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Seats in the Colfax High School auditorium were cleared out in two days last week to begin the school remodeling project. Remaining on the floor were sides of chairs which were still connected to wires for aisle lighting. An electrician was slated to take those out Tuesday. Next, the six-man, full-time crew from Wellens Farwell Construction of Enterprise, Ore., moved to the old wood shop to prepare the area to be turned into a STEAM lab, a classroom and the junior high commons area, according...
The City of Palouse has been awarded $200,000 to install a sidewalk on Palouse Cove Road to the edge of downtown. The grant, from the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board’s new “Complete Streets” program, comes as part of an original plan for the sidewalk to connect to Lions Club Park along the Highway 27 entry into Palouse. From there it would lead to a footbridge the city intends to build across the North Fork of the Palouse River to Hayton-Greene Park. Funding for the footb...
Lance Bishop, wife Alice and their three children rolled onto the Palouse from Mississippi Friday. Monday, Bishop went to his first day of work as the new Whitman County IT Director. The Whitman County position opened when former IT director Chris Nelson was elected county treasurer. "Technology is always changing, so you have to change with it," said Bishop from a seat at the county's IT building. Change is not a new thing to Bishop. He grew up in a military family, moving regularly. He served...
Crews from Shamrock Construction, Spokane, are now working to apply rock riprap along the north bank of Willow Creek west of LaCrosse. A slide from the steep bank left a sheer earth face next to the ballast of the railroad Jan. 23 and shut down rail shipping on the Palouse River line which serves LaCrosse, Endicott, Mockonema, Winona, Lancaster, St. John and goes through Sunset to Thornton. A short construction zone has been posted on Highway 26 west of mile marker 101 which is west of the...
Colfax is about to get a lot more colorful. The Colfax Arts Council has announced two art projects that are set to bring a lot of art to the downtown area. One will spread murals on the sides of local business buildings while the other aims to spread art along the city’s chainlink fences. Three locations for murals have been secured by the arts council with a fourth in the works. Professional artists have already been selected for each building. “I know each of these artists could pull off a m...
Albion 4H club will host the annual community Easter egg hunt in Albion April 20 starting at 9 a.m. at the park beside the community building. There will also be an optional canned food drive if families would like to contribute. The ages for the egg hunt are from 1 to 12 years with 3 age groups. In addition to regular Easter eggs and candy, each age group will have hidden golden and silver eggs with a special prize....
Almost six years ago, Torry Shepherd stepped in as manager of the CHS Primeland store in St. John. He knew what changes needed to be made to make the business successful. However, the corporation's stringent rules hobbled him and Torry was never able to do what he felt was needed to make the business prosper. Until now. "Big corporation does not work in a small town," he said, sitting at the lawn table and chair on display in the store, wearing a brand new tan shirt. The pocket logo on the...
The Washington State Department of Transportation is now in its final stages of review for this summer’s Almota Road project between Union Flat Creek and the intersection with State Route 194 near Onecho Bible Church. “Plans are 95 percent complete,” Dean Cornelison, assistant county engineer, said to county commissioners Monday. Still, nothing is sure for this year. Part of the county’s plans now at WSDOT include proposed offer letters to 12 property owners along the road to buy right-o...
Truly You Clothing and More is set to have its grand opening April 13, providing shopping for ladies' clothing and accessories for multiple generations. "This is a little dream of mine," said Whitney Bond, business owner who has been working to transform the former Events on Main café into the clothing store. Bond plans to stock her store with the three Cs: comfortable, classy and casual. She described the clothes as classy casual and business casual for women. But where things go or what they...
Route 26 Vintage Market will return this spring to the Palouse Empire Fairground April 12 and 13 after its first two years in the Jenning’s Elementary School Gym and moving last October to the fairground for its first fall show. The event will be in two buildings which will have antiques and vintage items, plants, specialty foods and more. This is the market’s fourth event and will coincide with WSU’s Mom’s Weekend. Vendor numbers at the market have almost doubled, which is a part of the rea...
The annual Colfax and Community Fund fundraising basket is on display at Rosauers in Colfax now thru April 7 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Basket items for spring and Easter include Spokane Indians upper box seat baseball tickets, hand-made lap afghans, sidewalk chalk and bubbles, $25 gift card to Rosauers, $30 gift card to J.P. Homemade Pies, bird feeders, “Happy Easter” wall art, Trail’s End Jalapeno Cheddar Cheese Popcorn and Gourmet Microwave Kettle Corn. The funds from the basket raffle support non-profits in the community. Ticke...
I just wanted to say a little something about opportunities. They are out there; try not to miss them. Second, they are all over the place; don’t overlook them. My biggest regrets in life can be categorized in one of two ways: lies and opportunities lost. Never tell yourself, “I’m not gonna get it anyway, so I shouldn’t even try.” Always try. Even if you know 100 people better and more qualified than you, try. Those 100 people might not be interested in taking that opportunity, you might hav...
Baseball finally happened at McDonald Park Tuesday with Colville's team making the trip south to play the Bulldogs in a non-league round. The game marked the de facto start of a home season after two prior home dates were scratched while the McDonald turf shed the snow and dried out. Colville topped Colfax 11-6 in the Tuesday non-leaguer to end a string of five wins by the Bulldogs over NE foes. The string included four NE south side wins with two over Ritzville at WSU and two over Reardan in...
Colfax senior Bennett Gray topped a field of approximately 20 golfers at Bryden Canyon in Lewiston March 28. Gray hit a three-over 39 and finished three strokes ahead of Davenport’s Kristof Panke. Augie Allenbach placed third with a 43, one stroke back of Panke. The action at Bryden was inserted into the golfers’ schedule after their first three outings for the year were scratched because of snow or course conditions. Gray and Allenbach return this year as seniors after again winning the all-B state team title last year in the finals at Hangman...
Rain Friday stopped an anticipated debut of the Colfax softball team on the home field at McDonald Park. The Bulldogs were slated to host Reardan for a league pair, but the games were rained out. A backup plan to play at Pullman was also bagged because of the rain threat. Kettle Falls is on the schedule to play here Saturday....
Colfax jayvees pegged a 13-5 win Friday over the SJEL varsity to start the action at Wisner Field. Eighth grader Mason Gilchrist threw three innings of no-hit ball at the hosts and added a single and triple. Ayden Miller, Gavin Shrope, Carson Gray and McCoy Nelson all added hits....
Colton Wildcats booked a split Tuesday on a road trip to Big Bend Community College at Moses Lake. The boys dropped the LRS Broncos 11-1 in the first game and bowed to Warden 10-15 in the second game. Jon Bean struck out seven Broncos on the way to a win in the first game which went into the books after five innings. He allowed two hits. Bean fanned the last two Bronco batters after LRS loaded the bases in the bottom of the fifth inning and threatened escape defeat on the 10-run rule. Kiah Ankerson, Luke Vining and Parker Druffel each had two...
What was it? The steal ratio? Rebound differential? Points "in transition?" Shooting percentage? Or was it this? Eight. The (unofficial) count for the number of times T.V. announcers Reggie Miller and Dan Bonner called for Gonzaga to get the ball inside. Two of the eight mentions sounded like they were in the same sentence. At one point, it was as blunt as could be: “They're taking bad shots,” Bonner said. Yet the statistic will not show up in any official analysis of Gonzaga's 2019 Elite Eig...
The City of Tekoa will soon choose whether to provide fuel at its airport after losing its longtime supplier last summer. Previously, a Pullman company brought the fuel and did the billing. “So we’re trying to figure out what to do,” said city councilman Roy Schulz, the liaison to the town-owned airstrip, which brings in money from renting hangar space and ground space. Inter-State Aviation of Pullman decided to pull out soon before the credit card reader at the Tekoa pump was deemed in need...
Whitman County Deputies, Colfax and Pullman officers Thursday departed here on a trip to Ellensburg to attend services for Ryan Thompson, the Kittitas County Deputy who was fatally wounded in a shootout at Kittitas last Tuesday night, March 20. Colfax fire volunteers used a ladder truck to hoist a U.S. flag at the Highway 26 intersection where the patrol cars departed westbound to attend the services. They joined law officers from around the state in paying tribute to Thompson, who was a...
Road restrictions lifted Weight restrictions on a list of county roads were lifted Monday morning from all roads west of Almota Road and south of Highway 23 which had limits posted over the past three weeks due to softened ground from snowmelt and warmer temperatures. Roads are expected to be opened Wednesday and Thursday of this week are those south of Highway 194 and Highway 270. Some roads may be limited longer. Whitman County Public Works assistant engineer Dean Cornelison said he expects restrictions to remain off until next winter....
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. VANEK WILL NOT SEEK THIRD TERM Colfax Mayor Todd Vanek told city council members at Monday night's meeting that he does not plan to seek a third term in office. Vanek said he feels he cannot sacrifice the time he believes it takes to serve another term as mayor. His announcement came after he...
Nadine Woodward, the newly-retired Spokane T.V. news anchor who is now running for mayor of Spokane, was on the other side of the cameras Tuesday to announce her campaign. Judged from the perspective of a weekly news person from the outer perimeter, she didn't do very well. She deflected reporters' questions and used the word "collaboration" a lot. Woodward deserves a lot of respect for lasting 30 years in the Spokane television news market. With its daily, maybe hourly, time restrictions and its wide area of intended coverage, it is a tough an...
One lesson the Washington reporter learns very quickly is that he or she should never EVER have unbreakable plans for the weekend. It's a major strain on the relationships that newspersons have with significant others who can accept only so many disappointments resulting from the Friday night news dump. The unpredictable dump has become sadly predictable. For good reasons and bad, officials wait until most people have stopped paying attention because they're focusing on their Saturday and Sunday activities, errands and fun stuff, and not on...