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Palouse residents are reminded to complete and turn in their Planning Commission surveys by Friday, Dec. 14. The surveys were sent out in November, as the first comprehensive town survey since 1997. The surveys should be turned in to city hall....
MEETING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Whitman County LEOFF I Board holds its regular meetings on the 4th Tuesday of January, February, March, October, November and December unless otherwise noted, at 10:00 a.m. in the Whitman County Commissioners’ Chambers located in the Whitman County Courthouse, 400 N. Main Street, Colfax, Washington. Meeting dates for 2013 are as follows: January 22, 2013 February 19, 2013 (3rd Tuesday) March 26, 2013 October 22, 2013 November 19, 2013 (3rd Tuesday) December 17, 2013 (3rd Tuesday) Arrangements w...
County left with $200k shortfall in next year’s spending plan. Whitman County commissioners still are studying how to deal with the projected $200,000 shortfall in next year’s budget. The final public hearing on the 2013 budget will be Monday, Dec. 17, at 10:30 a.m. “I don’t anticipate any changes from last week,” Financial Specialist David Ledbetter, Jr., said Monday morning at the commissioners’ meeting. Commissioners are scheduled to approve the budget Dec. 31. “The board needs to contemplate how to proceed,” said Gary Petrovich, Admi...
A state Department of Ecology last week responded to a report of an oil sheen on the Snake River near Lower Granite Dam. The Army Corps of Engineers reported the sheen last Wednesday, Dec. 5. The Corps, the Environmental Protection Agency and Whitman County Emergency Management Division deployed absorbent booms above and below the fish ladder at the Lower Granite Dam. The dam has been ruled out as the possible source of the oil sheen. Early estimates describe the size of the spill to be less than 10 gallons. Ecology spill responders later...
A Pullman couple applied for Whitman County’s first and, as of press time, only same-sex marriage license after the new state law took effect last Thursday, Dec. 6. Laryssa W. Paulson, 19, and Brianna E. Grosche, 20, applied at the auditor’s office at 9:51 a.m., shortly after the auditor’s office opened. Thursday marked the first day same-sex couples could get married in Washington state. Voters across the state voted to legalize same-sex marriage with 53.7 percent approval in the Nov. 7 election. Whitman County voters approved the measu...
Mason Smith of Colfax gives the big four sign Thursday when he talked things over with Santa Claus during a Colfax stop at the library. Mason was responding to Santa's inquiry about his age. More photos of Christmas celebrations in Colfax and Garfield can be seen on page 7....
Whitman County will stick with its costly New World accounting software. Commissioners Monday voted unanimously to sign a maintenance deal with the firm through 2014. The three-year contract begins with retroactive coverage to the beginning of 2012. For this year’s maintenance, the county will pay $42,020. That escalates to $44,120 in 2013 and $46,770 in 2014. Under the contract, New World will provide software upgrades, bug fixes, licenses to run the program and telephone tech support. “It certainly makes you take pause,” Commissioner Micha...
Marijuana possession is legal in Washington as of last Thursday, Dec. 6. Passed in the November election, Initiative 502 made it legal for anyone over 21 to hold up to an ounce of pot. But several questions remain. Marijuana is legal to smoke in Washington following a voter-approved initiative. Law officials are now figuring out what to do with the many unanswered questions. It is still illegal to buy or sell the drug, and the federal government still lists marijuana as an illegal narcotic. That leaves a grey area for law enforcement to deal...
The building’s heat is still on and the coolers still run. But the water is shut off for another winter at the vacant building which was the site of Smokin’ Papas and the long-time location of Cher’s Restaurant at Garfield. After a year and a half of vacancy, the Garfield City Council began to discuss another use for the building at their Dec. 5 meeting. It might become a town community center? “We’re just in the infancy of starting to talk about it,” said Councilman Daymon Marple, who is also...
