
Four issues will be on the 2,871 ballots mailed this evening, Thursday, for the April 27 special election. Ballots must be postmarked or hand-delivered to the Whitman County Auditor’s office by election day. In addition to the closely-watched second levy request from the Colfax School District, voters in Garfield and the Colfax and Garfield Cemetery districts will be asked to approve funding measures. Garfield is asking voters to approve the town’s $55,000 street maintenance and repair levy for 2011. The levy request is the same amount vot...
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in accordance with the Revised Code of Washington, Chapter 36.77.070 that the following construction projects shall be performed by Day Labor: Ben Henson Bridge, C.R.B.P. No. 9040-03.84(3) This project provides for the replacement of the Ben Henson Bridge with two 60 foot long, 102 inch arch culverts for an estimated cost of $61,000.00. Canyon Bridge, C.R.B.P. No. 4330-04.59(2) This project provides for the replacement of the Canyon Bridge with two 60 foot long, 96 inch arch culverts for an estimated cost of... Full story
