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

2022 One year ago

Nimiipuu: It’s not just a name, a title or something that appears on paper, Nakia Williamson-Cloud said. It’s a life people carry that’s connected to this land and a big part of who the Nez Perce people are. The Nez Perce Cultural Resources Program collaborated Tuesday with Washington State University to show materials associated with the 1877 Nez Perce War as a part of the WSU Common Reading Program. ... A 41-year-old artist who lives in Endicott is in the running to become the “Face of Horror,” an online competition that features a cash prize and walk-on role in an independent horror movie. E.D. Crouser was sitting in first place in her group. There will be six more rounds of voting after this, and the winner will be determined Nov. 10. The winner will receive $13,000, a movie role, a two-night stay at Buffalo Bill’s house from the film “The Silence of the Lambs” and be involved in a photoshoot for Rue Morgue Magazine, according to faceofhorror.org.

2018 Five years ago

As a former Disney animator, Za Vue knows the secret to great animation. With more than a decade working in Disney’s Florida studio, Vue has worked on movies like Pocahontas, Tarzan, Mulan and Brother Bear. In a guest lecture on the University of Idaho campus, Vue outlined the five core principles she looks for in animation and design. “Obviously, the first one is design, which encompasses drawing, composition, lines, all of that good stuff,” Vue said. “Then after that, I think about color, value, brushwork and edges.”

2013 10 years ago

It’s early in the morning, and students at Pullman High School are filing into a computer lab at the school library. They sit among rows of humming desktop computers as they quietly complete their assignment for that day. The students are in a technology course taught by Garren Shannon, the Pullman School District’s information systems director. Not so many years from now, Shannon believes a lab like this will be obsolete. At Moscow Middle School and Lena Whitmore Elementary School in Idaho, that future may already have arrived as interactive whiteboards and iPads have captured the imaginations of students and teachers alike.