Back Issues: From the pages of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News

2023 One year ago

Once a month, the Moscow Ukulele Sing-Along gathers in the back room of Hunga Dunga Brewing Company to enjoy a drink or two and to play together. The group nearly filled the back room of the Moscow brewery with roughly 30 ukulele players, a bassist and a kazoo player. Shelly Gilmore, the founder of the monthly meetups, said it is always a fun time to get them all together and enjoy the music. The idea to start the group came to Gilmore after she saw a video of other ukulele players in a bar singing along to the same song. She wanted to replicate it in Moscow. ... Whether or not there may be a withheld secret to living 100 years, Richard “Dick” Fry says it’s all just up to dumb luck. Dick will be turning 100 years old with most of his life spent on the Palouse. Dick said he’s lived a full life — he served in WWII, traveled the world and worked as a journalist in the height of the industry.

2019 Five years ago

University of Idaho President Chuck Staben will ask the Idaho State Board of Education to approve an academic transitional leave for the fall semester so he has time to prepare for a teaching assignment beginning in January. Staben’s employment agreement as president ends June 15, but he has the option to become a tenured professor at UI. According to UI’s Director of Communications Jodi Walker, Staben would receive pay and benefits during the leave if it’s approved, but a pay rate has not been set.

2014 10 years ago

For the 12th time in the past 13 years, Pullman High School will represent the Inland Northwest in Washington, D.C., for the National Science Bowl finals. Rachit Singh, Jaeyoung Heo, Moritz Lange, Aneesh Pappu and Yilun Du earned an all-expenses-paid trip to the nation’s capital after going undefeated in the regional tournament at Whitworth University in Spokane. They competed against high schools from Spokane and northern Idaho. ... The war is over — the penny war, that is. Students at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Moscow competed against each other last week to raise money for a local charity, gathering more than $1,000. As part of Catholic Schools Week the school came together to focus on one of their central themes — service. “What we do in a very positive way today, helps our world everyday,” said Sister Margaret Johnson, school principal. The goal of the penny war is to be the grade that raises the most pennies to win a special treat. The catch is placing any money that is not pennies in the opposing grades’ jar deducts that amount from their final tally.