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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. HIGH SPEED CHASE ENDS AT ROSALIA A $75,000 bail was set in superior court Friday morning for pre-trail release of Dakota D. Scharff, 20, Spokane, who was arrested Thursday afternoon following a high speed chase on Highway 271 and county roads. Bail for Chantelle Dragos, 29, Spokane, a passenger in the car, was set at $50,000. According to the... Full story
A two-run double in the bottom of the last inning Tuesday by Ella Gregory bagged a playoff slot for the Tekoa/Rosalia softball team in the NE playoff grid. The hit pulled out an 8-7 win over Wilbur/Creston. The two teams were booked in the last-chance playoff after posting matching 3-15 records in the league run. Tommia Pakootas allowed six hits in taking the playoff win. Next stop for the Timberwolves will be a game against Lind/Ritzville/Sprague.... Full story
Colfax girls placed second to Okanogan Saturday in the Undeberg Invitational track meet at Ritzville which drew entrants from 29 schools. Okanogan tallied 140 points, and the Bulldogs finished with 87.5. Colfax boys placed ninth with 25.5 points, behind the 124 point win stacked by the Okanogan team. Scout Cai again rolled up wins in both sprint events, the high jump and the pole vault, and Olivia Mellor won the long jump at 15-7. Mellor placed second in the triple jump. Colfax junior Caleb Brown took another win in the high jump with a leap...
Two big softball wins Saturday at Davenport landed the Colfax girls in second place in the league with a 15-3 record. The Bulldogs and Northwest Christian, which finished undefeated, earned a bye in the league’s first playoff round. The 15-3 Colfax finish bumped a 14-4 finish by Kettle Falls which landed in third place. Colfax rolled to Davenport Saturday morning needing just one win to tie Kettle in the standings. A tie would have staked a Colfax claim to the number-two finish because Colfax beat Kettle twice when the two went head-to-head bac...
A one-hit shutout from sophomore Cameron Bean led Colton to a 12-0 win at DeSales Tuesday. The non-league game was a prelude to a Southeast 1B tiebreaker between Pomeroy and Colton to decide the league title. The top two seeds for the playoffs will be settled Friday at Clarkston High School starting at 5 p.m. Bean struck out eight DeSales batters with no walks. At the plate for Colton, Grant Kinzer went 3-for-4 with three RBIs. Colton is now 18-2 overall, 9-1 in league. Its lone league loss was at Pomeroy last Saturday, which forced the...
Bailey Hartman pitches against Colton April 23. A rained-out doubleheader was moved to Monday, May 2, for St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse, in which they lost to Liberty Christian 15-3 and 12-0. The Eagles were set to play next at Pomeroy this Saturday, May 7, but was been moved to Wednesday, May 4, to allow for a playoff date, if needed, for Colton and Pomeroy to decide the No. 1 and No. 2 playoff seeds from the Southeast 1B league. In the first game Monday, Eagles' junior Terrell Webb went 2-for-2...
Colfax golfers continued their string of team wins over the week with a win Tuesday in an NE district match at Stoneridge in Blanchard, a par 72 course. Top scores for the Bulldogs were Chance Weitze 76, Bennett Gray 80, AJ Miller and Brian DeYoung, each 91, and Gunnar Aune 109. League foe Palmer Gaulke of Davenport bumped Weitze for the medalist honors at the meet. Gray placed third overall. Scores for the Colfax girls were McKenna Davis 90, Sarah Pugh 106 and Cassidi Shindler 127. Davis placed fourth. Wednesday, April 27, Colfax went up... Full story
WSU women's varsity eight (top boat) took a 4.7 second win over Oregon State University as part of a sweep over the Beavers in the lone home meet Saturday morning at Wawawai. Varsity eight race times over the 2,000-meter course were 6:23.17 for the Cougars and 6:27.87. The varsity eight battle was one of six races for the day with WSU booking a sweep. Coxswain Rebecca Burns (above) accompanies varsity eight rowers as they carry their shell off the dock after the race. Jordon Watson is in front....
Colfax baseball players finished off another NE league sweep Saturday with two five-inning shutouts at Davenport to wrap a 20-0 run. The Bulldogs followed up Tuesday with an 8-2 win over Wilbur/ Creston in the first round of a short NE-SE playoff series. Next round will be a collision with the Asotin Panthers, the top SE league finishers who shut out Northwest Christian 10-0 in the other playoff test Tuesday at Asotin. The Panthers are now 16-3 on the season. The Colfax-Wilbur/Creston game Tuesday was the first stop in a playoff series with...
Colton has won the Southeast 1B softball league with a 6-0 record, 12-4 overall, after sweeping Pomeroy last Saturday. On Monday, the Wildcats played at Genesee for a 10-0 non-league loss in six innings. “The errors we made didn't help,” said Colton coach Brad Nilson. “My pitcher threw well but we didn't back her up. We need to have eye-openers like this once in a while.” Emma Schultheis pitched all six innings, allowing 10 hits with four walks and one strikeout. At the plate, Colton managed... Full story
Only in Your State, a social media website which aims to help people find new and exciting things in their states, recently released a list titled “15 of the Coolest Small Towns in Washington You've Probably Never Heard Of.” Colfax earned the 11th ranking on the website’s list. The post was released on Tuesday, May 3, and many small eastern Washington communities made the list. The Colfax description in the posting read, “Colfax is an old, small community by the rolling hills of the Palouse. The Waite Building and Ellis Block on Main Street...
Jamie Misner, Jenny Meyer and Tia Langston pose at the Endicott potato bar feast Sunday, May 1. The Endicott Potato Bar Sunday, May 1, raised about $1,400 to go toward the library's air conditioning fund, said Tia Langston, Endicott librarian. “We're really getting there,” Langston said, noting about $3,400 has been raised toward the $5,000 total needed to replace the air conditioner at the library. Langston said the estimated $1,400 raised Sunday includes some funds pledged but not yet con...
Colfax's Unified Executive Director Valoree Gregory last week attended the sixth annual Revitalize WA Preservation and Main Street conference in Chelan. The program, put on by the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation and the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, was attended by Washington's 32 Main Street communities and several others. “It was good. There were lots of people; I didn't realize it was that big,” Gregory reported. “There were communities trying to become part of the Main Street program, and lots of peopl... Full story
A hearing is set for May 16 for public input on four zone-change proposals at 11 a.m. in the commissioners' room at the county courthouse. Whitman County commissioners approved the hearings Monday for code changes as follows: all properties within two miles of Pullman on Kitzmiller Road and Airport Road; a change for a 20-acre plot from agicultural to cluster residential at Lentil Estates; another 20 acres from agricultural to cluster residential at Legume Acres; 23 acres at Pullman Garden Acreage to go from agricultural to cluster residential...
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission will conduct a meeting May 11 in Ritzville on the future of the John Wayne Pioneer Trail. The meeting will be at the Association of Washington Wheat Growers building, 109 East First Avenue, from 6 to 8 p.m. The State Parks staff plans to provide information on the planning process and gather information and comments from the public in regard to the long-term plan for the John Wayne Pioneer Trail. Issues to be discussed include noxious weed... Full story
The Wine and Micro Beer auction at Hill-Ray Plaza April 29 had 190 people in attendance. The event raised $16,500 for the Colfax Chamber of Commerce. The 16th annual Wine and Micro Beer tasting auction sponsored by the Colfax Chamber of Commerce Friday, April 29, was the highest attended ever and the highest grossing, reported Valoree Gregory, Colfax's unified executive director. She said 220 tickets were sold for the event at Hill-Ray Plaza, but some people did not show up, so the attendance...
Whitman County commissioners Monday approved the signing of a petition which could lead to a new rail crossing at Wilma Drive at the Port of Wilma. The rail spur is to serve a new fertilizer plant being built by CHS at the Port of Wilma. The petition is by CHS to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, the agency which will decide whether to approve the crossing. County commissioners’ action Monday allowed for Public Works Director Mark Storey to sign the petition, indicating the county is not opposed to the p... Full story
A search is underway by the Colfax School District for a new junior high/high school principal after the resignation of Nathan Whittle. He will complete his contract June 30, marking one year in the position. “It’s not my wife’s hometown. Nothing against Colfax, it’s just not where she wanted to be. It’s a personal family decision,” said Whittle. He and his family – which includes four children who attended Colfax schools – will move to Burley, Idaho, where Whittle has been hired as a Spanish teacher with an opportunity to coach. Previous...
A new interpretation of code by the Whitman County planning department could allow retail marijuana in areas zoned as light industrial. The notion, a hypothetical brought to the attention of county commissioners Monday, hinges on a change of mind by County Planner Alan Thomson. “Previously, I was of the opinion you couldn’t have a retail location in a light industrial district. I’m changing my mind now,” he said. The planning department made the new interpretation last Friday, April 29. County...
A family of geese passes a marker for the WSU rowing course Saturday morning at Wawawai on the Snake River....
The “Storage Wars” auction John Kirkpatrick held two years ago, pictured here, was attended by more than 100 people with 18 storage units up for bid. Two units will be up for bid Saturday in LaCrosse. The A&E Network will not be in town Saturday, but a “Storage Wars” show is set for LaCrosse Saturday. Storage Wars, a reality show on the A&E Network, features the auctioning of storage units and all contents inside which have accrued unpaid rent for at least three months. John Kirkpatrick, owner o...
Whitman County .09 grant funds were awarded to two county projects April 19. A $66,000 grant went to the city of Colfax/Colfax School District for the Schmuck Park/Colfax Schools’ athletic complex restrooms project. The City of Tekoa was tabbed for $34,000 for improvements to the community center and Empire Theater. The Colfax restrooms effort began two years ago as a project for the Colfax High class of 2017. Approximately the same time, a school district push began to replace the track at the athletic complex. The restrooms building would a...
Ballots for the Washington State Presidential Primary are set to be mailed out to voters Friday. Whitman County has 21,329 registered voters who will receive the primary ballots, according to Debbie Hooper, elections office supervisor. She said additional ballots will be mailed out to newly registered voters or people who have moved here after Friday when they will be able to open the registration books following official end of the April 26 special election. Last week during the legislators’ visit to the Gazette, Ninth District R...
Kindergartener Sonia Widman gleefully crawls through an inflatable obstacle course at the Rosalia school grounds Friday, April 29. The course was part of the Trot for Tots event planned by students to benefit the March of Dimes. For more coverage, see page 3B....
If the latest proposal for a retail marijuana store goes through, the shop will open at the former site of the Crossroads Nursery on the Pullman-Moscow corridor, near the Idaho border. “Nothing’s for sure until it actually passes,” said Alan Thomson, Whitman County planner. Thomson said he received the application April 25 from Highland Central, LLC, and a notice of determination of non-significance was published April 28 stating the proposal “will not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment.” Thomson said that step was... Full story
