Drawing it up from the ashes

Drawing it up from the ashes

This article was originally published in Washington State Magazine, Winter 2023. Writen by by Becky Kramer. THREE YEARS AGO, a wildfire nearly destroyed Malden, Washington. As wind-driven flames raced across the parched late-summer landscape, residents got a 30-minute...
The railroad and the roundhouse

The railroad and the roundhouse

This article first appeared in the Weekend Edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, June 10 & 11, 2023. By Kathryn L. Meyer. Small, rural Whitman County town of Malden enjoyed a rich though brief railroad era In 1905, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad...