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SENTENCED TO 31 MONTHS Linda Choate, 35, was sentenced to 31 months in prison Friday after pleading guilty to a charge of assault of a child in the second degree. She entered the plea as part of a plea bargain agreement in which the state dropped three other charges in the case. The charges dropped include assault of the second child, harassment and unlawful imprisonment. Choate has been in jail here since her arrest Oct. 25 at her residence in the Thornton area. Chief Deputy Prosecutor Dan LeBeau said the deputies determined Choate had...
After bowing out of negotiations for the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal last year, the Trump administration announced its intention to get back into talks. On April 10, President Trump directed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow to begin negotiating for the United States to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The deal is now known as the CTPP, signed by the remaining 11 nations in March. It contains tariff breaks for the participants, including a cut in tariffs...
Travis Cocking pulls a harrow with a Cat tractor Saturday at Cocking Farms along the South Fork of the Palouse River. An April 4 announcement from China to include U.S. wheat on a list of proposed tariff increases on U.S. goods – to counter American moves on Chinese steel, aluminum and more – could constrict Palouse wheat markets. After the Trump administration put forth its new tariffs plan in mid-March, China’s countermove originally included about $3 billion worth of U.S. imports, but not w...
REAL ESTATE Kevin Kirkman, Pullman, to Raymond and Carla Charfauros, San Diego, Calif., 24 unit apartment on Latah Street in Pullman, $2,860,430, April 9. Ernst Witte Family Limited Partnership to Jenifer Fournier, Henderson, Nev., land northwest of Steptoe, $172,375, April 12. Jesse Anderson, Post Falls, to Justin and Kristin Million, Pullman, house on SW Lost Trail Drive, Pullman, $262,000, April 13. R.B. Olson Construction, Pullman, to Neal and Jeannine Goodwin, house on NW Marshland, Pullman, $429,000, April 13. David Watkins, Pullman, to...
I admire leaders who surround themselves with very smart people. Good managers use their experts to make their organizations better. It would seem that President Trump missed that lesson in management class. He has obviously been successful in business, successful enough to fund his own campaign. But managing a private business is different than administrating a government. The profit motive of private business is paramount to all other considerations. Not so in government. Private business is “for the stockholders.” Governments are “for the p...
Millions of college graduates find themselves saddled with crushing debt and more than a third of them won’t be working in their chosen profession. Many will be working for low wages. Meanwhile, there are millions of high-paid jobs available in the skilled trades – electricians, plumbers, manufacturing workers, pipefitters, mechanics, appliance repair, computer techs, medical assistants and welders. Known as blue collar jobs, they routinely pay $45,000 to $65,000 a year or more. According to Salary.com, the average heavy equipment operator in...
James Comey did it, naturally, for the children. Why does anyone in Washington take advantage of the most opportune moment to make a mint off publishing a tell-all book? It's never for the profits or the sheer satisfaction of sticking it to your enemies and putting yourself in the best possible light. No, there's always some ostensible higher cause. For the former FBI director, it's demonstrating, through his own sterling example, what ethical leadership is, "especially to young people." That the nation's youth will be riveted to their TV...
In Washington politics, rarely does anybody fully mean what he or she says. But few who know Paul Ryan doubt that he's sincere when he explains that he's abandoning his all-consuming job as House Speaker to spend much more time with his wife, Janna, and their three kids. Believe it when he says he's not running for re-election to Congress because he's longing to be more than a "Saturday dad." So, he'll be going home to Janesville, Wisconsin, as a private citizen next year. However, another reality in Washington is that there usually is more to...
Idaho has a slogan to encourage highway cleanliness: Idaho is too great to litter. It may be time for Whitman County to start up its own campaign because the picture-perfect Palouse isn't so pretty when its decorated in empty beer cans and broken bottles. Sunday was Earth Day. Thirty-five volunteers from Endicott spent three hours cleaning up along the roadside on the seven-mile stretch between Endicott and Winona. Many of the volunteers were amazed at the number of trash bags needed for this one section of lightly-used county road. The...
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. FAIR’S STATE SCORE DROPS The Palouse Empire Fair this year took a small cut in its state allocation funding because the fair sustained slight shrinkage during its September run, Fair Manager Janel Goebel reported at Monday night's monthly fair board meeting. The allocation for the fair totaled $34,987, which was $375 less than the previous y...
Whitman County officers, Colfax Fire Department and EMTs were called to a single car accident on Green Hollow Road early Wednesday, April 18. At the time of their arrival, the car was unoccupied....
Tekoa/Rosalia runners Gaven Merritt and Issac Leighton finished one-two Monday in an NE league meet at Davenport. The Timberwolves placed fifth in the meet on the boys side with 56 points behind the 144 win posted by Liberty in the 10-team event. Liberty also won the girls side of the met with 119, a 10-point margin over Davenport. Timberwolf girls finished with 11 points. Tekoa/Rosalia results: Boys results: 100 meters-14. Cole Peterson 12.65. 200-6. Peterson 25.06. 400-7. Issac Leighton 1:86. 1600-1.Gavin Merritt 4:56.14, 2. Leighton 5:1.37....
Landing Logan Reed of Oakesdale hits the dirt in the triple jump at the Mooberry Relay at Rogers High School in Spokane April 21. Oakesdale girls stacked up 172.33 points Tuesday with strong performances in the sprints and relay races to for a dominating win in a NE -SE meet at Colfax. The Nighthawks had a 58-point gap on the number-two finish by Colfax at 114.33. Asotin placed third at 102.8. Top finishers on the boys side were Colfax 124, Reardan 87, and Asotin 76.5. Winners and county...
Colton met Touchet at home Tuesday and swept the doubleheader, 11-4 and 13-3. The Wildcats totaled 23 hits across the two games, led by Jordyn Moehrle, Maggie Meyer, Emily Schultheis, Abby Kelly, Taylor Thomas and Rylee Vining, who each had two hits. Added Colton hits came from Addison Kinzer, Maggie Pluid and Macy Smith. The girls are set to play next at Pomeroy Saturday at 11 a.m. for a doubleheader....
Jackson Meyer took the mound and threw five scoreless innings for Colton Tuesday at home in a Southeast 1B league win over the Indians. Colton (11-4, 9-0 league) took control in the third inning, scoring eight runs, driven by Cameron Bean’s RBI-triple followed by a three-run home run. Additional Colton hits in the game came from Tom Wolf, Parker Druffel, Luke Vining, Jon Bean, Kian Ankerson and Meyer. The Wildcats are scheduled to play next at Pomeroy for a doubleheader Saturday. First pitch is at 11 a.m. A Tuesday, May 1, game follows at G...
Garfield/Palouse’s Kenzi Pederson, an eighth-grader, scores in the second game of a doubleheader loss to Pomeroy April 21 at Garfield. The Vikings lost the two games 15-1 and 21-6 in games called early for the 10-run rule.Garfield/Palouse, now 1-10 on the season, will play next on Friday at Kendrick for a doubleheader. They return home next week with two home games, April 30 vs. Tekoa/Rosalia and May 1 vs. Colton at 5 p.m. A previous article on the team left out two team members, junior o...
Blake Bodey makes a catch in right field vs. Pomeroy. Bulldog baseball players hammered out two wins Tuesday on a roadtrip to Northwest Christian to finish a string of five wins over seven days. The Bulldogs downed the Crusaders 14-2 in the first game, and 13-0 in the second game. Both were shut down after five innings on the 10-run lead rule. The run of five wins over the week left the Bulldogs at 16-1 in the season, and they will hit the road again Friday to play St. George’s for the last N...
Colfax and Oakedale girls battled last Wednesday, April 18, in a NE all-B meet at Lakeside. Oakesdale finished with a six-point win, 132-126, St. Georges finished third at 98. Anne Hockett led the ‘hawks with wins in both hurdle races, and Oakesdale girls took two of the three relay races. Colfax boys rolled up 142 points at Lakeside to take a big win over eight other teams. Senior Ben Ahmann booked a win in the 300 hurdles and finished second in the 100. Chase Baerlocher finished second to Kyle Abrahamson of Wellpinit in the 3200, and f...
Sophomore Blake Jones pitches in game one, an 11-1 loss at Garfield. The Garfield/Palouse baseball team played its first home games April 21, losing a doubleheader to Pomeroy. In the first game, the Pirates won 11-1 without an earned run. “That tells you, kind of how that went,” said Gar/Pal coach Mike Jones. Hogan Heytvelt pitched for Pomeroy, throwing all seven innings with 15 strikeouts, allowing two Gar/Pal hits, one of them an RBI-single from Blake Jones which scored Seth Thompson. Jon...
Shyah Antoine slides into third base while Bronco Mercedes Miller attempts to make the tag. Colfax softball players sustained two losses Tuesday against Northwest Christian to drop to an 11-4 record with one more NE game set next Thursday when Davenport visits here. Colfax made the Tuesday trip to NWC after topping the LRS Broncos twice Saturday at McDonald Park. Those wins finished out the NE-South run at 9-1. Tuesday Northwest Christian hammered Colfax 12-2 in the opener with 11 hits. The...
Three new recipients of the Peter A. Zornes memorial neuroscience scholarship at Washington State University were announced April 6 by the Zornes family. Shi Min Tan was awarded a $2,000 scholarship. Colton Crawford and Nhu Huynh each received $1,000. The scholarship was set up as a tribute to Zornes, a former WSU neuroscience graduate from Oakesdale who was killed in 2005. To date, there have been 14 Zornes Scholars named and just less than $16,000 awarded. The scholarships are primarily funded by the annual Peter Zornes Memorial Golf...
Veterans who served in the Korean War are being sought by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea to receive the Korean Ambassador for Peace Medal. “They still are extremely grateful,” Julie Pittmann of Rosalia commented on the Korean people and government. Pittmann is an officer with the Daughters of the American Revolution. “The Ambassador for Peace Medal was first presented to veterans as a special memento for those who have returned to South Korea through the ‘Revisit Program.’ The honor has since expanded to veterans who cannot trav...
The City of Pullman Historic Preservation Commission for the first time has entered into a special tax valuation agreement with the owner of an historic property. The agreement applies to a Dutch Colonial Revival house built in 1925 for A.A. and Pearl Rounds. It is in the National Register College Hill Historic District. The owner’s extensive rehabilitation included insulation, updated wiring and replacement of siding, windows and doors in a manner that closely replicates the original appearance, according to Jason Radtke, assistant city p...
Tom Stirling hands the microphone back after addressing the crowd. Jennings principal Travis Howell takes the first stripe. With a goal to raise $15,000 in its fifth year at Colfax, the St. Baldrick's fundraiser for childhood cancer research got underway Thursday, April 19, with the amount raised at that point just more than $11,000. By the end of the hour-and-a-half assembly, it was $15,278. It was the first year Colfax met its goal at the assembly. Another week remains for donations. A...
Applications for grants up to $50,000 are now being accepted for capital projects on historic cemeteries. A cemetery with five graves with at least one 50 years old or older qualifies as a “historic cemetery.” “It’s certainly not cut and dry,” said Julianne Patterson with the Washington Trust for Historic Preservations of the eligible projects. The biggest stipulation is the grant money be for capital projects, not maintenance. Landscape restoration projects qualify, but not regular yard care; monument repair would qualify, but not cleaning....
