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An account has been set up at AmericanWest Bank for donations for the continued maintenance of the five memorial rose gardens in Palouse. The money will go to pay for items such as fertilizer, mulch, pesticide and occasional replacement roses and dedication plaques. Previously, the money for maintenance and continued care came from fees which people paid for roses and memorial plaques. “But we’ve been doing this for a long time, and we’re not adding any new garden,” said Mary Estes, one of the volunteers who tends the roses each Monday morning...
After two months of pre-installation work, Avista will begin putting up L.E.D. lights in 106 utility-owned streetlights in Palouse as part of a pilot program. The work is expected to last for six to eight weeks. Last year, Palouse was chosen as one of six communities to take part in the Transportation Improvement Board (T.I.B.) program, including Benton City, Blaine, Buckley, Coulee Dam, Palouse and Ridgefield. As a community participant in the study, Palouse city crews will work with Avista in converting existing street and area lighting to...
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Spokane) visited the Palouse Tuesday afternoon. She stopped at the farm home of Randy and Laurie Suess on Dry Creek Road to discuss issues with members of the Whitman County Wheat Growers Association and local farmers. A group of 24 farmers and local business people joined the representative for lunch and conversation. According to Suess, the subjects discussed with the legislator were refurbishing the railroads, government regulations, the Farm Bill and...
8 years ago The Commoner June 7, 1889 A number of pleasure seekers from this city visited Steptoe Butte last Sunday to feast their eyes on the grand view of the magnificent Palouse country spread out like a map before them. They report large numbers of people from all over the country as being there. 100 years ago The Colfax Commoner June 5, 1914 Memorial Day was a great event in Colfax this year. Added to the usual interest, the dedication of the monument to the soldier dead drew hundreds of visitors from the country and neighboring towns...
Colfax softball season ended early Saturday when they sustained a one-run loss to Morton-White Pass in the consolation bracket of the state B tournament at Gateway Park in Yakima. The 7-8 loss came after the Bulldogs Friday dropped their tourney opener to Adna and defeated Asotin in the first round of consolation. Under the state softball tournament format, first-round losers go to a consolation bracket which requires three wins to get to a placing game for third and fourth. Morton-White Pass...
First a few Tekoa-Oakesdale girls made their way to Garfield-Palouse, and then they all made their way to Yakima. In the lone season of a temporary Garfield-Palouse/Tekoa-Oakesdale co-op, the softball team advanced to the state tournament and delivered a strong showing May 30-31. Their two losses at Yakima’s Gateway Sports Complex were to Toutle Lake – who took the state championship – and Morton-White Pass, who finished third. The tournament’s biggest win for the Vikings came on Saturda...
McKenna Davis of Colfax, who has campaigned this year as an eighth grader, finished fourth in the state B golf finals at Lakewood May 30. Davis finished with a 94 in the second round May 29 to finish with a two-day total of 195. Emily Baumgart of DeSales finished with an amazing 42 strokes ahead of the field to take first. Baumgart, who hit 73 on the first day, actually cut off two more strokes for a 71 on the second day. That was the lead score for girls in all divisions of the state golf...
They stepped back up into the charter bus that took them to the state championship game in Centralia and asked the coach where they were going to dinner. "Anywhere in the state you want to go," he said. "Red Robin," came the answer, so the nearest one was located – 30 miles up Interstate 5 in Olympia. Once there, the team brought their 2014 1B Washington state high school baseball trophy inside the packed restaurant and placed it at the center of their table. It was a celebration earned by a 2...
The Clarion Hotel, Red Robin, Subway, an unnamed waffle place and the lawn furniture section of Sears at Valley Mall; the touchstones of a trip to Yakima for the Colton softball team stay the same, as does the result. With a 9-4 win over Touchet in the state championship game last Saturday evening, the Wildcats took their sixth consecutive title. Touchet had beaten them in the first game of a doubleheader in early April. Between those two Southeast 1B league games, Colton coach Brad Nilson...
Most high school graduations will be celebrated throughout Whitman County this weekend, with the exceptions being Pullman, which marked commencement Sunday, and Rosalia which will have commencement June 14. The total number of graduates in the county will be 305, a drop of 17 from last year’s total. Pullman’s graduate count dropped by 16 this year, and the tally at Colfax dropped by 14. Tekoa’s count dropped by six. Those declines were offset by slight increases in the smaller school districts around the county. The number of graduates from...
For Full Coverage and our picture pages of the championship sports matches, see our special section (C section) of this weeks paper!...
It ended with a full bore charge at the end of two days of a championship run. The Colfax girls already had the state 2B track on the board, but in the last event Saturday they added frosting. Coach Jason Cooper told his 4 X 400 team he wanted them to pull out all the stops, and they did. Senior Leah Heiner finished the anchor leg with a lean win at the finish over Lind/Ritzville’s Caitlin Schoessler. Heiner started the last lap in fourth place but picked up ground. When she came down out f...
If you’re a redneck, you’ll feel right at home in Rosalia this weekend. Rosalia Battle Days, featuring the Rosalia Redneck Family Rodeo, along with parades, a car show, fun run, talent show and dances, will begin on Friday and run through Sunday. Battle Days was launched in 1970 by members of the Odd Fellows Lodge. The name relates to the Indian War of 1878 when Col. Edward Steptoe was turned back by warriors from a coalition of tribes and made his stand on east hill of Rosalia, now the site of the Steptoe monument. A special event for this yea...
After 14 years with the LaCrosse School District, Superintendent Gary Wargo has accepted a new job in Cle Elum. Wargo also served as superintendent for the St. John-Endicott School District which is going through a second phase of construction, Wargo said. “The construction project is set in motion,” Wargo said. “They will start as soon as school is out and will be done by the end of summer.” The second phase will complete the project for the entire school by removing the second boiler and rep...
Deputy Prosecutor Merritt Decker Monday filed charges of harassment with a threat to kill and possession of a dangerous weapon on school facilities against the 15-year-old boy who was arrested the morning of May 30 at Colfax High School. He has been summoned to appear in court today, Thursday, with a parent for a hearing on the charges. The youth was released on $5,000 bond later May 30 under a detention order which prohibits him from contacting any witnesses, school officials and attending any school. He was also ordered to be at his house by...
Colfax girls collected the 2B track championship after stacking 99 points Saturday in the state meet at Cheney. The event on the podium also appeared on the giant screen at EWU’s Roos Field. Team members on the podium from the left, are Sarah Kraut, Parker Warwick, Olivia Mellor, Kaitlin Geier, Nicole Sheer, Leah Heiner, Bailey Mackleit, Taylor Larsen, Maia Gingerich, Scout Cai and Lexie Smith. Coaches in front from the left are Todd Neu, Jason Cooper, Jennifer Cooper and Todd Kinley. A...
