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President of the classified staff union of the Colfax school district testified in a public hearing Nov. 17 that school district officials intentionally demoted her because of her work as union president. The goal of the hearing was to settle a dispute between Classified Education Support Personnel (CESP) president Barb Strevy and the district. The hearing was conducted by the Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC), a state-funded organization that mediates conflicts within public agencies. The hearing came about after Strevy filed an...
City staff in Palouse have been working overtime to fill public records requests submitted in the past two months from Steve McGehee and Jim Farr, both of Palouse. The two have submitted 92 requests for documents to the city of Palouse in the past 10 months. Another Palouse citizen, Connie Newman, concerned the public records requests are overwhelming Palouse’s two-person office with hours of fact-checking, is now looking into state policies that would help ease the burden on the city’s staff. McGehee and Farr claim they are working to pro...
Mammy and Pappy Yokum, Earthquake McGoon, and Marryin’ Sam take a sneak peak into the office of General Bullmoose in the second act of Li’l Abner. The players from bottom are Angie Webber, Kyle Largent, Wayne Miller and Ben May. The musical starts a six-performance run tonight....
Whitman County commissioners declared a swine flu state of emergency Monday morning. Fran Martin, county health department director, said the emergency declaration allows people other than doctors and nurse practitioners to administer vaccines for the H1N1 swine flu virus. “We’re finding that we’re working our heads and tails off in trying to administer injections, and we’re losing ground on our regular work,” said Martin. Martin said local EMS personnel and pharmacy and veterinary students at WSU will likely be trained to administer the vacci...
The Board of Trustees of Whitman County Library canceled its regular November meeting, which would have been today, because the topics were covered in the special meeting last week. The next board meeting will be Dec. 15 at 4 p.m. in Colfax. Location for the meeting has yet to be determined and will be announced prior to the meeting. All library meetings are open to the public....
Whitman County commissioners unanimously codified the new industrial wind power zoning ordinance Monday, without any of the controversy that accompanied the more than two-year process of crafting the ordinance. “I know not everybody’s happy,” said Commissioner Michael Largent. “But this is how the process works.” Commissioners inserted some last minute changes into the ordinance that was passed by the county planning commission. Those changes were spurred by Commissioner Greg Partch after hearing testimony at a Nov. 2 public hearing on the or...
Coach Megan Doering of the St. John/Endicott Eagles, receives special congratulations from her mom, Coach Sue Doering of the Colfax Bulldogs, in a late celebration Saturday night in Yakima’s SunDome. Sue Doering’s Bulldogs ran a 12-game sweep over four foes to collect their sixth straight trophy, the school’s second in the state 2B division. The trophy was the 10th for the Colfax coach. After the presentations in one corner of the dome, Coach Sue Doering converted to parent mode and watched the Eagles and LaCrosse/Washtucna battle throu... Full story
NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Whitman County Commissioners has completed and will place on file at the Office of the Whitman County Commissioners, Whitman County Courthouse, the Preliminary Budget for Fiscal Year 2010. The total amount of the budget for 2010 is approximately $52,365,903. The budget will be available November 30, 2009 and may be reviewed by any citizen who contacts the Clerk of the Board in the Commissioners’ Office or by calling 397-5240. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that a public hearing for the p...