2022 One year ago
An election was held in Moscow, and while the results may not count, the experience does. Hundreds of high school students from around Latah County visited the 1912 Center to fill out their ballots for this fall’s election as part of a mock election organized by the League of Women Voters of Moscow. LWV member Louise Davison volunteered at the event and said this gives the students a trial run before they are old enough to vote. “I think it’s one of the more important things that we do because this is a real replica of actual voting,” she said. ... With tuition and housing expenses on the rise, many individuals are finding it hard to pursue higher education, something that only becomes more challenging after incarceration. However, LCSC has presented inmates with the opportunity to continue their schooling, a topic that brought the president of LCSC to tears at a State Board of Education meeting in Lewiston. LCSC presented the board with its annual reports, including updates on the progress inmates have made while attending the college.
2018 Five years ago
The ESPN GameDay broadcast had ended more than seven hours earlier. The delirious crowd behind the stage had dispersed. The roadies were disassembling the whole dazzling set-up. But the hype and the passion simply crossed the street and kept raging. On one of the most eventful days of Washington State football history, Gardner Minshew and the No. 25 Cougars fed off the lingering emotions from GameDay’s first-ever visit to Pullman, bolted to a four-touchdown lead in the first half and hung on for a rousing 34-20 win over No. 12 Oregon.... A fire destroyed a cabin at the KOA Boyer Park and Marina on the Lower Snake River south of Colfax, according to information provided by the Port of Whitman County. The port owns the park and the two-year-old cabins at the park. Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers said Whitman County Fire District 13 volunteers were called to the blaze around 5:20 p.m. and extinguished it. Myers said there were no injuries and it is unknown what sparked the fire.
2013 10 years ago
When Moscow High School junior Meadow Poplawsky first found out she would be performing in a concert with the top high school instrumentalists in the country, she thought there had been a mistake. “I just didn’t even believe it,” Poplawsky said. Not only will the MHS band member be one of just 150 students in the nation to play in the annual All-National Honor Symphony Orchestra in Nashville, Tenn., she will be the only instrumentalist from Idaho at the event. ... University of Idaho alumnus Sydel Samuels has been named director of the UI Native American Student Center. Samuels has worked with tribes and reservation communities for 13 years, and has experience with recruitment and retention of pre-secondary Native American students, according to a UI news release. She is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe and a descendant of the Cayuse and Walla Walla tribes in Oregon. She is the third member of her immediate family to graduate from the UI.
