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MARRIAGE LICENSES Heath Austin Brewer, 23, Pullman, and Stephanie Lynn Hoyle, 23, Nampa, Idaho, Nov. 8. Steven Robert Grubbs, 41, Colfax, and Leeann Marie McDonald, 33, Kennewick, Nov. 14. WHITMAN COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS Dennis Nygreen, Colton, install wood stove, $1,800, Oct. 17. Ron Kile, Pine City, storage building, $76,212, Oct. 31. Ken Duft, Pullman, gas fireplace insert, $7,400, Nov. 14. Jim Thompson, Farmington, bath remodel, $7,860, Oct. 22. Terry Morgan, Malden, shop addition, $60,000, Oct. 31. Kincaid Farms, Pullman, shop repair,...
Colfax High School ASB and boys’ basketball team are hosting an alumni tournament Dec. 22 as a fundraiser for the ASB and men’s basketball program. The goal is to have at least 40 players signed up and split into four teams with each team competing in two games. Teams will be coached by former Colfax coaches. The tournament needs one more coach, players of any age and officials. Cost to play will be $20, which includes a shirt. All entry forms are due on or before Dec. 8. For more information and to get a form, contact Coach Reece Jenkin, Bra...
Signing of Colfax senior Brandon Gfeller to an early letter of intent to play at the University of Montana in Missoula was announced Friday. Gfeller, now 6-4, is preparing for his senior year of basketball at Colfax under Coach Reece Jenkin. The Bulldogs return to action after taking the state 2B title last year at the Spokane arena....
Cole Klaveano, Cole Neu, Arron Arneson, John Mellor, linemen, and Levi Hardy, running back, have been named to the all-league team in the NE 2B league. Selected for the second team are quarterback Brady Ellis and running back Kellen McNannay. The Bulldogs will conclude their season with the annual football banquet Monday night....
All-league players for the SE volleyball league were recognized at the district tournament in Colfax before the state show. In front, from the left, are Sarah Croskrey, Liberty Christian; Alexa Lindgren, Tekoa/Oakesdale; Holly Leendersten, Garfield/Palouse, and Morgan Anderson, St. John/Endicott. In back, from the left, are Sydney Higgins, Liberty Christian; Kaden Dahmen, Kaitlin Druffel, and Jenna Moser of Colton; Cassandra Mendoza, Katelyn Renstrom, Mattie Jo Johnson of Tekoa/Oakesdale; Cassie Thompson of Garfield/Palouse; Emily Jones and...
Last March they were hoisting the first state trophy brought home by a Colfax boys team since 1979. Now it’s late in November, and a new Colfax team starts a new season. Colfax hoop practices started with seven seniors gone from last year’s title team run which finished with a 22-5 record. Coach Reece Jenkin has three senior starters back from the title campaign, and he predicts the fate of the upcoming season will hinge on how the younger players develop. Brandon Gfeller, who has signed a letter of intent with Montana, returns as a 6-4 sen...
Colfax girls hoops squad will travel to the SunDome next Saturday to play LaSalle of Union Gap. The road trip to the dome will be part of a recognition of the Colfax run of four state titles from 2004 to 2008, according to Coach Baerlocher. He said the players on the rosters over the four-year run total about 25 with many logging repeat seasons during the run. Attempts are being made to notify all of them of the recognition. Colton girls matched the Colfax achievement last March when they took home the 1B state trophy for the fourth straight...
Another chapter in the long story of Whitman County basketball tips off next week, with talent spread thick across each of the schools in the SE-B league. “Boy, it’s going to be a donnybrook,” said Garfield/Palouse Coach Tim Coles. “I don’t see a weak team anywhere.” Colton zipped through the league last year, riding inside-out talent of Dustin Patchen and Josh Straughan to a perfect 14-0 record and a spot in the state regionals. The Wildcats, though, were bumped out of the state tournament before action moved to the Spokane Arena. The two cou...
Lakeside of Nine Mile and Colton Wildcat champions will make an appearance Tuesday in the Colfax girls hoop jamboree to launch the season. Colfax Coach Corey Baerlocher reported the teams, jayvees and varsity, will play 10 minute rounds with Colfax and Lakeside matches first, Colton and Lakeside next and Colfax and Colton last. Jayvee teams will play first in each matchup. Colfax Coach Baerlocher and crew will start the new season with another young team. Colfax graduated three seniors off the 2012 team. Hannah Harazin, who anchored much of...
Mike Parrish, baseball coach for Colfax High School for 16 years, was inducted into the Washington State Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame Saturday in an induction ceremony on the mezzanine at Safeco Field in Seattle. The luncheon was the 25th annual induction ceremony for the state coaches association. Coach Parrish was inducted with Billy Walker, coach at Naches Valley since 1997. Walker's father, Bill, Sr., was inducted into the hall in 1992 in recognition of his career at Connell. In addition to coaching the Bulldogs over the years, Parrish...
Liberty/Christian Patriots, the power club that had the top SE rating before the start of the season, proved up Friday when they rolled on to the state semi-final round after defeating the LaCrosse/Washtucna Tigercats at Edgar Brown Stadium in Pasco. The Patriots stacked up a 70-8 win over the ‘cats who played a competitive game in the face of the Pats ground power club. LW Coach Jeff Nelson credited his crew with putting up a battle against the talent-packed Pats. “They did everything they could do, and they battled all the way,” Nelson noted...
THURSDAY A freight train slammed into a parade float carrying wounded veterans in the west Texas town of Midland, killing four people and injuring 17 others. The float got stuck on the train tracks and could not clear the crossing before a Union Pacific freight train hit the crossing. A Palestinian rocket fired into Israel killed three and touched off another round of worries over Middle East tensions. A Kansas robber who seized a man’s cell phone and wallet at gunpoint recognized the victim as an ex-convict he had served time with and gave the...
Mary Antoine, center, drove from Pullman Nov. 13 to shop in Colfax during the Chamber of Commerce’s Customer Appreciation Night and won $200 in gift certificates. Antoine was presented with the gift certificates by Colfax Chamber President Kathy Mayer, left, and Chamber Secretary Kathy Clark, right. Antoine said she comes to Colfax because she likes all the small gift shops. “One of the draws is the customer service,” she said. “They really take care of you.” Nearly 20 businesses participated in the evening’s activities....
Last week’s Gazette Veteran’s Day article about Vietnam photographer Larry Eugene Morris incorrectly reported he continues the military practice of starting with his right foot every time he walks. Morris last week told the Gazette he starts with his left foot as is standard military marching procedure....
A survey from the Palouse Planning Commission will be sent out this week to the 500 households of Palouse. The purpose is to seek input for the commission as they work to update the town’s Comprehensive Plan, last completed in 1997. The comprehensive plan is a document which indicates current community needs and a vision for the future, said Lynne Nelson, a member of the Palouse Planning Commission. The 16 survey questions cover topics such as zoning, land use and city infrastructure. The l...
Two days after Thanksgiving and one day after Black Friday is an important day. It is Shop Small Saturday. Shop Small Saturday is an outgrowth of years of trying to promote small businesses. Many community papers have pushed a Shop Local or Shop your Hometown First theme for years. This is a national, and natural, outgrowth of that. It has been said many times, but small businesses really are the lifeblood of small communities. The downtowns they occupy are often the center of town activity. Local businesses hire local people, and they support...
Whitman Hospital and Medical Center in Colfax once again was accredited by the College of American Pathologists after a recent three-day inspection. The hospital’s laboratory is the only CAP-accredited lab on the Palouse, and is one of more than 7,000 CAP-accredited facilities worldwide. The federal government recognizes the CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program, begun in the early 1960s, as being equal to or more stringent than the government’s own inspection program. “This is the gold standard of laboratory accreditation,” said Heather Reathaf...
Gail Webster of Colfax & Community Fund, center, receives a $1,000 AmericanWest Bank donaton from Alan Hodges, manager of AmericanWest Bank at Palouse, and Kay Riebold, AmericanWest service and solutions manager at Colfax. Proceeds from the drive supports nine different agencies operating in the Colfax community. This is the third consecutive year the bank has made a contribution of this size to the drive. As part of an ongoing annual commitment, AmericanWest has contributed more than $32,000 to food banks and hosts an annual company-wide food...
A St. John man arrested for attempted burglary Wednesday morning complained to Whitman County Sheriff’s deputies that he had been assaulted by the homeowner who foiled the attempt and left him zip-tied on his garage floor. Sheriff Brett Myers reported deputies recovered Michael E. McCarthy, 47, St. John, after responding to a 911 call at 6 a.m. Wednesday. According to Sheriff Myers’ report, the home owner told emergency dispatchers her husband was fighting with McCarthy after they discovered him burglarizing their home. She later informed dis...
Oakesdale Mayor Dennis Palmer wants to replace window frames on the old Conoco gas station. There are four windows on the brick building, which sits across from Crossett’s Foot Market on Steptoe Street. The wood frames of the two windows on each side of the door and on each side of the building are rotting. “We either gotta keep on top of that stuff or it’s gonna fall around you,” said Palmer. Oakesdale maintenance superintendent Bob Hooper pushed one window frame back into place two weeks a...
THE THING that annoys me the most about General Petraeus is not that he had an extramarital affair, it’s that he lied to us about Benghazi. At the time, that is, when the President, the secretary of state, the ambassador to the United Nations and others including Petraeus, were telling us that the attack on our consulate was triggered by rage over a video movie made in the U.S. that insulted Muhammed. Everyone who spoke knew it was not true. Knew that the attack that killed four Americans was by terrorists. Your average spontaneous riot d...
Preparations are underway for another appearance by the Garfield-Palouse FFA soils team at the national competition, after they won the 2012 Washington state title Oct. 31. Gar-Pal’s winning team at the state championship event in Warden included top overall winner Jesse Lopez, a junior with a perfect score, earning him a $1,000 scholarship to the WSU College of Soil Science. The team also includes sophomore Gabe Cocking (sixth in state, individual), junior Chandler Pfaff (seventh), junior T...
In a county where the Republican ticket again stacked leads in the general elections, a presidential campaign sign for President Barack Obama and Joe Biden can stand out. Particularly if it’s posted on a barn along Highway 26. Political signs hang on the peeling paint of a barn atop a hill west of Colfax along Highway 26. Jon and Li Ochs of Dusty put up an Obama-Biden sign on the barn. Li Ochs said they got the sign from the Democratic headquarters in Pullman. They chose the barn because of its visibility on the well-traveled highway and r...
Farmers and crop consultants are invited to a symposium about aphids and viruses that affect peas and lentils Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Best Western University Inn in Moscow. A hosted reception will follow the meeting. The workshop is hosted by WSU Extension, the University of Idaho and the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council, and will show results from a four-year research project funded by the USDA Risk Assessment and Mitigation Program. The agenda includes discussion of economic damage by pea aphids, forecasting the risk of virus...
Bidding a price of more than $2 million below the estimate of the county engineer, Central Washington Paving of Moses Lake was the low bidder to repave 20.8 miles of Whitman County roads Monday. Central’s bid of $3,965,323 was the lowest of six firms to bid on the projects, which were estimated by the county at a cost of $5,999,715.95. The project calls for overlays of asphalt on more than six miles of the Lancaster Road from St. John city limits; more than five miles of the Endicott-Winona road and more than nine miles of the Hume Road, southw...
