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The Colfax Mercantile business incubator will hold a grand opening Saturday, Aug. 31, with free frozen yogurt from 11 a.m to 3 p.m., paid for by an anonymous donor. It may be open before, too. "If we're ready before we'll open the door and turn the 'open' sign on," said Allie Cofer, project coordinator from Colfax Downtown Association. "But we just don't know." The free frozen yogurt will be from Home Sweet Home Treats, one of the eight businesses inside. Others include Wild Woman Western Wear...
Monday’s Palouse Empire Fair board meeting at the fairground patio ended with Bill Tensfeld, executive director, turning on the new arena lights around the the new grandstand. “It’s finished,” Tensfeld succinctly reported on the project near the end of the session. The construction crew from McMinnville, Ore., had departed the site, but a few remaining pieces had to be installed on the new grandstand which can seat 2,483 people. Tensfeld added Monday that they are still waiting for delivery of a switch to complete the lighting circuit...
As the number of vehicles parked outside have increased, the number of workers inside Colfax Junior-Senior High School has also as construction enters the final stretch before students return for a late start of Sept. 9. An estimated 35 subcontractors were on site Monday; drywall, flooring, cabinets, HVAC, electrical and the piercing sound of concrete cutters. “A little bit behind,” said District Superintendent Jerry Pugh. “But not anything that would stop us from getting school start...
President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Aug. 25 a trade agreement in principle between the two countries to keep exports of U.S. wheat going to a major buyer. Negotiations have been on to counter the effect of the 11-nation Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which cut the effective tariff on Canadian and Australian wheat to Japan, eventually to a reduction of about $70 per metric ton, or 45 percent below the current tariff for U.S. wheat. In the past five years, Japan...
Members of the Palouse Empire Threshing Association have been tuning up their vintage equipment and recruiting teamsters for their annual Labor Day threshing bee across from the fairground. Mike Schwartz, vice president of the group, estimates between 20 and 25 head of draft horses and mules will participate in the event. The teams are expected to be in the field at about 10 a.m. to start the work. They will be hitched up in the lean-to area on the north side of the fair’s arena barn. Schwartz said all the vintage equipment should be in a...
A free lecture about the southern half of the Cheney-Palouse scabland Tract of the Missoula Floods will be Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. in the Connell Library and Sept. 27 and at 7 p.m. in the Ritz Theatre at Ritzville. A paid field trip will be offered Sept. 28. At its maximum, the flood path stretched more than 25 miles wide and includes examples of “Butte and Basin” topography, numerous coulees, canyons and cataracts. Other topics that will be covered during the lecture include evidence of earlier ice age floods, the Palouse-Snake River spillway, whi...
Fourteen mailed ballots were rejected Aug. 19 by the county's election board because they were mailed after the Aug. 6 primary date. The board found another 12 returned ballots were undeliverable. Two ballots were returned unsigned and one was counted after a signature was provided. The board viewed 24 ballots which had signatures that possibly did not match the signatures on record and accepted 16 of them. The primary election finished with 1,317 total ballots counted from among the 3,567 voters in the four districts which were on the primary...
The photography department of the fair usually brings in a lot of entries, and this year some changes are coming, Mary Davidson, multipurpose building superintendent, said. She said a class for black/white photos and one for color will be introduced. In addition, a new display technique will be applied in the hopes of drawing more attention to the photo section. The photography section, formerly along the side of the building will be centered. A display to showcase the fair theme and a display for special contests, like the people’s choice c...
The Colfax School Board met Monday night and approved a new athletic director, set plans for the coming school year and heard an update on school construction. The construction crew has 48 regular workday hours remaining until the Sept. 9 opening day for school. The new athletic director named to replace Nathan Holbrook is Gina Hopkins, a Steptoe school science teacher, who will now teach P.E. in Colfax and oversee CHS sports scheduling. The board also approved the resignation of Dean Hall, bus...
William R. Zaikowsky, 48, Clarkston, was arrested Aug. 17 on probable drug charges related to a camper trailer which had been parked at the Nisqually John Campground along the Snake River. Deputy Tyler Langerveld in his arrest report said he responded to the campground after being contacted by an Army Corps of Engineers ranger who had been attempting to evict a 1985 Alpenite camper from the campground. No one was found at the trailer when the deputy first arrived at the campground, but a later report indicated people were at the trailer. Langer...
Jose Deleon, Othello, was injured Aug. 20 in an accident involving two semi trucks on Highway 26 just west of Colfax. According to the report by State Patrol Trooper Keith Pigott, Deleon was driving a 2001 Kenworth semi tractor trailer eastbound on Highway 26 at 1:35 p.m. Tuesday when it sideswiped a 2005 Kenworth semi tractor truck being driven westbound by Brendan L. Arrant-Rathbone of Lewiston. The report said Deleon crossed the centerline on a slight curve to the right and sideswiped the semi driven by the Lewiston driver. A Colfax...
Colfax coaches expect to get an inkling of what the new season will hold when the team travels to Ritzville Friday for the Broncos' jamboree. Coach Mike Morgan said they won't know until later in the week what teams have been booked into the event and which ones Colfax will face. Liberty is also hosting a jamboree, so the NE entrants are expected to be divided between the two events. Morgan said this year's team has a strong turnout of seniors and juniors who put in a lot of time in last year's...
Colton returns to the football field this fall with new faces – a coach, aassistant and a quarterback after its slated starter, senior Jon Bean, moved to Nampa, Idaho with his family two weeks ago. The team lost 13-year coach Clark Vining from last year, and for players; Luke Vining, Parker Druffel and Reece Chadwick, all to graduation. The Wildcats’ new coach is Jim Moehrle, Colton’s athletic director, who stepped in after the school received no applications for the open job. Moehrle, thoug...
Dennis Hughes and daughter Samantha of Spokane again led the field Saturday in a large card of boat racers at Webb's Slough in St. John. The Hughes duo in their Overkill 69 boat were the only team to consistently run the Webb's course under 40 seconds. They actually clocked in the 38-plus second range in a consistent set of runs. In the finals, the only other boat to finish under 40 seconds was Phil Miller and Sharon Heuser in the Fat Buddy 22 boat. They clocked a 39.7 to win the 400 class....
Thursday, tonight, will be Meet the Bulldogs night with coaches introducing players for the upcoming season. The cheerleaders will be serving food starting at approximately 5:30 p.m. at the football field. Coaches and players for the football, cross country, cheer squad and volleyball teams will be introduced. Also on the agenda will be a routine by junior cheerleaders who participated in a day-long camp session. The night will also feature a Bulldogs version of Kiss the Pig. Ballot money jars will be put out and the sports coach who attracts...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Timothy Charles Baker, 31, and Tasha Louse Smith, 21, both Pullman, Aug. 22. Jake Austin Aune, 25, and Maya Jane Wahl, 33, both Endicott, Aug. 23. REAL ESTATE SALES Jayson Dobley, Renton, to Mathew Klabfliesch, Pullman, house on SW Baldwin, Drive, Pullman, $278,000, Aug. 19. Dale Braunger, Yakima, to Eric and Heather Meyer, Moscow, house on S. Lake, Colfax, $38,000, Aug. 19. John Chapman and Anita Hornback, Pullman, to Joseph and Allison Harris, duplex units on NW State Street, Pullman, $205,000 and $149,000, Aug. 19. Jason... Full story
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. PUBLIC SERVICE MEASUREMENTS Measurements of the concrete pad beneath the floor of the Public Service Building are being taken this week as part of a study on the building which is being assembled by Evan Laubach of Reliant Engineering, Pullman. The firm is working on a report on the building which has been settling in different areas. Part of...
Reports during the countdown indicate this year's edition of the Palouse Empire Fair should start and finish with a high rating. The fair always generates its own momentum as entrants and competitors arrive with exhibits and talent for display and judging. A first painting by a three-year-old, a final stock raising project by a high school senior, talent by a royalty entry and a ride by a skilled rodeo competitor are some of the ingredients which make up the fair and generate interest for the four-day run. This year gets a boost because the...
President Donald Trump has broached the idea of purchasing the massive and largely frozen island of Greenland from Denmark. Cue the laughter. My Montreal-raised wife tells me that in the nearly uninhabitable frozen tundra country of her youth, she and her Canadian friends grew up exclaiming, "It's as cold as Greenland!" But POTUS, evidently, was serious. It's not a new idea. In 1946, the U.S. offered $100 million for Greenland, $1.3 billion in today's dollars, or 9 billion Danish Krone, give or take. A mere pittance, even if it's situated in...
Beto O'Rourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting. "This country, though we would like to think otherwise," he intoned, "was founded on racism, has persisted through racism and is racist today." This is now a mainstream sentiment in the Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders said earlier this year that the United States was "created" in large part "on racist principles." The New York Times has begun the so-called 1619 Project, marking the 400th anniversary of the importation of slaves from Africa. The series seeks nothing less than...
Fleeced Well pilgrims, we've just been fleeced once again. Your no-carbon-footprint-governor just wasted more of our hard earned money. I'm sure he didn't ride a horse or bicycle back east to campaign and debate. Of course a bicycle would be out of question. It has hydrocarbons in the tires, grips, seat and pedals. I'm sure he flew in a jet and then once on the ground, rode in a limo or rented car. And folks, don't forget the WSP bodyguard contingent that we paid for to protect him. Now it appears Mr. Inslee and his henchman Fergie will...