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Colfax volleyball players will head to Gonzaga Prep today for the second half of this year’s Colfax vs. the Greater Spokane League bookings. The first chapter went down Saturday when the Bulldogs traveled to Mt. Spokane and won in four games. Coach Sue Doering said the Colfax serving was a big factor in topping the Wildcats who compete in the AAA Division. Line score was 25-15 21-25, 25-21 and 25-15 in the closer. After locking 1-1 for the first two games, the two squads waged a key battle in the third game and Colfax prevailed in the l...
St. John Endicott cross country team opened their season at the big Hayden Canyon meet north of Coeur d’Alene Saturday. The Eagles have six boys and two girls on the team. Three Oakesdale runners are competing with the Eagles. At the Hayden course, which follows trails through the trees, the SJE team placed last among ten teams in the small school division. The meet officials divide the large entry into small school and large school classes. Medical Lake topped the small school division with 33 points. Riverside was second with 46. The SJE t...
The city of Tekoa may adjust its program which helps those in need pay water, sewer and garbage bills. Begun in 2011, Tekoa Project Share offers payment of city bills to those with a dire financial need – as opposed to shutting off services. The fund, for which each residence is eligible to use on one monthly bill per year, is replenished by citizens sending in extra on their accounts. The town’s bills include a line asking if a citizen would like to contribute to the fund. Tekoa’s program was modeled after a similar one by Avista Utili...
Customers filled the small cafe to the brim when the newly established Route 26 Cafe in LaCrosse opened Sept. 10. Barb Curtiss, proprietor, said only two seats were empty during lunch time on opening day. Curtiss said people seemed happy to have the cafe open again. Owned by LaCrosse Community Pride, the cafe closed in late May after Joe and Dionne Evans operated it as the Grillbilly Cafe for a year. Curtiss signed a lease with the Pride group in July. Curtiss and husband, Keith, are newcomers...
A total of 40 juniors and seniors from Garfield-Palouse High School attended a presentation by former United States Ambassadors James and Lauren Moriarty at the University of Idaho Sept. 10. It was the fifth year that the Gar-Pal students have been guests of Dr. Bill Smith, director of the U of I Martin Institute of International Studies. The Moriaritys discussed their roles in developing U.S. foreign policy in their more than 30 years of diplomatic service. James Moriarty served as U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh and U.S. Ambassodor to Nepal.... Full story
A piece of Whitman County history was sold Tuesday afternoon. The Manning-Rye Bridge was part of farm property that was sold at auction in the Community Building at the Palouse Empire fairground. C.D. “Butch” Booker of Kincaid Real Estate in Colfax auctioned the property which has about 194 acres that included pastureland and timber, CRP and farmland, and also included a house. Daryl and Karen Lowe owned the property for 22 years. They purchased the property from Ruth Lowe, Daryl’s aunt. The b...
With the help of LaCrosse Community Pride and some Washington State University students, the old stone houses in LaCrosse could see new life. At a Sept. 9 LaCrosse Community Pride meeting, member Peggy Bryan reported the H.D. Owings family of Lapwai, Idaho, recently donated the buildings to the organization. Bryan said there are two rock houses on one side of Main Street with three bunk houses and a service station stone building across the street from them. The houses and buildings are made of... Full story
A 1928 Reo fire truck was back in service on Saturday in the Palouse Days parade. Owned by the Palouse Lions Club since the 1970s, the truck was restored to working order in the weeks leading up to the town’s annual street festival. Once a staple of parades in Whitman County – including when the Palouse Empire Fair still had a parade – the old truck has been in storage since 1996, when the Palouse flood put it under five feet of water. At the time, Lions Club members had been working on restorin...
Whitman Hospital and Medical Center has applied for a $500,000 USDA grant to upgrade its MRI services at the hospital. Interim Hospital Director Gary Peck said they expect to get word about the grant application in about six weeks. Almost half of the grant proceeds would be used for 3D imaging equipment for breast evaluation, Peck said. The rest would be used for development of a space in the hospital for installation of the MRI equipment. The present MRI unit is a former mobile unit located along the north side of the hospital. Entry to the...
The car-truck collision Friday morning on Highway 195 six miles south of Colfax took the life of Samuel Thompson who was raised in Colfax. Thompson, 20, was pronounced dead at the scene. Funeral services will be Saturday at First Baptist Church in Colfax at 10 a.m. According to the Washington State Patrol report, Thompson was driving a 1998 Toyota Camry northbound at 10:24 a.m. when he crossed into the southbound lane near the Albion Road intersection and collided with a southbound...
The Walla Walla District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began reopening the Illia Dunes beach and adjacent shallow waters on Monday after crews cleaned up the area that morning. The dunes had been closed to the public since Sept. 7 because of environmental damage and potential public health and safety concerns after an unexpected crowd of about 1,800 people on Sept. 6 left significant amounts of trash and human waste. The corps received offers of volunteer cleanup assistance. The Corps’ Natural R... Full story
In the latest in a series of disputes between a Tekoa property owner and the town, the city council on Monday requested Keith Andersson move a vehicle from an alley which he claims may be his. Andersson, owner of the former Dorsey Chevrolet building and the two lots on each side of it on Crosby Street and Broadway, appeared at the council meeting to speak. Last week, he painted a message on the side of a 53-foot semi trailer parked in the Dorsey lot which reads, Hate Crime? I Think So. “I’m fee...
Colfax junior Chase Aeschliman and friends hosted a high school version of a tailgate party Friday with a front row view from the pickup on the parking lot at Rosalia. Fans in the back of his custom painted 2000 Ford pickup yelled it up for a TV cameraman who was at the game between the Bulldogs and the Tekoa/Rosalia Timberwolves....
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF WHITMAN COMPLAINT AND SUMMONS NOTICE FOR APPLICATION FOR JUDGEMENT FORECLOSURE No. 14-2-00207-4 WHITMAN COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of Washington, Plaintiff, vs. Eddie Fox, Jeanine M. Fox, Lee Higginson, Mary Higginson, Zions First National Bank, Discover Bank, Alan S Hurd, Jason G. Swisher, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., Private County Lending, Inc., Homecomings Financial LLC, Clifford E. Jones, State of Washington, Elbert McNeal, Cory... Full story
