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The City of Palouse authorized Apollo Solutions of Kennewick Feb. 27 to apply for funding for a project to add another row of panels at its solar farm built in 2016. Representatives from Apollo will now apply for a $75,000 grant from the Washington Department of Enterprise Services for the estimated $150,000 project, which would add 25 kilowatts per given second of power generating capacity for Palouse. The “given second” term refers to under optimal conditions. The other half of the cost would... Full story
An estimated 20 people gathered at the Center in Colfax Feb. 26 for a planning meeting put on by Washington State Parks for Steptoe Butte State Park. A main question facing the park was addressed as Ray and John Folwell, and Kent Bassett were in attendance to listen to Michael Hankinson, a representative from State Parks, and John Gamon, from the state’s Department of Natural Resource. The Folwells and Bassett bought a 437-acre piece of land at the base of the Butte in 2016 to preserve as n...
Representatives from the Pullman League of Women Voters presented the results of a poverty study to Whitman County commissioners Monday. Mary Collins and Karen Kiessling told of how they undertook the project four years ago after seeing a USA Today newspaper article which reported that Whitman County was the poorest county in Washington. “I didn’t believe it,” said Collins. So she and the LWV chapter decided to look closer. Two years later they completed a 114-page study in May 2016. The group...
Whitman County Administrative Director Gary Petrovich presented a monthly budget review for January to County Commissioners Feb. 20. He noted that $2,317,000 was spent by the county in January – from the general fund/current expense account, including salaries, wages and benefits. “Right on target,” Petrovich said. Revenue brought in for the month was $1,006,366, including $317,725 in sales tax and property tax. Much of county property tax is collected in April and October after which the county... Full story
Colfax High School science teachers Christopher Clausen and Kathryn Vogler show school board members items made from the district's new 3-D printer. The Colfax school board convened in the high school library Monday night for its regular meeting following a board appreciation presentation from high school students. Matters at hand included personnel changes, eighth-graders practicing with high school spring sports teams, and a question about President Trump’s proposal to arm some teachers in l...
Gar/Pal junior Caden Sanderson angles for the baseline against Mt. Rainier Lutheran's Adam Bailey. A 13-point comeback in the third quarter put Garfield/Palouse in a position to advance to Spokane in an elimination game last Saturday, but they could not finish it off, their season ending at Pullman High School at the hands of Mt. Rainier Lutheran. Tying the score at 39-39, the game stayed tight through the fourth quarter to under a minute left when Gar/Pal’s Tanner Anderson came back into the g...
After a delay crossing the state in a morning snowstorm Feb. 24, the Mt. Rainier Lutheran High School band set up in the Pullman High bleachers and struck up that Coldplay song that goes, “When I Ruled the World.” The Colton girls came out and said, “We still do.” Or they might as well have in a dominant state 1B regional win over the Hawks Saturday, 72-17, which started 45 minutes late due to the late arrival of the MRLHS bus. Colton (21-1), which had a string of eight consecutive state c...
The first Sunday in March–it is a tradition that began when a Sunday in February got snowed out and Uniontown Sausage Feed organizers had to cancel the event and haul the meat across Highway 195. Storing it in the cold lockers at the old Uniontown grocery store, three weeks later, the men rolled the meat back across the street, made sausage out of it and had a sausage feed. It was the first Sunday in March. The Uniontown Sausage Feed is now in its 65th year, to be held Sunday, March 5. Can c...
Whitman County commissioners approved large equipment bids Feb. 20 for two road graders and a loader. Western States Equipment Co. of Boise was chosen at a price of $494,626 for two graders, with two trade-in graders from the county. For the loader, Papé Machinery of Spokane bid $221,007 as the low number, approved by commissioners to sell the county a new John Deere loader. They will take the old one from the county as a trade-in. The bids were opened after a crowd filed into seats at the...
Gar/Pal senior Payson Griner stands up Oakesdale’s Lizzy Perry in a game that went to the last possession. Gar/Pal sophomore forward Blake Jones takes the ball up against Pomeroy. Colton junior Reece Chadwick drives the lane against Garfield/Palouse. Gar/Pal junior forward Caden Sanderson leaves the floor with his team, nose bloody, after the win over Colton. Colton coach Clark Vining gathers his team before tip-off of the championship game against Pomeroy. Oakesdale junior Logan Reed scores a... Full story
The Colton girls took their 11th consecutive District Nine championship in Walla Walla last Friday with a 45-33 win over Pomeroy, who had played tight with them in the regular season. Colton took a steady, early lead as the game started, and kept it while the Pirates’ boys team sat in the bleachers holding giant cardboard faces of the girls. The cardboard remained at their knees, though, as Colton’s Dakota Patchen drove to the basket to make it 20-6 Wildcats with 1:30 left in the second qua... Full story
How many times did Parker Druffel and Reece Chadwick block Ely Hawkins’ shots? Two less than needed for Colton Saturday afternoon, Feb. 17, as Hawkins hit a late three-pointer and an inside bank shot to secure a tight game in Walla Walla with both teams’ seasons on the line. “There were a lot of nervous moments Saturday,” said Gar/Pal coach Steve Swinney of the final game of the District Nine tournament. The Vikings won 64-56, sending them to regionals. Blake Jones scored 18 points with 10 rebou...
The town of Garfield is moving ahead with a plan to build a solar farm to power one of two town water pumps in a proposed loan and construction package set up by Apollo Solutions of Kennewick, Wash. Similar to a deal the company put together for Palouse to build a solar array in 2016 to power one of its pumps, Apollo is looking to finalize a grant application with which they aim to receive $525,000 from a private firm on the west side of the state. Ulimately the Garfield proposal would involve...
Plans move ahead at the Colfax School District this week after the $18.9 million facilities bond that garnered 73 percent voter approval. The high margin was noted by many supporters, including a building committee which worked for 13 months preparing the measure. “To receive such public approval on such an important issue for us, we’re just thrilled,” said Superintendent Jerry Pugh. A meeting Friday, Feb. 23, at Pugh’s office will include district consultant Dax Logsdon and architect Ned War... Full story
The Colfax School board met Monday night, 24 hours before the result of much of their work over the past year would be known. Tuesday night would bring preliminary election results for the school district's $18.9 million bond measure. “Gotta hit that 40 percent of the previous election turnout, and we've done that,” Superintendent Jerry Pugh informed the board, reporting that ballots already received had reached the threshold by state law to be certified. Pugh then complimented the district sta...
The town of Garfield is deemed to be on an upward path with its wastewater treatment plant by the Washington Department of Ecology (DOE) after its latest inspection of the facility Jan. 23. Diana Washington, Senior Permit Manager for DOE, also met with Mayor Jarrod Pfaff, city council representatives Cande Hasenroel and David Ulrich, and Reuel Klempel, the town's Level II operator, hired by previous mayor Ray McCown. “All in all, Garfield is on a great path,” said Brook Beeler, spokesperson for...
It is Colton and Pomeroy again in the District Nine championship game, the two teams who were separated by a point the last time they played, 49-48, and who played a memorable fight a year ago in the title game. Last year at Colfax, Pomeroy 2017 graduate Kacey Halbert pushed her team to push Colton but the Wildcats held them off to win the championship. Pomeroy then dropped to the second-place game and lost to Oakesdale, ending their season. The Wildcats went on to play at state and lost a...
Gar/Pal's Caden Sanderson, Blake Jones, Austin Jones and Tanner Anderson surround Oakesdale's Evan Henning in the Vikings' win at Oakesdale Feb. 10. The regular season gets you into the district tournament then disappears. No. 2 seed Oakesdale is gone, their season over after two losses in the District Nine bracket leaving Pomeroy and Garfield/Palouse to tip-off Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Walla Walla Community College to decide the championship. Four years ago, the same two teams met in the...
Top: Jennings Elementary first and fourth-grade students play an organized game at morning recess Monday. Since last fall, the number of kids sent to the office for behavior issues on the playground dropped 77 percent. Bottom: Third-grader Asher Warwick takes a seat in his office as Principal for a Day. He won the honor by first receiving a “PAWS” card handed out by staff to reward standards of good behavior. A new program started at Jennings Elementary School and partly at Colfax High Sch...
The new Fit Farm location features a stretching area in the former bank vault. The Fit Farm is back in Oakesdale. After closing Oct. 1 last fall after 12 years in business at the white, former International dealership at the north edge of town, the center re-opened Jan. 26 in the INB Bank building on Steptoe Avenue. The bank closed its inside operations Dec. 1 – after operating one day per week for four hours – and continues its ATM function outside the door of what is now Fit Farm. Owned by...
Garfield/Palouse junior post Ely Hawkins scores two of his 32 points against Colton Feb. 2. The two teams play again Thursday at Palouse to open the District Nine tournament. Gametime is 6 p.m. Southeast 1B league play concluded its regular season last weekend with the standings unchanged. Pomeroy (18-2, 11-2) and Oakesdale (17-3, 12-2) are deadlocked at the top with Garfield/Palouse (14-5, 9-3) right behind in third place. Because of a draw before the season, Pomeroy will be the no. 1 seed for...
Colton junior post Abby Kelly works for another basket in a win at Palouse Feb. 2. Colton takes the no. 1 seed in the district tournament, which began Wednesday night. The Southeast 1B/District Nine tournament began Wednesday, Feb. 7, with girls games at home sites. The boys start Thursday, with the top six teams in the league competing for two spots to advance to the state sub-tournament. For the girls, final regular season standings are Colton in first, Pomeroy second and Oakesdale third. In...
Employees gather as a sign is unveiled on the side of Meter’s building Feb. 2 in Pullman. The new company continues to design and manufacture water measuring devices on the Palouse. A merger was made official in Pullman Friday, Feb. 2, as Decagon and UMS AG, a company from Munich, Germany, solidified their year-old joining with the unveiling of a new sign. The new company is Meter Group, Inc. Marking the occasion, President Scott Campbell first gave a speech from the top of the stairs in the a...
Pomeroy's Maddy Dixon (No. 30) and Carmen Gingerich close in on Oakesdale's Madison Shrope in a 54-46 Pirates win, at home Jan. 27. With two games left in the regular season, Colton holds first place in the Southeast 1B league with a record of 11-0, 18-1 overall. Pomeroy holds second at 9-2, 15-4 overall. Games this weekend include St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse at Oakesdale Friday and at Waitsburg Saturday. Colton plays at Garfield/Palouse Friday and travels to Oakesdale Saturday. Gar/Pal goes to...
Reporter -Don Marshall photo Oakesdale junior Jacob Himes launches himself to take it to the rack versus Touchet Jan. 26 to hand the Pirates their second loss of the season. Gray, spindly lines stretched across the loss column; cobwebs. Pomeroy was 16-0 when they boarded the bus Friday afternoon for a game at Palouse. By the end of the night the cobwebs were gone, cleared out, dusted free by Ely Hawkins and the Vikings to make room for a “1.” The next night, Jacob Himes and Oakesdale rep...
