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Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers listens during the meeting in Colfax Tuesday afternoon. A group of 14 leaders from various county and city governments met with Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers in Colfax Tuesday to discuss issues ranging from water to fiber optics, road permits and river traffic. McMorris Rodgers arrived from earlier events in Walla Walla for the two-hour session at The Center in Colfax. The topic of the meeting was transportation and infrastructure. She reported the...
Plans for music for the Colfax First Thursday series include relocation of the stage to accommodate performers for the upcoming series. First Thursday this year received a $10,000 grant from the City of Colfax tourism fund, and that has been used to notch up the level of performance groups for the monthly series. Val Gregory, Colfax unified executive director, said the performance area will move to the Spring Street block on the east side of Main Street with the idea of providing more distance between the performance stage and the noise... Full story
A railroad siding at Palouse slumps over an eroded bank of the North Fork of the Palouse River across from Hayton Greene Park. The river has slowly cut away the bank to leave the siding unfit for duty. Logs and debris from recent flooding which covered the park are hung up along this siding’s shore.... Full story
A fire broke out in the kitchen area of the Rancho Viejo Restaurant in Pullman Friday morning and caused enough damage to close the restaurant. Firefighters were dispatched to the restaurant at 170 S. Grand Avenue, shortly after 8:30 a.m. when a passerby called 9-1-1 after he was alerted by a restaurant employee that there was a fire in the kitchen. When the first crews arrived, they located white smoke coming from the walls of the brick building. Once they opened the front doors, dark smoke was seen and a second alarm was sounded that brought...
Mary Davidson cuts the ribbon at the grand opening of Dusty Attic Friday morning. From left are her daughter Kara Davidson, grandson Madog Mathia, husband Kevin, Mary, Colfax Chamber member Lanette Ring, Chamber President Nancy Cochran and Mayor Todd Vanek....
Colfax will soon have a new business. Donna Holberg plans to open a new shop at 213 N. Main Street inside the building owned by Kimberly DeHart. The building also houses Terry Vietz’s barbershop and DeHart’s shredding business. Holberg’s new shop will be called Eclectica, and though she does not have an official opening date, she said she thinks it will be before the end of the month. “Watch the signs in the window, but it will be soon,” she said. Eclectica will have a variety of goods, said Holberg, with most of them centered around four them...
After a successful pilot program, the LaCrosse senior meal is set to become permanent. The meal will continue to be served the first and third Tuesdays each month at the LaCrosse Café. “I know Darlene (Kates) has been cooking like a crazy person back there in the kitchen during these meals, so it is very generous and gracious of her to agree to do more,” said Paige Collins, executive director at the Council on Aging. “It’s really becoming what could be a wonderful asset to our small community of LaCrosse.” The first senior meal at LaCrosse M...
The Board of County Commissioners Monday approved a request from the county’s information technology department for the purchase of a new Barracuda Backup Server. The county is currently operating with a Barracuda Backup Server 890 that has been in service for three years. “We no longer have the capacity to take care of the 17.5 terabytes of county data,” Chris Nelson, IT director, told the commissioners. With the approval from the commissioners, the county will now upgrade to a Barracuda Backup Server 990 that has unlimited cloud stora...
One candidate will appear at the Port of Whitman County commission meeting today, April 20, to interview for the open commissioner position. The seat became vacant with the passing of longtime commissioner Dan Boone on March 2. Kristine Meyer, the executive director of the Avista Foundation, will be at the meeting for the interview and possible appointment to the board. Meyer said she sees this position as a vehicle for serving the community. “I’m interested in it primarily for the opportunity to support the community and help provide and overs...
Turning the soil at the Palouse Plowing Bee last weekend was strenuous work for the pair of drafts of Geoff Pritchard of Deary, Idaho. Pritchard’s team was joined by several others from around the region to plow, plant and fertilize the field near the Palouse Empire Fairground. The plowing bee took place Saturday and Sunday. For more pictures from the event, see page A8.... Full story
