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COLFAX - Whitman County Prom Royalty was announced during the dance on Saturday, April 13, at the Whitman County fairgrounds. The 2024 Colfax Prom Queen title went to Haley Demler, and this year's Prom King was JP Wigen. This year's Princess and Prince for the Colfax freshman class were Sunisa Dail and Connor McAnally. Sophomore Princess and Prince were Adalynn Penwell and Cooper Watt. Karly Wigen took junior Princess for this year's Prom royalty and Alton Burt was named junior class prince....
Colfax Cougar Foodmart Dhillon Building (DSHS) – newspaper box at the north corner next to the sidewalk Gazette Office – 418 S Main St. Suite 3 Main St. Books Rosauers Sunset Mart (Chevron station) The Hyde Out – newspaper box out front Endicott Endicott Food Center Garfield Schaut's Marketplace Palouse Palouse Family Market Pullman Dissmore's Rosalia Rosalia Market St. John Webb's Empire Foods Tekoa Tekoa Market Washtucna Java Bloom Daily Bulletin Routes A printed version of the Colfax Daily Bulletin is available to be delivered four times... Full story
WASHTUCNA — Preschool and elementary school students participated in Reading Month in March, reading hundreds of books and thousands of pages. This year’s theme was “Grow Where You Are Planted.” This year, the preschool read 345 books, school officials said. Elementary school students read a total of 20,915 pages. Students focused their reading efforts learning about plants, as well as participating in related activities, school officials said. Each week started with a teacher reading an entire story to students in a school hallway, officia...
COLFAX — Students are getting ready to promenade in 2024, with Prom hitting the Palouse from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. this Saturday, April 13, at the Palouse Empire Fairgrounds. The prom includes high school students from Colfax, Washtucna, LaCrosse, St. John/Endicott, Rosalia, Tekoa, Garfield-Palouse, Oakesdale and Colton. Colfax Junior Class Advisor Stacy Aune said that juniors across the county vote on what the theme for the year will be. This year’s theme is Meadows/Tangled. A “Rapunzel” and “Tangled” theme with lights and flowers. Aune said t...
WASHTUCNA — Washtucna and LaCrosse students will be performing “Peter and Wendy” this week at Washtucna School. The production is spinoff of “Peter Pan,” authorized for use through the Missoula Children’s Theatre. Auditions began Monday in preparation for performances this week. Performances are scheduled for 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday. The play is free and open to the public....
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, March 10, 1899 ARRESTED AND RELEASED No Evidence to Hold Supposed Horse Thieves Monday Constable Potter of Colton came to Colfax with warrants from Justice Flowers’ court for the arrest of John Weston and George Cole, the latter said to have traveled under severeal different aliases, such as Steele and Snow, The charge was horse stealing. Deputy Shereiff Stweard accompanied Mr. Potter and the officers soon got on trail of their men. They were traced through Endicott and Winona and captured T...
Carol Joy Link Sullivan went to her Lord on February 20, 2024. She is survived by her daughters, Debra (Rick) Kelley and Evon (Mike) Jones, son-in-law Joe McKeirnan, daughter-in-law Heather Sullivan McKay, her grandchildren; Keith (Tim Hung) Sullivan, Bo Sullivan, Ethan Kelley, Jack Kelley, Blake Jones, Austin Jones, Madeline Sullivan, Holly Sullivan, Kayle McGuire (Deck), and Matt McKeirnan, great-grandchildren; Jaxson and Parker, her sister Elaine Bell, and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her husband of 48...
OLYMPIA – By a 47-2 vote, the Senate passed a bill Feb. 6 that would speed up the process for restaurants, bars and taverns seeking liquor licenses. Under Senate Bill 5291, applications for liquor licenses or license renewals would be automatically approved if the state Liquor and Cannabis Board fails to issue a decision within 45 days of the application date. Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, introduced the bill after hearing about the trouble three small businesses – Sonny’s Tavern and Grill in Washtucna, and Mi Jalisco and Ritzville Golf...
Two years ago, Washington State Parks bureaucrats in Tumwater hatched a plan to address so-called “overcrowding” at Palouse Falls. The plan was to close and relocate the campground to Lyons Ferry, require permits to visit Upper Palouse Falls and to end hiking and exploring in and around the main Palouse Falls basin. The effort also eliminated kayaking access on the upper Palouse River. And to make the effort sound legitimate, those city-dwelling bureaucrats called Palouse Falls a “he...
DAVENPORT—Despite advocacy from School District administration, Davenport will remain a 2B school for at least the next four years. Davenport’s appeal to move down to 1B was rejected by the WIAA last weekend after the Northeast 1B League voted against accepting Davenport into the league. The WIAA released classification numbers for the 2024-28 cycle Sunday, Jan. 21. Davenport came in at 131.88 students, which is the number of ninth through 11th grade students adjusted for direct certification. Seniors are not counted when determining cla...
COLFAX - The Colfax Bulldogs girls basketball team brought their season record back to .500 after defeating two schools back-to-back during the third week of winter sports action. The Bulldogs started their week on Friday, Dec. 15, with a blowout victory over the Asotin Panthers at home. The Bulldogs followed up their Friday game with a road victory on Saturday, Dec. 16, against the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos. The game against the Panthers saw Colfax control the tempo and flow of the game fr...
It was about this time, 60 years ago, that CHS P.E. Teacher Mr. Richard Felber got a bunch of guys together and started training them to be the first and sustained Colfax High School wrestling team. He picked or let volunteer guys who he knew would listen to him and were just ornery and inquisitive enough to go one-on-one and most important, each guy had to want to win. (How many of you guys reading this ever heard of Mr. Felber ever have to tell a person something twice?) A start-up team has...
Washtucna High School students Drake Gloyn-11 (French horn) and Hannah Hille-11 (Clarinet) were recently selected for the Washington State Wind Symphony. They will rehearse and perform with other top high school Washington musicians at the Washington Music Educators Association Convention in February (Yakima.) Their conductor will be Dr. Kaitlin Bove, Diablo Valley College. Drake has also been selected for the Washington Music Ambassadors and will be performing in England, France, and Germany...
Colfax residents and visitors gathered on Mill Street on Friday night, Dec. 5, as the annual Winterfest Parade lit up the foggy night. The parade featured both Santa Claus and the Grinch, as well as floats, tractors, Christmas decorations and more....
Walter John Gray, 87, of Pullman, Wash., passed away October 31, 2023, at his Pullman home. Walt was born May 15, 1936, in Spokane, Wash., to John & Lilian Gray. He grew up in Washtucna, Wash., graduating from Washtucna High School in 1954. Walt received his degree in Farm Management from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California in 1959. Walt married Orbie Baken in Lacrosse, Wash., on December 21, 1957. Following his time in the U.S. Army they made Washtucna their home where he farmed until...
WASHTUCNA – Headlights lit up Main Street on Thursday, Oct. 26, as diners headed to the newly re-opened Sonny's Tavern for the resturant's first night open since the business's acquisition by Bridget and Paul Coon. Farmers, firefighters and first responders, who were the inaguaral guests during the opening service, were greeted with smiling faces of Farm Bureau representatives, the familiar smell of frying chicken and the sight local farm brands that were burned into the interior walls and suppo...
WASHTUCNA – A longtime eatery will officially reopen Thursday afternoon here, three years to the day after it closed. Sonny’s Tavern, 250 S.W. Main St., will host a soft opening from 4-11 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, for farmers, friends and first responders. “We are dedicating this special place to the local first responders, many of whom are volunteers, and farmers and ranchers who work together to make this community a great place to live,” owner Bridget Coon said. “Our first night of service will be for our friends and neighbors far and wide who...
Sandra Lee Davidson, 75, passed away on September 7, 2023, in Washtucna. Sandra was born on September 13, 1947, in Washtucna to Alexander and Alverna (Lawson) Wilhelm. She grew up in the Colfax area where she attended school before moving to LaCrosse. She married her high school sweetheart, Robert Davidson, on June 19, 1965, in Wenatchee, Wash. Together they welcomed two children. Sandy spent over 33 years working as a secretary for the McGregor Company. She was an avid sports fan, always... Full story
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, August 12, 1898 DODGED A SAND BAG Cy. Neel's Narrow Escape From a Knock Out Blow Life of the Thug Saved Only By the Failure of a Cartridge to Explode Cy. Neel, the well-known sheep man, had a narrow escape from a sandbag Tuesday night, and incidentally the thug who swung it at him escaped with his life only because of a defective cartridge which failed to fire. About 11 o'clock Mr. Neel was returning to the city from North Colfax. The night was dark, and as...
COLFAX - This year, the Tri-County Swim Championships were held at the Colfax Municipal pool in Colfax, hosting multiple teams from the county on Saturday, August 5. Swimmers from each team battled it out during events, but the Pullman Barracudas pulled ahead for the leading combined scores for the meet: Pullman Barracudas, 425 points; SELW, 281 points; Colfax Bullsharks, 255 points. 4. Pomeroy Swim and Garfield-Palouse-Oakesdale-Plummer (GPOP), 196 points. The Championship is a part of the...
COLFAX - The Colfax Swim Team competed in Endicott on Tuesday, July 25, and hosted a swim meet Thursday, July 27. The meet Tuesday saw Colfax take the combined victory over St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse-Washtucna (SELW) and Garfield-Palouse-Oakesdale-Plummer (GPOP). Colfax had a combined score of 477.5 to take the victory. SELW had 459.5 points for second, while GPOP combined for 240 points. Top-three scores for each event Tuesday are as follows. 100 Yard Freestyle Girls 12 and under 1. Kailyn Thom...
PULLMAN - The Pullman Barracudas took the combined victory over St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse-Washtucna (SELW) and Garfield-Palouse-Oakesdale-Plummer (GPOP) in the swim meet held Tuesday, July 18. Pullman scored 456 points. SELW took second with 428 points. GPOP took third, scoring 292 points. Pullman won the girls events, but took third in the boys scores. 100 Yard Freestyle Girls 12 and under 1. Daisy Boone, PUL, 1:15.70. 2. Peyton Pelissier, SELW, 1:18.18. 3. Kylie Corbin, PUL, 1:30.90. Boys 12...
COLFAX — With summer officially underway, many local towns in Whitman County have begun their summer swim season. Areas like Colfax, Palouse, Oakesdale, St. John-Endicott, and Pullman all have swim teams for the summer. One swim team this year is GPOP. This is a combined team, with athletes competing from Garfield, Palouse, Oakesdale and Plummer. There is also a SELW team, which consists of athletes from St. John, Endicott, LaCrosse, and Washtucna. For Colfax, their swim team began June 5, as they had their first official parents meeting and r...
COLFAX — Independence Day is approaching this Tuesday, July 4, the day the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, and Whitman County is not holding out on fireworks and celebrations to commemorate the historic holiday. Endicott Endicott will celebrate the nation’s freedom at the Baseball fields by the school Tuesday, July 4. At 5 p.m., attendees can enjoy burgers, hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans, chips, and pop. A pie shack will also be ava...
WASHTUCNA – Near 50 people turned out Thursday, April 20, for a ground-breaking ceremony for a new landfill more than 30 years in the making. Waste Management managers and employees joined local dignitaries and residents at the 550-acre site off Mullan Road. Company Senior Manager of Business Development Ken Gimpel said the project has been on the drawing board since the late-1980s. "This has been a long-time coming," he said at the beginning of the event that included a lunch catered by c...
