2022 One year ago
There was nobody like Mike Leach. In a college football world full of coaches that are cliche “coach speak” types or “rah rah hype-’em-up” types, Leach was neither. He was gruff and a straight shooter, also hilarious, long-winded and always willing to talk about obscure topics. He was known to chat, sometimes for hours, with reporters or coaches he barely knew. He was known as “the Pirate” for his fascination with 18th-century scallywags; as the pioneer of the Air Raid offense, the most-prolific passing attack in football. Leach died at 61 years old after complications from a heart condition, Mississippi State said. ... Whitman County Public Health has redesigned and updated the Palouse Resource Guide, making community services and resources easily accessible to the community. The guide can be viewed at palouseresources.org, which allows people to view community-serving organizations and search specific categories. According to a Whitman County Public Health news release, the organization’s goal is to connect the community to all available resources and services in the region.
2018 Five years ago
Local growers of dry peas, lentils and chickpeas are being invited to join an innovative food trend that could magnify their profits and add new markets for their crops. It also could land them in the middle of a bitter public policy fight. Paul Shapiro, CEO of The Better Meat Co. of Sacramento, Calif., spoke to a group of about 100 farmers and scientists Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Western Pulse Growers Association at the Best Western Plus University Inn at Moscow. ... The Palouse Conservation District hopes a recently received grant will help bring more steelhead back to a local creek. The conservation district, based in Pullman, was awarded about $42,000 from the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office’s Salmon Recovery Board. That money will go toward a project to make a section of Steptoe Creek near Colton more habitable for steelhead that are part of the Asotin Creek population.
2013 10 years ago
Recently, Tyler Tolmie learned he was going to Hawaii. “I just got offered a job through Monsanto in Maui,” Tolmie said. “I’m very excited to be getting out of the cold.” Graduating with a degree in sustainable cropping systems, the 26-year-old Parma native raised in a Vandal household will be heading to Hawaii to begin his job in January. While he said he’s excited he’s going to be in a place where it’s warm enough to hang out at the beach, he’s still going to miss his alma mater. ... Dozens of local pet owners lined up to get their pets’ pictures taken with Santa on Saturday at Pullman’s Pets Are People Too. The event was organized by the Whitman County Humane Society to raise money and pet supplies. For a small donation of either, volunteers took photos of the pets to email to owners. The event raised about $250 to go to the shelter’s Hope Fund for injured, homeless pets, designed to help cover the cost of surgeries for sheltered animals, while another $200 in food and cleaning supplies donated will go to the shelter for help in caring for the animals that currently call the Humane Society shelter home.
