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The Whitman County board of adjustment approved a conditional use permit Aug. 8 to allow St. John Hardware and Implement to open a location on the former Hawkins property just west of the Washington-Idaho border. No one spoke against the project at the public hearing. The approval is the latest step in St. John Hardware’s plan to relocate from their site in north Moscow, which will become the location for a new building to house EMSI, a Moscow-based software company. St. John Hardware plans t...
The 31st annual Lentil Festival returns to Pullman Friday and Saturday with events to span the weekend. It begins Friday at 9 a.m., with the Tase T. Lentil Mini Golf Tournament at Airway Hills Golf Center. Friday’s main events start at 5 p.m. at Reaney Park and Spring Street with free lentil chili from the signature jumbo gray bowl and poured from beverage pitchers. Live music starts at 5 p.m. with Eric Shedd playing on the Cooking Demo stage. Main Stage music starts at 5:30 with Aaron Cerutti f...
He was there in the early years, the 1982-83-84 Ironman in Hawaii, when you just had to arrive with $150 and sign up. Now after serving three Olympic Games as medical director of the triathlon, the Whitman Hospital orthopedic surgeon has been named as chief medical officer for the 2020 Paralympic triathlon in Tokyo. It started when Dr. William (Doug) Hiller was in his internship at Pennsylvania Hospital on Society Hill in Philadelphia. He went to Thomas Jefferson University Medical School in...
In partnership with the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) the Washington Trust has announced that funding is available for two statewide grant programs: Heritage Barn Grants and Historic Cemetery Grants. This will be the seventh round of grant funding available for owners of historic barns and the second round of grant funding for those with stewardship responsibilities over historic cemeteries. The Heritage Barn Initiative established the Heritage Barn Register in 2007, a statewide list of historically significant...
The Valerie Sivinski Fund is an annual program of the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation that provides grants of up to $2,000 to organizations engaged in historic preservation around Washington state. The goal of the fund is to support historic preservation at the community level. The Washington Trust is announces that the application for the 2020 round of Sivinski Fund grants is now open. The deadline for submitting an application is Oct. 15. Established in 1997, the Sivinski Fund has awarded grants to 146 projects totaling over...
The twice-per-year Route 26 vintage market at the fairground now has a storefront. Open since Aug. 1, in Colfax, Route 26 sells antiques at the former Buri Medical Equipment store Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for summer hours. Fall and winter may be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. "We haven't quite made that decision yet," said Tami Schwartz, one of three partners in Route 26, who first worked in antiques together at the former Whitman Mall, which closed in 2005, next door to the new...
Installation of the new arena grandstand, which is expected to be the star attraction at this year's Palouse Empire Fair, is expected to be finished this week. The new aluminum grandstand, funded with $1.5 million from county .09 sales tax for economic development, will provide 2,483 seats with most of them fold-down plastic seats. Bill Tensfeld, fair executive director, said this week installation of the seats has been finished by the crew from Len Hufford Construction based in McMinnville,...
Drones and radio controlled model airplanes were in action Saturday at Kruegel Park, 705 SE Dilke, in Pullman from 10 a.m until 2 p.m. The FPV Palouse group offered a drone flying obstacle course, and Pullman police demonstrated the department's drone Palouse Region RC Flyers conducted flights with their airplanes....
Official total rainfall measured for July at the Colfax NRCS station was .21 inches with a .01 logged on the first day of the month and .20 logged on July 24. The tally also puts July below the average of .56 for the month, which is the lowest monthly average for the year. The .35 deficit for the month adds to a total rainfall deficit of 1.38 below normal. May and June rainfall totals also fell below average after April provided a bountiful 3.37 inches which erased all but .24 of a deficit logged for the first months of the...
A formal charge of harassment with threat to kill was filed in superior court Thursday by Prosecutor Denis Tracy against Kent Kimberling, 61, Garfield. Kimberling was booked into jail Tuesday at 4:45 p.m. According to the arrest report, Kimberling is alleged to have made threats in a late call Monday to a Garfield family. He also allegedly made threats against Palouse police officers who also patrol in Garfield. The arrest report said Sheriff Brett Myers and a deputy went to the Kimberling residence Tuesday and located a cannon with an...
The eleven bicycle riders from Rutgers University followed a unique route last Wednesday when they rode from Spokane to LaCrosse where they were welcomed for an overnight stay. The route south of Spokane was required because the destination of the group is Portland and at some point they had to head southwest. Last Monday they had a short day when the rode the Centennial Trail from Coeur d'Alene to Spokane. The aim of the riders in making the 3,500-mile ride across the country is to draw attenti...
Layne Gingerich, left, and Nathan Akesson were named for all-league honors at the district playoffs last spring. Akesson also received the league's MVP award. He is headed for Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake where he will play on the baseball team. Gingerich will be a junior at Colfax next year....
Straughan’s Air It Out Football Academy and Lewis-Clark Valley Loggers College Football Team will host a football camp to develop fundamental and advanced skills for quarterbacks, receivers and linemen in the third through 12th grades. Instructors will be college coaches and players. The one-day camp will be Saturday, Aug. 17, in Lewiston at Sunset Park from 4:30 to 8 p.m. The cost is $50 per player and includes a T-shirt. Football campers need to preregister with Coach Gene Straughan by email at airitoutfootball@yahoo.com or phone at 5...
Dick McNeilly, Sonny (Walter) Riley and Bill Ryan represented Snake River cattlemen and landowners and met with the staffs of Reps. McMorris-Rodgers and Dan Newhouse in Washington, D.C., earlier this week where they asked for their help to encourage Army Corps of Engineers to work with the Snake River cattlemen to resolve issues of alleged trespass of cattle on lands that were taken from said cattlemen during the installation of the dams on the Snake River....
Colfax harassment sentence Devan M. Hannas, 21, Colfax, was sentenced to serve two days in jail after he pleaded guilty to a reduced harassment charge Friday morning in superior court. Hannas had been charged with harassment with a threat to kill and trespassing in superior court, but those charges were dropped and he was charged in justice court. The charge involved a June 17 episode at a residence in south Colfax when Hannas made threats to kill during a drunken tirade. He threatened the life of the occupants of a residence. The home owner...
REAL ESTATE SALES David and Cheryl Richardson, Rigby, Idaho, to James Fitzgerald and Nancy Rothwell, house and acreage on the Green Hollow Road north of Colfax, $325,000, July 26. Renee Schamberger Colfax, to Gail Webster, Colfax, house on N. Cedar Street, Colfax, $210,000, July 30. Pamela and Richard DeBowes, Pullman, to Brian and Rebecca Green Las Cruces, N.M., house on SE Pheasant Run Court, Pullman, $1,000,000, July 30. Karen Rockness, Rosalia, to Lori and Ethan Furman, house on S. Summit Ave, Rosalia, $385,000, July 30. R. B. Olson... Full story
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. RAINS STOP HARVEST A heavy rain Saturday, followed by additional showers Sunday, put the brakes on harvest operations in the Colfax area. The rain storms, with some lightning strikes, hit the Colfax area at about 4:40 p.m. Saturday and additional rain fell Sunday afternoon. Rainfall reading at...
In Southern California during a traffic stop, the driver of the stopped car pulled out a rifle and started shooting. The policeman on the scene was killed, later two others were wounded. The shooter fired indiscriminately at other motorists. The car of a young mother with two kids was hit in the windshield, the bullet barely missing them. Another motorist safely guided them to hide behind the engine block of the car. The situation, as law enforcement converged on the scene, was described as a “long and horrific” gunfight. The shooter was kil...
It has become routine: President Donald Trump spends a golfing break at one of his properties. Tragically, horrific gun massacres also have become part of the routine, two of them just the other weekend, one of them clearly the consequence of a white supremacist who had gone over the edge, armed with the most lethal handheld weapons of mass destruction. By the time the president finally emerged after sending platitudinous tweets of support for El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, he faced the assembled reporters to declare, "Hate has no place in...
At some point in the late 1960s, you could be forgiven for thinking that the FBI was in charge of the KKK. It conducted an operation that infiltrated, manipulated and ran the group into the ground. With violent white hate again on the rise, we should take some inspiration -- even if the methods can't be replicated -- from the FBI's past grappling with racist extremists. If there were any doubt that the country has a white nationalist problem, the shocking attack on an El Paso, Texas, Walmart should remove it. These self-radicalizing freaks, a...
#!*! WHY??? Is gas in Dusty 3.199 and in town 3.09??...
Well done Like Susan Barbee wrote in a recent edition of The Gazette, my wife and I recently made cemetery visits, and like Ms. Barbee we were somewhat dismayed by what we saw. We visited the Colfax Cemetery and were surprised at the dried up grass (I did see the article that said the sprinkler system is being repaired). What was exposed was the green and blooming morning glory in the dry grass. Fortunately, there was none growing on my father’s grave. He would have been greatly offended. While the grass is dry, I hope the caretakers will a...