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Andre Eubanks, new owner of Wheatland Lanes Bowling Alley, cut the ribbon for his grand opening Wednesday, Jan. 1....
Colfax boys booked a roller-coaster hoop week with two one-point wins over the weekend followed by a crash on their home court when Liberty’s Lancers rolled into town and left with a big win in a battle for the league’s number two slot. Friday’s 38-37 league win over Northwest Christian came on a three-point shot by Kasey Johnson in the last 28 seconds of the game. Johnson put Colfax back on top and the one point edge held up for the last 28 seconds. The Crusaders missed the shot on the next...
Colfax and Northwest Christian girls battled Friday for the NE top spot at Colfax with the Crusaders escaping with a dramatic 66-65 win to claim the top slot in the league race. The Bulldogs bounced back to form with a win Saturday over Lakeside and returned home Tuesday to log a solid league win over the Liberty Lancers. Friday at Colfax the NWC girls kept their win string alive on the shooting skills of Rachel Bozlee who canned four three-point shots. The two teams exchanged leads during the...
Colton loses another two-O.T. game days later Down by four points with 12 seconds left, Rosalia’s Ryan Maley hit a three-point shot. With their lead down to one, Colton sent the inbound pass to center Dalton Patchen, who the Spartans had to foul, sending him to the free-throw line. Patchen downed both shots to leave Rosalia with no timeouts, 3.6 seconds and 96 feet from Colton’s basket. Craig Nelson took the inbound pass, dribbled up the right side of the floor and just short of halfcourt too...
It began physically, with bodies hitting the floor. Or was that the sound of cheerleaders stomping their feet? Either way, there were no fouls called early in the Southeast 1B girls’ game between Colton and Tekoa-Oakesdale Friday night. All the while, the undefeated Wildcats showed the undefeated Nighthawks who probably wouldn’t be after the game was over. Slowly getting the ball to fall into the basket, Colton opened up a lead early, capped off by a three-pointer from Zoe Moser to make it 15-...
Garfield’s Jarrod Pfaff completed his eight years as mayor Dec. 31. It was the first political office he held of any kind, running in 2006 when he was asked to go against Ray McCown. “It was a good experience,” said Pfaff of his two terms. “It keeps you occupied,” he added. “Overall, the state drives you nuts from time to time with some of their archaic rules but most everybody was pretty decent.” Pfaff indicated that the hardest part of his mayorship came at the beginning. “Just trying to learn it all for the first year, the first two years...
Palouse Direct Seeders will hold a breakfast meeting in Colfax next Wednesday, Jan. 15, at Colfax Methodist Church beginning at 7 a.m. A hosted meal will be served by the Top Notch Café and sponsored by AgTeq and Jones Truck and Implement. Featured speakers are Drew Lyon, WSU extension endowed chair for weed management and Dusty Eddy of AgTeq. Lyon will discuss weed management in direct seeding and CRP takeout while Eddy will talk about the operation of Precision Ag and GPS equipment. Also, growers have been invited to discuss their direct...
A former Navy aircraft mechanic and Kansas state legislative candidate is now Farmington’s mayor. Beginning his term Jan. 1, James Woomack succeeded Ron Dugan, who served for 21 months, completing Laura Hokenson’s term. At Dugan’s final city council meeting Dec. 16, Farmington volunteer Mark Hellinger presented Woomack with a big wooden key to the city, which he made that day in his shop. “I’m gonna put a chain on it and hang it up,” said Woomack. It may be the first change he makes in town, al...
A 1987 Colfax High graduate has a second book which has just been published. Michael Weitz of Boise, a Broadcast Television major from University of Idaho and English literature minor, is the author of “Grandmaster’s King,” (Musa Publishing) a new book set amidst chess players in Seattle. It is the follow-up to “Dead Men Play Chess” (Lachasis Publishing, 2009). “Grandmaster’s King” was released as an e-book Dec. 27, and subsequently named 2013 Book of the Year by the leadership of Chess Club L...
A new group of self-help homes in Whitman County are almost all sold. Of the four houses built in Uniontown last summer, three of them have potential owners with preliminary approval for loans while a fourth applicant hasn’t seen the house yet. “They may be gone,” said Sandy Martinez, Housing Assistant Program Manager for Community Action Center (CAC). “Everything looks good for them to qualify.” The three-bedroom, two-bathroom and two-car garage homes are sold to qualifying buyers for $164,...
Interest in whole grain flour milling and the Unifine Mill seems to be “busting loose,” according to Unifine President Steve Fulton. Unifine crews will install the company’s first system in January at Azure Mill in Dufur, Ore., just outside of The Dalles, Fulton said. This is a modular system. Each of the mill towers can produce 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of flour an hour, Fulton said. Fulton also said Turkey might be a major market for the Unifine Mill. The Prime Minister of Turkey is insis...
According to the state Liquor Control Board, Whitman County has 11 applications for marijuana retail outlets, 20 marijuana producer applications and 16 marijuana processor applications. “A lot of these might not meet the criteria,” said Brian Smith, public communications officer with the state Liquor Control Board. When people apply for a license to produce, process or sell marijuana, the application goes through the Liquor Control Board who notifies the local authority. Whitman County commissioners recently looked at an application from Thr...
Public safety is the top of Rep. Susan Fagan’s priority list for the upcoming legislative session that begins Jan. 13. Rep. Fagan, R-Pullman, in her fourth year as a legislator, will sponsor two bills in the Washington state House of Representatives. One concerns a bill about sexually violent predators and one pertains to a clearer definition of marijuana. The objective to reforming the sexually violent predator statute is to prevent the release of sexually violent predators by closing a l...
Whitman County Commissioner Michael Largent announced Monday that he is running for a third term. Largent, 55, who lives between Dusty and Colfax, represents District 3 which includes Colfax, Albion, Wilcox, Dusty, Hay, Hooper, LaCrosse, Endicott and parts of Pullman. He was chairman of the board last year, just turning the gavel over to Commissioner Art Swannack of Lamont on Monday. “It wasn’t an easy decision,” Largent said, adding he also talked with his wife, Audrey, before making the decis...
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS Bid For Oil and Grease WHITMAN COUNTY STATE OF WASHINGTON Sealed bids will be received on the following proposal by the Board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, State of Washington, at its office in the Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax, Washington, until 11 a.m. Pacific Time, on January 21, 2014 at which time they will be opened and publicly read. Handicap access may be obtained by the Mill Street entrance to the Courthouse. Each bid is to be separately sealed in an envelope addressed to the Board of County...
Colfax basketball player Brent Becker, son of Mike and Tanya Becker, read a statement of appreciation Friday night before the Colfax-Northwest Christian boys’ basketball game at the Colfax gym. Acting on behalf of his family, Becker read a listing of the numerous public benefits which have been conducted to assist with the cost of his mother’s treatment for cancer. He also noted their appreciation for the donations they have received. Colfax CHS announcer Dean Ellis, left, called for the cro...
Whitman Hospital Administrator Debbie Glass submitted her resignation to the hospital board of directors at its Dec. 18 meeting. Glass said she plans to retire after a career of more than 27 years in health care leadership. She said she plans to remain on the staff until spring and will assist in recruiting a new chief executive officer for the hospital. Glass told the Gazette Tuesday she realized earlier she could retire as of 2014 and as the new year approached she just decided to make the move. Whitman Hospital has approximately 200...
Whitman County commissioners will meet with Hawkins development representatives within the next few weeks to discuss the contract between the company and the county. Administrative Director Gary Petrovich told commissioners Monday morning during a workshop that Hawkins’ Jeff DeVoe requested the meeting to see “what’s do-able and what isn’t.” Petrovich said that DeVoe wants feedback from commissioners about how they will go forward with the project. He said he will schedule a meeting either toward the end of this month or the beginning...
