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YYYY The new passing lanes on 195 north of Steptoe. Keep them coming. Send your pet peeves and okeydokes to Whitman County Gazette P.O Box 770, Colfax, WA 99111 or drop them off at the Gazette office...
In the movie “Starship Troopers,” citizenship was a very special status. To earn citizenship, one had to serve in the military. Citizenship gave those who served the right to vote. In this science fiction story, the rights of citizenship were not given freely. Citizenship here does not have to be earned. For most, it is a birthright. And, on top of that, very little is asked of citizens. Some citizens who have given the most to the country are veterans. We should give them our respect in return. It is fitting that they are honored. Alt... Full story
On Monday, Oct. 30, three days after the last game of a second consecutive winless football season, the St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse players returned to the practice field. They divided up, choosing sides – red and gold – by schoolyard pick, as coach Ken Gering handed out old Eagles jerseys from the equipment room. He set a hand clock to four 12-minute quarters. The kids ran their own plays, decided their own positions. “All I did was ref,” said Gering. One of life's simple joys is playing... Full story
In the Summer of 1902 the Johnson family of Garfield, already established hardware and dry goods merchants, figured a competitive local financial institution, a bank, was needed. One that could easily, conveniently, confidently and securely entrust their neighbors’ business, harvest and cattle money deposits. A place where the farmers could borrow against their assets for seed, feed and need from a local lender who understood their business cycles, capital requirements, their personal ebbs and flows. The farm and ranch customers – quickly joi... Full story
-Cap Perry photo Brooklyn Henley of Oakesdale raps a big hit in the chanpionship match at Walla Walla against Pomeroy. Oakesdale’s Nighthawks today started a bid for a third state title with a match over Mt. Rainier Lutheran in the opening round on the 1B tournament at Yakima’s SunDome. The Nighthawks advanced to state after defeating Pomeroy in four games in the last round of the district playoffs at Walla Walla Community College Saturday. Pomeroy rolled to state as the number-two entry fro...
The Washington state 1B high school football playoffs begin this weekend with the Southeast 1B league’s three seeds all in action. No. 1 seed Sunnyside Christian, who won at Garfield/Palouse last week to finish an unbeaten regular season, will play at home Friday against Pateros. Gar/Pal, the Southeast 1B’s No. 2 seed, will host a first-round game against Republic (6-3, 5-1) at Palouse Friday. Kickoff is 6 p.m. No. 3 seed Colton travels to Coulee City Saturday for a 3 p.m. kickoff against Alm...
Colfax girls’ team placed eighth Saturday in the state cross country all B run at Pasco’s Sun Willows Golf course. The Bulldogs totaled 197 points to finish last on the team tally, but the team entry was unique and points to a solid future for Colfax distance running. Liberty Bell, which had an amazing four finishers in the top seven, won the team title with a scant 23 points, and Northwest Christian of Lacey placed second in the team count with a 51. Novie McCabe of Liberty Bell took the state girls race with an 18:30.20 time. Rose Mel... Full story
At left: Ben Ahmann charges for a Colfax TD to put the Bulldogs in the lead in the Asotin battle. Colfax and Asotin locked up an all-out battle Friday on the Panthers’ field with Asotin again pulling out a win in the last quarter. Asotin will advance to the 16-team start of the state tournament this week after posting a 29-24 win, and the Bulldogs will pack it up after going into the crossover round with a 6-3 third place tie with the Panthers after the league campaign. “I think we played a gre...
Abbie Miller serves one up against LRS in the opening match at St. George’s. Carmen Gfeller puts up a block against the Broncos at St. George’s. Colfax volleyball team will open its state tournament action at Yakima’s SunDome today against the Toutle Lake Ducks at 11:45 in top bracket competition of the 2B title run. Coach Sue Doering and the Bulldogs departed Wednesday morning for the two-day state campaign after wrapping up another NE run with two match wins in the district finals at St. G...
STATE MEASURES Advisory Vote No. 16 Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1597 Increase of the food fish excise tax rate on certain salmon and game fish costing less that $1,000,000 in first ten years for government spending. Repeal 2918, 61.3% Maintain 1839, 38.7% Advisory Vote No. 17 Engrossed House Bill 2163 Expansion of business and occupation tax and narrowing certain retail sales and use tax exemptions, cost $565,000,000 in the first ten years for government spending. Repeal 3333, 69.9% Maintain 1437, 30.1% Advisory Vote No. 18 Engrossed House...
Rob Smith Gazette Staff Colfax dentist Dr. Robert T. Smith uses computer-driven manufacturing every day in his practice and explained the high tech tools and how he applies them. The use of machines controlled by computer programs to create physical parts has been around for decades. In the 1980s, for a computer-driven machine to create a part, it first had to be defined digitally, drawn up by a human in a computer program such as AutoCAD. Next, that drawing would be used as a reference by a... Full story
Since Sept. 21, tours at the former St. Ignatius Hospital have brought more than 1,000 people to Colfax with 80 percent of them coming from more than 50 miles. Only five resided in Colfax. “It’s been interesting to see the people who come in,” said Valorie Gregory, Colfax unified executive director. Gregory and tour volunteers have booked 76 tours for a 53-day span and will close for the year at the end of November. When things warm up in the spring, the tours at the hospital will resume while...
The first of the series of Colfax Farmers breakfast meetings will be Nov. 15 at 7 a.m. at the Colfax Methodist Church meeting room at S. 109 Mill Street in Colfax. Ryan Kile of Northwest Farm Credit Services in Colfax will talk on what has been profitable among crops this year with a crop-by-crop report. Ryan is also associated with his family’s farm in the Steptoe and St. John area. Attendees will have a chance to meet Denver Black of Rainier Seed Co. For more information, contact Dennis Roe at 509-595-0943 or Dan Harwood at 5...
The Colton High School Veteran’s Day assembly will be Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 9 a.m. All veterans are invited to come and sit in the front. The event will also serve as a kickoff for Honor Flight fundraising. The school looks to raise funds to pay for one area veteran’s trip with Honor Flight, a non-profit organization which takes veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit memorials....
Bill Myers adds hops to the Bitter Rivalry brew. A local farmer with an obscure variety of barley has found a niche for it in brewing. Now, malt made from that barley is the base of an Apple Cup beer called Bitter Rivalry. Bill Myers of Colfax attended the Oct. 27 brew day of Bitter Rivalry at Elysian Fields which is based in Seattle. He was able to witness as Ben Davidson, brewer overseeing the concoction, and his team mixed the Palouse Pint malt made from Myers’ grain with Washington apples an...
Whitman County elections had counted 22.7 percent of ballots as of the closing bell Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Of the 22,229 that were mailed out, 5,046 had been counted with an estimated 1,000 remaining. All propositions in the county were passing as of the first count of county ballots Tuesday night. The town of Farmington, which has struggled to pass levies in the pass, was 62 percent and St. John’s proposition #1 was at 61 percent. The big Pullman bond for $10.5 million was hanging on by t...
A blown end-cap from a water main at the Tekoa School District administration building caused a mudslide early Sunday morning. Water from the main cut a trench through an embankment, sending a wall of dirt into the city pool located downhill from the building. It broke through two building-block retaining walls and a chain-link fence, knocking down a pool light pole. Tekoa school Maintenance Supervisor Scott Pruitt and engineers from their insurance provider, Clear Risk Management Group, Monday...
Whitman County commissioners approved the 2018 budget Monday, a month and a half before it was due, for a total of $64,069,000. The deadline was Dec. 31. Last year’s budget was $64,734,129. “Quite frankly, the reason why it was passed this early is the fact that there weren’t any major changes,” said Gary Petrovich, county administrative director. In June, county commissioners sent a letter to each department outlining what they hoped to see. Through the summer, the departments worked on it and... Full story
