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Mayor Todd Vanek April 16 reported state Department of Transportation officials have requested a session with the city council to discuss the next course of action for revision of the intersection of highways 26 and 195 at the north end of town. Plans for the intersection have been sidetracked after state officials learned the project had not qualified for a federal Transportation Improvement Grant for Economic Recovery. The state has said "outside funds" would be needed for revision of the intersection. Proposals for the intersection have...
Leslee Miller of the Uniontown Community Development Association makes a case in front of the Blue Ribbon Advisory Task Committee April 17 in Colfax. The committee, after hearing pitches from various community representatives, recommended five projects to receive funding from the .09 program for 2018. They are as follows; $28,000 for the City of Tekoa, for the next stage of improving its community center; $30,000 for the Town of Uniontown for improvements to the community building; $9,000 for...
The quietest routes in each state were recently announced by Geotab, a GPS fleet tracking and management company, and the honoree in Washington was 27 miles of State Route 127 between Dusty and Dodge Junction. The quietness was determined by which routes had the lowest annual average daily traffic. The state’s quietest was heralded in a front page article by Nicholas Deshais in the Spokesman Review. It’s headline noted the route was also the loneliest. But Geotab, a Canadian company, only looked at interstates, US Routes and State Routes mor...
Charges of third degree assault, criminal trespass in the first degree and obstruction of justice were filed April 18 against Kayle Irene Simpson, 22, Pullman. The assault charge alleges she kicked Deputy Tyler Langerfeld in the shin when she was being arrested outside of Stubblefield's bar in Adams Mall near the WSU campus March 28. According to the arrest report by Pullman Officer Shane Emerson, he responded to a report of a woman being detained outside of Adams Mall at 10 minutes after midnight. Langerfeld and a bouncer at the mall were on...
Opening of RoseAlien Arcade now provides fun and games for Rosalia area residents. “Give the kids something to be entertained with,” said Robert Casey of his collection of arcade and pinball games. “It’s definitely a social activity.” Casey and his wife, Patricia, moved to Rosalia in December. Casey noted there was not much for kids to do in the town, so he decided to see if the community would be interested in an old-school arcade. “I grew up in and around arcades around Washington State,” he recalled. When Casey was young, his mom worked, and...
A Renstrom Homes crew member talks about floor joist measurements with St. John/Endicott high schoolers at a construction site in Steptoe. Boss Ken Renstrom discusses roof dimensions and materials with students. Math teacher Heidi White hands out worksheets and calculators before breaking into groups. St. John/Endicott students were on-site Friday in Steptoe to do math at a construction site. “I get a lot of questions of ‘when am I going to use this in real life’,” said Heidi White, math te...
Dan Dolan, WSU Civil Engineering professor, will go to Chile in July to help revise the country's building codes. The Whitman County Local Emergency Planning Committee held its bi-monthly meeting Thursday, April 19, and took in a presentation on the threat of a potential earthquake in the Seattle-Tacoma area. What does that have to do with Whitman County? Dan Dolan, Ph.D., P.E., WSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, told of just how much it would. What is called the Cascadia...
A small flock of Snow Geese makes a migratory pit stop along Hwy 23 April 18....
The the first administrator of the Whitman Community Hospital after the Sisters of Charity of Providence from Sacred Heart was Gordon McLean. Last week’s article on the hospital celebrating 125 years gave the wrong first name. The Gazette apologizes for the error....
In last week’s articles on Weedstock 2018, Troy Henderson, director of the Whitman County Public Health Department, was incorrectly quoted saying, “By invitation of the property owner and the event organizer, I will be there but in an oversight role. I’m not going out there looking for violations. You can call it a fact-finding mission.” The correct quote was, “By invitation of the property owner and the event organizer, I will be there but not in an oversight role. I’m not going out there looking for violations. You can call it a fact-findin...
The 2018 edition of the Colton-Uniontown Fair will be Friday at Colton High School from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with farm animal fitting and showing, an FFA plant sale, breakfast and lunch and 4H demonstrations. A total of 47 student exhibitors are set to participate, including two duck wranglers for a new addition this year. Members of Colton, Uniontown and Pullman FFA and 4H will compete in beef, swine, sheep, horses and small animals such as dogs, cats, chickens, ducks and rabbits. Home economics and ag science shop projects will be judged...
Set-up is almost complete for a hip-hop artist to perform on Gilchrist family land Friday evening. “Weedstock 2018,” a three-day camping, music and marijuana festival got underway Friday afternoon, April 20, on farmland south of Colfax as the first hip-hop artist took the stage. “How’s it going everybody” said the man on the microphone. “Who the **** is high? I know I am. I heard Seth Rogen was gonna be here and **** Julius Caesar and Santa Claus.” Over the course of the weekend, more than 800...
4th Hog Jog Saturday: St. John fair opens today St. John Community Fair and Stock Show opens for viewing today at the fairground in St. John. Thursday is the last day for entries with food, sewing, adult arts and crafts, photography and flower entries due between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. Livestock entries are set to come in from 12 to 5 p.m. with judging of the home ec building going on from 1 to 5 p.m. The Cook Shack also opens today at 11 a.m. and will be open during the rest of the regularly scheduled fair events. Friday is show day for most...
