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Two solid baseball wins in the NE finals at Medical Lake put Colfax in the top slot for the regional rounds which have been booked for May 20. Coach Mike Parrish said the Bulldogs will play in Spokane against the number-two finisher of district six. That foe was yet to be named as of Tuesday night. The state regionals are the playoff round of 16 in which four teams hook up at four sites around the state. The two-game winner at each site advances to the state show which will be back at Centralia May 26-27. Northwest Christian, third place...
Opening the District 7/9 1B baseball tournament at Colbert Tuesday night, Colton shutout Almira/ Coulee/Hartline 8-0. Led by senior pitcher Brady Chadwick, the Wildcats secured their eighth consecutive trip to the state tournament. With its fifth shutout of the season, Colton will now play Southeast 1B league nemesis Pomeroy (14-5) at 4:30 p.m. Saturday back in Colbert to decide the district title and state seeding. Against ACH Tuesday, Chadwick struck out 16 batters, allowing one walk and two hits. At the plate for Colton, Cameron Bean went...
The playoffs begin for the defending state 1B softball champions Saturday with two games in Medical Lake, opening against Curlew at 2 p.m. The team plays after that at 4 p.m. in a District 7 and 9 bracket in which four teams will advance on the road to state. What does Colton coach Brad Nilson know about Curlew? “Nothing,” he said with a smile. “I like not knowing.” Colton (17-2, 8-1 in league) aims to defend its 2016 state championship; a playoff route that began with a win over Curlew....
Colfax varsity boys, from left to right, AJ Miller, Derek Ward, Coach Bruce Perisho, Chance Weitz, Bennett Gray, Augie Allenbach and Will Dunning. The top four Bulldogs play at Liberty Lake May 16 on the road to state. Colfax boys Monday won the NE sub-district golf round at Deer Park with a score of 87. The scoring system awarded points in inverse value to the finishing position. Palmer Gulke of Davenport collected another medal with a 69, three under par for the Deer Park course. His win...
Not wanting to see an empty storefront in St. John, Denny Hinds – a pastor at Christian Life Assembly – decided to open a business there. He and his wife Penny Hinds purchased the former St. John Pharmacy building on Front Street after the pharmacy moved into a smaller space. This week, the couple, along with Ben and Nancy Compton, associate pastors at Christian Life Assembly, opened Heritage Hardware in St. John. “The owner of the pharmacy was selling, and we said we'll do something with it,” said Hinds. “It just happened. Really quick.” H...
Palouse residents can now track energy production by the city's new solar farm, which began operating in December. A device connected to a router taps into a newly set-up antenna at the site installed by First Step Internet. Costs are part of the original project, built last summer, finishing under budget. The antenna was a one-time fee of $200. PCI Renewables of Spokane, a subcontractor, directed the latest work. The tracker started functioning April 26 – which can be seen at the city's w...
The City of Tekoa will charge one cent per gallon to area farmers to draw water from a fire hydrant near city hall. The one cent per gallon rate is the same the city charges contractors or the state and county highway departments. The main use is expected to be for farmers using their own sprayers, doing their own application on fields, as opposed to using an outside company such as McGregor or Wilbur-Ellis – which have closed or moved operations in Tekoa in the past four years. Farmers d...
--Debbie Snell photo Some of the docks at Boyer Park and Marina are in need of replacement, as evidenced by the metal pieces peeling away here. The Port of Whitman County may be one step closer to receiving a planning grant for the replacement of docks at Boyer Park & Marina. Port commissioners last week approved a potential 28 percent funding match for the grant. “We certified that we will match,” said Debbie Snell, Port properties and development manager. If the Port receives the planning gra...
Topics ranging from the long-dormant Hawkins project to membership status for the Southeast Washington Economic Development Association were discussed at the May 1 joint meeting of the Port of Whitman commissioners and the county commissions. The session at the Port office started out with a formal introduction of Kristine Meyer, the appointee to the Port seat formerly held by the late Dan Boone. Responding to a Port question, Commissioner Art Swannack said the county has had no indication of development happening at the Hawkins project site lo...
As the future of St. Ignatius still hangs in limbo, Colfax Unified Executive Director Valoree Gregory has started a GoFundMe fundraiser to save the derelict building. Gregory started the fundraiser online last week with the hope of being able to raise enough money to cover costs of repairs on the hospital. As of Tuesday morning, $575 of the $5,000 goal had been raised. The City of Colfax in March posted signs around the building, marking it as unsafe to enter and leaving it closed off. The hospital for nearly the past two years has been the...
This new sign went up in April at the St. John Cemetery entrance. For possibly the first time in its 138-year existence, the cemetery in St. John has received a sign at the entrance. The sign was made possible by fundraising efforts from the 2015 St. John Community Calendar and a private donation. “It shows good community collaboration,” said Becky Dickerson, one of three directors with the St. John Cemetery District. “It shows what we can do when we work together.” The St. John Cemeter...
The online candidate filing period opens Monday for the November General Election. Several offices around the county will have slots on the ballot, including the Port of Whitman County, several city and town councils and school, fire, cemetery, hospital and park districts. The Port of Whitman County seat is currently filled by Kristine Meyer, who was appointed for the remainder of Commissioner Dan Boone’s term which is set to conclude at the end of this year. Boone passed away March 2, and Meyer was appointed by the Port on April 20. Meyer h...
Butch the Cougar greets a small contingent of rowing fans from the University of Washington April 29 in a crew version of the Apple Cup on the Snake River. The UW banner flew at the end of the Wawawai breakwater which was otherwise covered by WSU supporters bearing crimson and gray banners. Although Butch and the Cougar fans won in the crowd support count, the UW rowers swept the card for the morning event....
MARRIAGE LICENSES Damon Marcel Golden, 41, and Molly Desiree Bartee, 33, both Pullman, April 27. Dean Charles Topper, 58, and Christine Suzanne Watson, 49, both Spokane, April 28. Cacey Joy Hall, 22, and Austin Tanner Wall, 25, both Nampa, Idaho, April 28. Thomas Andrew Huges, 30, and Tiffany Luiella Pedersen, 27, both Pullman, April 28. Kevin Sean Gavin, 23, and Kristen Pearl Wedam, 24, both Pullman, May 1. Alex Marc Riendeau, 24, Moscow, and Kathryn Emily Lawler, 19, Pullman, May 3. Carter Anthony Galgano, 21, and Lauren Ruthann Skinner,...
How Broke Are We? Every young man should own a motorcycle at least once in his life, and every aviator should fly in Alaska while they are still indestructible. Thus, after I retired from the Air Force, I moved to Anchorage and flew for a small, family owned outfit. It was fun, but the pay was next to nothing. In order to feed my family, I took the requisite exams and was certified as a financial planner. I hung out my shingle and offered my services in estate planning, investment guidance and debt counseling. The normal procedure for those who...
There was nothing pretentious about Mike Lowry. What you saw is what you got! Lowry was one of Washington’s most colorful governors. He served one term from 1993 to 1997. He died on May 1 at age 78. There was nothing subtle about Mike Lowry. He was not afraid to mix it up publicly nor put his political future on the line when he believed in a cause. For example, in 1993 Lowry pushed legislation dramatically reforming our state’s health care laws. He and his Democrat colleagues jammed a bill through the legislature requiring all employers to...
Return of liquor stores? A minority of Washington’s voters went to the polls in 2012. A majority of that minority voted to close the state liquor stores, and move the hard form of that drug into child accessible stores. It’s not going well. Remember those tiny bottles of liquor that airlines used to sell to their passengers? Tiny – several can be hidden in one of your socks – just the right size for a child to take. Sunset Mart in Pullman has an open display rack, right down to the floor – just the right level for a child – and right by th...
Republicans have put on a clinic on overpromising during the past several years. Even if you were paying only very little attention, you would have gotten the distinct impression over the past four election cycles that the GOP was unalterably committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare. It didn't matter what year the Republicans were running (2010, 2012, 2014 or 2016) or what presidential candidate (earnest, establishment-friendly Mitt Romney or bombastic outsider Donald Trump), repeal of Obamacare remained the consistent theme. The party...
Among my many strong principles is this one: Disagree with whatever Ann Coulter says. Actually, Ann is not the only one; she's really just a fill-in-the-blank name on my page reserved for ridiculously cruel commentators who build their followings with their limitless shock stock of tacky offensiveness. They manage to be both uninhibited and calculating at the same time. Every poisonous word they utter, every inflammatory tweet they type, every dangerous stunt they concoct is aimed at getting publicity. That is their guiding unprincipled princip...
Gazette editor "From the Cascades to the Bitteroots" was one of the slogans on their shirts. The slogan derived from their ride which started at North Bend and went across Washington on the John Wayne Trail, into Idaho on the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes, and into Montana on the Trail of the Hiawatha. A color photo in the Gazette in June of 2006 shows the scouts and their leaders at the east end of Milwaukee tunnel 41 just south of Plummer. In 2008, they added "Montana or Bust" to their shirt logo and designated 450 miles as the length of their...
Monica Holland Boone and Daniel Paul Shoemaker, both of Hayden, Idaho, will be married July 8 in Palouse. Monica is the daughter of Tim and Colleen Boone of Palouse. She is employed at Heart Clinics Northwest in Sandpoint, Idaho. She is a graduate of Garfield/Palouse High School and has attended the University of Wyoming, Washington State University and Austin Community College. She has a degree in zoology and is a sonographer certified for cardiac and vascular applications. Daniel is the son...