Last Call for a month: Liquor privatization leaves Colfax dry until June

Colfax is going to be awful dry for the next month after the liquor store shut down for good Tuesday night.

“Last call, Colfax,” said Theresa Knighten, who has manned the counter at the liquor store for the past two decades.

Prices were not discounted.

The Colfax store was a contract operation through the State Liquor Control Board. Don Stine, the contract vendor for the store, opted not to continue operation after a voter-approved initiative privatized liquor sales.

State liquor officials have been scheduled to pick up the store’s leftover inventory today, Thursday.

Liquor will not be availab...