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*For full obituaries, please see the Weekly Pages section for this week's paper. Marshall M. Miller Archie W. Claassen Dean R. Hollenbeck ___________________________________ Fredrick Neil Hogg, 72, former Colfax resident, died Jan. 8, 2015, at his home in Parkdale, Ore. Fredrick was born October 18, 1942. A celebration of life service with reception following will be at 11 a.m. Jan. 31 at Anderson’s Tribute Center, 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, Ore. www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com Klaus-Dieter Ebert, 78, former proprietor of Deda Auto Repair i... Full story
Week of Jan. 19 - 23 AT COLFAX SCHOOL: Monday: No School! Tuesday: Bulldog burger, fries, lettuce, tomato, BBQ beans, fruit. Wednesday: Deli sandwich, potato soup, Caesar salad, fruit. Thursday: Popcorn chicken, rice, hot carrots, fruit. Friday: Mac and cheese, smokies, bread stick, fruit, green beans. AT COLTON SCHOOLS: Monday: No School! Tuesday: Orange chicken, rice, corn, fruit. Wednesday: Sack lunch - end of semester. Thursday: Breakfast burrito, hash brown, baked beans, orange slices. Friday: Breadstick stuffed with cheese, marinara...
Thursday, January 15 Colfax — 2-5:30 p.m. — INBC Blood Drive - Contact the Inland Northwest Blood Center to register the time that is most convenient for you at www.inbcsaves.org or call toll free 800-423-0151 for additional information. Walk-ins are welcome. Albion, Colton, Colfax, Farmington & Palouse — After School Programs — Fun, education, and snacks for elementary students. Check the library calendar or call the branch for more information and times. Endicott — 7 p.m. — Book club — Join the discussion of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak....
Wild women Dahmen sessions Registration ends today, Jan. 15, for the workshop on painting on silk, session four of the Wild Women Winter Art Series at Dahmen Barn in Uniontown, Sunday, Jan. 25, 1 to 4 p.m. This is the only workshop that requires advance registration so materials can be ordered. Students will be given a pre-stretched square of silk upon which they may draw or trace a design. Class fee is $25, plus a materials fee of $5 to be paid to the instructor the day of the class. Instructor Jeanne Wood has been an artist in the Palouse reg...
8 years ago The Commoner Jan. 17, 1890 The business outlook for Colfax, which will open with the first dawn of spring, is exceedingly bright and points to a rapid increase with the new year. Locations are being sought for new businesses, contracts are being sought for new buildings, new enterprises are looking for openings and a general infusion of blood and energy in all directions is apparent, which is especially gratifying. There is already enough outlined in the way of progress to demonstrate that the present year will be the most...
Abby Druffel of Colton, a sophomore majoring in management and organizational communication, and Kacie Morgan of Pullman, a freshman majoring in health and human performance, were among more than 800 students who earned dean’s list recognition at George Fox University, Newburg, Ore., for the fall 2014 semester. Students on the list posted a grade point average of 3.5 or higher during the term....
All 14 branches of Whitman County Library will be closed Sunday and Monday, Jan. 18 and 19, in recognition of Martin Luther King Day. Due dates for library materials have been extended in anticipation of the closure and no late fines will be charged for these days. Drop boxes will remain open at all locations for returned items. Access to the library’s catalog, downloadable audio and eBooks, and other online resources including Microsoft IT Academy are available by visiting the library’s website.www.whitco.lib.wa.us.... Full story
Dusty Suzy McNeilly traveled east on Christmas Day and returned on New Year’s Eve. Flying into Washington, D.C., she was met by daughter Missy and grandson Gavin and drove to New Jersey to visit daughter Christina who is expecting her third boy. Suzy filled their freezer with baked goodies and dinners, got in as many Grandma hugs as possible, woke up to three boys pointing Nerf guns at her and then went on to Virginia. There, she spent time with son Jake and his family. They are also expecting a boy this spring. She had a lot of fun with her g...
Mr. and Mrs. David P. Repp of Colfax celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Dec. 21, 2014. Repp and Mary Lyndell Mettler of Colfax were married at Peace Lutheran Church in Colfax Dec. 21, 1964. They have three children: Evelyn and Jim Wood of Boise, Idaho; David and Karla Repp of Spokane, and Cody and Tasha Repp of Bellingham. They have six grandchildren....
Sgt. Logan Rubenthaler, former Colton area resident, has been serving for most of the past two years as a member of the horse cavalry detachment of the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division based at Ft. Hood, Texas. Rubenthaler signed up with the horse detachment after serving a 10-month tour of duty as a combat soldier in Iraq. A recipient of the purple heart award, he was offered an assignment to the horse unit to serve out his enlistment. The son of Randy and Linda Rubenthaler, he was raised in P... Full story
A Dec. 18 Gazette account of the county’s tax foreclosure action Dec. 12 incorrectly reported a Pullman mobile home, which failedto get a bid at the auction, would become the property of the county. A mobile home is taxed as personal property and does not become the property of the county under tax foreclosure law. Under the law, the county can detain personal property to sell for payment of overdue taxes and fees, but it does not take ownership. Amount due on the Pullman mobile home listed on the sale was $1,330. Most of the sum was due for p...
The town of Garfield will hope for better luck in 2015 for a sidewalk and curb project after they were turned down in December for a Transportation Improvement Board grant. The $213,010 the town sought would have paid for the re-doing of sidewalks, curbs and some vegetation enhancement on six blocks – from Second Street to the railroad tracks on the Palouse highway. “It didn’t go through, so we hope for next year,” said Garfield Mayor Ray McCown. The application which town representatives filled out last summer asked if the town had money f...
With a new tenant moving into Uniontown’s Vollmer building, production for Grandma Lela’s oatmeal is in a transition period. After making the Uniontown product in the Vollmer building’s back kitchen space since March 2013, Grandma Lela’s owners moved out of the building last October. The change came after potential new tenants expressed interest in the space, which is owned by the Uniontown Community Development Association. “They had another tenant and thought it was a better fit for the build...
The Whitman County Public Works Department has been awarded a new $660,000 grant to reduce fatalities and serious injury accidents on rural two-lane highways. The Federal Highway Administration grant will allow Public Works to create a systemic county road safety plan, which will begin with a radar study of all roads and surrounding terrain. “Two-lane rural highways have had the highest incidents of fatalities and serious-injury accidents,” said Mark Storey, Whitman County Public Works Dir... Full story
The image of fans and signage at the Colfax high school gym were rebounded off the new varnish of the floor Saturday during the game with Wilbur/Creston....
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2010. I have a second cousin who, as a woman in her 20s, is considerably younger than I. Well, not “considerably.” She’s a bit younger. She’s my age. At any rate, she lives in my area, many miles from her parents, which she insists is due to no intent on her part, though when she graduated from college she submitted resumes everywhere but in her home state. She is planning her wedding, and her father asked me to sit in on his behalf and represent his point of view. I thought i...
Real estate sales Wilma L. Thygeson, Wenatchee, to John and Noreen Ewing, Farmington, house on W. Lincoln Street in Farmington, $6,500, Jan. 5. Aimee D. Anderson, Clayton, Wash., to Ken and Karen Hanson, Mitchell Hanson, Tyler Hanson and Chris Hanson, Oakesdale, 710 S. Main Street in Colfax, $132,500, Jan. 6. Slayton Pullman Properties, LLC, Newbury Park, Calif., to Debra and Gene Lai, Pullman, property on NE Williams Drive in Pullman, $292,500, Jan. 6. K&K Properties, Pullman, to Paul Peringer and Barbara Sinnott, Oakesdale, house on W. Wesley...
Last month, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit approved $178 million in legal and consulting fees as the city exited bankruptcy protection. It is the most expensive municipal restructuring in our nation’s history and the money paid to lawyers and consultants alone is more than it cost to run the entire Seattle City Fire Department last year. To put its total debt in perspective, the amount Detroit owes its creditors is equivalent to the entire Washington state budget for this year. Once America’s fifth largest city, Detroit has seen its pop... Full story
Book record I read with great interest the article and picture concerning a book that was 60 years overdue at the Whitman County Library. In looking closer at the information card after the book was returned recently, I discovered I knew the names of two of the customers who had checked the book out of the library in 1952 and 1953. “C. Busby” was a well known and highly respected teacher of English for many years at Colfax High School. “E. Nelson” was also an outstanding teacher of Languages, Geography, and World History. The 1954 annual,...
Colfax High School FCCLA members conducted a texting and driving awareness week. During the week members had a commitment poster where students could pledge to not text while driving. They also had posters and flyers for students as well as an assembly for the school Jan. 7. Students were given alternatives such as apps to avoid texting and driving. At the assembly Jim and Lisa Thompson of Colfax spoke about the accident south of Colfax which took the life of their son, Sam Thompson, who was believed to be texting while driving before the...
Obamacare has come to Harvard, and the faculty is in a state of shock and dismay. In what has to be considered an early contender for the most hilarious and enjoyable news story of the year, The New York Times recounts the tumult over Obamacare in Cambridge. “For years,” the Times writes, “Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.” In...
I am one of those who mourn the passing of Mario Cuomo, and celebrate his life. Among the more enjoyable experiences of my time as a younger reporter were various conversations I was privileged to have with him during the quiet that would precede the storm of news. He could argue without offending, unless he wanted to, be provocative without provoking. He was an unabashed progressive and will be remembered as one of his generation’s most exciting speakers, inspiring with his rhetorical style as well as his ideas. Unfortunately, when it comes t... Full story
Last week 17 were killed in France by Muslim terrorists in a rampage that included an attack on the controversial French magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher market. Journalists, cartoonists, innocent shoppers, a maintenance worker and three policeman were among those killed. Police killed the three terrorists. France, Europe and the rest of the world reacted. Marches and peaceful protests broke out spontaneously. An organized march on Sunday brought out more than a million people in Paris. Marchers carried signs and flags, but the most dramatic...
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. CAMERAS LINE COURTROOM Most of the people present for Monday afternoon’s first appearance in court by Moscow murder suspect John Lee were reporters and photographers. Four mounted television cameras were in place along one side of the courtroom with news photographers also standing and seated in front with reporters. Lee made a quick entrance i... Full story
In the Grangeville High School gym Tuesday night, the Colton girls set a state all-classes record extending their winning streak to 56 games. It’s been a long period since they lost -- in December 2012 to Kamiah. The seniors were sophomores the last time it happened, and the sophomores might be seniors by the time it happens next. Part of a streak of six consecutive 1B state championships in a row, Colton’s consecutive-wins streak is now part of a push for seven. Colton 65, Grangeville 37 With j...
