2022 One year ago
The Moscow Police Department announced that a 28-year-old Pullman resident and Washington State University graduate student has been arrested in connection to the Nov. 13 murders of four University of Idaho students. Bryan Christopher Kohberger was arrested in Chestnuthill Township, Pa., by Pennsylvania State Police officers on four counts of first-degree murder, in addition to a felony burglary charge. He was arrested on a warrant issued by the Idaho State Police. ... The National Agricultural Statistics Service released its year-end summary of agriculture production in Idaho and Washington. Totals show the 2022 production season was a vast improvement for wheat farmers over the dismal returns of the drought the year before. Whitman County continues to lead the Northwest in wheat and barley production with nearly 32 million bushels of winter wheat this year and a yield of 86 bushels an acre. That’s an increase of about 60% from Whitman County’s harvest in 2021.
2018 Five years ago
Those in need of warm gloves, socks, scarves or other winter accessories have a free resource available to them at the Moscow Public Library. The items and more can be found tied up by brightly colored yarn and ready for the taking outside the library building. Ginger Allen took time to hang up new donated clothing items as she tries to keep up with the increasingly popular “Chase the Chill” charity drive, organized by the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse. ... Washington is one of the worst states in the country for child care access and day care centers on the Palouse say coming hikes to minimum wage could make matters worse. According to a recent analysis by the Center for American Progress, 63 percent of Washingtonians live in a “child care desert,” making the Evergreen State the sixth-worst in the country for child care access. The national average is 51 percent. A “child care desert” is a region where children under the age of 5 outnumber available spots in local day cares by at least 3-1.
2013 10 years ago
Whitman County is about a month away from getting out of having to pay nearly $6 million, but the county commissioners aren’t planning any holiday parties to celebrate. The savings should occur Jan. 30, when an amended agreement related to the Hawkins shopping mall expires — assuming the developer doesn’t start construction before then. “Right now it looks like the amended agreement will go away,” said Commissioner Dean Kinzer. “As far as we know, they won’t be pushing any dirt.” ... An inspection of Moscow High School’s boilers determined a Christmas night flood caused by a broken pipe had not damaged them, allowing classes to resume as scheduled. “School will start on time at the high school on Jan. 7, because we have heat,” said Lorne Barr, the district’s building, grounds and maintenance supervisor. Al Mongeau, a boiler repair specialist from Mid Mountain Boiler and Steam of Nine Mile Falls, Wash., inspected the school’s two boilers and determined no significant damage occurred despite the 2 feet of water that had filled the boiler room before the water supply was shut off.
