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Colfax Junior Morgan Willson will return to the Sun Willows golf course in Pasco Saturday to defend her state B cross country title. Willson, who is undefeated in B competition, earned her ticket to state by leading the NE regional entrants by 37 seconds Friday over a wet course at Plante’s Ferry Park in the Spokane Valley. She will be the top qualifier to go off the line Saturday in the girls B race which starts at 10 a.m. Willson last year won the race with a clocking of 18:36, 47 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. Friday at P...
St. John senior Erin Schuster rolled out to an early lead and kept it last Thursday at Pomeroy’s golf course to win the SE girls top ticket to the state show in Pasco Saturday. Schuster finished with a dramatic three second win over Asotin’s Sadie Johnson with a 21:56. Adding to the Eagle success was a third place finish by freshman Heather Siegel who was in the hunt for most of the race and finished just six seconds back of Johnson. The two SJE qualifications were notched from the slim SE allotment for the girls state B race: just one tea...
Colfax Bulldogs put their offensive game in overdrive at the start of the second half Friday night for a 49-13 win over Kettle Falls, the last notch on a 6-0 league string in an undefeated season. FINAL NE 2B STANDINGS Colfax 6-0 8-0 372- 89 Lnd/Rtz/Sprg 5-1 6-2 204-81 Springdale 3-3 3-5 126-238 Reardan 3-3 5-3 188-164 Liberty 2-4 3-5 159-255 Kettle Falls 2-4 2-7 130-215 Davenport 0-6 2-6 121-252 Other scores: Reardan 34-Liberty 12, Lind/Ritzville/Sprague 44-Davenport 14. The NE finish left the Bulldogs looking at Pomeroy Tuesday night to see... Full story
Colfax netters start their quest for another run at the state title tonight in a home round of the NE qualifications. Springdale and St. George’s play an elim match at 5 p.m. tonight in the Colfax gym and the winner will go up against Colfax. Qualifiers out of tonight’s rounds will head for Reardan Saturday where matches in both gyms will determine which three teams advance to Yakima next week. Northwest Christian, number two league finisher, hosts the other first-round elims tonight. The title match for NE is booked for 4 p.m. in the main gym... Full story
Two nominations were put forth for election to represent the eastern third of Whitman County on the United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency’s central county committee. The nominees were Joe Horlacher, who farms west of Tekoa, and Gregory Stout, who farms in the Colton area. Ballots will soon be sent to county farmers and must be returned by Monday, Dec. 6. Ballots will be counted at the Dec. 13 committee meeting. The elected farmer will take the seat that has been held for the past three years by Garfield farmer Larry Sch...
Whitman County commissioners Monday approved a loan from the county’s solid waste fund to the auditor’s budget to cover costs of constructing new office space for the elections department. Amount of the loan was undetermined, as was the payoff date. A two percent interest rate was put on the loan. James Elmore Construction of Spokane is currently remodeling the elections office space under a $489,040 contract. Money used to pay construction costs will be reimbursed from a $360,000 Help America Vote Act grant the county was awarded in 2004. The... Full story
As part of my “Keep Fit!” exercise regimen, I start every day off with a brisk, active walk to the doughnut shop. Well, OK, most mornings I drive. Right near the doughnut shop is a bridge where three fishermen sit in folding chairs and smell as if they’re rotting in the sun. Their lines dangle over the railing to the water below, much to the amusement of the local fish, who swim past the bait with loud guffaws. I smile and wave at the fishermen, but I’ve learned not to offer any doughnuts because they always take them. Of the three of them, t...
Week of Nov. 8-12, 2010 At Tekoa School: Monday: Hambur-gers, French Fries, Veggie Choices. Tuesday: Pizza, Green Beans, Tossed Salad, Pineapple. Wednesday: Early Release. Chickenwich, French Fries, Veggie Choices. Thursday: Early Release. Friday: Veteran’s Day No School. At LaCrosse School: Monday: Biscuit, sausage gravy, egg, orange or apple juice, grapes. Tuesday: Taco soup, breadstick, chips, carrot sticks, Mandarin oranges. Wednesday: Out at noon. Ham or peanut butter sandwich, chips, peaches, carrot sticks, cookie. Thursday: No School. V...
Dusty Jon and Li Ochs returned from Las Vegas last week where they attended a conference on electrical reliability. Some of the local children enjoyed Halloween activities Sunday. Mashayla, in an Indian costume, and Quincy, in a bull rider costume, Morris participated in the activities at the LaCrosse fire station. The Blankenship children went trick-or-treating at Hill Ray. Kim and Cindy Pitts babysat their grandchildren in Spokane Saturday evening. They returned home Sunday. David and Phyllis Stueckle attended the chili feed in LaCrosse...
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution for Wednesday, Nov. 17, will be Palouse Federated Church, 1 to 3 p.m., and Rosalia Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m. For Thursday, Nov. 18, distribution will be Malden/Pine City, Town Hall, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 9 to 10 a.m., LaCrosse, 310 B 4th St., 8 a.m. to noon; Tekoa City Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Endicott City Hall, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Distribution for Friday, Nov. 19,...
Photos of a former Colfax farm woman are among those featured in the showcase of Washington State’s traveling centennial celebrating women in Washington winning the right to vote in 1910. Spokane’s Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) will be the final stop for the road show. The show opened Saturday and will be on display until May 7. May Christine MacFarlane was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1873. She was the middle child of five children born to Daniel and Mary MacFarlane. Though May contracted a childhood illness early in life which left her nea...
Capt. Bill J. Druffel returned home to Pullman from Mosul, Iraq, after serving 11 months as a Judge Advocate to the 2nd Brigade 3rd Infantry Division. Druffel here is receiving the Bronze Star and the Combat Action Medal from his commanding officer. Druffel is expected to return to work at the Whitman County Prosecutors Office later this month.... Full story
Colfax City Council members Monday night conducted a short executive session on the Ralph Walter controversy. City Attorney Bruce Ensley called the short session at the end of the meeting, and the council took no action after it concluded. Ross White, Spokane attorney who represented Walter in his appeal before the city’s civil service board, asked the council at its previous session to begin discussion, possibly through mediation, on alleged losses sustained by Walter. The fire chief was reinstated by Mayor Norma Becker before the second d...
State ag officials have told Whitman County to use or lose it’s 2,000-acre allotment under the Palouse Prairie portion of the State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement program. In 2008, the federal Farm Service Agency and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife created the program to restore or enhance 8,200 acres of wildlife habitat across the state. The agencies set aside 2,000 acres in Whitman County to expand and protect the unique Palouse Prairie. Landowners now have until Jan. 14 of next year to offer land for contracts or the 2,000-acre a...
Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday. Set back clocks one hour. In 2007, Daylight Saving Time was extended four weeks to save on energy use. Daylight Saving Time was initiated during World War I and unified for all states in 1966....
Last week’s records column listed an incorrect price for the April 30 sale of a house in Pullman by Harriett Beckett to Wendell and Thursa Herrett. The price was $163,900.... Full story
Whitman County plans to buy the Gnaedinger rock quarry north of Palouse. Public Works Director Mark Storey told commissioners Monday the county has leased the quarry for years, but the Gnaedinger family now wants to sell the nine-acres. Although negotiations are ongoing, the purchase price will likely cost the county less than lease payments.... Full story
Whitman County’s official valuation of the new WalMart Supercenter building in Pullman dropped $2.5 million after the company challenged the assessment. Assessor Joe Reynolds reported Monday he had dropped his office’s valuation from $15 million to $12.5 million. Wal-Mart had requested a reduction to $10 million. WalMart had appealed Reynold’s assessment to the county’s board of equalization, the board that officially decides disputed tax values. County commissioners also make up the three-member board of equalization. WalMart’s appeal wa... Full story
The National Weather Service will present a winter weather workshop for Whitman and Latah counties Nov. 8, at 10 a.m., at the Public Service Building in Colfax. The workshop will cover the 2010-11 winter outlook for Whitman and Latah counties and how to access the NWS weather information. Pre-register with Whitman County Emergency Management. Contact Robin Cocking, email RobinC@co.whitman.wa.us.... Full story
With declining prices for its stock offering, the company looking to site a wind farm near Oakesdale cancelled plans to trade its stock publicly last Thursday, Oct. 28. First Wind, the Boston-based company, has applied with Whitman County to build a 55-turbine wind farm on Naff Ridge. While investors balked at buying stock in the company, Ben Fairbanks, director of business development in First Wind’s west region, said the decision to pull back the public share offering means little for the Palouse Wind project. “It really does not have any imp... Full story
Big election last night. What result were you most interested in?...
A Clarkston man who reportedly became too intoxicated to hike out of a canyon along the Snake River was located by deputies and brought out of the canyon at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct 27, three hours after deputies received the missing person report. The report by Deputy Sgt. Chris Chapman, said they found the hiker, Benny F. Elder, 37, sleeping. He had sustained scrapes and abrasions. According to the report, Elder and two other hikers started up the canyon after they parked along Wawawai Road about three miles downstream from Wilma. All... Full story
Ownership of the Jones Schoolhouse has been turned over to Whitman County. The school was moved from its long-time site east of Dusty to the Palouse Empire Fairgrounds this summer to stand as a tribute to the county’s history of one-room schoolhouses. County commissioners signed a memorandum of agreement between the county and the Palouse Empire Fair Foundation Monday. The agreement transfers ownership of the schoolhouse to the county, but future work on the building will be paid by the foundation. The move of the schoolhouse from Dusty to M...
A group of old friends gathered together for lunch in Spokane at the Timber Creek Buffet in the Valley for two hours October 20 to renew friendships. There were five people from classes in the 1940s with Sally Weisman Grant, Spangle, the daughter of long time Colfax doctor, Dr. Weisman, being a surprise participant. Roger and June (Johnson) Edgren, retirees from Elk Drug in Colfax, also attended. Most of the other grads were from classes in the 1950s. They plan a luncheon on the first Monday of every third month, starting on Feb. 2, 2011, at...
Everybody Reads will feature award-winning Oregon author The book the Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss has been the selected for the 2010 Everybody Reads, a community reading event involving libraries in this area. A fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland, Gloss will speak Nov. 10 at noon at the Neill Public Library in Pullman, at 7 p.m. in the 1912 Center in Moscow. On Nov. 12, she will be at the Colfax Library at 10 a.m. and at the St. John Library at noon. Published in 2007, The Hearts of Horses, is the novel about a young woman... Full story
