Articles by Evan Ellis

Shaakirrah Sanders, law professor at the University of Idaho is the featured speaker in the next black history month lunchtime lecture series event. It will take place at 11:30 tomorrow morning via zoom. Sanders will discuss Idaho’s anti-affirmative action law and the impact on diversity… equity and inclusion in the […]

For the first time in nearly a year in-person classroom instruction resumes Monday at Pullman High School.  PHS students who chose to be in the classroom begin a hybrid format of in-person and online instruction starting Monday.  Pullman High School students are the last K-12 students on the Palouse to […]

A new coronavirus death was reported in Whitman County on Friday.  Whitman County Public Health reports that 45 local Washington residents have died from coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. 21 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Whitman County on Friday.  All of the new patients are in […]

The positivity rate for coronavirus testing at Gritman Medical Center in Moscow has increased to 7.3%. 70 tests came back positive for the week ending on Wednesday.  That’s up from the previous week’s 3.5% positivity rate with 20 positive tests.  The numbers include testing from the University of Idaho and […]

The positivity rate for coronavirus testing at Pullman Regional Hospital is holding fairly steady at 2.8%.  Nine tests came back positive at PRH for the two-week period ending on Tuesday.  PRH reported a 2.5% positivity rate and 8 positive test results last week.

The 68th Annual Uniontown Sausage Feed will be held next month with curbside pickup dinners only. The meals can be bought on the day of the feed March 7th.  You can also buy the dinners online ahead of time before Monday here https://uniontownwa.org/2020/11/19/uniontown-community-building-sausage-feed-meeting/ The feed will be on Sunday March 7th […]

The latest data from Idaho Public Health shows that Gritman Medical Center in Moscow has administered all of its current supply of coronavirus vaccine.  Gritman has administered all 3,281 doses of the vaccine that it has received so far.  The same goes for the CHAS clinic in Moscow which has […]

16 new cases of coronavirus were reported at Washington State University on Thursday.  13 of the new cases are students.  There are 31 active cases on campus with 26 of them students.  That’s up from 21 active coronavirus cases that WSU reported on Wednesday.  This comes after two days of […]

An international flour-milling company has announced its intent to buy Pullman-based Hinrichs Trading Company. Premier flour-milling and ingredient company Ardent Mills is planning to purchase substantially all of the business operations of HTC.  HTC is a full-service pulse origination and processing company specializing in garbanzo beans. A press release from […]