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Keep calm and ride on is the encouragement from Washington State Department of Agriculture following the discovery of a horse with equine herpes virus which led to the animal being euthanized at WSU recently. With the Palouse Empire Fair approaching, concerns over equine herpes prompted discussion at the fair board meeting Monday night in the Jones School building. Janet Schmidt, WSU Extension agent and 4H coordinator, contacted the Washington State Department of Agriculture's state veterinarian's office. Dr. Scott Haskell, assistant state...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Bryan Kent Killinger, 46, and Tusha Dawn Emerson, 41, both Pullman, Aug. 16. Kody Paul Laggis, 25, and Laura Joella Kleffner, 25, both Ketchum, Idaho, Aug. 16. Stephen Anthony Weeks, 26, and Kiska Amanda Schneider, 25, both Moscow, Aug. 17. George Okechukwu Okere, 51, and Paula Ann Sinclair, 41, both Pullman, Aug. 18. Brian James Peterson, 34, Moscow, and Kristin Kate Farrier, 32, Coeur d'Alene, Aug. 22. REAL ESTATE SALES Matt and Brittany Sawyer to Lacie Martin, house on Houghton Street, Palouse, $143,000, June 28. Karen...
Guess who was among the first to welcome our Olympic athletes back home from Rio? None other than the IRS. For U.S. athletes, winning an Olympic medal comes with pride, glory – and a hefty federal tax bill. According to TIME, Michael Phelps owes more than $55,000 in federal income taxes for his five gold and one silver medals earned at the recently concluded summer games. That’s a whopping amount even for someone whose net worth is $55 million. The U.S. is one of few countries which does not provide government funding for it Olympians. Mos...
Tim Pool is a fearless social-media reporter who specializes in getting close to the action. It almost doesn't qualify as a protest or a riot if Pool isn't live-streaming from the streets. But he is pulling out of Milwaukee because it is too dangerous for white people. In a carefully stated YouTube video, Pool described the verbal taunts and threats, as well as actual violence, directed at whites. After an 18-year-old male was shot in the neck and extracted by Milwaukee police in an armored vehicle -- Pool identifies the victim as white,...
I've always loved the story about Babe Ruth, negotiating his salary in 1930 as the Great Depression gripped the nation. When told he was being paid a higher amount than President Herbert Hoover, his response was: "I know, but I had a better year than Hoover." Fast-forward to now, when we have French President Francois Hollande declaring that Donald Trump makes him "want to retch." Well, Trump might be forgiven if he wanted to, uh, throw up a snarky response like this: "I had a better year than Hollande." That's a fact. As high as the Donald's...
The great flush of money that swamped Washington State University athletics has come to an end. The department is projected to have a continuing deficit of about $13 million a year. It's the old story of public programs overspending and running out of money. What is one to do? The state found an answer to part of its problem. It was to legalize marijuana. After years of ruined lives and criminal prosecutions, the state decided that perhaps the drug was not as evil as first thought. Besides, it was argued, if it was legalized the state could mak...
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. EWU EAGLES FLAGS TO BE POSTED Colfax Main Street, which is presently lined with WSU flags in advance of college football season, is expected to get an influx of Eastern Washington University flags which will be interspersed with the posted WSU flags. The Eagle banners will be posted in recognition of Eastern’s trip to Pullman to open the c...
The Snake River will open for the harvest of fall chinook salmon Sept. 1 through Oct. 31 from the river's mouth to the Oregon state line, seven miles upstream of the mouth of the Grande Ronde River. The 2016 Columbia River forecasted return of upriver bright adults is 593,800, with a significant portion of these fish expected to return to the Snake River. Popular steelhead fisheries also occur in the area and some hatchery fall chinook are expected to be caught during steelhead fishing. Retention of hatchery fall chinook is not expected to...
8 years ago TheCommoner Aug. 21, 1891 The editor of the Commoner, who is spending the summer at his farm north of town, drove home as usual last Monday evening, as thoroughly ignorant of any hidden danger as could be. He did not know that safely stowed away under his buggy seat were two great loaded demijohns, of about 44 calibre. They were there nevertheless, as stately as two soldiers on duty. They were discovered upon reaching home, filled with as prime stuff as was ever corked up in two original packages, so the labels said. How they...
Waitsburg football coach Jeff Bartlow, who led the Cardinals to the state 2B title at the Tacoma Dome in 2011, has resigned at Waitsburg to take a position as counselor at Pioneer Middle School in Walla Walla, according to a story in last week's edition of the Waitsburg Times. Bartlow has been at Waitsburg for 17 years. He stepped down from the Cardinals' head coaching job after the 2014 season and has continued as jayvee coach. Bartlow's 2011 championship team stopped Colfax 42-13 in a semi-final game of the state 2B finals at...
Colfax cheerleaders and junior cheerleaders take a break before going into action at Tuesday's “Meet the Bulldogs” night at McDonald Park. The junior cheerleaders camp was convened earlier in the day. A large crowd attended the Bulldog session which featured introduction of football, volleyball and cross country teams....
It is not too late to lace up the running shoes, grab a bike or get out the old swimsuit for Endicott's Tin Foil Man relay triathlon this Saturday. This will be the second attempt for the Tin Foil Man event; it was called off last year due to hazardous air quality caused by nearby wildfires. The Tin Foil Man title is a take off on the Ironman race which was Saturday in Coeur d'Alene. The Tin Foil Man will start at the Endicott pool at 7:40 a.m. Aug. 27 with a mandatory informational meeting for all participants. Waivers will need to be signed...
American Sprint Boats will return to Webb's Slough at St. John this weekend for the fourth stop in the season's sprint boat campaign. One big change expected Saturday will be warm summer weather for the boat crews and the fans. In the first stop at St. John June 18, the boats competed in cold spring weather The slough entry is expected to have 27 boats on the card for Saturday's races. The entry list has changed during the season with some crews out of action and some new crews launching boats or rebuilt boats for the first time. One big loss...
The Palouse Falls Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute has added more lecture sites than previously announced for the upcoming “Changing the Course of the Palouse River” traveling lecture. Chapter President Lloyd Stoess will present the lecture at six locations in September. The first will be in Ritzville at the Carnegie Library basement Wednesday, Sept. 7. The following Monday, Sept. 12, the Washtucna Community Center will host the lecture. Stoess will give two lectures Sept. 14, one at the Colfax library at 3 p.m. and then in LaCrosse at...
Assistant Coach Craig Culbertson, who returned to the Bulldog coach staff this year, stresses a point at left during a line drill at Tuesday's practice session. Head coach Mike Morgan is in the foreground with assistant coach Mark Brown. Colfax football season will start with a mix of some new and some old ingredients when they head to Ritzville Friday for the league jamboree. On the new list will be many starters, particularly in the backfield, who will be asked to step up to the challenge. On...
The West Whitman Street project may or may not still happen in Palouse this summer. The city now awaits information before the process goes out to bid on the work, which would include replacing a 550-foot section of street and railroad tracks – with a new drainage system – as well as sidewalks, curb, gutter and lighting. A meeting was held Aug. 12 with Munir Daud, Palouse city engineer; Mayor Michael Echanove; Kyle Dixon, clerk-treasurer; Paul Weber, rail engineer for Washington Department of...
Colfax City Council Aug. 15 received the Association of Washington Cities excellence award which was presented by KC Kuykendahl, a Waitsburg City Council member who is on the AWC board. He noted Waitsburg and Colfax face the same growth problems with both having approximately the same population count in 1910 as they did in 2010. The AWC award is a photo of the Perkins House which includes a small AWC logo in one corner. Colfax was cited for its work in promoting Main Street and revival of...
The Alzheimer's Association plans to host a four-session seminar for individuals with early stage memory loss. The group will be in Colfax in October for the four 90-minute sessions which will be conducted once a week at Whitman Hospital. “It's the first time we're going to have it in Colfax,” said P.J. Christo, R.N., one of the organizers of the seminar. “We really want to serve our communities, especially the rural population.” Early stage memory loss refers to individuals who have “problems with memory, language, or other mental functions,...
Another try is set for November for a street improvement levy in Farmington. Falling short of the required 60 percent majority in the Aug. 2 primary election by one vote (26 yes to 19 no), the $12,000 proposal will be back on the Nov. 8 General Election ballot. “I was kind of surprised by that one,” said Farmington Mayor Dave Baker. “We put a lot of money into roads this year.” The work included oiling and graveling roads, for which the town bought $8,000 worth of gravel from Whitman County. If the November levy does not come through, Baker w...
An Endicott youngster splashes into the pool there from a slide. The pool season closes soon, but the pool will need a new boiler before it can open next year. As the summer swim season is winding down, Endicott pool manager Nancy Anderson is looking to next season and the things that will need to be fixed before the pool can open again. “We need a new boiler,” said Anderson. In mid-July, the pool's boiler went out. Anderson explained that the tubes which run the water through the heat exc...
A Sept. 22 hearing date has been slated for a 17-year-old former Colfax resident who has been charged with violating probation which was assigned to him in a case involving theft of a van in Colfax May 10. Now residing in Albion, the youth was arrested in downtown Colfax in the van which had been reported missing from a residence on the west hill in Colfax. He was convicted of taking a motor vehicle without permission and being a minor in possession of alcohol. The arrest report alleged beer which had been taken from Wal-Mart in Pullman was...
Sentencing for Michael Novak, 47, Colfax resident who pleaded guilty to charges related to secretly taking photos of people in circumstances where they could expect privacy, has been scheduled for Friday in Whitman County Superior Court. Roger Sandburg, Novak’s defense attorney, told the court Aug. 19 several people want to address the court at the sentencing. He reported a competency examination which was ordered for Novak has been completed and confirmed that no motion has been subsequently made for the defendant to withdraw his previous p...
The Thrifty Grandmothers are honored last week for their community contributions with a lunch at the Perkins house....
A DOE scientist prepares a canoe for Hangman Creek study late April. Representatives from Tekoa went to Spokane last week to meet with officials from the Washington state Department of Ecology and Spokane Riverkeepers in an ongoing effort to monitor the town’s water quality. Tekoa’s wastewater treatment plant’s shape and flow rate was the subject of a Department of Ecology (DOE) study earlier this year, considering phosphorous and dissolved oxygen, relating to its top daily load. “We’r...
Kim Nguyen has added some sewing supplies to the former barber shop space on Main Street. While in town recently, she said she hopes to offer sewing classes here in the future and possibly have a tenant in the space. Texas businesswoman Kim Nguyen and her husband Phong Nguyen were in Colfax for much of the last three weeks. While here, they checked on the tenants in their downtown buildings, worked to clean up some of the buildings and discussed the plans for those buildings as well. The...
