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The Colton school board named its new superintendent April 30. Paul Clark, the current principal of Curlew School, accepted the offer and will start in Colton on July 1. Clark has been principal of Curlew since July 2015 and previously spent five years as a teacher and principal in Alaska and worked as an elementary school French and Spanish teacher at St. George’s School in Spokane. “He’s a contemporary educator, he’s a decisive, goal-oriented individual who will continue to lead our school in...
The Palouse Clearwater COAD voted to disband in April, but the county emergency management hopes to do something at the county level with the same intent. COAD stands for Community Organizations Active in Disasters. According to the Red Cross, a COAD is a collection of community organizations which may be active in all phases of a disaster: preparation, response, recovery and mitigation. The COAD is made up of public, private, voluntary and nonprofit agencies and organizations. A COAD or VOAD...
Palouse Skatepark board of directors has announced the grand opening of the skatepark for Saturday, June 2, at 9 a.m. After years of fundraising and construction efforts, the official opening ceremony will be held, followed by a “learn to skateboard, skate and use the park” clinic held until noon. At the noon whistle, the park will open to skateboarders, skaters and scooters. The opening will recognize the many donors as well as a host of volunteers and friends of the Palouse Skatepark and Tony Kettel Skate Gardens. There will be ongoing raf...
About 80 people turned out May 2 for the grand opening of the Colfax Kitchen during the regular senior meal at the Colfax Food Pantry. Council on Aging invited all the supporters who helped convert space in the CETC building into the kitchen. Supporters include Farm Credit Services, United Way of Pullman, Washington Federal Bank, Community Action Center and Aging & Long-Term Care of Eastern Washington. Council on Aging board members who attended the meal were Duane Gottschalk, Daniel Moore, Ed...
A tour of a canola field that was grazed last fall and is flourishing this spring will be May 17 at 4 p.m. on the Bryan Jones farm, one mile east of Dusty. The tour will be near the site of the former Dusty schoolhouse. Thirty-four head of cows, calves and yearlings grazed Jones’ canola for three weeks in October. The canola is now in bloom and four feet tall and will be ready to harvest in July this year for a crop of seed to sell. He plans to repeat the grazing in another canola field next year. The project is funded by the Washington C...
A July 23 trial date was set for Tristan Hauck, 21, Pullman, after he pleaded not guilty to charges of possession of cocaine and harassment Friday in superior court. The charges were filed May 3 after Hauck was arrested early May 2. According to a Pullman Police report, officers responded to a residence on NE Oak Street after receiving a report from a resident that Hauk had threatened to shoot him with a shotgun. The alleged victim said he met Hauck at Stubblefield’s bar in Adams Mall and received the threats later by phone calls and texts. T...
John-Mark Mahnkey of Pullman announced his candidacy as a Democrat for the District Three County Commissioner seat now held by Michael Largent of Colfax who has already announced he will seek third term. Mahnkey's has a long career broadcasting. His resume includes work for KHQ-TV, INB/Idavend Broadcasting/KRPL, Inc. (KMOK 106.9, Palouse Country 99.5, KRPL 1400 AM), and Pullman Radio (News/Talk 1150, New County 104-3), as well as Program Director of Rock 102-5 “The Crow. For the past four y...
The Pullman Police Department announces the implementation of an easily accessible online crime-mapping tool, powered by CrimeReports. This free service provides up-to-date crime data and optional email alerts if/when incidents occur near locations of special interest to the user, such as work, home or school address. The interactive map allows citizens to view criminal activity over the previous six months with automatic updates around 3 a.m. daily. Users can sign up to receive customized...
“We’re just cleaning things up as we move forward.” -Bill Tensfeld, fair director Representatives from the state Auditor’s Office in Pullman presented results Monday for Whitman County’s annual accountability audit – the first of two the county undergoes each year, focused on varying departments according to the auditor’s office’s planning and risk assessment. Alisha Shaw, audit manager; Molly Moors, assistant audit manager, and Jonna Davis, audit lead, gave the 2016 report to county commissi...
The Slippery Gulch Days duck race in Tekoa is on hold for the festival’s 90th year next month after a visit from the State Gambling commission. The change comes after a process started just before last year’s Slippery Gulch Days, held every year on the third weekend in June. After the gambling commission received two anonymous complaints, Special Agent Mike Fitzpatrick came to town to take a look. Because both the raffle and duck race are a type of gambling – people buying tickets to win in th...
Greg Henderson, Ben Doever and Chloe Swan, with their tall bikes, passed through Colfax Monday on their way from Olympia to Minneapolis. Residents of Brooklyn and Queens, New York, they previously rode from New York to Minneapolis and are now completing the trip. Henderson and Doever assembled the tall bikes themselves. “Honestly, it’s a goof,” said Henderson. “It’s just a fun thing to do with a bike.” They stayed Sunday night in Colfax in the yard of a house. They met the residents after ridin...
