by admin | Sep 8, 2021 | Stories
This article first appeared on KREM.com on September 7, 2021. Author: Grace Arnis (KREM), KREM Staff Malden and Pine City were hit particularly hard by the Babb Road Fire. Now, state leaders want to prevent it from happening again. WHITMAN COUNTY, Wash. — Fires during...
by admin | Sep 7, 2021 | Our History, Stories
This article first appeared in the Spokesman-Review on September 6, 2021. By Jesse Tinsley. Wilson Moreland, born in 1852, homesteaded in north Whitman County in 1884, to farm and raise cattle. Moreland was successful enough that he acquired more land around...
by admin | Sep 6, 2021 | Stories
This article first appeared at KUOW.org on Sep 06, 2021. By Brandi Fullwood, Alec Cowan, Sarah Leibovitz , and Zaki Barak Hamid. If you had to rebuild your town, where would you begin? It’s a question that residents of Malden, Wash. have asked for...
by admin | Sep 6, 2021 | Stories
This article first appeared in the Spokesman-Review. on September 5, 2021. Article by Emma Epperly. Photos by Jesse Tinsley. The morning of Sept. 7, 2020, lived up to the red flag warning issued by the National Weather Service. Bill Tensfeld, director of Whitman...
by admin | Aug 27, 2021 | Stories, Uncategorized
This article first appeared in the Whitman County Gazette on August 26, 2021. MALDEN — Public comments and suggestions are sought about rebuilding a new U.S. Post Office in Malden. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is not conducting a public...
by admin | Aug 25, 2021 | Stories
This article first appeared in the Columbia Basin Herald. Written by By SAM FLETCHER, Columbia Basin Herald | August 24, 2021. Editor’s note: This is part one of two, covering The Nature Conservancy’s efforts to curb wildfires. “Everybody has an interest in preventing...
