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Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Whitman Hospital Administrator Jon Davis plans to retire in December, and a slew of candidates have already applied for his position. “He’s been a leader in hospital administration in the state of Washington. He’s very highly regarded,” said Gerard Fischer, the liaison official between Sacred Heart and Whitman Hospital. “His commitment to Whitman Hospital has been first rate.” Davis, who has worked for the hospital for the past seven years, said he has enjoyed his time here. “I have a very close kinship with Whitman hospital that will never le... Full story
Holli Bafus of St. John spotted this young moose in the Ewan area Aug. 21 on the way out to the harvest fields, so she went back home to pick up the kids and the camera. The moose was bedded down in a ditch when she first returned to the site. The moose later posed for this photo....
A state grant may mean Rosalia Marshal Robert Fitzgerald will once again have a motorcycle for police use. After getting advice from Palouse Police Chief Jerry Neumann, Fitzgerald applied for stimulus money allotted the state Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development for distribution to local law enforcement. Palouse earlier this month purchased a police motorcycle primarily with funds from the same grant program. Fitzgerald told the Rosalia town council Tuesday night that he had been awarded $9,990 from the program. He said he...
Palouse city council now has a plan to limit citizen comment to three minutes during its open forums at city meetings. For the past several meetings, citizens Steve McGehee and Dixie Reiber have asked questions to the council that drew out the open forum session too long, say Palouse council members. “Some have been far more active in the bullying and aggressive in their behavior toward the council,” said councilman Mike Milano. Resident Jon Fleischman caught the last few seconds of the announcement and later said he thought three minutes may...
Rodney Ochs, Ardella Poffenroth, Harry Poffenroth, Earl Rupp and Red Engelman, from left, stand inside the original Dusty Co-op store in this 1948 picture. It is the unofficial city hall of Dusty - The place for information on happenings around the community, the place to find out if an old name is still in the area, and a near-the-finish pit stop for college students traveling across the state. “We get to laughing about being Dusty central,” said Janet Hedlund, office manager of the Dusty Farm Co-op. “If people see smoke, they call the Co-op...
Millions of bushels of wheat are now sitting in mountainous piles at Snake River ports, as low prices have held down sales of this year’s strong crop. Yield reports from across the county are higher than average, with some farmers reporting to grain brokers yields as high as 130 bushels per acre. Limited space at Almota bins redirected many harvest trucks to the Central Ferry elevators. “We had trucks lined up double going into the elevators, and they were backed up all the way to the highway,” said Jim Johnson, foreman of Columbia Grain Inter...
The next chapter in the saga of Whitman County’s proposed commercial wind ordinance will take place in Superior Court. Roger Whitten of Oakesdale and Carolyn Kiesz of Thornton asked the court Friday to reverse County Planner Alan Thomson’s determination of non-significance for the proposed ordinance or require an environmental impact statement for the ordinance under the State Environmental Protection Act. After Thomson’s determination, Whitten, Kiesz and Brian Bannan of Uniontown responded with comment letters, but Thompson stuck with his i...
Nationally-known cowboy poet Baxter Black and Dusty’s Wylie Gustafson will appear in Hooper to entertain Sunday afternoon. Black, known around the nation for his cowboy poetry skills, will be entertaining along with Wylie from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. “People will fall off their chairs,” coordinator Della Evans of Hooper predicted. The LaCrosse Arts Council is selling tickets for $40 in advance and $50 at the gate in a effort to raise money to fix up a building they have been working on in downtown LaCrosse. Black, who in his down time works as a...
NOTICE OF A PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING FOR A COMMERCIAL WIND TURBINE ORDINANCE Whitman County proposes to add a new chapter to its zoning codes, Chapter 19.61 – Commercial Wind Energy Facilities, along with related amendments to existing zoning chapters 19.03 – Definitions, 19.10 – Agricultural District, and 19.58 – Communications and Utility Facilities. Related amendments will also be made to the Comprehensive Plan. The proposed changes will guide how a commercial wind energy facility can be built in the County’s Agricultural District....
8 years ago, August 29, 1884 Thirteen loaded cars is considered the hauling capacity of a good engine on the Colfax grade. The largest train that has yet arrived in the city consisted of that number, and it was “nip and tuck” whether the grade or the “bulgine” would come out on top. Tuesday’s down train, quite a lengthy one, was taken to the summit in sections. The last section had to fly at the grade a second time, owing to an insufficiency of steam during the first attempt. To witness an engine slow down, shake, quiver, and stop on a heavy...
