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The City of Palouse will consider a major jump to its water and sewer hookup fees for new buildings after a report given Nov. 12 by the city council’s water and sewer committee. Chairman Bill Slinkard briefed the rest of the council about a meeting a week earlier by the three-member committee, including Slinkard, councilman and mayor-elect Chris Cook and John Snyder. The committee looked at rates and fee structures for water and sewer hookups for Garfield, Colfax, Pullman and Moscow, and c...
Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative has been named a finalist in the Good Food Foundation’s 2020 Good Food Awards. The awards recognize producers of “delicious sustainable fare” that are committed to environmental stewardship. Three of PNW Co-op’s locally-grown legumes received top scores among 1,835 entries: Madeline French green lentils, Pardina brown lentils and Pedrosillano garbanzo beans. Winners will be announced Jan. 17. PNW Co-op legumes are grown on family farms within a 60-mile radius of Pullman and Moscow. They are sold in bulk at...
HALF-POUND DRUG CASE NETS YEAR IN COUNTY JAIL Francisco Torres, Jr., 23, former WSU student who was arrested last April following a Quad Cities Drug Task Force investigation in Pullman, was sentenced to 364 days in jail Friday on drug possession charges. The investigation report by Sheriff’s Detective Bryson Aase said a half pound of cocaine was found in a wall safe at the Pullman residence on NE Monroe Street where Torres was residing. A warrant search was made of the residence after three drug purchases from Torres were conducted by a c...
Munir Daud, Pullman consulting engineer, last week sent drawings of traffic circle plans for both ends of Main Street in Colfax, with the north side circle shown above. Daud prepared the drawings years ago at the request of Michael Rizzitiello, former Colfax City administrator. Daud in his cover letter predicted residents would object to the traffic circles, but predicted they would learn to love them if they were ever installed. State designers included a traffic circle as one of the options...
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. WOLFE WINS BY ONE VOTE Endicott council incumbent Andrew Wolfe picked up one vote in Monday's final ballot tally to break the tie 49-49 tie in the race for town council seat five. Wolfe had been challenged by Greg Burns and the lead changed before it was locked in after the final count. The last count, however, did produce a tie in another...
An aerial view of Whitman County shows a vast agricultural area. Spotted in this expanse are some small enclaves of people. These are the towns of Whitman County. From the air, the small towns look isolated from each other. Connecting them and giving access to bigger population centers are black ribbons of roads. These roads stretch for miles. There is little along them but acres and acres of farmland. It is a perspective that is important. Each of these towns have businesses to provide for residents and neighbors the amenities so important to...
Let's return to yesteryear. Richard Nixon, coming off an already bitterly controversial career and countless tangles with the media, had just been beaten in the 1962 campaign to become California governor. He was severely resentful, and snarled at reporters, "You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore." It became known as "the last press conference," and "kick around" ranks right up there as one of the most famous quotes in politics, particularly since just six years later, Nixon was elected president of the United States. Fifty-seven years...
The clear loser of the Democratic primary is "Medicare for All." First, it demonstrated the unreliability of Kamala Harris out of the gate, when she endorsed it before quickly backing off. Now, it has blunted the momentum of Elizabeth Warren, made a mockery of her claim to be an uber-wonk and shredded her implicit appeal to Bernie Sanders supporters as an equally committed left-winger without the baggage. Under pressure for weeks for details related to her version of the proposal, Warren has now backed all the way down to promising to pass...
YYYY Living in this country where we are free to vote as we choose and know it will count! #!*! Colfax residents who do not seem to appreciate the efforts of our council members to do their best for our community....
In America, our Thanksgivings range from large family-gatherings to Good Samaritans volunteering in soup kitchens serving turkey dinners to the hungry. Now think about what it's like in other parts of the world where people are lucky to have a few slices of bread and some rice to eat. For example, before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it was that way for people living in Poland and Eastern Europe. Communist dictators tightly controlled everything from the farm to kitchen table and...
A few days after Halloween, I went to the store to get some decorations for our family Thanksgiving celebration. They didn’t have any. It was as if Thanksgiving had been deleted. I found aisle after aisle of Christmas decorations, but nothing for Thanksgiving. I wonder if schools have deleted Thanksgiving as well. When I was in grade school, we read the stories of the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock. We were familiar with the love story of Priscilla and John Alden. Pocahontas was an actual native who convinced her father to befriend the P...
REAL ESTATE SALES Sand Road Bucklers LLC, Pullman, to HH Moscow LLC, approximately 32 acres in the former Hawkins property site at the state line, $975,000, Nov. 5. Stephen Max Green and Harold J. Green, Edgewood, to Mark Kidder, Rockford, former bowling alley building in Tekoa, $20,000, Nov. 18. Whitney and Francisco Aguilar, Pullman, to Coyzet Lueck, Colfax, house on Fleming Court in Hauser’s addition, $218,000, Nov. 21. Ilia Karatsoreos, Pullman, to Christopher Judd, Bellevue, house on NE Upper Drive, Pullman, $340,000, Nov. 21. Ralph W... Full story
State Department of Transportation crews have installed this large "No Turns" sign to instruct southbound motorists on Highway 195 to maintain their lanes after crossing the bridge and entering Main Street traffic on the north end. The new sign replaces a much smaller one and is expected to get more attention from motorists going through the busy intersection....
Ben Miller returned to the Colfax City council session Nov 18 to inquire about the status of the segment of F Street which intersects with the south side of Highway 195 where it enters Colfax. Miller earlier this year asked the city to make repairs to the short segment of street, and city officials said they believe the street segment did not belong to the city. Miller Monday noted winter was approaching and the rough parts of the street could be expected to get rougher with winter conditions. Since he first made the request for the repairs...
Denise Broeckel Kendall, Tacoma, drove to the Dusty area for the weekend of Nov. 15. She attended memorial services for LaCrosse schoolmate Shannon Meyer with Tom and Doreen Riedner and Ann Emerson in the Spangle Service Club Nov. 16. The service was attended by many current and former LaCrosse residents. Saturday evening, she visited and had dinner with Brian and Angela Broeckel and Danny Rathbun. She returned to her home Sunday. Ed and Joan Broeckel welcomed their second grandson, Leonal Eddie Lovotti, born to Amber and Dom Lovotti of Boise,...
The towns of Palouse and Garfield are in the midst of negotiating a renewal to a four-year shared policing contract. Possible additions or revisions up for discussion include setting up an advisory group, adjusting to a two-year contract instead of four, and Garfield accepting a 30-minute response time instead of 20-minute guarantee so (on call) officers are more feasibly able to meet it. The matter came up after Palouse voted this summer to increase overtime pay as the Palouse department temporarily dropped to two officers. Palouse and...
A Silver Creek Connection Christmas concert has been scheduled for Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. at the former United Methodist Church in Garfield. The church building has been donated to the Town of Garfield and has proven an ideal venue for concerts. Matt Zook, music director for Garfield/Palouse schools, and John Elwood and Sally Burkart of Elberton are among those planning for the concert. A craft fair will start at 9 a.m. and close before the 2 p.m. start of the concert. The next day an open Christmas hymn sing will start Silver Creek Connection at 4...
Thursday, Nov. 28 All 14 branches of Whitman County Library are closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Palouse Roy Chatters Museum – 7:45 a.m. – Turkey Leg Fun Run – While your turkey roasts, you can run or walk to help raise money for new children’s books and activities for the Palouse Library. Friday, Nov. 29 All 14 branches of Whitman County Library are closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Saturday, Nov. 30 Town of Tekoa – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Small Business Saturday – Shopping, Santa photos, craft vendors, tree lighting, hay rides, free m...
Robert J. (Bob) Holmes was born on July 27, 1949, in Moscow, Idaho. He passed away on November 23, 2019, in Pullman, Washington. Bob was born to Donald C. and Kathryn Jean Graham Holmes. He spent his entire life in Pullman. He went to school at the old Franklin Grade School, attended Gladish in seventh grade and was a member of the first eighth grade class at what was the Lincoln Junior High. He spent his high school years at Gladish, graduating in 1967. He spent the next four years at Washingto... Full story
Mary Janet Sinclair, 84, of Endicott, Wash., passed away November 21, 2019, at Holy Family Medical Center in Spokane, Wash. Mary was born February 22, 1935, in Yacolt, Wash., to Ralph & Dorothy (Amoruso) Harris. She grew up in Yacolt and attended school in Battle Ground, Wash. Mary married Glenn Sinclair on Sept. 28, 1952, in Battle Ground and through the years the family moved to various parts of the country while Glenn worked for Morrison Knudsen Co., on many dams. From the west coast to the... Full story
Corey The Dribbler, a four-time Guinness record holder traveling the country and inspiring students with a character message, will visit the Jennings Elementary School gym in Colfax for a 45-minute motivational school assembly at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6. Kindergarten through eighth grade students from Colfax, Steptoe and Garfield-Palouse will attend. Following his first appearance, Corey will then travel to the Endicott School gym at 12:30 p.m. for another assembly with students attending from St. John, Endicott, LaCrosse and Oakesdale. Area...
Colter’s Creek Winery and Vineyards owners Mike Pearson and Melissa Sanborn will be the Dec. 3 program of the Washington State University Retirees Association. They will discuss their wine operation and offer tastes to WSU retirees and friends at 1:30 p.m. in the Lewis Alumni Centre. The company was established in 2007. Husband and wife Pearson and Sanborn found an abandoned vineyard while looking at potential vineyard sites in Idaho. Their goal is to apply their science backgrounds to grow high-quality grapes and to craft good, solid wines f...
At age 20, Caleb Gregory is already an entrepreneur and business owner. He also happens to be studying business and entrepreneurship at Walla Walla Community College. Caleb, or Cal as he is called by most people, is part owner with his mom, Val Gregory, of the Frozen Yogurt and Steptoe Butte Soap Company located in the Colfax Mercantile. While his mom is more focused on the soap and bath side of the business, he is more focused on the designs for the printed T-shirts. "I wanted to make funny...