Colfax school construction

A summer of construction concluded at Colfax Junior-Senior High School with a delayed start to the school year – after the Palouse Empire Fair – and a full push Sept. 8, the night before the first day of school, to cover final details before students filled the building again.

Last items included washing floors and windows, hauling in desks and chairs from storage and dusting them off for use.

A planned volleyball jamboree for that Saturday at the junior-senior high school was cancelled, as the building’s main bathrooms across the foyer from the gym were not yet complete. Work continued by var...