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Washington State University announced Wednesday that students must provide proof they have received the COVID-19 vaccine before they can take part in activities on campus for the 2021-22 academic year.

As Pullman High School seniors gear up to graduate in a couple of months, PHS alumni and community members are donating money to buy gift cards for seniors. Event organizer Nadia Daud and her sister created the fundraiser last year with several friends at the height of COVID-19. Daud said the group raised over $9,000.  The main purpose of the fundraiser is to celebrate PHS seniors, she said.  “There’s no intention to keep any money,” Daud said. “All of it is going to them. We’re not...

Katie Wheatley, Pullman High School junior, is the 2022 Distinguished Young Woman of Pullman.  To win the title, Katie was judged in a competition based on five different categories. Categories included scholastic, a fitness routine, an interview, talent and self-expression. Katie said she chose to play the piano for her talent. Her two- to three-minute fitness routine combined fitness with various dance elements. Katie’s older sister, Evelyn Wheatley, competed for DYW in 2019 and was the ru...

Nate passed away Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, of glioblastoma brain cancer at his home in Greenacres, Wash. Born Dec. 6, 1981, to Daleah Lawson and Richard Thiessen, Nate grew up in Pullman where he attended Franklin Elementary, Lincoln Middle School and Pullman High School. While there, he swam, played clarinet, oboe and piano, graduating in 2000. As a youth, Nate was active in Boy Scout Troop 442, which had a deep and positive impact on his life. Nate worked at Pullman Ford-Mercury, later Jess Ford...

Pullman recently welcomed the Callum family to the area. Although this might seem like insignificant information, there is more than what meets the eye when it comes to the Callums. Through an in-depth investigation, I have come to the conclusion that the Callums are vampires and I have the evidence to back this up. There have been reports of Edmund Callum and his siblings acting quite bizarrely.  “He stopped the Wheat bus in its tracks when he was trying to save that new girl, Anabelle Goos...

Pullman School Board members and teachers discussed the transition to hybrid classes and various physical education opportunities available to students during a meeting Wednesday. “Having students back has been great,” Superintendent Bob Maxwell said. “It’s exciting to see students all the way from preschool to seniors being back in person.” Maxwell said the board received a letter from a second-grader in the district expressing her excitement about returning to in-person classes and ...

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Pullman High School transitioned last week into a hybrid learning system where students have the option to go to in-person classes twice a week. Half the students can attend in-person classes Mondays and Thursdays, while the other half can attend Tuesdays and Fridays. There are no classes on Wednesdays. Those who do not wish to...

Pullman High School hosted a regular, in-person class schedule for the first time in almost a year Monday as students returned to a hybrid schedule that includes two days a

When Tara VanDerveer applied for the head-coaching job in women’s basketball at the University of Idaho in 1978, her official credentials were thin. She’d never run her own program at any level, and she’d landed her first paid assistant’s position just two years earlier. She was 24. More Headlines