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COLFAX — A new Colfax Chamber of Commerce president started on Aug. 1.

Molly Keogh, formerly of Sammamish, moved to town last year and was approached about the position by Suzy McNeilly, Whitman County director of Southeast Washington Economic Development Association (SEWEDA), and Nancy Cochran, a member of the Colfax Downtown Association.

“One of my goals moving here was to help the community,” said Keogh, whose father, Jim Fitzgerald, is a longtime local landowner and has retired here.

Keogh previously owned a corporate gift company in Olympia, named Cedar Bay Company. She was a mem...