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A total of 333 swimmers are registered to compete Saturday in the all-league meet for the Tri-County League title at Colfax. The meet will be the 53rd edition of the event which is officially known as the Knights of Columbus Jerry Cluckey Memorial Meet. Last year, the Pullman Barracudas team rolled up 215 points to win their first championship. The Pullman win stopped a bid by Pomeroy to take home the Cluckey Cup for the 10th straight year. Pomeroy placed second with 144.5 points, and... Full story
The board of adjustment for the City of Palouse has approved a new 45-foot radio tower to be put in by First Step Internet on city property behind the fire station. The work is an indirect extension of a longtime deal between the city and the internet provider stretching back to the late '90s. In exchange for housing equipment in back of city hall and on the roof of the city hall building, First Step provided the city with free internet. Last year, the Moscow-based company approached Palouse to put a radio tower by the fire station. It will be...
Due to unforeseen staffing issues, the Palouse swimming pool will be closed Monday, Aug. 7, and Tuesday, Aug. 8. The normal pool schedule will resume Wednesday, Aug. 9.... Full story
Washington state's Main Street funding program will have an extra $1 million available to registered Main Street communities through its tax credit incentive program. Sen. Ann Rivers of La Center in the 18th legislative district sponsored SB 5977 to increase the cap from $1.5 million to $2.5 million. The tax credit incentive allows businesses in Main Street communities to pay their business and operation (B&O) taxes directly to the sponsoring organization within the city or town. Colfax Downtown Association, which was accepted into the program...
The last set of signs for the Palouse Scenic Byway is now in the hands of the state Department of Transportation to be put up. This is the final step of a grant and process that has stretched over the past 10 years. “That's the last of the byway stuff,” said Janel Goebel, Whitman County Parks and Recreation interim director and program coordinator. Two types of signs will be added to the Palouse Scenic Byway network. Three sets will direct travelers to way-finding information signs at Steptoe, the Dusty restrooms and LaCrosse park. The set for...
Contested Races Garfield Town Mayor Jarrod Pfaff 72, 45% Ray McCown 61, 38% Terri Linderman 27, 17% Garfield Town Council Rebecca Strange-Jones 9, 6% Tom Tevlin 112, 70% Kevin Pickron 40, 25% Pullman School District Director District 4 Nathan J. Roberts 376, 25% Lipi Turner-Rahman 277, 18% Elizabeth Siler* 307, 20% Karl M. Johanson 528, 35% Pullman Council 2, Ward 2 Dan Records 50, 26% Garren Shannon 82, 43% Troy J. Smith 17, 9% Austin Brown 37, 19% Pullman Council 7, Ward 1 Al Sorensen 501, 58% Hannah Krauss* 140, 16% Eric Fejeran 215, 25%... Full story
The City of Palouse approved three measures to go on the ballot in November; an increased total for the annual pool maintenance, a regular six-year levy for emergency management services and the city's annual streets maintenance levy. For the pool, the total being asked of voters goes up to $34,000 from $31,000. The change is attributed to the new minimum wage law in Washington state, which raised the starting lifeguard pay from $9.49 per hour to $11. The pool has seven lifeguards on staff each summer as well as part-time helpers for swim... Full story
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency reminds producers in Washington to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2018 crop year before the sales closing dates. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing coverage also have until the sales closing dates to do so. Crop insurance provides protection against crop production losses due to natural perils such as drought, hail and excessive moisture. Sales closing dates vary by crop. They are: Canola/Rapeseed – Aug. 31 (for fall planted types); fal...
Whitman County's Public Works department had to adjust the operation of the solid waste transfer station in the past three weeks due to a lightning strike July 15 that burned out electronics, including the commercial scale and two others. On the early Saturday morning that lightning hit, David Nails, County Solid Waste operations manager, arrived to cover a shift and found that three of the four scales were out. An older, non-digital one in the residential dumping section still worked....
Above: The extensive rail, street and sidewalk project on West Whitman Street in Palouse is nearing the home stretch. With 500 feet of new railroad completed, crews work to lay rubber interface on both sides of the track to seal out water. Right: A flagger directs traffic in Colfax as a crew from the Washington Department of Transportation performs an inspection on the bridge at the “Y” at the north end of town....
Whitman County Public Works Director Mark Storey points out the stretch of Rock Springs Road to county commissioners Monday on the map in the commissioner's room. Whitman County commissioners voted Monday to approve a public hearing on whether to vacate a section of Rock Springs Road, west of Hay, south toward Riparia. The road is now a dead-end due to previous sections of it already being vacated. “To vacate all of it would isolate properties,” said Mark Storey, County Public Works dir... Full story
-Pullman Chamber photo A shot from Kamiak Butte shows how “Picture Perfect” the Palouse can be. There are creatures on the Palouse that have become a nuisance. They disregard property and boundaries, going where they please, even to the point of stopping traffic and damaging crops. This year their numbers have grown. They are amateur photographers. “This year it’s way out of control,” said Carol Cooper, Pullman Chamber of Commerce tourism director. Cooper reported to the Palouse Scenic By...
A meet and greet will be in Rosalia for challengers for town offices in November’s election. It will be held at Rosalia City Park Saturday, Aug. 5, at 2 p.m. Candidates to appear include mayoral challenger Lee Root and city council candidates Janet Meier Strohl for position No. 3 and Jake Dickenson for position No. 5.... Full story
In an effort to clear out the St. Ignatius Hospital building, the new owners are attempting to sell items left in the hospital long ago. “Old lockers, industrial little things, pipes, pieces of, well, we don’t even know what they are, tables, cabinets,” said Colby Rasmussen, an independent contractor out of Spokane helping with selling the items. “Most everything is fair game. If people want to come in and take cabinets off the walls, they can have them.” Rasmussen and business partner Fay Ripley have been working with one of the building...
The August rendition of the monthly First Thursday event is slated today in Colfax from 3-7 p.m., with Blues performer Sammy Eubanks, more than 25 vendors, prizes, a pre-loved art sale and a beer garden. The fun will get started around 3 p.m. when vendors will set up along Main Street. The Explore Colfax booth will be at Spring and Main streets where volunteers will collect receipts from customers so they can earn prizes. Colfax Unified Executive Director Valoree Gregory said customers of businesses and vendors can turn in their receipts at...
Former Garfield Mayor Jarrod Pfaff edged Mayor Ray McCown by 11 votes Tuesday night in a first count of the primary election votes. McCown and two incumbents at Pullman appear to be headed for the general election primary after the first count of ballots. Pfaff received 72 votes, and McCown received 61. Terri Lindeman, the third candidate in the mayoral race, received 27. Total first count for the primary election was 2,589 ballots with an estimated 250 to 300 remaining to be counted. The three-way race for the Garfield town council seat...
Sounds at the Palouse Music Festival Saturday, July 29, included Heather and the Soul Motions (left) and Shiloh and the Young Guns, (above). “That was the best festival in memory,” said Paul Smith, a volunteer organizer from the Palouse Arts Council, which puts on the day-long event at Hayton-Greene Park. Proceeds benefit the Palouse Community Center and the Arts Council. Photos by Lance Ross....
