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Colton’s Wildcats and the LW Tigercats rolled up the miles and points Friday to post big wins on non-league football action. Clubs in the SE Eights league will match up for the first round of league play this Friday with Garfield/Palouse traveling to Colton for the lone county contest. The Tigercats will roll to Zillah, a revised site, to play a big Sunnyside Christian team, and St. John/Endicott will host Pomeroy. COLTON Friday traveled north to Mullan and posted a 74-28 win over their Idaho hosts. The Wildcats scored 16 in the first quarter a...
Two NWC veteran runners took wins at the Colfax cross-country race Tuesday on the Colfax trail. Anna Henry, who tracked Morgan Willson in league races last year, won the girls race at 21:03, and Steven Olds took another Crusader win at 17:43 over the course which follows the former Great Northern railroad route along the Palouse River. Jackson Elfers of the host Bulldogs placed third for the Bulldogs and Brock Morgan placed 18th at 20:08. St. John/Endicott girls won the team title with Heather Siegel placing second behind Henry at 21:35. The...
SJE girls won an SE race last Wednesday on the Big Cross course at Pasco with Heather Siegel again taking the girls race at 21:15, 37 seconds ahead of Victoria Nunez of TCP. The Eagles rolled out a team score of 20 with Jordan Porubek 3rd at 21:59, Shania Bailey 4th at 22:27, Sammie Bailey 5th at 22:35, Jade Porubeck 6th at 23:31 and Annie Bailey 15th at 25:22. Luke Bailey finsihed 17th for the Eagle boys at 20:22 behind the 17:01 win by Seth Deal of Waitsburg/ Prescott. The host Jags claimed third through eighth for the team win at 25 points.... Full story
Colfax Crawdads, local entry in the Spokane Senior Babe Ruth fall baseball league, sustained two more defeats Saturday when they hosted the Spokane Edge. Scores were 7-4 and 14-10. The Crawdads, now 0-4 in the league, will host the Spokane Red Sox in another double this Saturday beginning at 11 a.m.... Full story
Craig Nelson’s 85-yard kickoff return in the fourth quarter capped a number of big plays made by Tekoa/Oakesdale/Rosalia gridders and sealed a 32-27 SE2B league win at Tri-Cities Prep last Friday. “Definitely, that was the final nail in the coffin,” said TOR Coach Kaleb Madison. With just over four minutes left on the clock, Nelson took the kick-off, dodged a pair of tacklers and blew past the Jaguar coverage team for paydirt. TOR used a number of big plays to put down the Jags. The Nighthawks’ first score came on a 81-yard touchdown pass fr...
Colton’s Wildcats and the Tekoa/Oakesdale Nighthawks booked strong wins Tuesday in the SE volleyball rounds. The ‘hawks posted a strong win over the Vikings, and Colton defeated the Rosalia Spartans in three straight. TEKOA/ OAKESDALE, which will be at Colfax tonight, defeated Garfield/Palouse in three straight games, 25-14 25-22 and 25-11 in the Tuesday round. Middle hitter Evon Anderson put down 15 kills for the ‘hawks, and Cassie Mendoza had nine. Katie Renstrom was credited with 29 assists. Cassie Thompson of the Vikings had nine kills...
Colfax volleyball players ran a string of eight game wins over four matches Saturday at Okanogan to defend the title they won on the same trip north last year. The Bulldogs swept their pool foes in two games each and then went up against Zillah, the number-one team from the opposite pool, to decide the tourney title. Zillah also was stopped in two games under the tournament’s best-of-three format. Colfax pool scores were 25-8 25-12 over Omak, 25-17 25-14 over Brewster, and 25-6 25-17 over Ephrata. Zillah went down 25-9 and 25-19 in the title r... Full story
After prevailing in an extended ground-vs.-air battle with the Coeur d’Alene jayvee team, the Colfax football team will travel to the Bears’ den in Moscow Friday night to face an extra hungry team of Bears. The Bulldogs will travel to Moscow on a 2-0 record after a 56-32 win over the talented group of Viking sophomores Friday at Schmuck park. Moscow will host with an 0-4 record after sustaining a 28-42 loss to Pullman in a battle of the border rivals. Moscow took the loss after stacking a 21-6 lead over the `hounds early in the game. Added to t... Full story
Colton’s Wildcats and the LW Tigercats rolled up the miles and points Friday to post big wins on non-league football action. Clubs in the SE Eights league will match up for the first round of league play this Friday with Garfield/Palouse traveling to Colton for the lone county contest. The Tigercats will roll to Zillah, a revised site, to play a big Sunnyside Christian team, and St. John/Endicott will host Pomeroy. COLTON Friday traveled north to Mullan and posted a 74-28 win over their Idaho hosts. The Wildcats scored 16 in the first quarter a... Full story
THURSDAY A Swedish man jumped in to subway tracks after a man who fell off the platform and was knocked unconscious as his head hits the tracks, only to grab the fallen man’s valuables and climb back on the platform leaving the victim on the track. The thief, still at large, waved to the ticket vendor on his way out as the train ran over the victim. All was caught on surveillance cameras. Halliburton lost a seven-inch radioactive rod which contains a radiation warning symbol with the words “Danger Radioactive: Do not handle. Notify civil aut... Full story
From left to right, Nurse Debbie Walker-Labine, Community Health Worker - Tobacco Prevention and Control Coordinator Mindy White and Nurse Jackie Tetrick are new staff members at the Whitman County Health Department. Walker-Labine joined the office in May, while White started in August and Tetrick in March. White graduated from B.Y.U. in April. Her husband is a new graduate student at WSU....
Volunteers for the McCoy Valley Museum in Oakesdale have announced plans for a celebration next summer to mark the 25th anniversary of the museum and the 125th anniversary of the town of Oakesdale. Jake Dingman has volunteered to be the chairman of the committee....
The 30th annual Palouse Days car show attracted 239 entrants to the Palouse Park Saturday. One of the crowd favorites was the Stealth creation (top) by Bob Gifford of Spokane. Trophies which went to the show winners awaited in the picnic shelter (center). The 1927 Model A touring car entered by Bill and Dianna Barr of Spokane was another crowd favorite (bottom). Best of Show winner was a 1937 Ford convertible sedan owned by Glenn and Jeannie Anderson of Otis Orchards.... Full story
Guy Williams will chair his last meeting of Whitman County’s planning commission next month, if the panel can field a quorum, that is. Williams is leaving the local zoning board after more than 15 years as a member. The volunteer commission sets land use policy for the county. In recent years, the planning commission has dealt with a number of controversial issues, including zoning laws for wind farms, housing in the agricultural zone and development rules for the Pullman-Moscow Corridor. His departure shrinks the ranks of the already u...
Spending is holding true to plan for Whitman County’s 2012 budget while county leaders try to erase a $806,200 projected deficit for next year. David Ledbetter, county financial administrator, told county officials during Monday’s commissioner meeting that the $13.5 million spending plan for the county is well over anticipated revenues. “That’s where we stand right now,” said Ledbetter. The initial load of spending requests is about $1 million over the 2012 spending plan. Through August, the county has spent $8.4 million. Ledbetter predicted...
Fire crews from Garfield, Palouse, Colfax, Steptoe and Albion responded Saturday to a barn fire just south of Elberton. The barn was located on the Draper-Brown Road approach into Elberton. The vintage barn was engulfed in flames when the first fire crew, from Garfield, arrived at the scene, Chief Chris McCully said. The fire had ignited stubble which threatened the Ron Brodenson residence and protecting the residence became the number-one priority. Broderson said he and his son were working outside when they smelled smoke. “We just figured t...
With the click of a mouse, electricity will begin coming off Naff Ridge this week, as the first string of turbines begin spinning at the Palouse Wind farm. Ben Fairbanks, western development manager for Palouse Wind’s parent company First Wind, said the substation and transmission line have been energized to begin receiving power off an 11-turbine circuit that is expected to begin producing power this week. “Those towers are ready to go,” said Fairbanks. The first line of turbines begins with the towers just east of Highway 195 south of the w...
Objections by some Colfax residents to the posting of WSU flags along Main Street surfaced during the final minutes of a long Colfax city agenda Monday night when Councilman Donald Henderson put a motion on the table to fly the US flag every day of the year, 24 hours a day. That schedule would mean an end to the Cougar flags which were posted on the city’s downtown street light standards at the start of the football season. The Cougar flags were posted in late August, removed and replaced by US flags over the Labor Day weekend. They were t... Full story
Headlined by the Fabulous Kingpins and the Tube-A-Palooza inner tube race, the first Farmington Harvest Festival will commence Saturday. A kids’ fun run and giant lentil box will also be on the agenda. The Kingpins will be the final band in a lineup which will feature four other groups starting at 1:10 p.m. Preparation for the debut has been underway for weeks, said chairman Frank Triplett. “A bunch of people took vacation time, we’re now setting up refrigerators and freezers, decorating telep...
Not quite a year-and-a-half since Whitman County government turned on its New World accounting software system, leaders are questioning if they should switch from the costly system. Chris Nelson, director of the county’s information technology department, presented a three-year service contract to commissioners for approval Monday. Commissioners balked at the contract, though, after Commissioner Michael Largent asked if the county should try and get a short-term deal in order to pursue a new, potentially less expensive, accounting software. ...
Lori Wilson of Palouse took a projectile to the head at Palouse Days Saturday. The annual egg toss was won by Gar-Pal freshmen Mitch Dymkoski and Wyatt Griner....
After falling below the minimum number of 13 members in recent years and the closing of an agreement with the Palouse Arts Council to keep up the building, Palouse Grange No. 177 has begun anew. After the Arts Council agreement phased out last summer after not being able to come to terms on a price to buy the hall, a new movement began this spring to rekindle the local Grange chapter. “We just wanted to be able to use the Grange Hall building and to work on it,” said Heidi Kite, the new Pal...
8 years ago September 23, 1887 Wednesday night about 11:45 p.m. Sexton’s sawmill in the north end of town caught fire and was entirely consumed. Total loss, including the planing mill and all machinery, was placed at between $5,000 and $6,000, and there was $2,500 insurance on the mill. Loss of lumber was about $300. The proprietors have 160,000 feet of logs in the stream above town. It is unfortunate to lose the sawmill as the unusual demand for building activity calls for a supply that can not be met. The city fathers have taken a step in t...
September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. What is prostate cancer? It is cancer of the prostate gland, part of the male reproductive system. While the causes of prostate cancer are still unknown, men with certain risk factors may be more likely to develop the disease. Most men who suffer from prostate cancer are usually over the age of 65; those whose fathers, brothers, or sons have had prostate cancer are also at greater risk. Prostate cancer is especially prevalent among African American men, who experience both the highest...
At Colfax Schools: Daily items offered at Colfax High School include salad bar, chicken sandwiches, hamburgers, deli sandwiches, vegetarian options, fresh & canned fruit, fresh vegetables, oven fries, yogurt, cottage cheese, bagels and juice. Monday: Taco burgers w/wheat bun, lettuce, tomato, cheese, salsa, refried beans, oranges Tuesday: Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, whole grain roll, chilled peaches Wednesday: Stuffed pizza pocket, tossed romaine salad, pineapple, sherbet Thursday: Deli turkey on whole grain bun, baby... Full story
