Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
Sorted by date Results 26 - 39 of 39
Colfax baseball team Saturday advanced to the state final four after defeating Okanogan and Asotin Saturday in the state round of 16. The state ticket was the first landed by the Bulldogs since the 2010 finals when they finished in second place after a championship loss to Seattle Lutheran. Colfax is booked to play Toledo in the first round Friday night at the state final which will be at Wheeler Field in Centralia. DeSales and Adna are matched up in the other side of the final four. The Irish, who are the lone team to dent the Colfax record...
It will be another late May trip to the "Palm Springs of Washington" for the Colton Wildcats at the state 1B softball tournament in Yakima. Colton enters the weekend as the No. 1-overall seed in the eight-team bracket, which begins play Friday. At the District 7/9 Regional Tournament last week at Medical Lake, Colton beat Cusick 10-5 and Liberty Christian 12-2. Against Cusick, with an 8-0 lead, Wildcats coach Brad Nilson switched pitchers in the fourth inning, taking out Zoe Moser for Winnie... Full story
St. John/Endicott boys stacked up 68 points to finish fourth among 11 teams in the 1B regional at Central Valley Friday. Adam Blakeley took a win in the 400, and Jimmy Hollingshead placed second in both sprints. The SJE girls placed sixth with 33 points. Both Odessa/ Harrington teams won the 1B side with the girls stacking 122 points and the boys 107. GIRLS EVENTS Team scores: Odessa/Harrington 122, Republic 100, Valley Christian 77, Almira/Coulee/Hartline 65, Pomeroy 63, Cusick 59, St. John/Endicott 33, Selkirk 33, Columbia of Hunters 22,...
Colfax girls rolled up 112 points to top 16 other teams in the SE-NE regional at Central Valley Friday. The Bulldogs edged the LRS Broncos by 16 points. Colfax boys placed fifth with 49 points behind the 94 point win tagged by Waitsburg/Prescott. Tekao/Rosalia boys, led by two sprint wins booked by Eli Richardson, placed four points back of the Bulldog boys. Colfax girls return to the state finals at Cheney as the defending champions, but they have battled with the LRS Broncos and a lot will depend on how the top performance of the NE-SE...
Last week's election filings article incorrectly reported Brad Pearce was the husband of Palouse council member Bev Pearce. She is actually his stepmother....
Registration is underway for summer enrichment classes at the Colfax Library. Classes include iPad Refresher, Cookies and Cakes with Whole Grain Flours, Color Theory and Practice, Painting with Watercolors and Mosaic Sculpture. The non-credit classes begin in June. They are provided at a very low cost by Community Colleges of Spokane. Registration is available at the Colfax Library.... Full story
Every Tuesday, seven women gather in the basement of Peace Lutheran Church in Colfax to make quilts. "Peace Lutheran has been doing this project for about 40 years," said Alice Barlass, a member of the church. The quilting project is part of Lutheran World Relief, an international organization aiming to end poverty, injustice and human suffering. Internationally, the goal of the organization is to produce 500,000 quilts per year to send to those in need, both in the U.S. and abroad. Those at Peace Lutheran Church average about 80 quilts per yea... Full story
The Oakesdale Outdoor Market will begin its second summer June 19, the first of four dates including Old Mill Days. The event began last year when Nanette Bolyard, who had sold cupcakes at the Saturday Market in Tekoa, thought that Oakesdale might benefit from something similar. Given permission by the Oakesdale city council, Bolyard, who has lived in the town for 14 years, began to organize a market. Last year’s Saturday morning gatherings have been changed to Fridays from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. ...
The Colton High School FFA completed one of its most successful state conventions ever with three state placers May 14-16 in Pullman. Senior Savannah Chadwick took first in the state in the Extemporaneous Public Speaking Career Development Event and will represent the state of Washington at the National FFA convention in Louisville, Kent., in October. Extemporaneous speaking requires participants to draw three topics related to agriculture, select one and then take thirty minutes to prepare a...
Trailer queens and billet barges promise to be lonesome this weekend, barred once again from Palouse’s 11th annual Knuckle Skrap’Rs Spring Barbecue and Hot Rod Gathering. Jalopies, Kustoms, Lead Sleds, Choppers, Bobbers and traditional hot rods will instead be on hand for Saturday’s event, which hit its capacity of 150 vehicles three years ago. The milestone prompted organizer Marc Van Harn to drop the entry-year limit to 1965 models, from the previous ’73, to not turn people away. For spectat...
Lyons Ferry State Park will host a grand re-opening celebration June 5 to mark the return of the state park after 13 years. The celebration will be 155 years to the day after Lyons Ferry was first operated. The ferry ceased operation in 1968. The park closed in 2002 amid budget constraints that could not keep the park in operation, though it has been operated by the Port of Columbia since then as the Lyons Ferry Park and Lyons Ferry Marina. Many other state parks were also closed at the time. An article on parks.wa.gov states the Washington...
The candidate filing period as well as the extended candidate filing period have both officially come to a close, with 67 seats still left open. As of press time on May 20, eight candidates had filed during the extended period for the seats which failed to attract a candidate during the regular filing period that ended May 15. Four more candidates filed before the close of the extended period May 20. Terry Huber filed for the Colfax School District director one position, currently held by Laura Johnson, who did not file for re-election. In the...
Three weeks ago, Mary Dye was planning her daughter’s upcoming high school graduation party. Now, the newly appointed ninth district representative said she is way behind on that and is trying to get up to speed on everything for her new position. Dye, a Pomeroy resident, was appointed to the seat left vacant by the resignation of Susan Fagan of Pullman. Fagan resigned May 1, and Dye was appointed May 8 at a special commissioners meeting and election in Colfax. She said her appointment was the fastest in the history of the legislature and c... Full story
Rather be shot than go to prison: Tuesday morning at approximately 2 a.m. Sgt. Chris Chapman from the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office observed a vehicle off the road near the intersection of Shawnee Road and Highway 195. Sgt. Chapman made contact with the driver of the vehicle identified as Jason R. Foster, 41, Colville, who indicated he was having car problems. Initial information provided by Foster did not seem to be consistent or make sense. The vehicle, which had been damaged and appeared to have been in a collision, was also registered o... Full story
