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Freshman Rylee Vining pushes it against Pomeroy. Coach Clark Vining at the final buzzer as Josie Schultheis, Addison Kinzer, Abby Kelly and assistant Ben Emerson converge on the court. Senior Georgia Meyer looks to shoot in the title game at Spokane Arena. Junior guard Jordyn Moerhle looks for an angle. A Washington Interscholastic Activities Association executive presents the Gold Ball trophy. Junior Emily Schultheis takes the ball up against Pomeroy’s Maddy Dixon. Smiles and tears follow t...
Colfax girls line up for the final game as the light show rolls around the Spokane Memorial Arena Friday. Bulldog players circle right after the buzzer to celebrate the title win. Abbie Miller, who bailed it out, is at left. Bulldog brass goes into action as the Colfax band plays for the fans before the title game. The Colfax bench launches at the buzzer after the Bulldogs nail the trophy. Coach Corey Baerlocher talks to the press after Colfax takes the win. The Bulldogs start to whoop as... Full story
The full sports merger for Waitsburg and Dayton teams is now back on track after Waitsburg school board members voted Monday to reverse the decision they made to back out of the merger Feb. 14. Waitsburg made the unanimous vote, and Dayton school board members Feb. 21 voted unanimously to ask them to reconsider, according to a report in the March 1 Dayton Chronicle. The report noted concerned residents of both districts attended the Dayton meeting and the subsequent Waitsburg meeting. Dayton and Waitsburg had already combined for football,...
Jaydon Soncarty moves to the paint against Toledo's Brian Wood. Cal Gregory shoots over Junior Arroyo of Toledo. After battling through the NE consolation rounds and booking a big win last week at Pullman to get to the state start at Spokane, the Colfax boys came to the end of this year’s basketball road in the second half of the play-in round last Wednesday at the Spokane Arena. Toledo, a team which was rated number-three going into the state finals, poured on the power in the second half for a... Full story
Piper Cai of Colfax goes up over Sydney Abbott for a shot early in the title game. It came down to the last three minutes of the championship game Saturday. After traveling all the way across the state to win a ticket to Spokane and pegging two solid wins in the first two rounds at the 2B tournament, the Colfax girls trailed by seven points, 39-46, against Davenport with 3:39 left in the title game. The Gorillas, defending champions, were close to wrapping it up and heading home, westbound out... Full story
Colton's Dakota Patchen, Jordyn Moehrle, Maggie Pluid, Rylee Vining and Josie Schultheis beam at the end of their 44-37 win over Pomeroy. Pomeroy cut the lead to three points with just more than four minutes remaining. Would the Pirates push Colton to the wire – the Wildcats trying to win the state 1B girls championship after an eight-year run ended last year? No, Dakota Patchen, the Colton junior guard, downed a three-pointer, then another to ensure her team’s name would again be engraved on th... Full story
The search for a new police officer in Palouse continues with a candidate ride-along done last week and a potential part-time hire from Colfax to come in for Terry Snead, the reserve officer for the Palouse Police Department, who has served since November while the city searches for an officer to replace retiree Joe Merry. Snead will leave at the end of April for a previous job commitment. Discussions are underway with the City of Colfax on officers working possible part-time for the Palouse department which also covers Garf...
Chance perks up after getting his toy and blankets from home. Dogs who go missing after being involved in car accidents always get the attention of Carmel Travis. A realtor in Pullman by profession, her “thing” is getting lost dogs back to their owners. She was trained by a national organization in capturing the dogs after they run from the trauma of the accident. “I help when I find out there’s a need,” Travis said. March 1, Travis had another successful reunion after spending about 20 hours... Full story
Whitman County Public Works department called for quotes last week from its vendor roster for two steel bridge supply items, replenishing for summer work on short-span bridge repairs. Arrow Construction of Spokane Valley will supply galvanized steel backwall decking which makes up the abutment of a bridge — and steel “H” pile used for driving steel down into rock. The county is in the midst of designing its middle and short bridge replacement projects for the year, so the amount of the two steel items to order is not yet known. At least two s...
The winter quarter edition of The Milwaukee Railroader, the official publication of the Milwaukee Road Historical Association, includes an article on the founding of Malden and the Milwaukee’s operations in the town through the years. Copies of the quarterly are being provided to the Whitman County Library for placement in local libraries. The Milwaukee Road Historical Association is the largest railroad historical society in the United States. Copies of the quarterly can be purchased from the national association’s company store at www...
The City of Palouse authorized Apollo Solutions of Kennewick Feb. 27 to apply for funding for a project to add another row of panels at its solar farm built in 2016. Representatives from Apollo will now apply for a $75,000 grant from the Washington Department of Enterprise Services for the estimated $150,000 project, which would add 25 kilowatts per given second of power generating capacity for Palouse. The “given second” term refers to under optimal conditions. The other half of the cost would... Full story
Charles (Charlie) Hatley, the Coeur d’Alene police officer who was wounded in an exchange of gunfire March 6, was raised in Colfax. He is the son of Gary Hatley and Sheri Hatley and the grandson of Clyde and Sherry Hatley. His uncle, Craig Hatley of Colfax, visited Charles at the hospital Wednesday where the officer is recovering. Hatley had been employed with the sheriff’s jail staff at Coeur d’Alene before joining the Coeur d’ Alene police department. He had been called to the shooting scene as one of the backup officers for a traffic...
The Palouse board of adjustment and planning commission heard plans Wednesday night at a public hearing for a proposed subdivision development south of the Palouse Cove housing development at the south end of town. The seven-acre plot of land, within the city limits, is owned by Palouse Builders, LLC, of Spokane, which is proposing the development. The meeting Wednesday night was back-to-back gatherings by the Board of Adjustment to consider whether duplexes could be built on four lots, and the Planning Commission to evaluate the overall...
Pete Martin was honored Thursday on his retirement after 37 years of service as Whitman County Coroner. Martin officially ended his service as coroner at midnight Feb. 28, the last day of the month. Any early morning calls to report an unattended death would have gone to Annie Pillers, chief deputy coroner who was the lone applicant for appointment to replace Martin. "The Legend has Retired" was painted on a banner which decorated the commissioners' room for the two-hour fete. Commissioner... Full story
Applications for presenters for the Spring Palouse Knowledge Corridor Business Showcase event are now being accepted. Entrepreneurs starting small business ventures, who are interested in showcasing their business ideas, are encouraged to download an application and submit it to marie@pullmanchamber.com by 5 p.m. March 31. The showcase will be Thursday, April 12, at the Gladish Community & Cultural Center View Room, 115 NW State St, Pullman, from 2 to 5 p.m. Preselected presenters will have 10 minutes to showcase their business idea and plans...
An estimated 20 people gathered at the Center in Colfax Feb. 26 for a planning meeting put on by Washington State Parks for Steptoe Butte State Park. A main question facing the park was addressed as Ray and John Folwell, and Kent Bassett were in attendance to listen to Michael Hankinson, a representative from State Parks, and John Gamon, from the state’s Department of Natural Resource. The Folwells and Bassett bought a 437-acre piece of land at the base of the Butte in 2016 to preserve as n...
Port of Whitman commissioners went over capital improvement projects for the Colfax Airport Thursday. The five-year plan was laid out in a letter from the FAA which provides the majority of the funding for the projects. The list came from meetings last October through November between the port and FAA and further work by the port’s FAA project manager, FAA state planner and WSDOT. The letter laid out projects and funding for the next five fiscal years which would be 95 percent funded by the F...
Representatives from the Pullman League of Women Voters presented the results of a poverty study to Whitman County commissioners Monday. Mary Collins and Karen Kiessling told of how they undertook the project four years ago after seeing a USA Today newspaper article which reported that Whitman County was the poorest county in Washington. “I didn’t believe it,” said Collins. So she and the LWV chapter decided to look closer. Two years later they completed a 114-page study in May 2016. The group...
Colfax Bulldog girls collect the state 2B trophy after a comeback win over Davenport Saturday in the championship game at Spokane Memorial Arena. In front, from the left are Coach Corey Baerlocher and seniors Piper Cai, Carmen Gfeller, Greta Geier. Josie Riebold, and Abbie Miller. In back, from the left, are managers Harper Booth and Delaney Imler, Assistant Coach Kim Berquist, Kaitlyn Cornish, Skylre Sakamoto-Howell, Shyah Antoine, Rachel Brown, Kierstyn York, Sydney Berquist, Taylre...
