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Master’s Touch customers visited while enjoying hamburgers and hot dogs from the grill during the business’s Customer Appreciation Day on May 10....
Tekoa’s sewer pipes were the subject of a meeting in Spokane May 8 at the office of the Century West engineering firm after Spokane Riverkeeper, an environmental legal group, sent a letter to the city of Tekoa regarding Hangman Creek and the sewer system. Attending the Spokane meeting were Tekoa Mayor John Jaeger, Maintenance Superintendent Duane Groom and City Clerk/Treasurer Kynda Browning, along with Century West President Dennis Fuller and Washington State Department of Ecology E...
AmericanWest Bank’s annual food drive is now underway and will continue until May 31. All donations go to the local food banks. Grocery items in high demand include peanut butter and jelly, cereal and cereal bars, canned fruit and individual fruit packs, canned vegetables and beans, canned tuna or chicken, soup, stews, chili, rice and pasta, pasta sauce, boxed crackers.Personal care items needed are toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, toilet paper and soap. Cash donations also are accepted. All donations may be brought into AmericanWest B...
A team appointed by Whitman County commissioners in March reported on Monday it selected a pilot project for improving county government performance. Whitman County Public Works Director Mark Storey told commissioners that the work group, now known as the Performance Measures and Assessment Group, has David Ledbetter, Gary Petrovich, Bob Reynolds, David Nails and Storey as members. This group was asked by commissioners to select a pilot project with a goal of implementing methods of change that can be applied to many county departments. The gro...
Filings for approximately 150 seats on town councils, schools, fire districts, hospital districts, cemetery districts, park and recreation boards, opened this week. Candidates can file either with the Secretary of State or the county auditor’s office in Colfax. Deadline for filing is Friday, May 17, at 5 p.m. Local filing can be made through the Secretary of State’s web site with payments made via charge cards. The local filings at the state office are relayed daily to the Whitman County elections office for certification. The lone county off...
After about a decade of being involved in city government, LaCrosse Mayor Larry “Butch” Burgess handed over his gavel May 2. “I want to do more fishing and traveling and seeing the grandkids,” he said as he enjoyed a piece of cake after the city council meeting. Burgess said with his wife retiring in June, the couple would now have time to do all those things. He has served as mayor since 2006 and served on the city council before that. Councilman Randy Camp has moved to the mayor’s chair, an...
At least one Bald Eagle chick has hatched in the nest along the North Fork of the Palouse River in the Glenwood area. The chick, covered in a gray down, was first visible a little more than a week ago. The two adult eagles share nesting duties. If one flies to take a break, the other immediately goes to the nest to eaglet-sit. Only 50 percent of eagle chicks will survive their first year, according to baldeagleinfo.com. Eagles typically lay two to three eggs, which are about the size of goose...
