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Startup Whitman, a program aimed at connecting entrepreneurs with business resources, has been launched by Startup 365 Washington as a pilot program. The Whitman County center opened earlier this month. Startup Whitman, headed by Robin Fahle Ohlgren of Pullman, was announced Dec. 9 along with Startup Asotin. The programs are the first to launch in eastern Washington. Governor Jay Inslee, quoted in the Washington State Department of Commerce press release, said these startup centers will allow experience to guide entrepreneurs. “Innovation and e...
A free U.S. Department of Homeland Security course, "Mobilizing Faith-Based Community Organizations in Preparing for Disaster," will be offered Jan. 30 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Whitman County Public Service Building in Colfax. Organization representatives, emergency managers and first responders from rural communities will engage in a reciprocal approach to disaster planning. The course emphasizes grassroots mobilization and coordination efforts as a means of engaging all faith communities, thereby reaching those most vulnerable to...
Whitman Conservation District will conduct an election in February to fill a seat on its board. District manager Nancy Hoobler said the position open is one that comes up for election every three years. “Our supervisors come up for election on a three-year rotating basis,” said Hoobler. Hoobler said the cost to participate in the November general election is high, so they wait to hold their election in February. “We can have it at different times,” she said. Cory Aeschliman currently holds the seat and will run for another term. As of yet, no...
A new reassessment directive from the Washington State Department of Revenue has resulted in a drop in assessed property values in Farmington, LaCrosse, Lamont and Malden. Farmington dropped the most, going from $11,530,000 in total property value to $8,764,730, due to adjustments for the second and third year of a four-year process to remove rail-car allocations from county numbers. Previously, each Washington county was assigned a share of the total rail cars crossing the state each day. The...
Possibly contemplating its next direction, this magpie rests atop a branch in Colfax Tuesday as snow comes down....
WSU and UI Extension will offer master gardener training and horticulture classes beginning Jan. 12 and concluding April 19, 2016. Classes will be Tuesdays from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the Clarkston Campus of Walla Walla Community College. For Whitman County residents, applications are due Dec. 31, 2015. The classes will be taught by UI and WSU faculty members and local horticultural experts. For those interested in becoming master gardener volunteers in Asotin, Nez Perce, Whitman or Garfield counties, there will be an informal class Jan. 5 at 1...
A March 14 trial has been scheduled for Joseph S. Benson, 52, Pullman, after he pleaded not guilty in Whitman County Superior Court Dec. 18 to 10 charges of possession of child pornography. Benson was charged Nov. 30 with one count of possession in the first degree and nine counts of possession in the second degree. The charges all allege he was in possession March 18 when Pullman Police served a search warrant at his residence and seized a computer. The computer was turned over for forensic examination by an officer with the WSU Police, and...
The city of Palouse awaits an evaluation of its energy use after two scheduled visits by Apollo Systems of Spokane were postponed on account of snow. The contractors had cold-called Palouse in November to ask about taking a look at the town’s systems to check for inefficiencies. The no-cost service may be followed by contract work to correct what they might find. After the Palouse City Council approved the pitch Dec. 8, City Clerk/Treasurer Mike Bagott scheduled a morning for Apollo engineers t...
Ninth District Sen. Mark Schoesler of Ritzville, senate majority leader, added his voice to calls for improved highways leading to Pullman. Recently, Washington State University and parents of WSU students have been calling for enhancements to Highway 195 and State Route 26 following the deaths of two students in car accidents during the Thanksgiving holiday. The state does have plans to fix portions of 195 and 26 by adding some passing lanes, but those changes are not scheduled until 2017 for 195 and 2025 for 26. Those plans were passed in...
The potential sighting of three wolves near Colfax Monday was unconfirmed by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), which also said it has not confirmed wolf sightings in the last couple of months. Jared Stamper, LaCrosse, posted a photo to Facebook Monday morning after he spotted three wolves in the hills near Steptoe. His caption read, “Just thought I’d share this with Whitman County, these three fellas are just outside of Colfax heading towards town, coming from Steptoe side.” He posted the photo to a Colfax Faceb...
Whitman County was ranked as the state’s and the nation’s highest yielding wheat producer for 2015, coming in at 72 bushels per acre with winter wheat and 40 bushels per acre with spring wheat. Those numbers come from the National Agriculture Statistics website, which keeps record of crop production. In regard to the winter wheat, a chart on the website said the county produced just more than 22.3 million bushels from 321,000 planted acres. Of the acres planted, 310,000 were able to be harvested, meaning a loss of 11,000 acres for the yea...
Emma Bryson, 12, Colfax, poses with this 14-foot tall snowman at the Perkins House. The snowman was constructed by her older brothers Ben and Sam Bryson and friend Matt Bramlett. Ben told the Gazette that “it took a while” to build the snowman, and the build was accomplished by putting three large snowballs together for the base and then building on top of that base. He also said they used a ladder to continue building the snowman up and to add a hat, which is really a garden pot, to the top...
