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COLFAX – A Pullman woman claims her ex-boyfriend sexually assaulted her twice after they broke up and he now faces charges of indecent liberties. Kaybean C. Anderson, 24, of Olympia, is charged with two counts of the felony indecent liberties in Whitman County Superior Court. They were filed on Feb. 23. His ex-girlfriend claims on Jan. 4, 2020, he spent the night in her apartment and twice molested her while she was asleep on a couch and in a bed. She allegedly woke up to him touching her and conducting sexual acts on her without her p...
PULLMAN — Pullman High School students returned to the classroom in a hybrid format Monday, for the first time in nearly a year. They are the last K-12 students in the Palouse to return to in-person learning since the pandemic began. Middle school students in Pullman returned to hybrid format last week while elementary kids resumed five days per week in the classroom....
COLFAX — The Colfax School District set conditions for sports spectators to comply with state health guidelines. They are as follows: • Required symptom-check verification • Agreement to wear a mask before entering the gym or other facility • All spectators must wear a mask during the event • Fans not from the same household must keep social distance • Limits for total number of spectators – based on player numbers and reevaluated for each game • Senior parents (two per senior) of home and visiting teams will have preference • No admission...
OLYMPIA – State representatives approved a bill to make “Juneteenth” a state holiday to honor the day slaves in Texas learned of their freedom. On June 19, 1863 Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and told the slaves they were freed. But, it was Jan. 1, 1865 when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. It was nearly three years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was delivered on Sept. 22, 1862. In Olympia, June 19th took a step closer to being recogni...
COLFAX - A registered sex offender faces felony charges for sending sexual text messages to a Moscow teenager while staying in LaCrosse. Austin T. Johnson, 23, of Moscow, Idaho, is charged with two counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes in Whitman County Superior Court on Feb. 17. In the late summer of 2020, a woman contacted the Moscow police about finding sexual texts on her daughter's phone. The messages were allegedly between Johnson and a teenage girl in Moscow, Idaho...
PULLMAN - Hinrichs Trading Company will soon be acquired by Ardent Mills. The Denver-based flour-milling and ingredient company declared its intent to buy the family-owned garbanzo bean (chick peas) processing company based in Pullman. It operates facilities in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. "Hinrichs Trading Company has over 30 years of chickpea experience, having been involved in the production of the ingredient since it was first introduced into the U.S," stated an Ardent Mills...
SPANGLE - A Colfax fumble recovered in the end zone led to the only touchdown of the night Friday, Feb. 26, as the Liberty Lancers topped the Bulldogs, 10-0, in a 2B football conference matchup. "Both teams fought hard," Colfax Coach Mike Morgan said after the game. "I predicted Liberty would be one of the top teams with all of the seniors and juniors coming back." "I am really proud of our kids," Liberty Coach Mike Dewey said. "It wasn't pretty. Only 10 points scored in the whole game, but we...
ROSALIA — A brief hail and snow storm may have halted football action in the first quarter of play here Thursday, but it didn’t stop the defending state 1B champion Odessa Tigers from running away with a big win. The Tigers juggernaut team cruised to an easy 74-0 win over the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves in eight-man football action Thursday, Feb. 25. Odessa led 38-0 when the game was paused in first quarter for the story. After the game resumed, the Tigers ran the score up to 48-0 before the quarter ended and 60-0 by halftime. Junior var...
COLFAX - In the abbreviated 2020-moved to-2021 volleyball season, teams play matches almost as much as they go to practice, putting on uniforms three nights per week. Now entering the last third of the season, Oakesdale leads the Southeast 1B league. The Nighthawks swept Tekoa/Rosalia at home Tuesday night (25-6, 25-7, 25-6) to push their record to 7-0. Gianna Anderson recorded 12 kills and 12 blocks while LouEllen Reed had 22 assists. Last Saturday Oakesdale beat Colton in four (23-25, 25-14,...
ST. JOHN - Lola Baerlocher, of Colton, took second place in cross-country with a time of 20:59 at Webb's Slough in St. John on Feb. 27. Kennedy Cook took third for Garfield/Palouse at 21:42. For other Top-10 girls placers, Samantha Snekvik of Gar/Pal placed sixth at 23:05 and Lola Edwards seventh at 23:43, also of Gar/Pal. Brooklyn Newman finished ninth for Tekoa/Rosalia in a time of 24:05, and Ellie Tollett was 10th (24:09) for St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse. In boys' cross-country, Ethan Cook...
COLFAX — The Colfax High School volleyball team is 3-0 after two sweeps to close last week. Playing at home Thursday and Saturday, Colfax first beat Kettle Falls 25-4, 25-15, 25-11 as Justice Brown had 14 assists and three aces. Anni Cox delivered 13 digs and Sophie Kleaveano and Perry Imler both had seven kills. Sidney Berquist added three aces. On Saturday against Asotin, Colfax won 25-17, 25-12, 25-11. Asher Cai totaled 13 kills while Brown had 14 assists and Annie Cox 16 digs. Abree Aune served five aces. “The team is playing well, hop...
ROSALIA — Repair work is scheduled for the Rosalia trestle in March. Whitman County Public Works Director Mark Storey gave a report to county commissioners Monday. Storey attended a pre-construction meeting last week, which set a date of March 15 to start the project. It’s expected to last two to three weeks. During construction, one road lane will be closed under the trestle leading from US 195 to Rosalia. The project includes removal of loose concrete, debris and temporary sediment con...
OLYMPIA – A low carbon fuel bill passed the state House of Representatives Feb. 27 in a 52-46 vote with Republicans voting no. Its next stop is the Senate. The bill directs the Department of Ecology to institute rules requiring gasoline and diesel refineries to produce fuels that reduce greenhouse gas output. Goals within the bill require emissions per unit of fuel to be 10% below 2017 levels by 2028, and 20% below 2017 levels by 2035. The bill requires an annual report from the Department of Ecology and guidelines for a credit system for r...
OLYMPIA — A ban on the use of chokeholds, military equipment, and most types of car chases by law enforcement passed the House of Representatives after lawmakers voted along party lines in a 54-43 vote Feb. 27. HB 1054 was the subject of much debate. Some Republican leaders said the bill went too far to strip police of self-defense options, and Democrats said the bill addressed a growing problem with violence and racism in law enforcement. “While Washington State still has work to do to demand equity in our law enforcement, today’s vote is a...
COLFAX — Whitman County commissioners will consider vacating a list of roads from public maintenance. Mark Storey, public works director, presented the names to commissioners Monday morning. The county continues are to decide whether to maintain the stretches of old roads, which serve perhaps one resident, or leave them to be privately maintained or disappear. The list of roads up for debate is Simpson Road, Old Cole Road and the Beanie Bridge, Crow Road and Trestle Creek Bridge, Cole Road and Hutchinson Road. All of the roads are in the n...
COLFAX - A house was burned down in Colfax over the weekend was a training event. Volunteers from Colfax Fire Department and Whitman County Fire District 11 gathered Feb. 27 in the 1200 block of South Mill Street, behind St. Ignatius Hospital, to start four different fires at 10 a.m. Groups entered, what was known as Dr. Bryant's house, to observe fire behavior. On the last fire, the old Victorian structure was burned to the ground as crews used water supply and hoses from two different trucks....
COLFAX — Colfax Junior-Senior High School went on lockdown for less than five minutes Wednesday after an anonymous call claimed a student was bringing a gun. “We determined there was never a threat at any time,” said Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers. Deputies responded to the school at 11:15 a.m. and the lockdown was lifted by 11:20 a.m. The student was immediately identified, contacted, and spoken to, said Myers. He and his family were cooperative. The call came from a blocked number. Once...
