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The Air It Out Football Academy and Lewis-Clark Valley Loggers college football team are hosting a camp Aug. 15 for quarterbacks and receivers in third through 12th-grade. The one-day camp will be held in Lewiston, Iaho. at Sunset Park, from 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The cost is $45 per player and includes a free T-shirt, along with a meet and greet session from the Loggers. For more information, go to www.airitoutfootballacademy.org. or call (509) 432-5535....
Members of the Pomeroy swim team flash a nine to celebrate another win of the trophy from the Jerry Cluckey Knights of Columbus swim meet Saturday at Colfax. The Pomeroy squad took the trophy back to Pomeroy after posting a 50-point lead over second-place Pullman. For more pictures from the swim meet, see the weekly pages. Pullman, Garfield/Palouse/ Oakesdale challenge 8-time Cluckey Cup champs Pomeroy swimmers rolled home with the Cluckey Trophy for the ninth straight year Saturday after...
Public hearings are set for Aug. 31 on the proposed vacation of two county roads, the D. Meyer Road west of Chambers and the Cottonwood/Kerns Road south of Sunset. The hearings dates were approved by Whitman County Commissioners at their regular meeting Monday. The commissioners asked Public Works Director Mark Storey to write a report on the road segments in question and make a formal recommendation to present at the hearings. D Meyer Road, which was laid out in 1899, at one time linked the...
A Garfield Public Works employee will have his Commercial Driver's License training paid for in a deal passed by the city council after some debate. In the July 8 meeting, Mayor Ray McCown advocated that Mark Phillips needed to get a CDL and thus the town should pay for it. Phillips completed the federally mandated 80-hour course last week at a facility in Spokane at a cost of $2,800. He was also paid by the town for his hours during training. At the July meeting, Councilwoman Sharon Schnebly sa...
A sign informs visitors to the Endicott school grounds to not drive over the property or bring their animals on school grounds. Some Endicott residents have raised concern after new signs have been erected at the Endicott school asking visitors to the grounds to not bring their animals on the grounds or drive over the property. Endicott resident Etol Lilliard attended the Endicott school board meeting July 29 to express her concerns. "I have been an appreciative walker on this campus for nine ye...
Vanek, Echanove post big leads for new terms Pomeroy's Mary Dye posted a strong lead Tuesday in the first count of Whitman County primary election returns with 2,657 votes for the ninth district representative seat. Othello Democrat Kenneth Caylor had the number-two finish here with 1,604, and Kahlotus Republican Richard Lathim ran a distant third with 685 votes. Dye's lead here was reflected in the ninth district returns where she rolled up 7,258 votes in the district. Caylor placed second in the district vote at 4,047, and Lathim, who was... Full story
The city of Palouse approved a $500 petty cash fund July 28 to create a police department confidential informant fund. The designation provides money for the Palouse Police Department for use by informants to make controlled buys of drugs from suspects. The resolution, which was passed unanimously by the city council, was requested by Police Chief Jerry Neumann, who said it will aid in the department’s ongoing work. Noting a reduced presence by the Quad Cites Drug Task Force in the P...
From left: Gabe Cocking, Chandra and Alexis Maki, Cydney Selk, Kiah Miller, Sarah Whelchel, Tim Cornelius, Jamie Misner, Diane Miller and Rex Rutledge pose at the Arts & Scraps warehouse in Detroit where they helped to assemble craft kits for kids as a service project. Small town met the big city when seven youth from Peace Lutheran Church in Colfax and Trinity Lutheran Church in Endicott flew to Detroit for a conference. Accompanied by chaperones Jamie Misner of Endicott, Diane Miller of...
Blackened smoke is seen above the hills of South Palouse River Road where a fire was sparked around 3:30 Friday. Fire Crews from Colfax, Steptoe, Albion and Diamond of District 11, District 4 of Palouse, District 12 of Pullman and District 13 of Onecho responded to the blaze, which burned approximately 150 acres of wheat and barley stubble on Greg Jones’ property and 50 acres of standing wheat on Roger and Dean Miller’s property. For more pictures of recent fires, see the weekly pages. This sum...
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS COUNTYWIDE OVERLAYS 3 C.R.P.’s No. 0017-2, 0025-3 & 2500-8 WHITMAN COUNTY, STATE OF WASHINGTON Sealed proposals for this project will be received by the Board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, State of Washington, at its office in the Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax, Washington, until 11:15 a.m. Pacific Daylight Savings Time, on Monday, August 31, 2015, at which time all bids will be opened and publicly read. Each proposal shall be separately sealed in an envelope addressed to the Whitman County Board of C...
