Articles from the March 17, 2011 edition
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For the love of the game: Thunder will roll across Colfax turf for 7th grid season
Thunder players, including Colfax grad Silas Rohner, center, warm up for practice Saturday. Pro-like football will hit the Colfax gridiron as the Palouse Thunder minor league team will make the Colfax field their home this spring for the five games....
Colfax hoop awards wrap up No. 5 trophy year
After winning the fifth-place state trophy at Spokane last week, Colfax basketball players and coaches wrapped up the hoop season with an awards banquet Tuesday night. Seniors completing their varsity hoop careers were Alex Teade, Kellen Morgan and...
State Grange, Palouse Art Council deadlock on purchase of building
The Palouse Arts Council is on the verge of making another offer on buying the Palouse Grange hall, citing problems working with the state Grange, official owner of the building. The council has maintained the aging community building for the past...
Actress brings history to life for local students
A visiting actress entertained grade school students at nine schools in the county last week on an educational tour. The Living Voices program, here on a grant awarded to Whitman County library, offered students a choice of four program; Young People...
The world - March 17, 2011
THURSDAY Libyan tanks fired on rebel positions around the oil port of Ras Lanuf and warplanes hit another oil hub further east as Muammar Gaddafi carried counter-attacks deeper into the insurgent heartland. With personal wealth listed around $74 bill...
Excel classes slated
A free one-hour introductory class for Microsoft Excel 2010 will be offered Monday, March 21, at 6 p.m. in the Colfax library and Tuesday, March 29, at 6 p.m. in the Malden Library. Participants in Colfax will use the computer labs in the Colfax...
River route set to re-open
After a three-month shut down, the navigation system on the Snake and Columbia rivers is set to re-open next Wednesday, March 23. The opening is behind schedule due to some final repairs needed on Lower Monumental Dam on the lower Snake River near Ka...
Rough finish to their spring break
Two people were transported to Whitman Hospital after these two vehicles collided on Highway 26 about 10 miles west of Colfax Friday evening. Michael J. Blanc, 20, Burbank, driver of the 1999 Mercury Marquis pictured above, and Daniel Foust, 19,...
Turbine plan revision: Critics contend impact study for Steam Shovel Hill lacking
A study of the environmental impacts from First Wind’s expanded wind farm proposal are incomplete, according to comments submitted to Whitman County’s planning office. Eleven people submitted comments on the firm’s plan to add 10 turbines on Steam...
Conklin named jazz ‘giant’
Oakesdale Senior Michael Conklin, who won awards two weeks ago with his tenor saxophone at the UI Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, was one of three area high school players named “Young Giants of Jazz” who performed Saturday with the Spokane Jazz Orc...
Inmate assault nets lockdown
Yan Yefremov, 25, the Spokane area man who faces sentencing after pleading guilty to six different charges involving theft of cars at Pullman, has been ordered on lockdown status at the Whitman County jail. The jail order was issued after a hearing...
BRATC advances three projects
Only three of seven applications for Whitman County’s .09 economic development funding were advanced to the interview round by the Blue Ribbon Advisory Task Committee, or BRATC, which met Tuesday night in the courthouse. Laws attached to the .09 p...
State orders elk hunt in response to crop damage
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife initiated the first ever elk Hot Spot hunt in the Almota area Saturday to reduce crop damage caused by elk. Game Warden Bob Weaver Tuesday said the elk population in Little Almota Canyon has increased...
Kamiak Butte going to the dogs?
Letting dogs run free on the slopes of Kamiak Butte is becoming an issue. County park rangers last month discovered a blog with multiple photos of dogs running loose on the butte. The blog was on a northwest hikers Web site which encourages hikers...
Seniority vs. specialty: Colfax teachers protest proposed layoff policy change
Two months before the Colfax school district faces a deadline on teacher layoffs, the school board Monday received a letter from the teachers union which objects to the district’s proposed approach to layoffs. The teachers urged the board to stick w...
Eugene Bridge rescued from Dry Creek crash
Emergency volunteers from Farmington, Garfield and Steptoe eased Eugene Bridge of Garfield out of his car after it landed in Dry Creek along the Dry Creek Road. Bridge, 85, was driving eastbound toward Garfield Monday at 5:13 p.m. when the car...
Legals - March 17, 2011
ORDINANCE NO. 552 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF ROSALIA, WASHINGTON, annexing certain unincorporated portions of the Northwest Quarter of Section 14, Township 20 North, Range 43 East, W.M. WHEREAS, the owners of the below-described real estate...
Japanese disaster adds more uncertainty to wheat exports
Local wheat farmers watched as yet another disaster befell a perennial customer. Japan, the top world buyer of Washington state wheat, was devastated last week by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. Toll of the massive quake and tsunami waves, including its...
Honor concert brings students from 10 schools
Music students from 10 schools convened at Colfax Monday to present the Honor Festival concert sponsored by the Southeast Washington Music Educators. The students practiced for the performance during the day and the program was presented in the CHS...
On the record - March 17, 2011
MARRIAGE LICENSES Bing Li, 26, Bremen, Germany, and Xiaojiao Jiang, 26, Pullman, March 10 Bradley Downs, 25, Pullman, and Katie Young, 25, Pullman, March 10 COLFAX BUILDING PERMITS Carl Thompson, new bathroom, 704 N. First, March 9 Rudy Fisher, gas...
Living in the Garden combines plants and art
Carpets of silky primroses and pansies, with their brilliant reds and velvety blues, line the counters of the spacious conservatory. They have an herb garden growing on the roof of the gift shop. Solar panels power the energy needs of the business. W...
March Madness in Palouse
Simon Nguyen of Pullman checks out wares at the March Madness antique sale in Palouse Saturday. The town’s four antique stores supplied antiques for sale at the former Small Towne Quilts store. Heidi Kite, owner of Open Eye Consignment Shop, said t...
Letters - March 17, 2011
Positive aspects I am a Rosalian — Yes me, the Clerk/Treasurer with the English accent. I am Irish and proud of that, but I am also proud that I have an American passport because my Dad was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. My Dad was in the American Army f...
W. Bruce Cameron - The day I was floored
I was recently stuck on an elevator — an event made no less dramatic by the fact that the doors were open. OK, maybe a little less dramatic. I was by myself on the elevator, having just been to the dentist to have my teeth and my wallet scraped clean...