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 –...
Preventing fires from destroying entire towns will take communities learning to live with fire
This article first appeared in the Spokesman-Review on September 10, 2021. Article by Laurel Demkovich. Photos by Jesse Tinsley. In recent years, small towns, like Malden, Washington, have become victim to catastrophic fires that burned around them. As more people...
Why didn’t Malden get the federal aid requested by Inslee? It’s complicated
This article first appeared in the Spokesman Review on September 9. 2021. Article by Orion Donovan-Smith. Photos by Jesse Tinsley. WASHINGTON – After the sun set on Memorial Day, the flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol was lowered, folded and mailed from the D.C....
Bureaucratic hurdles making Malden recovery uniquely difficult
This article first appeared in the Spokesman-Review on September 8, 2021. Article by Emma Epperly. Photos by Jesse Tinsley. The rural town of Malden didn’t have much to offer when it came to amenities, but it had decades of history and a quiet sense of community. That...
Washington leaders talk preventing ‘another Malden situation’ one year after Babb Road Fire
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...
The fortunes of Malden, Washington, rose and fell largely with the railroads
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...
Malden, Pine City communities gather to recognize first anniversary of Babb Road Fire
This article first appeared in the Spokesman-Review on September 7, 2021. Article by Emma Epperly. Photos by Jesse Tinsley. Last Labor Day, a line of cars rushed through smoke, fire looming on both sides of the road, as residents evacuated Malden and Pine City. A year...
A wildfire burned 85% of this Washington town. This is their recovery story.
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 months. One...
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