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A regularly scheduled public hearing on the Colfax school’s tight budget will be Monday, July 12 during the district board meeting. The board session begins at 7 p.m. The district for the third year is scaling back through nickel and diming many district funds, the result of a gradual loss in state funds through declining enrollment. The district is looking to pass a budget that has roughly $300,000 less projected for next year. Total expenditures charted for the 2009-2010 school year were $6,549,262. This year’s total projected exp...
County Coroner Peter Martin in an official finding issued Friday said Robert J. Clausen, 73, Spring Valley, died from positional asphyxia due to head, neck and chest injuries in a tractor rollover accident. Mr. Clausen was spraying weeds along a creek south of the Waterman Road, east of Rosalia, when the tractor he was operating rolled into a creek. He was found late June 24. The manner of death was determined to be accidental....
Spectators watch fireworks spray into the air during the fireworks show that capped Endicott’s Fourth of July celebration Sunday. Native Wildcat Tony Anderson again delighted the crowds with his pyrotechnic prowess. Celebrants from all across Whitman County shared in festivities marking America’s birthday at Albion, Boyer Park, Endicott, Johnson and Pullman over the weekend. Images from each town’s festival are featured inside on pages 6A and 7A....
Official time to move the former Dusty School building to the fairground at Mockonema will be next Wednesday, July 14, beginning at 9 a.m. Catlow Movers of Spokane have prepared the 24 X 48 building, formerly known as the Jones School, for the move but decided to delay the operation until after the holiday traffic week. The move will cover eight miles from east Dusty to the fairground at Mockonema. Eric Appel, head of the project, said he and other volunteers have constructed footings at the fairground for the building. Motorists are advised...
Whitman County commissioners have decided to let Auditor Eunice Coker hire a new finance director. The decision, made in a workshop session Tuesday morning, came after Coker officially withdrew permission to let commissioners perform the auditor’s statutory duties. “I as Whitman County Auditor am officially revoking any previous consent, implied or otherwise, that allowed any department other than the Auditor’s Office to prepare the county’s comprehensive annual financial report, and also those duties related to the budgeting process...
On the wall in Shelly McMasters’ Colfax home hangs a sign; Never, Never, Never Give Up. McMasters, 54, is emerging from her third bout with cancer in 13 years, a struggle she said was made easier with the help of proceeds from Relay for Life and a supportive church group. In 1996, she was diagnosed with uteran cancer and in 1997 she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Then, in late 2008, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, a diagnosis which later ended in a mastectomy in 2009. That same year, she was diagnosed with heart disease after she d...
More than 370 people are expected to rally from around the county for this year’s edition of Relay for Life Friday night at the Colfax High School track. Seventeen teams, most from Colfax, will each have members complete laps around the track all night long. As of Monday evening, 377 people had signed up for the relay. Events like this fuel the funding for the American Cancer Society. “I’m always excited to just get together with people. Sometimes this is the only time of the year that we get together from other communities,” said Gwen Nolan,...
An angry crowd Tuesday night criticized the firing of Fire Chief Ralph Walter during an hour-long session in a packed city council room. City Council members, irked they had not been informed of Walter’s dismissal or the reasons behind it, also joined in the fray. Walter, who has been at the center of a month-long city controversy, was fired by Mayor Norma Becker Friday morning just before he was to begin a 24-hour work shift. Walter said he was summoned to the mayor’s office minutes before starting the shift. He was read the dismissal not...
The first wind farm in Whitman County is just a permit process away. Two years of collecting meteorological data have given wind farm company First Wind enough information to know Whitman County’s Naff Ridge is the site to develop a wind farm. “We’re excited about the potential of bringing wind power to Whitman County,” said Ben Fairbanks, the Boston-based company’s director of development for the Northwest. First Wind will submit an application to the county planning department later this month. The plan is to install enough towers to genera...
Whitman County commissioners Pat O’Neill and Greg Partch were served by Sheriff Brett Myers with papers demanding their recall from office Tuesday morning. The action was initiated Friday when Roger Whitten of Oakesdale submitted recall orders to Auditor Eunice Coker. “Over the past few months, they have shown a willful disregard for state law and public safety,” Whitten told the Gazette last Thursday. He brought the order because he said the two have flaunted the state’s Open Public Meetings Act by acting on business outside of schedul...
WHITMAN COUNTY HARRISON BUILDING RENOVATION Section 00020 – INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed proposals and other items required under "Section 00100 – Instruction to Bidders" for the Combined Contract for Construction of the Whitman County Harrison Building Renovation located in Colfax, Washington and as described in, and in conformance with the Bid Documents will be received by Whitman County at the Whitman County Commissioners’ Office, Level 1, Whitman County Courthouse, 400 North Main Street, Colfax, Washington 99111, Until: August 2, 20...
John F. Mabe A graveside service for John F. Mabe, 91, life-long Colfax resident, will be Friday, July 9, at 10 a.m. at the Bethel Cemetery in Steptoe. He died Friday, July 2, 2010, at Whitman Hospital in Colfax. Born Feb. 24, 1919, in Colfax to Jess and Jessie Robinson Mabe, he was one of nine children in the Mabe family. As a young man he worked for Hugh Evans Farms. He drove truck before he was old enough to have a driver’s license and he could hardly reach the pedals. He later worked for Kincaid Farms. John married Marceline Amell in 1...
