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RITZVILLE – The LaCrosse Junior FFA program joined the Lind-Ritzville FFA team in the NILE Virtual Livestock Judging Contest in Billings, Mont., Oct. 8. LaCrosse took 8th place as a team. Ellie Pearson placed 8th as an individual, with a score of 392 out of 500. Lind-Ritzville FFA team members Taylor Galbreath, Reagan Snider, Jay Harder, Lane Tellefson and Alyssa Williams took second place. Williams took 1st High Individual Overall, earning 439 points out of a possible 500. Williams is an eighth-grader attending Lind-Ritzville Middle School. Th...
COLFAX - A 10-year-old boy with cancer came from Zillah got to hunt for the first time thanks to Youth Outdoors Unlimited. Izaiah Trillas' hunt was held near Colfax this week as a four-day experience. He and his family stayed at a camp set up at the fairgrounds by the non-profit organization that's based in Moses Lake. Trillas began the hunt Oct. 17, the first day of general-firearm deer season. Volunteers took him to a deer blind looking into trees in Tom Kammerzell's wheat field. Inside the...
PULLMAN — The southwest corner the Racho Viejo Mexican restaurant was damaged when a tractor-trailer crashed into it Wednesday morning. The truck hauling an empty lowboy trailer was attempting to turn from northbound Grand Avenue right onto Paradise Street, according to reports. The trailer malfunctioned and swung wide, hitting the building. No one was injured. The restaurant is still open for business....
SEATTLE - A nineteenth century hotel in Palouse came closer to being saved from demolition. The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation announced the St. Elmo's building in Palouse is being added to their list of Washington's Most Endangered Places. Built in 1888, St. Elmo's is a former railroad boom hotel. With its mansard roof and metal shingles, it is one of the few existing buildings in rural Eastern Washington in the Second Empire style, according to the trust. The three-story structure...
ST. JOHN - After the Labor Day firestorm left many of their neighbors homeless and with only the clothes on their back, donations of needed items flooded into town. To manage the outpouring, citizens of St. John created St. John Rural Relief. "It's been absolutely incredible to be a part of this," said Amanda Webb, board vice president of the non-profit group. "We are volunteers coordinating the generosity of many to help those recently affected by wildfire in Malden and Pine City," according...
COLFAX - Three checks for the Palouse Empire Fair royalty scholarship were cashed in May 2017 and the $1,350 vanished. “Those checks were cashed, but the funds were not deposited into the county’s bank account. The vendors provided copies of the cancelled checks, which did not provide enough information to identify either the bank or bank account that ultimately received the funds,” wrote state auditor Pat McCarthy in an Oct. 15 fraud investigation report. In October 2017, five months after the checks were cashed, all three county emplo...
COLFAX - Have you noticed the amount of hay trucks on Whitman County highways late this summer and fall? The harvested area for hay is up by 60,000 acres in Washington since 2019, according to the Oct. 1 statewide crop production report from the USDA National Statistics Service (NAS). It means more trucks shipping the harvest. Reasons why are connected to potatoes and the timing of rain. In a normal year, about 160,000 acres of potatoes are planted statewide. In 2020, the number is down by...
MALDEN - Junk cars removal in Malden is on a roll with about half of them gone. The collaborated efforts are cleaning up the area following the Labor Day fire. There is still all lot to do, but there has been quite a bit of effort in clearing away the junk metal, according to Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers,. "The community's really worked hard to get those cleaned up," he said. The sheriff's office performed a slough of VIN inspections after the fire to begin the paperwork to have vehicles...
COLFAX - Whitman County drivers were slowed down on four roads Monday. The Board of County Commissioners approved speed changes, dropping speed limits from 50 mph to as low as 35 mph because of signs cost and safety requirements. Two sections of Sand Road near Pullman will go from 50 mph to 35 mph because of driveways and sight distance, according to the county. All 5.9 miles of Becker Road, out of Johnson, is cut from 50 mph to 40 mph. Elberton Road goes from 50 mph to 35 mph. And, drivers on...
ROSALIA - The 2020 Bridge Day celebration is going virtual this year. It is set for Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. The fourth annual presentation of local railroad heritage and local history and which has in the past included a history hike on the former Milwaukee Road grade over the iconic Rosalia Concrete Arch Bridges will be virtual. The grade is now part of Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail. Mark Borleske will open the evening with a short retrospective in pictures of the towns of Pine City and Malden and the Manning Bridge. Although Malden and Pine...
COLFAX – Heavy snow for Whitman County is predicted for Friday by the National Weather Service. The warning is in effect from Friday, Oct. 23, at 5 p.m. through Saturday, Oct. 24, at 5 a.m. "Heavy snow expected for the Palouse along and east of Highway 195. Total snow accumulations of 2 to 5 inches with local amounts up to 7 inches possible," stated the weather service. Areas listed for the warning are Colfax, Rosalia, Oakesdale, Tekoa, Uniontown, Moscow, Plummer, Potlatch, Genesee, and P...
COLFAX-Captain America was strolling through town Nov. 22, adorned with shield and a POW flag on his bag. Under the mask, however, wasn't Steve Rogers of Brooklyn, it was Allen Mullins of Dalton, Georgia. Mullins was passing through on a cross-country walk to raise awareness for veterans and firefighters. "Nice guy," said Roger Myers of LaCrosse. "Got a great idea." Mullins stayed with Myers during his two night layover in LaCrosse. Myers and his wife are co-founders of W.H.E.A.T., an...
COLFAX - Whitman County Library launched a newly redesigned logo and website at www. whitco.lib.wa.us. While the website address remains the same, the site has been completely revamped to make it easier to find information while also giving it a cleaner, more modern look. "We hope that people will find the new site more streamlined, making it easier for patrons to find information, interact with the library, and discover more about the communities we serve," Javad Reneau, the site's designer,...
COLFAX - As if being the victim of scammers once wasn’t bad enough, citizens are now being targeted and falling prey to fraudsters using the information from the past scam. Police Chief Bruce Blood reported recent fraud cases wherein the prey had been victimized about a year prior. The scammers used the information from that fraud to create credibility in the new scam. Scammers pose as officers of official agencies trying to help the victim reclaim their lost funds or catch the thieves. “If it sounds too good to be true, it is,” Blood reite...
