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The Colton girls asserted their hold on the Southeast 1B league with wins over Oakesdale and L/W/K. Colton 78, Oakesdale 38 Freshman Dakota Patchen scored 18 points to lead Colton in a Southeast 1B league blowout of Oakesdale. A total of nine players scored for the Wildcats (12-1, 7-0), with Meghan Devorak scoring 18, and Zoe Moser 12. Patchen came off the bench, as well as another freshman, Jordan Moehrle, who scored five points. Jacey Johnson led Oakesdale scorers with 10 points. Garfield/Palouse 64, LaCrosse/Washtucna/ Kahlotus 14 Payson... Full story
Gar-Pal senior Wyatt Griner takes the ball to the basket at Oakesdale last Saturday as Tanner Dingman converges. In Southeast 1B league action this week, Matt Holbrook scored 45 points against Oakesdale, and Colton continued their winning streak, avenging an earlier loss to Grangeville for their fifth straight. Colton 70, Grangeville 61 Nine of Carter Dahmen's 24 points came in a stretch of the fourth quarter against Grangeville Tuesday night, a team that beat Colton by 16 earlier in the year.... Full story
Colfax boys added two solid wins over the weekend to move their NE record to 5-4 as the league action went past the middle point. The Bulldogs Friday posted a solid 58-44 win over the Wilbur/Creston Wildcats at Creston and returned home Saturday for a 62-42 win over Kettle Falls with a strong run in the second half. On the first lap of NE South action in December, the Bulldogs sustained a 0-3 run in league play, which was followed by a six-game win streak that ended two weeks ago when they played Northwest Christian. Colfax seeks to balance...
Senior guard Kylie Gronning delivers a shot after booking one of her steals Saturday in the Colfax game against Kettle. Olivia Beardslee of Kettle is in hot pursuit. Colfax girls scrambled for two league wins over north side foes to advance their NE league record to 7-2 with five games left in the league run. Saturday on the home court, Colfax battled against a Kettle Falls crew and posted a 49-32 win over the team which made the league's longest road trip to get here. Kettle played Colfax... Full story
Joey Rogers of Garfield/Palouse rounds up Sam Caisley of Moscow in the 120-pound class last week in the home meet at Palouse. Rogers took the match with a 9-4 decision. Colfax and Garfield/Palouse wrestlers scored 123 points Saturday to top a 19-team entry in the tournament at Northwest Christian. The locals finished 25 points ahead of number-two Liberty. Travis Knauff, who has dropped down to the 138-pound class, took the lone individual title with a run of three wins. He took the title on a... Full story
A $2,500 grant from OfficeMax in partnership with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories will help the Uniontown Library relocation and renovation project to reach near completion. The new library is expected to open in early February. The final contributions allowed the library to include a separate children’s area with a sink for clean-up of crafts and experiments, child-sized table and chairs, and built-in cupboards for storage. When complete, the Uniontown library’s relocation into the old fire station will cost $75,000 while providing a lib...
A farm management training workshop is scheduled in Colfax next week. The program, put on by the Agricultural Marketing & Management Organization, will be Jan. 27 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Whitman County Library in Colfax. Dr. David Mulla of the University of Minnesota will present the topic, “Remote Sensing for Precision Ag.” “We provide an annual series of workshops that can help our growers and distributors with their farm management decisions,” said Lori Williams, AMMO outreach coordinator. Williams said Dr. Mulla's presentation will be...
The Palouse Falls Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute (IAFI) will host a lecture next week at The Gathering Place in LaCrosse Jan. 27. “Geomorphology of the Channeled Scablands” will be presented at 7 p.m. by Lloyd Stoess, president of the Palouse Falls Chapter of the IAFI. Geomorphology is the study of landforms and the lecture is designed to help those who attend to develop an understanding they can observe in their own backyard. The presentation is also scheduled to appear in Washtucna and Ritzville on Jan. 25 and Jan. 28, res...
Marmots scramble over drifting snow, fog shrouds the treeline at Kamiak Butte and the fourth annual “Palouse Cabin Fever Brewfest” nears. Set for Feb. 13 at the community center, tickets are on sale for an increased capacity of 450 patrons who pay $20 for six taste tickets to sample beers from eight regional breweries. The event's first year sold out at the door with subsequent years selling out beforehand. A benefit for the Palouse Community Center, the Brewfest is organized by a group of vol... Full story
A public hearing on the proposed O'Donnell Road vacation will be continued Feb. 1, after a mix-up about posting a billboard at the site to advertise the public hearing – which is being postponed from its originally scheduled date of Jan. 19. The portion of road to be vacated is a 150-foot section of right-of-way where the previous path was moved for a Pullman Airport Road realignment project two years ago....
The Board of County Commissioners is seeking to fill committee positions for the county and is asking for anyone interested to step forward. “These advisory committees are very important to the functions of the county, but they are sometimes difficult to fill,” said commission chair Michael Largent. “We have an appreciation for and need for citizen involvement because that is what makes county government work.” Committee openings include the blue ribbon advisory task committee, capital improvement project committee, citizens' committee on sala... Full story
The sun is captured setting below the snowy hills of the Palouse near Colfax in this early January shot. Much of the snow has now cleared with the recent rains and warmer temperatures....
The Colfax Chamber of Commerce will soon be unveiling a “Shop Local” campaign for Colfax, said Valoree Gregory, Colfax's Unified Executive Director. According to the Explore Colfax website, the purpose of the campaign is “dedicated to supporting and preserving sustainable business, economy and entrepreneurship in Whitman County.” The shop local campaign will be marked by stickers which will appear in the windows of businesses which are Chamber members, Gregory said. “We should be getting our stickers in by next week,” Gregory said on Tuesday.... Full story
Count of ballots which will be mailed out Friday by the elections office for the Feb. 9 special election is now more than 18,000. The tally for Pullman, which will be asked to decide on a $23.5 million bond issue over 20 years for construction of a new elementary school, is at 11,673. Increasing enrollment and reduction of class sizes are cited by the district as the reasons for requesting the school construction bond measure. Pullman district is also requesting voters to approve a four-year special levy for operations to replace the current... Full story
A Washington State University research plant pathologist last week released the first stripe rust update for susceptible crops in 2016. Xianmeng Chen released the report Jan. 11, stating that the early forecast for highly susceptible winter wheat varieties indicates “about 30 percent yield loss, in the middle of (the) moderate epidemic range.” Stripe rust is a plant disease in which “chlorotic patches or stripes on leaves” appear “followed by rust sporulation, forming tiny yellow to orange colored rust pustules called uredia,” according t... Full story
Plans to build a second pond or install an enclosed storage tank at the Whitman County Solid Waste Transfer Facility are moving ahead. Public Works Director Mark Storey Tuesday briefed county commissioners about the project that would aid in the processing of contaminants at the site. “We’re trying to switch up the design now,” said Storey, noting their goal was to decide on the concept and meet with the Department of Ecology in March for it to be built this fall or next spring. “We probabl...
Sixth-grader Garrett Dingman plays the saxophone just like ringing a bell for the Oakesdale pep band last Saturday night, led by director Nick Wright.... Full story
An Endicott resident fills up his gas tank Jan. 14 at the Endicott gas station. Some Endicott residents last week received a letter from CHS Primeland detailing that the fuel pumps there will be closing this summer. “As a purchaser of fuel at our Endicott Washington fuel site, we regret to inform you that the CHS Primeland has made the decision to discontinue dispensing fuel at this location,” the letter read. “This decision was not made lightly.” The decision was made in light of discove...
