Articles from the May 4, 2017 edition
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Pomeroy tops Colton twice to take league
In a doubleheader to decide the Southeast 1B league baseball champions, Colton and Pomeroy met April 29 and Pomeroy took it, winning both, 5-3 and 9-2. Playing at the Wildcats' field, senior pitcher a...
Strobel, Allenbach, Davis top NE field
Dawson Strobel and Augie Allenbach each hit 75s Tuesday at Stoneridge to lead an NE field in team competition. McKenna Davis hit an 85 to win the girls side of the action. She finished one stroke ahead of Tessa Jantz of Lind/Ritzville/Sprague....
Asotin, NWC teams top meet
Colfax’s Sara Whelchel passes Taylor Sande of St. George’s to win the second heat in the 200 meters. Colfax’s Caleb Brown and Tekoa/Rosalia’s Garrett Knaught both cleared 6-0 with Brown taking the eve...
Hawks win at St. George’s
Oakesdale's Nighthawk girls bumped Colfax by 17 points last Thursday to win a 13-team NE track meet hosted by St. George's on the track at Mead. Oakesdale girls finished with 122 points, and Colfax finished with 105. St. George's finished in a distan...
Garfield restaurant could go up for bid
A Garfield resident interested in buying the town-owned restaurant space will decide how to proceed after clarification on how to go about it. At the April 12 town council meeting, Jeff Rathbun, who works at the Foundry in Pullman, told the council...
District architect leads meeting on Colfax facilities
A wide-ranging discussion took place Tuesday night, April 25, at the Colfax High School library in the effort to improve district facilities. Led by Ned Warnick, a principal architect at Pullman's...
LaCrosse schedules session for water system grant discussion
The Town of LaCrosse will host a public meeting next week to discuss potential improvements to the town's water system. Steven Marsh, an engineer with TD&H Engineering of Spokane, said the purpose of the public meeting is to help the town explore...
Update photo of eagle family
--Sharon Lindsay photo Photographer Sharon Lindsay this week provided this April 27 photo of the eagles nest which was shown on the front page of the Gazette last week. Lindsay three years ago was...
Library receives county .09 funds
As the only applicant for this year’s county .09 funds, the Whitman County Library was awarded the entire sum of $100,000 for projects at The Center. “I’m so excited,” said Kristie Kirkpatrick, library director. “This will be huge.” Kirkpatrick...
Deal in the works to link trails
A group of Tekoa and Plummer, Idaho, area farmers have signed an expression of interest to work out a deal to turn a six-mile stretch of former railroad bed into a link between the John Wayne Pioneer...
Engineer evaluates building for Tekoa
The City of Tekoa hired a structural engineer who came to evaluate the Anderson building April 18, in the aftermath of the roof collapse and pending cleanup. Justin Cook of DCI Engineers in Spokane...
LaCrosse conducting urban goat grazing trial period
-Walter Taylor photo Goats graze a vacant lot in LaCrosse The Town of LaCrosse is still in the process of determining where it stands on allowing goats and sheep in town for the purpose of grazing....
St. John moves to top 25; voting still on
"We are crazy outliner," said Jessiann Loomis. The odds were not in St. John’s favor. When St. John entered the America’s Main Streets contest in March to vie for a $25,000 grand prize for its mai...
Colfax softball to host district start Tuesday
Colfax softball crew will host one of four district playoff rounds Tuesday as the number-two finisher on the south side of the NE league. Davenport and Reardan will play in the first game at 3 p.m., and the Bulldogs will play that winner at 5 p.m....
Protests, riots mark the nation
Twenty-five years ago Los Angeles exploded in riots. Most of the violence was in the south-central part of the city, a predominantly black, low income area. Residents had long objected to the roughshod methods of the police. Tensions had been...
Marching on
The St. John/Endicott band marches in Saturday’s St. John Fair parade. For more St. John Fair photos see page A7. Colton-Uniontown Fair on page B6....