After losing everything in the fire, 90-year-old Malden man moves into donated home
This article first appeared in The Spokesman Review on March 10, 2022, By Emma Epperly . Sun poured through the windows of a nearly empty house as 90-year-old Jim Jacobs, tears in his eyes, looked around in awe. He finally had a home. It had been 548 days since...
Malden Recovery Slow But Steady. Residents Get Six New Homes
This media first appeared online at NWPB. By Lauren Paterson March 8, 2022 Mayor Dan Harwood has one word to describe what it was like to watch the Babb Road fire devour the town of Malden. “Hell.” Harwood said he started filling water trucks and going door to door to...
Ford Motor Company Fund donates to fire relief funds in Malden and Pine Creek
This article first appeared in the Moscow Pullman Daily News, Jan 22, 2022. The Ford Motor Company Fund awarded a grant of $25,000 to the Innovia Foundation to support the fire relief efforts in Malden and Pine Creek region after the Babb Road Wildfire in September...
Red Cross Awards Grants for Wildfire Recovery
More than $1.2 Million in grants allocated throughout Northwest Region SPOKANE WA, November 24, 2021 — More than one year after the 2020 Labor Day wildfires sparked throughout Washington State, scorching thousands of acres and destroying homes in Whitman and...
Full Circle: Malden mother and daughter give back to community after losing home in fire
This article first appeared in The Spokesman Review on October 31, 2021. Written by Emma Epperly . emmae@spokesman.com(509) 459-5122 The road leading into main street in Malden, Washington, looks almost normal at first glance, with a row of old weathered homes with...
AWC: Community Care — A small-town eastern Washington mayor advocates action now to combat natural disaster
This article first appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of Cityvision, a magazine produced and distributed by the Association of Washington Cities.
Commerce awards $11.4 million for vital infrastructure projects in 20 rural communities
Community Development Block Grants fund wide range of high-priority local projects, including public water, sewer, emergency and fire protection systems, streets, housing, food pantries and more. OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington State Department of Commerce today...
House panel rejects GOP effort to include ‘MALDEN Act’ in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending package
This article first appeared in the Spokesman-Review. Article by Orion Donovan-Smith . Photos by Jess Tinsley. WASHINGTON – Late Tuesday night, House Democrats rejected a Republican effort to add legislation inspired by the fire that destroyed the Eastern Washington...
Leaving Malden and looking to the future, young couple gets married and saves for home to start a new life
This article first appeared in the Spokesman-Review on September 12, 2021. Article by Emma Epperly Photos by Jesse Tinsley. Music drifted over a Spokane Valley backyard as Sage Butler walked down the stairs in a gown, smiling at her fiancé, Jason Hoover, who tearfully...
Marquis of Whitman County: Malden leaders have big dreams for future
This article first appeared in the Spokesman-Review on September 11, 2021. Article by Emma Epperly, Photos by Jesse Tinsley. Children play among lush green pine trees as hikers come off the John Wayne Trail to pick up lunch and a U.S. Postal Service truck rumbles by –...
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