Victory: Colton girls take state
Colton girls nab state championship for second year. The powerhouse Colton girls basketball team lifts the golden globe after claiming the school’s second straight state 1B championship last Saturday night in the Yakima SunDome. The Wildcats rolled over their opposition, beating opponents by more than 42 points per game. Colton was one of four Whitman County teams to take part in the Yakima showdown last weekend; Rosalia, St. John and Endicott qualified as well. Shots of all four teams playing at the state tournament in Yakima can be found in the sports section on page 5.
A second try: Colfax board eyes new levy figure;$950,000
By Jeslyn Lemke, Gazette Reporter
A tentative levy figure of $950,000 is on the table for the second Colfax levy proposal, after the public voted down a levy of $1.3 million proposal in the Feb. 9 special election.
The new levy figure comes in the wake of a three-week series of public meetings in which voters turned out to ask the district about the failed levy and voice opinions on a new figure. Read more….
Palouse playset nears construction, four years of fundraising pays off
By Jeslyn Lemke, Gazette Reporter
For four and a half years, mothers in Palouse sweated away to earn the $36,000 it will take to purchase a pre-school friendly playground set for the Palouse city park.
Bake sale after bake sale and silent auction after silent auction, the unsung mothers of Palouse amassed the needed funds for their toddlers to run wild. Read more….
Sports
Colton girls hoist the golden ball for the second year in a row after rolling over Almira/Coulee/Hartline 64-34 in Saturday night’s marquee match-up. Kelsey Moser, lifting the trophy, is the lone senior on the Wildcat team.
The unstoppable force that has been Colton girls basketball the last two years boils down to one credo: Just Work Harder. The hard chargers from the Snake River breaks followed that ethic through the season took it up a notch for last week’s 1B championship repeat at Yakima’s SunDome. Read more….
Opinion
So there she was on the television screen that Friday night. Sen. Patty Murray was being “interviewed” about the $35 million in stimulus funds which had been added to the pot for Spokane’s North-South Freeway project, probably the state’s longest still-in-the-works freeway project.
The television reporters didn’t have much trouble tracking down their “news” story; Sen. Murray, and Gov. Christine Gregoire announced the day before they would be up on the Farwell Road overpass at 10 a.m. the next day for an “appearance”. It really wasn’t a news event because the $35 million award had already been announced. Read more….
