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When a new house is built in Whitman County, who sets the address for it? Previously, for unincorporated areas, this was done by Whitcom. It will now be handled by the county planning department, under Public Works. Members of the Public Works department spoke to county commissioners Dec. 3 about the change, which comes after the departure of a Whitcom employee who handled addresses. A group from the planning department went to Asotin County Nov. 27 to talk to Mark Janowski, former Whitcom...
With the 11-nation Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) set to take effect Dec. 31, U.S. Wheat Associates President Vince Peterson Monday urged the U.S. Trade Representative to seek a fast solution for vulnerable American wheat exports to Japan. Testifying Dec. 10 at a public hearing, Peterson thanked the Trump Administration for making negotiations with Japan a priority and explained the CPTPP’s threat to U.S. wheat exports. The CPTPP will cut the effective tariff on Canadian and Australian wheat to J...
Last May Whitman County Sheriff's office lost a deputy to cancer. The German Shepherd K9 officer, Unix, was nine years old when he died from an aggressive form of cancer. He had served with the sheriff's office since 2011. Now filling the void left by Unix is Lilly, who was purchased using money forfeited from drug activities, and brought to Washington from Germany. Teamed up with Sgt. Keith Cooper, 15-month-old Lilly graduated from the Washington State Patrol K-9 Academy in Olympia Dec. 4....
Roger Beck, business teacher and yearbook instructor at St. John/Endicott High School, received three separate awards at the Washington State Business Education Association's fall meeting in October. Beck serves as treasurer for WSBEA's board. The first award was a 50-year service award for teaching business. Beck, who was raised in Kellogg, Idaho, and graduated from Eastern Washington University in 1968, moved to St. John and began his teaching career that year. His career has been in the same...
Tekoa volunteers Fred Wagner and Ivan Mercer put up the first section of Christmas lights on the Tekoa Trestle Tuesday. Turned away because of weather after stringing up 200 feet of lights and a wreath, the two men were set to start again Wednesday, weather permitting. Their work is an effort by Friends of the Tekoa Trestle (FTTT), and permitted by Washington State Parks, which owns the decommissioned trestle. This is the fifth year of what has become a Tekoa tradition. "We have full legality,...
Whitman County Library has announced that the third annual "Art Among the Trees" will be in Colfax on Dec. 19. "Art Among the Trees" is an event featuring trees festively decorated by community members as well as artwork by artists and photographers from around the region. This year 25 trees have been featured. The artists include Carrie Vielle, Nancy Rothwell, Bob Krikac and photographer Tom Mohr, all from Colfax; Rob Smith from St. John; Nona Hengen from Spangle, and Jacqueline Daisley and...
Sarah Sevedge, a fourth generation resident here on the Palouse, has opened a new counseling center in Pullman. Hope in the Hills Counseling Services is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. six days a week. Sevedge has been counseling for more than 10 years. Sevedge, born and raised in Colfax, is the daughter of Bob and Julie (Willson) Sevedge, of Colfax, and granddaughter of Joan Willson of Colfax and Thoral Sinkbeil, also of Colfax. Her father's side of the family also goes back four generations on the...
With Sunday night’s snowfall, Whitman County began snow plowing season for 2018-19, following fits and starts the past three weeks. The county Public Works department, which handles snow plowing on county roads, has a priority list as follows: First priority is paved roads with the second priority remaining school bus and mail routes. The third priority is other access routes. Priority two and three (gravel roads) are plowed only in the event of six inches of snow or drifting conditions. Weekend work applies to snow conditions at the d...
The Council on Aging and Human Services has received a grant from Innovia Foundation for COAST Transportation in the amount of $30,000. Ryan Avery, transportation coordinator, was the lead grant writer for the grant to upgrade the technology used in COAST’s vehicles. The grant will be used to purchase tablets where the drivers can more easily log mileage and location, as well as see their schedule. The tablets will be connected to a single server. The server will be upgraded to allow for r...
Colfax girls Saturday pegged an early lead over the St. George's Dragons and fought off a comeback from the guests to finish with their first win of the season Saturday in the home court. The Bulldogs prevailed 56-50 after the Dragon team cranked it up for one last run in the fourth quarter. The home win in a non-league game puts Colfax at 1-3 with the LRS Broncos slated to be here Friday night to open up league play. The speedy Colfax team zapped to a 6-0 lead at the start of Saturday's home...
Tekoa/Rosalia boys added two wins over the weekend with a 71-33 crunch over Mary Walker in Tekoa Thursday night and a comeback win on the road at Kettle Falls Saturday. Both games were non-leaguers for the Timberwolves who start NE-South league play at Liberty Friday and host Reardan in Rosalia on Saturday. At Kettle Falls Saturday, TR trailed 22-31 at the break, but started to hit in the second half and finished with a 55-48 win with Craig Mueller hitting 18 points. Other scorers were Garrett...
The Oakesdale girls are 4-0 to start the 2018-19 season, with three starters back from last year’s third-place finish in the Southeast 1B league. The Nighthawks have won all four games handily: a 66-29 home win over Asotin Tuesday night, 61-49 at Lind/Ritzville/Sprague, 50-31 over Touchet and 51-32 against St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse. “Things are going good so far,” said second-year coach Dan Brown, who also coached the Tekoa-Oakesdale girls for four years earlier in the decade. For Oakes...
An early season run of Colfax solid hoop wins came to a halt Saturday in the home gym when Coach Ryan Peplinski brought down a veteran St. George's team, also undefeated on the new season. The guests took control early and finished with a 69-50 win. Colfax had stacked a 3-0 run including a big win Friday at Burbank. St. George's junior guard Dan Rigby opened with a scoring volley for the visitors who posted a 22-10 lead after the first quarter. Colfax defense settled down in the second quarter w...
The St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse boys are off to a 1-2 start, opening their season Dec. 4 with a 43-36 win over Waitsburg. Losses followed to Pomeroy and Oakesdale to begin league play. Second-year coach Mario Adams guides the Eagles, who graduated two starters from last year; forward Griffin Parrish and guard Dustin Fox, along with guard/forward Levi Bailey, a sometimes starter in 2017-18. Back again is a young roster, including sophomore point guard Ty Harder, who started last year, Kameron...
The football player on the left end of last week’s photo of special award winners was Brandon Lustig who was named most improved player for the undefeated Colfax junior varsity. The player was incorrectly identified in the photo caption last week....
Colfax wrestlers placed third Saturday by rolling up 120 team points in the big Liberty Invitational meet. Host Liberty took the team win with 149 points, and St. Maries placed a close second with 145.5 points. Colfax had three first-place winners with Caden Noha in the 160 class, Jacob Brown at 182, and Augie Allenbach at 220. Also placing for the Bulldogs were Colby Sisk, second for 113, and Nolan Burrill, third in 126. Colfax wrestlers will travel to Pomeroy Tuesday for a dual meet. Pomeroy finished 10th Saturday at Liberty with 44 points....
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. CAR SHOOTING VERDICT Tylor James Wilson, 23, Pullman, was convicted Monday of four charges related to a Pullman Police investigation of a report of the driver of a car on College Hill in Pullman being hit by a pellet gun shot Oct. 11. The jury returned verdicts of guilty on one charge of assault...
In 15 or 20 years, some of the youngsters who watched the Christmas Parade last Thursday make its loop on Mill and Main streets in Colfax are certain to be marking Christmas elsewhere. They might be off at a distant military base, or they might be working the swing shift at a large urban hospital. Maybe they will find themselves staring at taillights while repeating a long commute along the I-5 corridor. While at those locations, they might mentally go home for Christmas and think of the 20-plus minutes when they stood out in the cold, dived fo...
Pet Peeves Businesses closed on weekends & weekday shutdowns 2-6 p.m. Okeydokes Winterfest parade, petting zoo and multiple places for hot cocoa. Colfax should be proud....
The word "potpourri" has a few definitions, but for a columnist it means writing about a bunch of unrelated stuff because he's too lazy to come up with an overarching theme. Instead, he'll take a superficial look at several developments. I have long experience doing that because of my career in TV news, where the marching orders were to "Get out there and scratch the surface!" What better frivolous way to begin this potpourri than with that fist bump, or whatever it was, at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed...
Mitch McConnell just did our constitutional order an enormous favor by burying the so-called Robert Mueller protection bill, hopefully never to rise again. There's been much harumphing about how Republicans are in the tank for President Donald Trump by not getting on board the bipartisan bill, but it is a singularly misbegotten piece of legislation. Plan A, i.e., passing the thing, would have been hard enough. But its supporters apparently didn't think through a need for a Plan B or C: Trump would have vetoed the bill if it passed Congress,...
A reason the petition (Malden petition misses budget vote-Nov. 28) was necessary is because, even after the results of the Felton Hall Survey with many citizens sharing their ideas/comments, even after multiple families spoke at a council meeting regarding the need for park improvements, even after the mayor suggested during the meeting that Brad Harris and myself get together with the others on the issue, even after we did and I delivered ideas/progress/proposals over the next several council meetings, still the mayor/council ignored our...
The good news is Washington’s revenues continue to grow, and projections for the next couple of years appear promising. That is welcome news, but it is sprinkled with caution about introducing new taxes. Our state’s Economic and Revenue Forecast Council (ERFC) quarterly update shows a whopping 17.3 percent increase in state income for the current biennium. That welcome announcement comes just in time for Christmas. For background, Washington’s budget is on a two-year cycle. The current spend...