Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 52
When was the last time, if ever, that a Whitman county B team limited three consecutive foes to single digit totals? Colton’s girls pulled off the defensive feat as they continue their torrid launch in the league race. The Wildcats held Touchet to five points in the Friday league round, Tekoa/Oakesdale to eight in the Saturday round and Genesee to eight in the Monday non-leaguer before the holiday shutdown. All three games were in the Colton gym. The two league wins over the weekend put Colton at 4-0 in the league standings. Mollie Kramer h...
After struggling in their first two games against non-league foes, Colfax girls got on track Saturday night at Davenport when they opened the league campaign with a 50-32 win over the Gorillas. They followed that Monday with a 45-42 escape at Kettle Falls to post a 2-0 in league play before the holiday break. Hannah Harazin starts up court against Lakeside's Jenna Widman. After the Christmas break, the Bulldogs will travel to the SunDome at Yakima where they are booked to face Zillah at 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday, Dec. 29, and LaSalle in a...
Colfax boys linked two big league wins Saturday and Monday to wrap up the pre-Yule segment of the season with a 3-1 mark. The lone defeat came in a 46-52 bow to Lakeside’s Eagles Friday in the home opener at the Colfax gym. The loss went into the books after Colfax shooting went south in the second half after they staked a 13-point lead against the Eagles in the first. Brandon Gfeller and Kellen Morgan of the Bulldogs put the crush on Lakeside's Ryan Gunderson. “We’re still trying to smooth things out in places,” Coach Reece Jenkin said. H...
Drivers of two cars involved in a head-on collision south of Colfax Saturday morning were hospitalized in Spokane. Volunteers had to extricate one of the drivers from the wrecked sedan. Narinder Kaur, 47, Pullman, sustained possible internal injuries and injuries to both legs. She was taken by Colfax Ambulance to Whitman Hospital for emergency treatment and then taken on to Sacred Heart Medical Center. Jay T. Cady, 54, Yakima, sustained leg injuries and had to be extricated. He was taken to Whitman Hospital for initial treatment. He was later... Full story
THURSDAY WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, fighting extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, walked free on $312,000 bail from a British jail protesting his innocence and pledging to continue exposing official secrets. A team of scientists positively identified an embalmed head in the royal basilica of Saint-Denis, near Paris, presumed lost in the chaos of the French Revolution, as that of King Henri IV of France, who was assassinated in 1610. Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Feller, a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians nicknamed “Rapid R...
Bob Bates of Colton was unanimously named by Whitman County commissioners to the board of directors of the Whitman County Rural Library District. Bates replaces Leslee Miller of Uniontown, who leaves the library board after serving two five-year terms. Bates has operated an insurance office in Colton for more than 25 years. A graduate of WSU with bachelor and master’s degrees and a veteran of Vietnam, Bates was a teacher and coach at Tekoa for seven years and then moved to Colton where he led the Wildcats to a state title win at the Kingdome i...
Whitman County’s Board of Adjustment Dec. 16 granted AT&T permission to locate a cell phone tower on Kamiak Butte and granted a permit to Palouse Grain Growers to expand their operations. AT&T is going to erect a 123-foot cell tower on private land in the same location that already holds a broadcast tower for public television station KWSU and a cell phone tower for Verizon. Company representatives were not sure when the tower would be erected. The board unanimously approved a conditional use permit for the tower. Future cell tower sitings w...
Bleachers of children are screaming and cheering, fists pumping, feet stomping the rails. A collective, roaring chant for each competitor fills the room and shakes the floor. Children scream and cheer for their champions of the can race Dec. 17. The ruckus in the Colfax Jennings Elementary gym is almost deafening as can after can rolls down the ramp in the annual children’s Can Race. More than 400 children from the kindergarten through eighth grade school Friday watched each classroom compete against other classrooms until a final winner r...
Elves, snowmen and Christmas trees filled the cafeteria of the Endicott School Monday night, as elementary and middle school students presented their Christmas program “Nanny Claus” to a packed house. Students from kindergarten through fifth grade were dressed as elves and filled the room with song and dance. The program was directed by arts teacher Mary Bertrand.... Full story
Without seeing copies of Whitman County’s 2011 budget proposal, department leaders will spend their Christmas break seeking ways to cut $330,000 from the collective total of their spending plans. County commissioners told a packed room of county officials during Monday’s budget hearing the county will open 2011 with a budget that will be about $330,000 in the red. The deficit was news to county leaders, who have not seen their departments’ budgets since handing them over to Auditor Eunice Coker in September. “I know what I need to run my offi... Full story
Officers seized tens of thousands of dollars in stolen property and a large stash of illegal drugs from a rural residence at Thornton Dec. 16. In a bust that drew agents from five Spokane and Whitman county law agencies, officers seized a 37-plant marijuana grow, a quantity of methamphetamine and thousands of dollars worth of stolen property and car parts. “The vast majority of it was everything from electronics like TVs or car stereos. There was also numerous vehicle parts off of many stolen vehicles,” said Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers....
Alana Brunner’s voice does not catch as she talks about her terminal brain cancer on the phone with the Gazette. Her voice does not crack as she talks about her father’s debilitating stroke last year and it does not crack when she mentions she does not know how soon she will die. Instead, the 25-year-old Palouse woman brings up her faith, her focus on the good things in her life and in particular, her year-long quest to build a children’s home in Uganda. In between monthly rounds of chemotherapy, Brunner is working with Palouse Federated Churc...
NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Whitman County Commissioners have set the date of Monday, December 27, 2010, at 10:15 a.m. in their Chambers, Courthouse, Colfax, WA, for a proposed amendment to the 2010 Whitman County budget. At that time, it is requested all department heads/elected officials requesting an amendment be present. The total amount of the proposed amended budget is approximately $55,000,000.00. Copies of the proposed amendment will be available December 20, 2010 by calling 397-5240. Disabled accommodations are... Full story
Students at Oakesdale High School can also apply for scholarships being offered by First Wind, the company proposing to develop a wind turbine installation on Naff Ridge. Because of an editing error in last week’s Gazette, Oakesdale was not included in the list of schools where students can apply....
Steven D. Lunsford, 47, was booked into jail here after being arrested on a Whitman County warrant Sunday in Spokane County. A warrant was issued for his arrest after he failed to appear for a hearing slated by the court Dec. 3 to determine whether or not he complied with a March 26 sentence. Lunsford was initially charged with possession of child pornography as the result of a Pullman Police investigation which was later amended to communicating with a minor for immoral purposes. Lunsford was sentenced to 45 days in jail with the option of...
A Whitman County jury Dec. 17 ruled Laureen Goll, former LaCrosse resident, sustained $32,100 damages after a five-day trial. The damage was sustained in a 2006 accident on Highway 26 near the Airport Road intersection just west of Colfax. Goll filed a suit against Jennifer Clark of Richland and her mother, Diane Clark, owner of the car Jennifer Clark was driving. The jury ruled Jennifer Clark was negligent in vehicle operation and the negligence led to injury to Mrs. Goll who now resides in the Spokane Valley. Clark in a response to the suit...
Problem solving The Thrifty Grandmothers are trying to solve the problem of keeping the alley clean. We have installed a gate which will be open during the day. The donations are greatly appreciated and are essential for the success of the store. The Grandmothers are proud to be a part of a community which enables us to supply money for worthy causes. This is only possible through donations and those who faithfully patronize the shop. The Grandmothers sincerely hope this will solve the problem and we can continue to serve the community in a...
Warning! Stop reading this column! Go back! Contains words! OK, well, you can’t say I didn’t try to warn you. I just read about a Miami man who has filed a lawsuit against a restaurant there for failing to warn him not to eat the tough, pointy leaves of an artichoke. The man, a medical doctor, had to be rushed to the emergency room, and is suing for, among other things, “loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life.” Apparently he feels that the restaurant should have posted signs warning him not to eat inedible things, like, say, the parking...
President Obama’s most recent drilling moratorium along the East Coast and in parts of the Gulf of Mexico fortunately may have helped our state’s crude oil supplies in the short term. While the president recently stopped offshore oil exploration from Delaware to Florida, the moratorium did not include existing leases in Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort seas. However, the future of energy development in the region is uncertain. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told Alaskans the Dept. of Interior will honor existing leases, but he is undec...
ITEM—The mentally ill man charged with killing a stranger with a hatchet Nov. 22 is suspected of another slaying a day earlier, according to King County prosecutors. Michael LaRosa, 26, a paranoid schizophrenic, was reportedly off his medications and hearing voices when he killed Joseph LaMagno, 58, after both men left a Capitol Hill grocery. He is being held on $5 million bail. COMMENT—Countless times in my career, I have written about schizophrenics who are “off their medications” and commit crimes and asked why in the world we don’t d...
The former Harrison Building at Main and Upton streets in Colfax was given a pre-Christmas wrap job by crews working on the remodeling project for the county’s new elections office. A crew from J & E Mesa Plastering, a subcontractor on the project, is now applying exterior plaster to the building under the plastic cover which has been applied over scaffolding around the building. Crews last week prepped the exterior surface of the building in advance of the application. The general contractor on the project is James Elmer of Spokane. R...
It was American author, social critic, economist and political commentator Thomas Sowell who made the following sage observation: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” Visiting the longest chain of mountains on Earth requires some rather special arrangements — aquatic ones, to be precise. The 10,000-mile-long Mid-Atlantic Ridge, as its name indicates, is located on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The only parts of the chain above water are a few... Full story
MARRIAGE LICENSES David Smith, 24, Palouse, and Caitlin Chapman, 21, Bothel, Dec. 15. Jacob Johnson, 27, Moscow, and Taffie Trejo, 30, Moscow, Dec. 20. Juan Chavez, 40, Yakima, and Rachelle Allen, 26, Yakima, Dec. 21 COLFAX BUILDING PERMITS RC Whitman Co Properties, 1511 N. Cedar, demo house, Dec. 15 Jeff Geier, gas furnace, $4,050, 804 E. Southview, Dec. 20 Karen Heilsberg, gas furnace, $4,253, 201 S. Mill, Dec. 21 REAL ESTATE SALES Colin McLean for the estate of Robert C. McLean to Mike E. Stump, Kennewick, house on SE Skylark Pullman,... Full story
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. City eyes pay hikes Facing an expected pay hike for members of a newly-formed Colfax police guild, Colfax city council members Monday night discussed the possibility of increasing the pay for other employees on the city payroll. Councilman Jeremiah Roberts suggested the city budget, which was approved at the previous council session, could have...
1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was Englishman Josiah Wedgwood famous for making? 2. LITERATURE: Who wrote “This Side of Paradise”? 3. HISTORY: When did New Jersey legalize casinos? 4. ENTERTAINERS: By what name was comedian William Claude Dukenfield better known? 5. TELEVISION: On which television show did “The Simpsons” family first appear? 6. GEOGRAPHY: To what island group does St. Croix belong? 7. ART: What does a pieta depict? 8. MYTHOLOGY: What are the nine patron goddesses of the arts called? 9. U.S. STATES: Which U.S. state is known a... Full story
