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The Big Hoss You could tell Rick Perry was going to be a big problem for Mitt Romney as soon as the Texas governor started blowing him kisses. Asked a question on his first campaign leg about a Romney talking point, Perry brushed it off with a smooch and said, “Send him my love.” It was classic Perry — audacious, a little gauche and entertaining as hell. Surely, Romney didn’t get blown many “right back atcha” kisses in the offices of Bain Capital or during his time as Massachusetts governor. The message was that Romney was about to get a challe... Full story
#!*! Religious bias cropping up in local races. #!*! “Short” trees at our local grocery store that allow people to see their sign, but block the traffic sightlines of exiting customers turning south on Main ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ School administrator for writing the $90,000 grant to repair the JES roof. Send your Pet Peeves and Okeydokes to the Gazette P.O. Box 770 Colfax, Wa 99111 Pet Peeves and Okeydokes must be short. One sentence is usually enough. Please sign longer submissions so they can be run as letters to the editor. Comments pertaining to... Full story
Hullabaloo, Colfax’s annual fall event, kicks off in a week. Activities will take place up and down Main Street Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8. This year there will be more than the official events to enjoy. Some positive changes are taking place on Main Street. They are the result of new local, private investment and faith in the local economy. This is a good time to check them out. Events on Main opened last week, serving coffees, baked goods from Sage Bakery and other goodies in the morning and sandwiches and soups for lunch until 2 p...
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. FAIR BOOKS SOLID RETURN Despite the late harvest and a run of unusually hot days, this year’s edition of the Palouse Empire Fair booked a solid return on the books, Fair Manager Bob Reynolds reported at Monday night’s meeting of the fair board. Reynolds said the fair’s overall revenue for the year now stands at 90 percent. That level of reven...
TRIVIA TEST 1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was the former name of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport? 2. TELEVISION: Who played Eliot Ness on the original TV show “The Untouchables”? 3. LITERATURE: Who wrote “The Pump House Gang”? 4. MUSIC: Which singer kicked off the national dance craze called The Twist? 5. MOVIES: When did the animated feature “Dumbo” debut? 6. FOOD & DRINK: Edam is a popular type of what? 7. GEOGRAPHY: Goshen was a region in which ancient land? 8. SCIENCE: Psephology is the study of what? 9. POETRY: How many line...
STRANGE BUT TRUE • It was 20th-century American novelist, poet and performer William S. Burroughs who made the following sage observation: “Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.” • The first traffic signal, which began operating in Cleveland in 1914, wasn’t much of a labor-saver. To operate it, a police officer had to sit in a nearby booth where he could oversee the traffic. • Those who study such th...
Willson wins big in state rematch Morgan Willson booked a resounding win last Saturday at the Connell Invitational when she and Sierra Spiker of Oroville crossed paths in the big Connell Invitational. Willson and Spiker, who edged the Colfax senior a year ago in the state XC title run at Pasco, led a field of 99 runners over the hilly Connell course. Running in extreme heat, Willson clocked an 18:36 on the 5K course. Spiker clocked in at 20:03 for second place. Tuesday, Willson booked a 20:04 win at the league meet at Northwest Christian on... Full story
Colfax and Reardan, two NE teams that have built up steam in the first weeks of the football season, will collide Friday night at Schmuck Park Field in a game which could be a pivot point for the rest of the league campaign. Colfax will be the homecoming host after defeating a young Liberty team 45-0 in what turned out to be a jayvee battle at Schmuck Park last Friday. Reardan, a team which bested Colfax in the NE sampler at Ritzville Sept. 2, will arrive in town after a 46-13 non-league win over Kittitas last week. The Chiefs also have a... Full story
Colfax volleyball players will open their league run Saturday with the Kettle Falls team visiting for homecoming weekend. The K club will be the first of seven straight league matchups with Springdale also making a visit on Tuesday. Colfax, now 6-5 overall, will host Kettle Saturday after pegging a three-game non-league win over Newport in the home court. Line score for the Saturday win was 25-9 25-18 and 25-21. The Bulldogs booked a runaway win in the first game and then battled the Grizzlies over the next two games. “We’re just playing a lot...
Tekoa/Oakesdale advanced their string of SE match wins to six in the Tuesday night round with a three-game win over a scrappy LW Tigercat squad at Washtucna. The hosts took the ‘hawks to 23-23 in the first game, but the guests bagged the last two points and the next two games. Win six came on a league night which saw Colton defeat the SJE Eagles in three games on their home court, and Rosalia defeat Garfield/Palouse in a battle that went to the fifth game on the Spartans’ court. At Washtucna, the line score for the ‘hawks win was 25-23 25-7...
Garfield/Palouse Vikings and the Colton Wildcats booked big wins Friday when SE Eights teams went into the league mode. The Vikings out-paced LaCrosse on the Tigercats’s field for a 50-38 win in the league opener for both teams, and the Wildcats nipped Pomeroy 54-52 on the Pirates field. St. John/Endicott fell to Liberty Christian 28-70 in a non-league game. COLTON and Pomeroy rolled out an offensive race Friday at Pomeroy with the Wildcats getting the 54-52 win in the last quarter. They scored the last TD with about six minutes left on the c...
Tekoa/Oakesdale/Rosalia football team returned from a Homeric road trip to Soap Lake with a 40-0 non-league shutout win Saturday night. “It definitely was a long trip, but it was worth it,” said Coach Kaleb Madison. “Our boys did well. We just keep playing tough football.” The Nighthawk offense put up three quick scores to grab control of the game in the first quarter, but Coach Madison credited his defense for the shutout. “Our defense is really playing pretty darn tough so far this year,” he said. “And they kept it up last week.” The defense...
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will discuss its recommended Wolf Conservation and Management Plan during a special meeting Oct. 6 in Olympia. The special meeting, the second of three scheduled on the recommended Wolf Conservation and Management Plan and final Environmental Impact Statement, will begin Oct. 6 at 10 a.m. in Room 172 on the first floor of the Natural Resources Building, 1111 Washington St. S.E. The commission will meet at the same location Oct. 7-8, beginning at 8:30 a.m. both days. The recommended was developed...
THURSDAY Alabama executed Derrick O’Neal Mason, 37, by lethal injection - the third execution carried out in the U.S. last week. Mason’s execution followed two high-profile lethal injections this week in Georgia and Texas. In a case that drew international attention, Troy Davis was put to death in Georgia on Wednesday for the murder of a police officer despite claims by his advocates that he may have been innocent. Also Wednesday, Texas executed Lawrence Brewer, a white supremacist convicted of helping to kill a black man by dragging him beh... Full story
The sixth annual Colfax Hullabaloo will take place Oct. 7-8 along Main Street. Activity will begin Friday with arts and crafts booths open from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church, along with franchise booths in the old Hamilton Drug building next to Whitman County Library. Saturday events will include a fireman’s breakfast from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., a poker tournament at 12 p.m. at the CETC building, and music from Locus Street Taxi from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the food court and beer garden at U.S. Bank parking lot. The Palouse Country K...
The 10th annual Haunted Palouse will take place Oct. 21, 22, 28 and 29 in Palouse. The event will feature two haunted buildings and a haunted Hay Ride, among other attractions. Admission is $15. Participants must be age 12 or older. Haunted Palouse is a benefit for the Palouse Community Center, Palouse Arts Council and Little Sprounts, a nonprofit daycare....
Gilbert Ward Pierce has been charged with negligent driving after investigation reports have been received in a case which started with his arrest at the June 18 sprint boat races at St. John. Pierce, 60, was arrested and jailed on probable charges of vehicular assault. He was released on his own recognizance and formal charges were never filed in superior court. The officer’s arrest report alleged Pierce had struck a three-year-old boy with a golf cart while attempting to leave the races. Prosecutor Denis Tracy said Sept. 22 investigation r...
There is some new scenery for travelers on Highway 26. From Longmire Road in Adams County to Dusty, the Washington State Department of Transportation has installed 45,000 linear feet of new guardrails along the highway. The original rail had 12-feet of spacing between the posts. The new rail has six feet. It has higher posts and the end points are impact-attenuating. “We’re bringing the guardrail up to current standards on State Route 26,” said Al Gilson, Spokesperson for D.O.T., Eastern Regio... Full story
Whitman County officials Monday approved a new contract for internet service to the county’s courthouse complex. Information Technology Director Chris Nelson presented commissioners with a three-year contract that would increase the county’s internet capacity more than 13-fold. Large projects needing to be done by both her department and the auditor’s department require the county to have more bandwidth. “Our internet is used by everybody on a daily basis, so it’s important that we have something that will support being used by our 200-some...
What would Edward R. Murrow do? That was the underlying question Sept. 23 at WSU when the Murrow School of Journalism honored Ted Koppel with a lifetime achievement award. In an acceptance speech at Beasley Coliseum and press conference beforehand, Koppel talked about the current state of news broadcasting, along with commenting on context in reporting and changes in how news, ratings and profit go together. At the press conference, he pointed out the decrease in foreign correspondents, begun in... Full story
After the red velvet cake was served, the presentations began. On top of the hill in Uniontown last Thursday evening, Sept. 22, Whitman County mayors, elected officials and other community representatives gathered at the Churchyard bed and breakfast for a quarterly roundtable. They discussed issues ranging from economic development to closed banks, the Department of Ecology and a coyote-killing dog. It was all in a night’s gathering, as officials heard first from the WSU Rural Community D...
Residents of Steptoe will host a fund-raising spaghetti feed Sunday, Oct. 2, to save the Steptoe Grange Hall. Steptoe Grange and the Steptoe Community Fund are combining resources to keep up the community’s “Grand Old Girl,” which for generations has hosted wedding receptions, funerals and community parties. Co-organizer Lavonne Hall said Sunday’s meeting will focus on ways to pay the costs of maintaining the 80-year-old building. The building for the past several years has been kept up using money from the community fund, which receive... Full story
Registration is open for an all-day symposium on dryland organic production hosted by Washington State University. The meeting will be Nov. 11 in Yakima and will address the challenges and opportunities for organic agriculture in dryland ecosystems. Organic farmers use different inputs and farming methods. The conference will target Northwest farmers, about 30 to 50 of which are currently certified organic in dryland systems. Keynote speaker will be Bob Quinn, an organic grain farmer from Montana....
Palouse Prairie Foundation seeks proposals for its 2011 mini-grants program. The foundation is a nonprofit organization whose overarching mission is to promote the preservation and restoration of native Palouse Prairie ecosystems in Whitman and Latah counties. The Palouse Prairie Foundation is committed to helping individuals and organizations in both Whitman and Latah Counties to conserve and restore prairie remnants. This program provides small grants to students, teachers, conservationists, landowners and others interested in the...
Ballots on a proposed merger of four farm supply co-operatives have been mailed out to members. Colfax Grange Supply, Pullman Grange Supply, Dusty Farm Co-Op and Pomeroy Grange Supply have proposed a merger into a new organization which would be called Four Star Supply. Larry Cochran, chairman of the Colfax board, said the merger has been under discussion since last February among officers of the four cooperatives. He said the aim is to increase the overall scale of the operation while retaining local service. Information meetings have been...
