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Regular filing period for this year’s election closed Friday with a total of 161 candidates filing for office. The auditor’s office Monday opened a three-day filing period for those offices which failed to attract a candidate during the normal filing period. As of Friday, 76 offices lacked a candidate. The count included 22 park & recreation seats, 16 fire district seats, nine school board seats, and 11 city council seats as well as the mayor’s chair at Lamont, 13 cemetery board seats, and four hospital district seats. As of Tuesday evening, ei...
At right: Julie Green Niehenke, far right, sings lead with support from husband Keith, center, and their band, the Hankers, at a benefit concert at Schmuck Park. Keith and Julie Green Niehenke performed with the Hankers Sunday at Schmuck Park in Colfax for a benefit concert for Whitman Community Hospital Foundation’s Tomosynthesis Fund Drive, which aids the purchase of 3-D mammography equipment at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center. They were backed by lead guitarist Greg Stephens, bass g...
The new Palouse Caboose is on a path to opening. Since the new building went up last fall on a vacant lot along Main Street in Palouse, owner Will Hume expects to open the venture sometime in June. In the midst of waiting for its liquor license to come through and other matters, Hume and co-owners are entering into the final detail stage. “There’s a lot going on, but we’ve got good hands on deck, so it’ll work out,” Hume said. One task is completing the dining area’s furniture, which Hume,...
A three-way race for the legislative seat vacated by Susan Fagan and three mayoral races emerged at the close of the candidate filing Friday for this year’s elections. Mayoral contests include a three-way race in Colfax where two challengers have filed against incumbent Todd Vanek and two-way races in Albion and Palouse where incumbents Randall Crowner and Michael Echanove face challengers. More than 150 candidates filed with many running for re-election and unopposed. Mary Dye of Pomeroy, who was appointed to the ninth district legislative s...
A flash flood struck east and north of Oakesdale Saturday leaving a wake of silt and damaged crops. Brian Crow’s 225-acre field was hit by the cloudburst, which concentrated on a two mile by half-mile area two miles north of the town. “It pretty well hammered the whole thing,” he said of the field. The water damaged Crow’s spring wheat, washing some of it down and covering other parts in silt. “It’s kind of a bummer for timing,” he said. “You can’t re-seed. It’s gonna be mud two weeks from now.” At RMK Farms a mile closer to Oakesdale, the dam...
The "Minions" of Dreamworks Animation – a group of Cloninger family cousins and friends – joined together Saturday to win the Garfield May Day Kiddie Parade costume contest. For more May Day pictures see page 3B....
