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A pre-construction meeting on the extensive Almota Phase Four road reconstruction project is set for Thursday, March 5, at 9 a.m. at the Public Service building in Colfax. All of the adjacent property owners are invited and any other members of the public. March 30 is the set date to close the road for 12 weeks. “That's all weather dependent,” said Dean Cornelison, assistant county engineer. The Almota Road closure would be for a stretch from Union Flat Creek to Stevick Road – from which 200,0...
No. 11-seed Garfield/Palouse was set to open the state tournament Wednesday at 9 a.m. The bus would leave at 6 a.m. to get up to Spokane Arena, the players to go through required team and individual pictures and then meet no. 6 seed Muckleshoot Tribal School. Who would be on the Gar/Pal bus was an open question earlier in the week as the Vikings, plagued by sickness, had two more players go home from school sick Monday – including senior forward Blake Jones. Backup Kyle Bankus also left school....
Blake Holman broke it open. Like a package with one piece of tape holding it closed, the senior forward nicked it loose with two fourth quarter fast breaks after John Lustig and Hunter Classen had already cut at it in a 69-58 win over no. 16-seed Oroville at University High School in Spokane. On Feb. 29, it started with slippery Lustig and Claassen and a 14-4 lead but Oroville soon got in the game. After a Lustig travel call and carry back-to-back, it was 16-15 at the end of the first quarter....
The Colfax girls advanced to state with an afternoon exercise against Brewster, winning 58-27 at University High School Feb. 29 in Spokane. Colfax, a no. 12-seed, controlled the game early. A steal and pass-around, into Sidney Berquist for a four-footer and Colfax led 33-8 with 2:26 left in the first half. At halftime, Coach Corey Baerlocher stepped around the Brewster bench and patted an injured player on the shoulder on his way to the locker room. The Bulldogs soon came out for the third...
Last Saturday in Spokane, it may have seemed the Oakesdale boys were startled by a ringing phone in an unfamiliar place and answered it to hear Ryan Moffett on the line. “It was a little unexpected,” said Carl Crider, Oakesdale coach, of his team's 65-32 loss to Odessa in regionals Feb. 29. “You'll have a couple, what you would call 'stinker' games per year.” Oakesdale had played Odessa in January at home and lost by nine points, the game tied with two and a half minutes left. This time, t...
The plant store in Colfax is moving. A Modern Plantsman, which opened on Canyon Street last March, is expected to re-open again in the coming week at a new corner spot on Main Street and Wall, the former site of Colfax Computer. “We just needed more space,” said owner Dominic Villareal Plans include more workshops, more inventory and added room to make ceramic pottery. Villareal is also in the midst of expanding the Plantsman business to Spokane, to become a seller inside Boulevard Mer...
The high school robotics season nears its start again for 2020, with teams around the northwest – and the world – preparing for first competitions, to begin this weekend. The Palouse Area Robotics Team, the Sciborgs, made up of kids from Colfax, Pullman, Moscow, Colton and Uniontown, will begin its ninth year Saturday with a scrimmage in the West Valley High School cafeteria in Spokane, going against West Valley, Coeur d'Alene and Kettle Falls. Each team builds a robot to compete in the sea...
Was it the only open shot of the fourth quarter? It wasn't even the fourth quarter anymore, it was overtime. In a fierce fight in Walla Walla Friday night, Feb. 21, Oakesdale's Tyler Bober caught a pass in the rarity of open space – on the wing, under a minute left, in front of the Oakesdale crowd. The junior guard took the shot. All net, it decided the game, after a defensive stop, 47-43 Oakesdale, for the Nighthawks' second consecutive District Nine 1B championship – finishing a thr...
Regional round basketball games will be played around the state Saturday with five county teams still alive. The 2B Colfax boys are the no. 9 seed, set to meet no. 16 Oroville at University High School in Spokane for an elimination game at 2 p.m. At stake is a berth in state at Spokane Arena. For the 2B Colfax girls, the no. 12 seed, plays no. 13 Brewster at University High School at 12 p.m. The winner advances to state, another elimination game. The Colfax boys beat Kettle Falls last Saturday i...
The Pomeroy girls and their long-missing star guard Emma Severs beat Oakesdale 50-39 last last Friday in Walla Walla to take the District Nine title and advance to regionals. Oakesdale, which split with the Pirates in the regular season – the only team yet to beat Pomeroy – trailed by eight points at halftime. Severs entered the game in the second quarter, with the game tied 19-19. She soon hit a corner three-pointer. Pomeroy junior McKenzie Watko hit another, with a foul and the Pirates (21...
What if a basketball team made it to state 13 years in a row? What if they won the championship eight times in row? What if they lost in the semifinals the next year and then won the championship two more times back-to-back? If it was true, it would be the Colton High School girls basketball team from 2007-20. What if the team at one point had a 79-win streak across three years? It was all true and the Colton girls’ in-residence at Spokane’s Washington State 1B basketball tournament ended in...
Oakesdale’s Matt Hockett was voted Player of the Year in the Southeast 1B League. Blake Jones of Garfield/Palouse got the upper hand the last time these two teams played, with an assist from his brother. Matt Hockett’s brother did not play in that game. The Jones boys and the Hockett brothers – along with their teammates – meet again Friday night at the Dietrich Dome in Walla Walla to decide the District Nine 1B boys basketball championship. The winner this time gains entry to regiona...
The Pomeroy girls are 19-1 with the one caused by Oakesdale. The two teams meet again Friday in Walla Walla for the district championship at 6 p.m. at the Dietrich Dome. Oakesdale, with five losses, split with Pomeroy in the regular season and went on to lose at Colton, to cede the regular season to the Pirates. Now in the playoffs, Oakesdale handled Colton last Friday at home to open districts. Pomeroy beat no. 4-seed Gar/Pal and now the no. 1 and no. 2 seeds will play for the championship....
WSU Athletic Director Patrick Chun has been in the job for just over two years. In that time, his two biggest decisions have drawn a contrast with his predecessor. Chun's choice of Hawaii’s Nick Rolovich for the new WSU football coach made the case, then Kyle Smith and the basketball team's work this winter has underlined what it can all mean. Both Chun and Bill Moos hired a football coach and a basketball coach. Moos went with established names for both. Safe choices, the type of picks where i...
The Colfax School board met Monday night for its regular meeting and first swore in a new member, Wayne Gregory, to replace David Nails for District Two. Superintendent Jerry Pugh reported on a two-day trip to Olympia last week to meet with legislators. He and Jake Dingman, Oakesdale superintendent, and Calvin Johnson, Palouse Supt., met with representatives Mark Schoesler, Joe Schmick and Mary Dye, focusing on the School Employees Benefits Board Program (SEBB). “To tax the district when people...
District playoffs begin for Southeast 1B girls basketball this weekend, for a league with three top contenders, one of which has won state 10 of the last 11 years. This year, Colton is in a fight to get out of districts, behind Pomeroy and Oakesdale. Pomeroy beat Colton twice in the regular season while Colton split with Oakesdale. Oakesdale split with Pomeroy. By the end of Saturday, Feb. 22, in Walla Walla, only two teams will advance. It all starts Friday night, at home gyms, with no. 1-seed...
"Blake Jones! Blake Jones!" chanted the Gar/Pal pep band. In the fourth quarter at Palouse Feb. 8, Jones and the Vikings were suddenly in a fight with Oakesdale, who had come from 10 points down in a low-scoring game, which would decide the Southeast 1B league boys basketball championship. Jones, a senior forward, hit two outside shots in the last minute-and-a-half to hold back the Nighthawks, before Austin Jones made two free throws to seal it, 36-32. On senior night – honoring the Vikings' B...
When Donald Trump was looking into Ukraine last year, how concerned was he about presidential candidate Joe Biden? Enough that he wanted foreign help to beat him? If so, wouldn't that be about the most overestimated Joe Biden has been in his life? Biden is not a good candidate. Four years ago, it was more likely, but a month from now he'll be out of the 2020 race. Show a reel of his highlights, good and bad, from the last eight months and any honest observer would say; some president was worried...
The Palouse school board approved a group of capital projects at its Jan. 30 meeting. The first is to build a new, more accessible sidewalk between the main school building and the upper gym. Second, to add a restroom to the weight room, as well as paving work to include the student and staff parking lots, the area behind the elementary school, the driveway between the main and upper school buildings and a front parking area across from the main school entrance. This could all be done before...
The largest commercial project for Whitman County in 2019 has risen just across the stateline from Moscow. Two expansive buildings, covering 30,000 square feet, have been built for the new St. John Hardware and Implement location. "They're closed-in but a lot of interior work still to go in," said co-owner Scott Hennessey. One section of concrete flooring in the main building has been poured, with two sections remaining, the flooring at 25 percent complete. "It's just a shell of a building at th...
Roy Bartlett, a longtime Tekoa resident who married the farmer's daughter he worked for the summer after high school graduation - and once washed money at the Davenport Hotel - will turn 100 on Feb. 19. A celebration will be held four days before for family and friends. He now lives independently at Bishop Place in Pullman. Bartlett farmed 2,500 acres outside Tekoa; wheat, bluegrass, lentils and barley. "I was more a city guy than I was a farmer," he said. "All the work we could get was...
Plans appear to be set in Palouse for the demolition of the St. Elmo's building, the 1888 former hotel on Main Street, for which its private owner has deemed further remodeling unfeasible. The City of Palouse has also sought ways to preserve it. "It's been a year-and-a-half search to find any resolution to save it," said Kyle Dixon, city administrator. Problems include unreinforced masonry and other matters which suggest it could not pass a safety inspection for residential, without extensive...
The Whitman County Public Works Department has begun a process to create a full inventory of thousands of metal culverts which cross under roads in the county. The existing list goes back to the late 80s, with inconsistent records before. As of now, district supervisors for county roads check culverts informally, while the new effort will lead to assigning a number to each galvanized steel pipe, from zero to nine, nine being top condition. Depending on rating, the pipes will then be checked...
The Colton girls dropped more doubt over the top of the Southeast 1B basketball standings last weekend with a 52-45 win over Oakesdale – the team that just beat undefeated league leaders Pomeroy the week before. Pomeroy's hold on the league fell, then Oakesdale's claim was marred by Colton, the team which has won league for the past 12 years in a row. The Wildcats had lost once already this year to Oakesdale and twice to Pomeroy by decisive margins (including 48-29 Jan. 11 at Oakesdale). C...
With two league games left, if the St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse boys basketball team beats Touchet Saturday, they will advance to a neutral-site playoff game against Pomeroy, to decide the fourth and final spot in the district tournament. Game time Saturday in St. John is 6:30 p.m. SJEL first plays at Oakesdale Friday and Pomeroy plays at Palouse. The fourth-place playoff picture could change with an upset in either game, though it is not expected. Last week, St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse lost at...
