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Whitman County board members drafted several goals to include in the county’s updated Comprehensive Plan at the first of three open houses on Wednesday. The Growth Management Act of 1990 requires most counties to periodically adopt a comprehensive plan, but Whitman County does not fall into that category because of its rural nature, said Todd...

Whitman County board members drafted several goals to include in the county’s updated Comprehensive Plan at the first of three open houses on Wednesday. The Growth Management Act of 1990 requires most counties to periodically adopt a comprehensive plan, but Whitman County does not fall into that category because of its rural nature, said Todd...

Brave Britons have stripped nude to celebrate World Naked Gardening Day today - despite a Bank Holiday washout bringing chilly weather. The first Saturday in May sees countless brave planters rush outside wearing no clothes at all to carry out their weeding, planting and trimming. The first World Naked Gardening Day was celebrated in 2005 before rapidly spreading throughout the world. Its organisers - which include co-founder and product lead Mark Storey, the consulting editor for Nude & Nat...

Whitman County commissioners met Tuesday to discuss plans for handling the inclement weather and one member’s experience volunteering at COVID-19 clinics. People may have noticed that it has snowed over the last few days, said Mark Storey, county public works director. The commissioners did not want the snow to get ahead of them, so they had crews work over the holiday weekend to plow the snow.  Storey said this was expensive for the county, but the commissioners are trying to prevent the fa...

Mrs Marion Dawson, the third oldest person in Scotland and most senior in Greater Glasgow & Clyde, received her Covid vaccination on her 108th birthday in Houston, Renfrewshire. Mrs Dawson, who was born in 1913, lived through two World Wars as well as the Spanish flu pandemic. After receiving her vaccination, Mrs Dawson said; “I’m glad it’s passed. I never felt a thing!” Balloons and a Happy Birthday banner were even set up for Mrs Dawson receiving her vaccine. She was vaccin...