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Bev Pearce was sworn in as a new Palouse City Council member at the Jan. 28 council meeting. She takes over the position formerly held by Norm Schorzman, who resigned Jan. 14. Pearce and Mark Wilcomb had both applied for the position. At the Jan. 28 city council meeting, the applicants were separately asked a series of identical questions after which the council went into an executive session for 10 minutes. Afterwards, council member Doreen Hanson moved to appoint Wilcomb to the office. The motion was seconded by council member Sonja Estes...
A $2,000 Northwest Farm Credit Services/CoBank rural community grant has been awarded to Palouse Habitat for Humanity to purchase cabinets and countertops for a new Habitat for Humanity home building project in Albion. Of the 12 homes Palouse HFH has already completed, more than half have been in rual Palouse communities, including Colfax, Genesee, Palouse and Uniontown. Those homes brought new children into school districts and new tax-paying home-owners to the community base. Northwest FCS is committed to helping rural communities succeed.... Full story
Real estate sales Addie Baughman, Washougal, to John F. and Linda B. Miller, Tekoa, house on S. Lindsey Street in Tekoa, $79,000, Feb. 4. Aaron and Natalie Jeschke, Pullman, to Tania Elena Perez Jimenez, Pullman, 1998 26x50 mobile home on NW Parkwest in Pullman, $49,000, Feb. 4. Copper Basin Construction Inc., Hayden, Idaho, to Ruifeng He and Ziying Liu, Pullman, house on SW Panorama Drive in Pullman, $243,130, Feb. 4. Jonathan M. and Jeanne M. Fairbanks, Lehi, Utah, to Benjamin Gonzales and Mary Trotter, Pullman, house on SE High Street in... Full story
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009. There are three types of bicycles: There’s the kind of bike built for riding on the roads, there’s the kind of bike built for riding on the trails, and there’s the kind of bike built for storing in my garage. When my friend Joel offered to let me ride with his “Morning Road Bike Club,” I very enthusiastically declined. I explained to him that there is just something offensive to me about the word “morning.” Besides, owning my kind of bicycle means that its tires are flat...
The Seattle Times headline said it all: “Obama running out of reasons to reject Keystone XL.” For five years, the Keystone XL pipeline has been mired in studies, red tape and delay. Now, the State Department has released its final report, concluding that the pipeline would have little or no environmental impact. The State Department has jurisdiction because the pipeline would cross the U.S. border, carrying 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Western Canada to Nebraska, where it would connect with an existing pipeline to refineries in Tex... Full story
Mary McCormack’s rural mail carrier Linda Buergel of Rosalia left a seasonal message in the snow of McCormack’s driveway. Buergel turns around at McCormack’s house every day and created the double hearts with her Subaru when she turned around in the deep snow....
Why would anyone think it was a big deal when scientists announced a few weeks ago they had determined that humans carry genes of Neanderthals? Was there really any question? The evidence is everywhere. It's certainly obvious when we observe the hunter-gatherer predators who run roughshod over each other in the political world. It would be a mistake to stereotype Neanderthals as grunting lunklumps. In fact, some of them appear quite suave. Mike Huckabee, for example, was outfitted in knuckle-drag recently when, before a Republican audience, he...
The preliminary election count was tallied Tuesday night. The next count will be Friday. Even so, most issues can be declared successfully passed. Every Maintenance and Operations levy for every school district on the ballot passed comfortably. Not one ran into trouble with the voter. Voters in the county long ago wanted more for their schools and have traditionally given them extra, local funding. Also on the plus side, the Whitman County Library District and Pullman Regional Hospital levies passed with substantial positive margins. Still up...
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. COMMERCIAL REMODEL Wendy McGraw Monday applied for a building permit to remodel the commercial building at 301 N. Main. The building was the former location of LM Design shop. McGraw plans to locate her Almota Road Photography business in the building. They plan to restore the building to its... Full story
Colfax boys finished 1-2 in the last three rounds of the NE finals to remain in the number-five playoff slot. The team needed a win Saturday to extend their season and collected a 52-43 win over Davenport. They played the Gorillas after being hammered by Liberty 44-31 in the Friday round at Mead. Colfax faced the Lancers after pegging a 1-1 tourney mark by eliminating 53-41 in the Wednesday round at Mead. In the early game opener Saturday at Mt. Spokane against the Gorillas, Colfax held... Full story
Nine wrestlers from the Colfax-Gar/Pal combo qualified Saturday in the big sub-regional round at Colfax to advance to the regional round this week at Kittitas. Colfax had five wrestlers advance to the finals with Reggie Jones-145, Ray Compton-195 and Evan Lord-220 taking championship wins. Three Garfield/ Palouse wrestlers also advanced to the title round with Kevin Knauff taking the title at 152. Mitch Barney-132 and Brian DeYoung-182 qualified with second-place finishes after being turned...
Another Colfax-NWC battle produced another thriller for the NE girls championship game Saturday night at Mt. Spokane High School. Round three of the Bulldog-Crusader saga ended with the green team again taking the win, but this time Colfax pushed them into overtime. After four extra minutes, NWC took the trophy 54-52 with Rachel Bozlee again playing a key role. Bozlee, who had to sit on the bench with a four-foul hole earlier in the game, hit five of the NWC points in the overtime. Scrapbook...
They ran out of programs. In the biggest game of the season Friday night in Palouse, Gar-Pal took on Pomeroy for a matchup between the top two teams in 1B Southeast District 9. The second-place Vikings came into the game with recent wins over Touchet and Colton, avenging their two earlier league losses. First-place Pomeroy had lost only once all season – on a half-court shot by Vikings’ guard Matt Holbrook in their gym. In the rematch, it would take less than that, as Gar-Pal opened a small lea...
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS Carothers Road Solid Waste Facility New Waste Transfer Building and Site Improvements Contract No. XEW 28 WHITMAN COUNTY, STATE OF WASHINGTON Sealed bids for this project will be received by the Board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, State of Washington, at its office in the Whitman County Courthouse 400 North Main Street Colfax, Washington, until 11:00 a.m. local time, on Monday, March 17, 2014, at which time all bids will be opened and publicly read. Each bid shall be physically received by the bid opening...
First round of playoff action for the SE 1B girls was set to start Wednesday with six teams on the grid for action which will conclude with the championship round next weekend at Colfax. Nine games are pegged to determine which two teams advance in the state title race. Colton, the league dominator, and Tekoa/Oakesdale, number two, were on the sidelines for the first round and will host the Wednesday winners in the second round Friday. In Wednesday’s first round, St. John/Endicott hosted Touchet in the 3-6 game and Pomery hosted Rosalia in t...
The story of John Ellis of Colfax and his B-17 bomber crew ditching in the English Channel is a centerpiece of a museum now at Rougham Field in East Anglia, England. The museum was in its beginning phases after World War II when a British fishing boat brought up an aircraft engine in its nets. The numbers on the engine matched the numbers on “Hello Mr. Maier” which was ditched July 31, 1944. When people from Colfax or John’s relatives visit the museum, they are treated grandly, and the museum vo... Full story
They stood quiet for six years. At Colfax High School, other than being used for maintenance, the various band saws, scroll saws, lathes and sanders in the school’s wood shop haven’t been used since the retirement of Bruce MacDougal in 2008. In the meantime, the 84x40-foot area became a storage room, for broken student desks, teachers’ desks and pallets of paper. Over Christmas break, that all changed as Colfax Supt. Michael Morgan and a few student helpers began to clear out the space to bring... Full story
Snow started falling late last Thursday evening and continued falling steadily until Friday morning. Snow showers fell Saturday with temperatures warming gradually to the mid 20s, letting icicles drip a bit. By Monday, infrequent snow showers were widely scattered in the county and temperatures were in the mid-30s. David Jones, Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Conservationist based in Colfax, reported Friday the snow total was six and a half inches, with an additional two inches falling over the weekend. He said data from Pullman... Full story
Registration is open for the 2014 Women in Agriculture conference which offers women in Washington, Oregon and Idaho a unique opportunity to gather in 28 locations March 15 for a one-day event featuring speakers, inspiring stories, practical advice for improving farm management skills and networking with other women producers. This year’s event, “Change Happens: Make It an Opportunity,” covers topics including making farm business decisions by using financial records to improve the bottom line. This year’s keynote speaker will be Heather...
Whitman County Proposition No. 1 Levy to support general fund expenses and services; county’s regular property tax levy base shall be increased permanently by 22 cents per $1,000 of assessed value for collection beginning in 2015. Approved 3,382 Rejected 3,345 Whitman County Rural Library District Operations and Maintenance: would enable the district to operate its community libraries and maintain library services by restoring the district’s regular property tax levy rate to 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation for collection in 2015. Yes... Full story
Oakesdale School District’s request for more than $7.1 million to renovate the school and the district was 30 votes short of the 60 percent required for approval after the first count of returns Tuesday night. In the first count 54.14 percent of the ballots approved. Oakesdale’s maintenance and operation levy passed, 61.26 percent yes and 31.74 percent no. Oakesdale asked for approval for $7,160,000 in bonds for school renovation. The renovation called for building new additions, reconstructing the kitchen and cafeteria, classrooms and gir...
The state Department of Transportation night-shift crew Monday returned to the assignment of removing the culvert pipe from the drain project along the Palouse Highway grade. DOT crews started the project last Thursday when the regional office announced DOT officials had decided to pull out the pipe which was the cause of runoff floods in December and January. Winter snow storms shut down the work which had also been slated for last Friday, and the crew didn’t get back on the scene until M...
Colfax players and fans roared last Saturday night when the Bulldogs tied undefeated Northwest Christian in the district championship game at Mt. Spokane High School. The 45-45 tie was booked by Kori Goodwin who hit a three-point shot from the corner just before the buzzer. Again, the undefeated NWC tean survived the Colfax charge with a two-point edge in the four minutes of overtime action. The Crusaders won the district trophy.... Full story
