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A long-time employee of the Department of Agriculture, Shirley Sherrod, gave a speech on overcoming prejudices. A tape of the speech was heavily edited, and the remaining snippets distorted her comments, making her appear to use her position in an unfair and prejudiced manner. The edited speech became a national sensation. Administration officials soon saw the edited version and precipitously reacted, firing Sherrod. The speech was, in fact, all about reconciliation. When the full speech was released and truth of the matter was realized, there...
Cheryl Brost, wife of 1988 Colfax High grad Troy Brost, qualified to compete in the 2010 World CrossFit Games which brought 43 elite athletes from Canada, England, Australia, Iceland and the United States to the Home Depot Center in Carson Calif., July 16-18. She advanced to a point in the competition to qualify as the “13th most fit woman in the world.” A former high school basketball and soccer coach, Cheryl and her husband operate a manufactured home park in Eugene, Ore. They have two children in grade school. She is the daughter-in-law of W...
A practice softball game between a Spokane-Coeur d’Alene team and a Lewiston team, Northwest Wildfire and the LC Heat, was actually rained and sprinklered out Tuesday at McDonald Park in Colfax. The two invitational teams, both headed for playoffs, hoped to get the game in Wednesday. Carrie Hennigar of Colfax, an eighth grader at JES who played for the Bluejays here during the regular season, plays on the Wildfire team which is made up of players from Spokane and Coeur d’Alene. Todd Walker of Coeur d’Alene, a Colfax High grad, is coach of th...
1. Sparky Anderson was the first manager to win a World Series with both an A.L. and an N.L. team. Name the teams and the years. 2. In 2008, Mike Mussina became the oldest major-league pitcher to win 20 games in a season for the first time. How old was he? 3. Who is the only two-time winner of The Associated Press’ NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award? 4. Which two teams hold the NCAA mark in men’s basketball for consecutive conference victories? 5. When was the last time before the 2009-10 NHL season that the Chicago Blackhawks won a div... Full story
Jack Ross of Colfax and Kaela Dewan of Oakesdale backstroke to wins in the individual medley relay. Ross won in the 12-under class, and Dewan won in the 15-over girls class. Colfax swimmers stroked to strong wins Tuesday in a four-team meet at the Colfax pool. Taking advantage of their depth, the Colfax team stacked up points in the placings. Scores for the girls were Colfax 163, Garfield/Palouse 50, Oakesdale 37, and Pullman 35. Totals on the boys side were Colfax 175, Pullman 67, and Garfield/Palouse 49. The meet was the last home stand for t...
Colfax 12-under players take a break to book a team photo during their last tournament weekend at Orofino. In front, from the left are Dylan Heiser, Parker Huber, Cal Gregory, Logan Gingerich and Brody Yarnell. In back are Coach Wayne Gregory, Havin Heytvelt of Pomeroy, Jeff Davies, Danny Robinson, Bryson Frye, Keith Gfeller, and assistant coaches Brent Gingerich and Jim Sharp. Colfax 12-under Little Leaguers finished a three-week tournament run Sunday with a 2-4 mark at the Orofino tournament. Coach Wayne Gregory said the finish didn’t e...
Patriots third baseman Brady Mooney lets the ball fly as he chases Drew Oord of the Twin City Titans in a rundown early in the first-round game at McDonald Park. Catcher JJ Robinson eventually stopped Oord before he made it to the plate. Pullman Patriots came to the end of the Legion baseball road Sunday at McDonald Park when they bowed 6-9 to Pacific Tech of Longview in the last game of the state regional qualifications at Colfax. Longview’s win nailed the number-two slot to the state Legion finals this week at Selah. The Twin City Titans, w...
A front showroom window broken out at Arrow Machinery on Highway 195 early July 22 and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise were discovered missing from the showroom. Among the missing items were several Stihl chainsaws, trimmers, cut-off machines and blowers, according to a report by Deputy Sgt. Rick McNannay. He reported deputies were dispatched at about 1 a.m. to a burglary in progress report at the building. When deputies arrived at the scene, they first entered the building to determine whether a suspect was still on the premises....
“Who in the room has an advance directive?” asked Denise Fowler, chief clinical officer at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center to board members at their July 21 meeting. Nobody raised their hand. Fowler said that response illustrated just one reason the hospital formed an ethics panel earlier this year. Several months after the panel was formed, the group is educating itself on the best way to weigh ethical debates that arise from various medical cases within the hospital. Staffers have faced a growing number of end-of-life issues which lef... Full story
With a little more than a month before the Palouse Empire Fair, animal entries are trending far below past years. “We’re way behind where we usually are at this point,” said Fair Manager Bob Reynolds. As of Monday, fair officials had received 56 beef entries, 28 sheep entries, 61 swine entries and a handful of entries for smaller animals like goats, rabbits and poultry. Last year’s animal registration numbers had 150 steers, 227 sheep and 167 pigs entered. Entry deadline is August 1. Terry Jeffries, the fair’s program coordinator, said entr...
Spokane attorney Brian Werst of K & L Gates LLP filed notice in superior court Friday, July 23, that he will represent Commissioner Greg Partch in the upcoming recall petition hearing Aug. 2 in superior court. Edward Turner, an attorney with the Spokane firm of Stamper Rubens, filed an official notice of appearance Monday on behalf of County Commissioner Pat O’Neill. Judge William Acey of Asotin county will preside at the hearing which will determine whether the recall a petition filed by Roger Whitten of Oakesdale qualifies under state law t...
Brandon Reynolds, 27, driver of the pickup truck involved in the accident which took the lives of an Albion couple Friday, July 16 on the Pullman-Albion Road will be cited for failure to yield to oncoming traffic, Sheriff Brett Myers reported Thursday, July 22. He said their investigation of the accident determined it was caused by a failure to comply with basic traffic rules and not from any criminal negligence or other factors which constitute criminal behavior. Sheriff Myers said a portable breath test was administered to Reynolds at the...
Two manufactured homes were installed on Fleming Court in Hauser Heights in Colfax July 20 as part of the Pullman Community Action Center housing program....
THURSDAY Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming pulled a $17 million earmark from a bill that would have made the Billy Carter Service Station Museum in Georgia a national historic site. A Chase bank branch east of New York City was robbed by a man dressed in full Darth Vader costume. The “Star Wars” robbery was part of a mini-outbreak of unusual bank robbers in the New York area. Earlier a man was arrested after robbing two banks with a bunch of flowers and a potted plant. Two prisoners are still on the lam after escaping an Argentina jai... Full story
Commissioners of the Port of Whitman County at their July 15 meeting approved payment of $16,763 to the Mader family to wrap up a real estate deal in Pullman. The port in 2007 purchased nearly 53 acres of land from the Maders for a new industrial park at the southwest corner of the intersection of Highway 27 and the Pullman-Albion Road. The refund comes after an ownership mixup on more than 47,000-square-feet of land at the site. The state Department of Transportation acquired a right-of-way easement in the 1950s when it rebuilt Highway 27....
A Colfax school board seat is now open after the resignation of board member Steve Lyon. The board is encouraging residents living within Lyon’s central Colfax district to apply for the volunteer position. Lyon officially resigned from the school board July 1. Lyon worked as a WSU senior assistant on winter wheat breeding research for the department of crop and soil sciences. He was laid off this year as part of the budget cutbacks at the university, according to Colfax Superintendent Michael Morgan. Lyon has accepted a position in Mount V... Full story
An accident on Highway 193 across the river from Clarkston early Sunday morning, July 25, took the life of Curtis D. Fleming, 24, Clarkston. A passenger in the 1998 Ford Mustang sustained burns and rib injuries. Also, two people in a car behind the Mustang sustained injuries when that car went off the highway and struck an embankment. According to the Washington State Patrol report, Fleming lost control of the Mustang after passing another vehicle. The car went onto the shoulder and then slid across the highway when Fleming overcorrected. It st... Full story
Farmers have until Aug. 13 to apply under the general sign-up for funding from the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). The program provides voluntary, technical and financial assistance to farmers to improve irrigation efficiency; manage nutrient run-off and animal waste; improve the health of native plant communities and reduce soil loss. Typically, producers pay half the costs of such practices. County growers have used EQIP funding in recent years to implement mulch till systems, n... Full story
Five people were arrested at the scene of a bonfire and party on the Hole-in-the-Ground bridge on Belsby Road south of Bonnie Lake early Saturday morning. According to a report filed by Reserve Deputy Scotty Anderson, he noticed a campfire on the bridge while patrolling the area at 1:18 a.m. Saturday morning. Dep. Anderson stopped to investigate and ordered the youths to extinguish the fire. Kyle Norman, 19, Mica, Steven Burke, 19, Spokane, Beau Barnes, 19, Aberdeen, and Anna Smithgall, 19, Spokane, were cited with minor in consumption violatio... Full story
Dixie Brannon and Donna Thompson serve meal patrons. Fifteen local resident came to the Colfax Methodist Church Thursday night for the new free dinner program. Attendees savored a number of home-cooked dishes. Once a month, church members are now fixing up a multi-faceted meal for the community at large. Ready for the hungry was a big vat of chili, potato soup a tray of burritos and fresh salad. Toppings for the salad included slices of tomato, olive and cheese. Dessert was frosted brownies. “This here is scrumptious,” said a Gladys Edg...
John Archie Snover, 75, Tekoa area resident who was reported missing Wednesday, July 21, has been located in the Toledo, Ohio, area, according to the sheriff’s office. An Ohio State Trooper made a stop to check on Snover and a review of the license plates turned up the missing person report issued by the sheriff’s office here July 21. Snover was reported to have been driving a tan 2001 GMC extended cab pickup when he went missing. Snover was believed to have been heading to Michigan where he was raised and still has relatives. He was rep...
A proposal to bump water and sewer rates in Colfax by three percent a year over the next five years was delayed July 19 when city council members requested more information on what the hikes would produce. City Supervisor Carl Thompson presented the proposal which essentially extends the rate plan prepared by consultant Ashley Emery. Thompson worked up the rate hike extension after the city council earlier this year opted again not to hire a consultant to determine what the rates should be after Emery’s plan concludes. The three percent h...
County Parks Ranger Justus Barton has resigned to take a full-time position with a private, contract firefighter. The parks department is now in the process of hiring a full-time ranger to manage Kamiak Butte, Bill Chipman Trail, Colfax trail and some grounds in the Elberton area. The ranger maintains those areas, works with the public and helps repair any park equipment. “It’s a beautiful place,” Barton said of Kamiak. He has been employed with Whitman County Parks since August of 2008. His official date of resignation is August 13. Becau... Full story
Whitman County Treasurer Robert Lothspeich was elected to a second consecutive term as president of the Washington State Association of County Treasurers at the organization’s annual meeting last month in Bellingham. Lothspeich is the third Whitman County treasurer to serve as president of the 105-year-old organization. Mabel Greer helmed the association in 1929 and 1930, and Mary Crawford of Colfax served as president in 1985. The association works to push or block legislation that impacts treasury departments and acts as a pool of treasury e... Full story
Old mountain sounds will compete for air space with the sweet smell of barbecue pork at the fifth annual Palouse Bluegrass Festival in the city park Saturday. Nine soloists and groups will perform throughout the day while two pigs roast on a barbecue just feet away. Antique and craft vendors will set up in the park and thirsty music fans can visit the beer garden, in its second year on the festival scene. Last year’s event drew more than 700 people, according to Heidi Kite, festival organizer. Buffalo Death Beam, a band of musicians from P...