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SPOKANE - The Garfield-Palouse girls knocked off one higher seeded team in the state 1B tournament to come home with a third-place trophy Saturday, March 5. The No. 5 Vikings opened with a 40-35 win over the No. 6 Mossyrock Vikings in the state quarterfinals. The Garfield-Palouse girls opened the game with a 13-4 first-quarter lead and took a 27-14 lead into halftime. The other Vikings closed the margin in the third quarter, outscoring the Whitman County team, 14-5. But in the final quarter,...
COLFAX - A local artist has a new exhibition that will be featured in the surrounding area. Nancy Rothwell, 77, currently has paintings featured at the downtown Libey Gallery and has several paintings at Spokane Avenue West Gallery. Her next collection is to be shown at the Moses Lake Art Museum this summer. This new collection is inspired by the events from the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, she said. Her comparative take on the 1918 Spanish flu and the COVID-19 pandemic focuses primarily on the...
COLFAX — Blowing snow and crashes kept law enforcement busy Tuesday following an overnight storm. The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office responded to more than 20 crashes during Monday’s snowstorm, Sheriff Brett Myers said. The Washington State Patrol responded to at least 10 more. After yesterday’s storm, many cars were left stuck and remain stranded. All reported crashes were handled within a 36 hour window, Myers said. There were no injuries reported. The vast majority of roads that shut by...
PULLMAN - Whitman County has its first baby of 2022. Nora Joan Kawula was delivered at 3:48 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 3, at the Pullman Regional Hospital. Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics has yet to see its first baby born in 2022. Officials there said no mothers were in the delivery stages, at press time. Nora was welcomed by her mother, Margot Gilder, 27, and father, Evan Kawula, 33. She weighed 8 pounds and 6 ounces. She was 21 inches long. Nora - whose name was inspired by the parents'...
COLFAX - Serveral rural roads are currently blocked due to drifting snow. State Highways 26, 127 and 194, were among those blocked due to snowdrifts on the highway. Many other rural roads were closed, too, including some where vehicles were stuck in drifts on the roadway, officials said. A Tekoa School District vehicle was among those reportedly stuck and abandoned on Warner Road. A fire truck was also stuck on Mullen Road, which connects Dry Creek Road to Hume Road. Plow crews are working on clearing the drifts, officials said. The National... Full story
