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The Farmington City Council accepted the resignation of Councilman Todd Lobdell Monday night. He served six years, winning re-election twice after originally being appointed by former Mayor Royce Johnson. “I don’t want to miss out on the little time left until my kids decide dad’s not as cool as he used to be,” Lobdell said Monday night. “It might be too late already,” replied Johnson, who was in the audience. Lodbell and wife Shelly have two children, ages 5 and 9. They moved to Farmington eight years ago from Spokane. Lodbell, a Spokane fir...
Jordan R. Wyrick, Pullman, complained of a sore back after the 2002 Ford Escape she was driving rolled off Highway 23 last Wednesday morning about four miles east of St. John. According to the Washington State Patrol report, she was driving southbound at 11:05 a.m. when she lost control of the car on the highway which had recently been chip sealed. The car slid across both lanes then came back across the roadway into the southbound ditch and rolled. — Anita Lopes, LaCrosse, complained of neck pain after she lost control of a 2005 Toyota M...
Construction crews this week are expected to finish installaton of the two-mile track loop at the McCoy Loader facility between Rosalia and Oakesdale. This view shows tracks gaping through the building where the facility will be able to load 410,000 bushels in 110 grain cars in about eight hours. General Manager Bud Riedner said they now aim to begin accepting grain loads at the elevator by Labor Day and the first train will load out in the middle of September....
The proposed Tekoa truck bypass project has moved another potential step forward, with a visit by two representatives of the Washington State Department of Transportation. Tekoa Mayor John Jaeger and City Councilman Roy Schulz met July 25 with Mike Gribner and Glenn Wageman from WSDOT, along with Dave Kliewer, area manager for J.U.B. Engineering, who headed a feasibility study on the project earlier this year. The group walked the proposed path, which would provide an alternate route for heavy...
The Farmington basketball court project is nearing completion this week after workers laid asphalt Tuesday. Specialty Asphalt of Cheney arrived Monday morning for the preparation work. “They had everything out there but clowns and elephants,” said Mark Hellinger, one of many Farmington volunteers who is part of the effort to revitalize the 1940s court. The project began last September when the town received a $14,000 grant from the Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board (CE...
Tekoa city officials are weighing an offer to sell a trianglular piece of property near the Gymkanna Grounds. Todd Gabbard, who owns a house across the street and up the hill from the new outdoor basketball court on the gymkanna grounds, proposed that the city sell the piece of land to him at the Aug. 5 council meeting. “I’d like to beautify the area in front of my house,” said Gabbard, who lives in the former pastor’s house for Tekoa Mountain Chapel. The area in question is less than a quarter-acre in size, between Connell Street and the Gym...
Final chapter in the public ownership saga of the CETC building resumed Monday when Whitman County Commissioners, after a two week delay, voted to put the building up for public bid in an auction format. After a discussion, the commissioners decided to auction the building without setting a minimum price. The county last December issued a call for purchase offers with a $60,000 minimum and received zero response. The vote was taken Monday after the commissioners decided the CETC, the former Elks Lodge building, no longer was related to the...
A third-generation LaCrosse farmer has just returned from Europe with two basketball medals. Playing in the age 65-plus group of the Federation of International Masters Basketball Association, Tedd Nealey competed in tournaments in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Torino, Italy. In Greece, his team of veterans from Oregon and Washington – many of which were once Division I college players – took second place, losing to Ukraine in the finals. Later, the team went to the World Masters Games in Tor...
Saturday this group of swimmers, most of them participants in the novice swim league competition which wrapped up in Colfax two weeks ago, participated in a “Swim the Snake” fundraiser at Lyons Ferry. Swimmers started at the former Lyons Ferry Park and went under the highway bridge to the Lyons Ferry Marina on the south side of the river. Most of the swimmers took 20 to 30 minutes to make the crossing. Alison MacDonald, left, participated from Colfax. Pomeroy Coach Shelly Slaybough said mak...
Sprint boat race crews are slated to return to St. John Friday and Saturday for another round of competition at Webb’s Slough. The Slough last June had more than 4,000 race fans turn out for a big day of racing, and they hope for another strong fan response Saturday. “We usually do a little bit better in the August event,” Amanda Webb said. June’s races at St. John brought in 30 boat crews to compete in the three different classes. St. John was the first stop on this year’s campaign which has also made stops at Albany, Ore., and Port Angeles....
Two new eight-man football teams will join the Whitman County high school sports landscape this fall. Both Rosalia and Tekoa-Oakesdale will field eight-man teams following the dissolution of the TOR combination this spring. Neither one of the two teams will play in the SE eight man league because the TOR split came too late for scheduling with the other teams in the league, according to Bob Kirk of Pomeroy, league secretary. Kirk noted the leagues normally schedule in two-year cycles following WIAA classification rounds. The Nighthawks will...
Port of Whitman County commissioners Aug. 15 declared three lots in the Pullman Industrial Park surplus. Port properties and development manager Debbie Snell said the commissioners declared the lots surplus because a tenant has expressed interest in purchasing the property. Snell said Schweitzer, which owns property adjacent to the port’s property, is likely to purchase the three lots for about $200,000. A public hearing will be Sept. 5 on the proposal to dispose of surplus property. The property’s proposed use is commercial and ind...
During a visit through the Palouse country last week, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, said she believes Congress will turn out a farm bill in September when representatives convene after the summer recess. Status of the farm bill was one of the main topics during her visit here. “I’m cautiously optimistic that we have the ability to get the farm bill on the President’s desk by the end of September,” she said during a stop at the Gazette while visiting Colfax Friday. On her trip down from S...
Dick and Barb Strevy of Colfax have found the perfect way to spend a month at the beach. The couple volunteers as hosts for a month at Cape Disappointment State Park on the southwest Washington shore. Barb greeted visitors at the North Head Lighthouse, and Dick gave visitors little snippets of history about the lighthouse and the region while enjoying sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean, Long Beach Peninsula, the Columbia River Bar and the northern Oregon coast. “It’s so much fun,” Barb said....
NOTICE OF A MITIGATED DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (M-DNS) AND A PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING Whitman County Planning issued a Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance (M-DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: N-Hot Water LLC proposes a zone change on a 4.21 acre parcel and a 1.07 acre parcel adjacent to each other from the Agricultural District to a Heavy Industrial District. The parcels are located at 40278 SR 195, approximately two miles north of Colfax in the SE of...
