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Fourth of July events around Whitman County include the following annual rites: the impromptu Johnson parade, Albion parade, fireworks and bands at Pullman's Sunnyside Park and the day-long events and fireworks at Endicott. In Johnson, on the single-strip of Johnson Road a mile off of Highway 95 north of Colton, 2019 will mark the 52nd parade, which has no official organizers or sponsors. It started as a mother telling her kids to make their own fun on Fourth of July morning, 1967. The Druffel...
Whitman County commissioners Monday decided to send a counter offer on locating the District Court in Pullman. Specifics of the counter offer were not defined, but discussion Monday indicated the county favored keeping the court sessions in the present city hall. Pullman at the June 18 city council session approved a proposal to keep the court in the present city hall. They proposed to pay the county $400,000 a year for misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor filing fees in Pullman cases. The...
The Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program (WIC) is making a state-wide switch from paper checks to a credit card format starting at the end of the month. The new card system could reduce the number of locations where card holders can make purchases because not all stores will be able to install the technology required to process the cards. WIC in Whitman County Dianne Heaslet, Whitman County public health nurse, said WIC participants should receive their new card during their first scheduled appointment after July 22. To activate the...
Spokane Attorney Robert Dunn said his firm plans to initiate a civil suit on behalf of former Colfax Chief Rick McNannay. The suit will allege $5.2 million in damages allegedly sustained when McNannay was fired as Colfax chief last January. The announcement followed a mediation session involving both sides June 20 in Spokane. Dunn June 20 said the mediation session did not resolve the dispute. City participation in the mediation session was approved by the city council after an executive session June 17. Dunn said the first step in the civil...
Aziz Makhani, SBDC Certified Business Advisor, will be featured at the next Cup O’ Joe on the Palouse session at Columbia Bank on SE Bishop Blvd. in Pullman July 10, from 10 to 11 a.m. His topic will be “It Takes a Community to Raise a Start-Up.” He will discuss the importance of community engagement, and how to reach prospective customers through press, media and community groups. A question and answer session will follow. Coffee and refreshments will be provided....
Two Wheatland Arms Condominium residents admired the blooming roses and other flowers Monday morning as they sat on their porch. Life-long Whitman County resident Armeda Hayer has been one of the many caretakers for the Wheatland Arms rose garden since her arrival in 2007. Hayer said the garden has been around for years, and she put her touch on the garden by planting pink roses, which are in full bloom currently. Hayer has lived all her 94 years in Whitman County. She was born and raised on a...
A Palouse resident has led a new effort at the native plant garden near the south entrance of town by the car wash. The project has involved school children, the Palouse Conservation District and Americorps. "I'm an individual looking to revitalize the native plant garden," said Jamie Gaber, a six-year Palouse resident who works in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) literacy at the WSU Center for Civic Engagement. The Palouse Conservation District donated plants and 50...
The Pullman Regional Hospital Women's Leadership Guild will accept local non-profit grant applications until Aug. 1 to fund women's and children's health causes. Grant awardees will be notified on Oct. 15. Non-profit groups may be awarded up to $2,000. Eligible organizations must support women and children's health and wellness in the Palouse, provide a three to five minute presentation and speak at a grant award luncheon. The Women's Leadership Guild was created in 2015, and has raised more than $100,000 for non-profits and Pullman Regional...
A new Planet Fitness will move into the former Pullman Ace Hardware building that was sold in mid-June. Planet Fitness purchased the building with a partner and will lease 15,000 square feet from the investor, while a different tenant will lease the remaining 12,000 square feet. Justin Rasmussen of Palouse Commercial Real Estate said Planet Fitness has been very active with getting started. The former Ace building was purchased for $3.1 million by Pullman RE LLC, Seattle, from Sawrus LLC, Dayton, according to a real estate transfer tax...
Whitman County commissioners took in comments Monday from a rural county resident regarding the Beeson Cut-Off Road and Estes Road, halfway between Pullman and Palouse, toward the Idaho border. John Chaplain, a longtime WSU track coach, noted that he has lived on the road since the 1960s and that he first came in to talk to commissioners about this 50 years ago – and on subsequent occasions since – about what he described as a dangerous stretch of gravel road. “I don't think I can make it anoth...
The Palouse Police Department, which also covers Garfield, is down to two officers again after Leighton Cox, hired on April 3, was terminated June 20 for violating department policy. “There was cause,” said Chief Jerry Neumann. “There were things that didn't add up with him. That's why you have a year's probation period.” Cox joined the department from Wasilla, Alaska. Cox's equipment has been returned. With his absence, Neumann and Officer Joel Anderson will cover, if needed, until the return...
Pullman may be the home of another hotel, a Hampton Inn. A Western Washington architecture firm submitted a State Environmental Policy Act application earlier this month for the hotel, according to Kevin Gardes, Pullman public works director. The plans propose a hotel to be constructed on Bishop Boulevard, next to the Holiday Inn Express. Gardes said the SEPA process involves reviewing the site and determining if the construction will damage the property environmentally. The process usually takes 30 days to complete. The hotel is planned to...
The Conservation Reserve Program will conduct re-enrollment signups for farmers and ranchers who already have contracts until August 23. Signups have been available since June 3. The CRP program, signed into law in 1985, works with farmers and ranchers to conserve, “environmentally sensitive agricultural land,” according to the USDA website. Program participants must grow approved plant species to control, “soil erosion, improve the water quality and enhance wildlife habitat.” In exchange for a yearly payment, farmers refrain from farming...
A team made up of two members of last season's Colfax girls hoop team and two player from other NE League schools topped their bracket at Spokane's big Hoopfest event last weekend. Asher Cai and Hannah Baerlocher, who played out the winter's campaign as freshmen on the Colfax varsity, teamed with Mya Edwards of Kettle Falls and Anni Bergquist of St. Georges for a 4-0 run in the eight team girls recreational bracket for 15-year-olds. They played as the "Check Me Out" team. Cai, Baerlocher and...
Pullman Patriots senior Legion team wrapped up Spokane league play with two wins over the Cannons last Thursday at at A.K. Jackson field at Shadle Park. The pair of wins finished the Pats league run at 8-2 going into the district playoffs which are booked for the middle of the month. After the two league wins, the Patriots sustained two big losses to the Kennewick Outlaws in Walla Walla. They are now booked to play four games over the weekend at the Spokane Wooden bat tournament. Against the Cannons last Thursday, the Patriots took the first...
Playing at Coeur d’Alene June 29, the Whitman County Cougars American Legion baseball team (ages 13-16) earned a consolation bracket win over West Valley, 15-4, in the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen American Legion tournament. The Cougars (13-7-1) outhit them by 15. West Valley’s runs came on walks and two errors in the fourth inning. Nick Robison went 3-for-3 at the plate to lead Cougars’ batters, with three RBIs. Four other players had multiple hits for Whitman County, including Cody Inderrien, Braden Plummer, Elliott Lee and Brendan Doumit....
Gross division-1. Kyle McPherson, 2. Allen Kirkpatrick. Net division-1. Keith Muir, 2. Robert Hooper....
Results for nine holes, June 27: Eight to 10 years: Kaitlyn Ward 57, Vivian Riley 90. 11 & 12 years: Erik Christensen 79, Jacob Ward 67....
Colfax Friends of the Parks will have a fund raising event at the Colfax swimming pool July 10 to introduce the new inflatable which the group has purchased for the Colfax swimming pool. Hours will be 7 to 9 p.m., and admission will be $50 for a family and $20 for an individual. The inflatable is an obstacle course and is designed to challenge swimmers. It is manufactured by Wibit Sports.The obstacle course arrived in Colfax on Friday and members of the Friends group plan a test inflation...
Whitman Hospital and Medical Center and the Whitman Medical Group announced Monday night the two currently separate entities will enter a partnership with an Oct. 1 target date for the transition. The hospital has an existing agreement with the clinic to contract doctors to cover the ER and hospital patients, however the two medical facilities shared little else other than parking. According to Laurie Gronning, WHMC public relations specialist, they anticipate little to no impact to patients in the change and will maintain operations as much...