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Colton and St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse met again on the football field for the second time this season last Friday and Colton evened the series 1-1. This game counted in the Southeast 1B league standings. Playing Sept. 6, in the first week of the year, at Colton, as a fill-in game when both teams had a bye, SJEL won 48-26. This time, at St. John, Colton put together a victory to lift their record to 2-2 overall, 2-1 in league. The Wildcats led 20-14 at halftime, before neither team scored in the...
The new Garfield/Palouse cross country program is in its third season, with 31 kids out for the high school and middle school teams. The number is up from 15 in its first year, for a program started by coaches Chris Cook and Corey Laughary. Garfield/Palouse has never had a cross-country team before. “We’re tickled to death at what it’s become,” said Cook, a former triple and long-jumper for WSU and current Palouse city councilman. Last year the Vikings sent three high school runners to the sta...
September's wet weather has prompted questions about the fate of this year's garbanzo beans and lentil crops grown mainly on the east side of Whitman County. With an unknown quantity yet to be harvested, if conditions persist, including dew in the mornings, legumes become harder to harvest. "The vines and pods when damp and wet, they don't thrash out. You can't get that little pod to separate," Fred Hendrickson, director of the USDA Farm Service Agency Whitman County office, explained. Storage...
The annual Fly-In at the Colfax Airport will be Saturday. The event this year was moved to September from late June in order to avoid conflicts with an air show in Lewiston. The Colfax Fly-In will again be sponsored by the Organization of Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 328, based in Lewiston. The six year-old event has attracted 40-50 planes each year. Among airplanes expected this Saturday is a Grumman Goose amphibian from Spokane. It is a land/water-landing plane with a 60-foot...
The grocery store in Palouse has a new owner. Taking over from Jeff and Vicki McLeod June 5, Amanda Viebrock divides her time between a store in Waterville and now Palouse. The store's new name is Palouse Family Foods to match Waterville Family Foods. Changes made at Palouse since June were small, until last week when the store closed an hour early Sept. 17 for installation of a new front-end system, new checkstands registers and a customer service booth. Also, a new counter was put in by the...
The Colfax School District board met Monday night and covered a variety of items, including approval of a new bus repair cooperative with Pullman, and a presentation on career and technical education by David Gibb, new Colfax Junior-Senior High School principal. The meeting began with comments from Jerry Pugh, district superintendent, who reported on that day's trip to the Educational Service District 101 in Spokane. It was for the district's first Washington State Leadership Academy meeting....
The St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse football team went to Sunnyside Christian last Friday and came back with a 42-32 loss. The Eagles cut the Sunnyside Christian lead to 36-32 with two minutes left in the game before the Knights scored on a 33-yard run to seal the victory. “It was one of the better games I’ve ever coached. The seniors played their guts out,” said SJEL coach Rich Hallenius. After a spate of injuries last week in practice and during the game, backups filled in such as freshmen Tanne...
In the free bin at Main Street Books in Colfax, a few months ago, was a book with a picture of a building inside. “A Day In the Life of America” was part of a series that sent photographers across one land mass on one day to capture its essence. This was the United States on May 2, 1986. No people were in the full-page picture, just a building. How could that make the cut? The picture showed terraced glass floors and on each, a young tree. Trees growing on the sides of a building. The thr...
Whitman County commissioners approved a notice of intent Monday and set a hearing for Oct. 21 on the proposed vacation of parts of two roads northeast of St. John. The local access dirt roads are Jim Davis Road and Gene Nelson Road, for which adjacent landowners petitioned county commissioners to vacate. After the county vacates a road, it has no further claim to it and ceases maintenance. The proposed vacation includes two-thirds of the 2.65-mile Davis Road and most of the 3.67-mile Nelson...
A Whitman County Public Works crew filled hundreds of holes on a half-mile of the old concrete highway through Steptoe the week of Sept. 9, as well as a short stretch in Rosalia. Crews rented a special machine and filled the one- inch to six-inch holes with asphalt mastic, a crack-seal material with rocks in it. “It's still an old concrete highway, but we like the way it came out,” said Brandon Kruger, operations manager for county roads. “This might be a maintenance technique we use in the f...
The city of Palouse planning commission has started to compile results of a town survey, collected in May and June bringing in 156 responses. The questionnaires were filled out online through Survey Monkey. Helpers were made available for computers at the Palouse library, and paper copies were handed out at city hall. Members of the planning commission spoke about the survey at a community senior lunch and sent out reminders to the 525 households which receive water bills in Palouse. The...
Boys from the two towns across the river from the Dalles, Ore., came to LaCrosse Sept. 13 for a 54-16 football win over the Eagles. Playing at LaCrosse for a home game, St. John/ Endicott/LaCrosse lost to the team that ended Garfield/Palouse’s season last year in the first round of the playoffs. A year later, in the regular season against SJEL – as a new member of the Southeast 1B for football – Lyle/Wishram’s No. 20 again proved decisive. “A really good running back, with some decent blocking,...
The annual second-weekend-in-September Palouse Days celebration returns Friday with events to run until Sunday at noon. Along with the Saturday morning parade and 37th annual Palouse Show and Shine car show, new this year in downtown Palouse is more live music – with five bands playing across Friday night and Saturday. Also new are two brunch/lunch events Sunday. "It'll be fun and exciting, we'll have live music all day long," said Paula Echanove, Palouse Days volunteer. Palouse Days begins F...
Colfax schools started at 8:20 a.m. Sept. 9 for the 2019-20 school year, as planned. Final cleaning from a summer of construction lasted into Sunday night, Sept. 8, with Superintendent Jerry Pugh, Maintenance Director Mark Brown, Business Manager Reece Jenkin, Technology Director Carter Comito, and a group of other volunteers washing floors and windows and hauling in desks and chairs from storage, dusting them off for use Monday morning. "We wouldn't have been able to do it, between Mark and...
The City of Palouse approved a retroactive $5 per hour on-call stipend for its Public Works Department Aug. 27 to match what they did previously for the police. Both stipends ended Sept. 1 as the city council and administrator Kyle Dixon now work on revisions to the city’s personnel and policy manual. The matter stemmed from the Palouse Police Department – which also covers Garfield – being reduced to two officers after officer Leighton Cox was terminated June 20 for violating department polic...
A pathway to the river project funded by county .09 funds is expected to begin in Palouse this week with contractor Jesse Parkins and Palouse Hills Excavation. The $30,000 project will cut two pathways to the Palouse River from Shady Lane across from downtown. The switchback, gravel paths – about 200 feet apart – will reach the river where landings/viewing areas will be built, an estimated 15 X 15 feet, with benches. The work is expected to last three weeks. “If all goes according to plan,...
At the fair’s main gate, wasn't it strange not to see the late John Henry of the Colfax Rotary Club taking tickets? Friday night's rodeo ran late, with an extended list of barrel racers, and Wylie and the Wild West was supposed to play at about 9 p.m. It was past 9:30 p.m. and they would still have to bring out the flatbed stage and get everything ready. How long would it take? After the last barrel racer, the Jones Truck & Implement semi rolled through the end gate, parked in the dirt just i...
The St. John/Endicott/ LaCrosse volleyball team opened the season with a comeback win at home over 2B Davenport Tuesday, 19-25, 23-25, 25-18, 25-17, 15-4. The team lost six key seniors to graduation and returns a mix of two seniors, five juniors, three sophomores and three freshmen. “We are young, but we are good,” said second-year Eagles head coach Jenn Johnson. The team went to a four-day team camp in July at University of Idaho and lost in the championship round to 4A Chiawana, in the eight-t...
The Eagles opened with a victory for the 2019 football season. St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse beat Colton 48-26 at Colton Sept. 6. The win matched the Eagles’ total wins for last year (not counting a forfeit). “It was nice,” said coach Rich Hallenius. “Understatement of the year. This is the start we wanted.” St. John/Endicott/ LaCrosse ran the ball most of the game, passing just 14 times. Senior Chais Anderson led with 190 yards rushing on 18 carries with two touchdowns. Doug Stach, a junior, h...
Following a contentious public hearing, Whitman County commissioners voted Tuesday to extend the county marijuana moratorium for six more months. The vote was unanimous. Commissioners Art Swannack, Michael Largent and Dean Kinzer previously stated their intention to extend the moratorium to allow time for the county planning commission to finish work on a proposed ordinance to regulate marijuana operations in the county. The hearing started with Public Works Director Mark Storey, who oversees th...
Fair entertainment this year will include a mix of veteran Palouse Empire Fair acts along with some new faces. Perennial hypnotist Jerry Harris will again perform at the fair for 2019. He aims for a family-friendly, educational nature to his shows, teaching on the power of our subconscious minds. He has performed as a hypnotist for more than 30 years, including audience participation at each outing. For music, the Auf Gehts German band will appear again this year at the fair. The off-shoot act...
Kyle Johnson pushed the ball up the floor for Coach Reece Jenkin as a starting guard for Colfax High School on the 2012 2B state championship basketball team. He then played a year for Spokane Community College and earned a business management degree from Whitworth. Now he works a different kind of stage as a singer/songwriter, under the name of Kyle Richard, a folk-pop act, a guy with an acoustic guitar and a loop pedal. Richard is Johnson's middle name. He has played around Spokane/Coeur d'Ale...
The St. John/Endicott/ LaCrosse Eagles are back on the football field, set to open the 2019 season at Colton Friday at 7 p.m. Practice started on Aug. 21 with harvest taking players away at various times. "Some kids still with a little acreage that they're cutting," said second-year varsity coach Rich Hallenius. The team has 21 kids on the roster, a group which went to a team camp in Ephrata over the summer. "A lot of kids didn't know where Ephrata was," Hallenius said. They slept on the floor...
The Colfax Mercantile business incubator will hold a grand opening Saturday, Aug. 31, with free frozen yogurt from 11 a.m to 3 p.m., paid for by an anonymous donor. It may be open before, too. "If we're ready before we'll open the door and turn the 'open' sign on," said Allie Cofer, project coordinator from Colfax Downtown Association. "But we just don't know." The free frozen yogurt will be from Home Sweet Home Treats, one of the eight businesses inside. Others include Wild Woman Western Wear...
As the number of vehicles parked outside have increased, the number of workers inside Colfax Junior-Senior High School has also as construction enters the final stretch before students return for a late start of Sept. 9. An estimated 35 subcontractors were on site Monday; drywall, flooring, cabinets, HVAC, electrical and the piercing sound of concrete cutters. “A little bit behind,” said District Superintendent Jerry Pugh. “But not anything that would stop us from getting school start...
