Articles from the April 4, 2013 edition
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Don Brunell
During the 1992 presidential campaign, then-candidate Bill Clinton famously intoned, “I feel your pain,” an attempt to reassure voters he understood what they were going through. Since then, similar statements of empathy have become a staple for pol... Full story
Gordon Forgey
President Barack Obama signed an executive order last week to authorize a commission to make recommendations to improve our elections. Some people take it as an attempt to federalize the elections and attribute nefarious motives to the order. Others...
Bulletin Column
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. CITY BUYS POOL ADA LIFT Colfax has purchased a...
Sports Stats
The St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse-Washtucna track team traveled to Pullman last Wednesday for a nine-team meet, with the girls taking third and the boys finishing fifth. St. John junior Heather Siegel...
Bulldogs, Broncos split league launch
Colfax and the LRS Broncos booked a split Tuesday in the opening NE league round at McDonald Park. The visiting Broncos took the first game 4-2, and the Bulldogs pegged a 10-0 shutout in the second game with senior Brady Ellis throwing a...
Local wrestlers wrap year
The Colfax wrestling team, which operated during the season in cooperation with St. John and Garfield/Palouse, had a season ending banquet last Wednesday. Colfax wrestling letter winners included Mitch Barney, Tyson Rogers, Reggie Jones, Dalton... Full story
Vikings baseball team drops two Touchet
The Gar-Pal Vikings baseball team traveled to Touchet last Friday and came back with two losses, 13-0 and 12-3. In game one of the doubleheader, Jesse Lopez hit a single for Gar-Pal’s lone hit. He also pitched the first three innings, giving up s... Full story
Gar-Pal girls softball loses two
A trip to Touchet proved not to be a trip to bountiful for the Gar-Pal girls softball team last Friday, March 29. Playing a doubleheader, the team lost both games, 17-0 and 10-5. Statistics included eight errors in the first game and 10 in the... Full story
Gfeller, Moser named state Player of the Year
For G’s a jolly good Feller, which nobody can deny. Colfax High School’s Brandon Gfeller was named by the Associated Press as Washington’s 2B Player of the Year. For the 1B girls, Colton junior Jenna Moser was named Player of the Year after leadi...
Bulldog girls hammer Broncs in league start
Colfax softball team hammered the Lind/Ritzville/Sprague Broncos in two shutout games Tuesday at McDonald Park in their first league double header. The Broncos, who are starting their season without a returning pitcher, bowed 24-0 in the first game...
SJELW track finishes strong in Pullman
The St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse-Washtucna track team traveled to Pullman last Wednesday for a nine-team meet, with the girls taking third and the boys finishing fifth. St. John junior Heather Siegel...
Colton splits with Grangeville
On a sunny day in Colton last Saturday, in the bottom of the seventh inning, Jordan Druffel drove a base hit to left field to score Jake Straughan. The run gave Colton a 5-4 win over previously...
Colton splits with Grangeville
On a sunny day in Colton last Saturday, in the bottom of the seventh inning, Jordan Druffel drove a base hit to left field to score Jake Straughan. The run gave Colton a 5-4 win over previously...
Tekoa theater seeks to add volunteers
Tekoa Empire Theatre committee is seeking more hands. President Cheryl Morgan said she plans to resign next year and hopes to get a successor lined up early enough to train. In addition, Morgan said...
Class grows plants for FFA sale
Colton High School horticulture class is growing plants for the Colton FFA plant sale April 26. These include six-inch pots and 10-inch hanging baskets with ivy and zonal geraniums along with calibrachoa and other plants. The class is also growing... Full story
Plastic bottles become pansy planters at workshop
The first day of spring was celebrated March 20 at the Colfax library with a workshop. After the basic tips for early spring yard work, class attendees made hanging planters. Plastic liter bottles with part of the bottoms cut off were used. The botto...
Fifth graders plant shrubs in CRP
Students from Jennings Elementary School in Colfax planted trees as part of a conservation effort to avoid runoff from the hill to Clay Street. At right, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Private Lands Biologist Eric Lewis shows animal...
Artist Ariel Zakarison will have show at Bank Left
A New York-by-way-of-Palouse artist will be featured in a show and reception at the Bank Left Gallery in Palouse April 13. Ariel Zakarison, a graduate of Pullman High School, grew up on her father...
Spring has sprung
Daffodils show bright yellow against the green grass and an old wagon wheel on a farm on Union Flat. Warmer temperatures made the flowers bloom and farmers were out in the fields fertilizing and seeding. Deer were also seen feeding in a meadow on... Full story
Prize winners
Finders of the prize eggs at the Colfax Easter hunt Saturday took time out for a trophy picture with the CHS League rabbit. From the left are Katie Trump, who found the lucky egg in the pre-school section of the hunt; Kaelyn Gfeller, who found the... Full story
Fran Martin retirement:
Whitman County commissioners in the next few weeks will be interviewing applicants for two main county jobs to replace one position. With the impending retirement of county Public Health Director Fran Martin, 67, who also oversees the emergency...
Three in jail for Malden boy’s death
The third suspect arrested in connection with the death of Donavin Stapert, 17, March 6 in Malden, made an appearance in superior court Monday. Bail for pre-trial release on Bobby J. Bilderback, 44, Malden, was set at $1 million. Bilderback, who was...
Off and running
Easter egg hunters in the grade school division charged off for the far reaches of Schmuck Park Saturday morning after hearing the start whistle. The youngsters spent a few anxious minutes waiting for the sound after Judy Moore, CHS League advisor,...