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Colfax golfers scored a team win Monday at Ritzville with a score of 213. Hunter Weitze led the team with a 37, two over par. Sawyer Sparkman of St. George’s won medalist honors by hitting a 34, one under par. Other team scores were Lind/Ritzville/ Sprague 227, Inchelium 247, Cusick 301 and St John/Endicott 302. Kasey Johnson of Colfax and Jimmy Psomas of St. George’s tied for third low in individual scores were 38s. Other scorers for the Bulldogs were Chance Weitze 39, Cody Gronning 43, Cody Muir 56, Derek Ward 66, and Thuc Nyugen 64. McK...
Colfax girls celebrated a championship season and said good-bye to two seniors at the their basketball banquet Tuesday night in the CHS cafeteria. Before the formal presentation the players, parents and fans watched a video presentation named “Restoring the Glory” in reference to the girls return the final eight show at the Spokane Arena and their championship run which ended with a title win over the undefeated Toutle Lake Fighting Ducks. The two seniors departing the team are Nicole Sheer and...
Colfax track team started the season in a big way Saturday with an entry in the West Valley Invitational. The big meet included most of the teams from the Greater Spokane League, and coach Jason Cooper said he was more than happy with how the Bulldogs competed against track talent from the AAAA and AAA division schools. Colfax boys placed 10th overall in the big meet, and the Colfax girls placed 9th. In most of the events, the entry list stretched from 50 to over 70 tracksters. Top finish for Colfax was a first place by Scout Cai in the girls... Full story
The Methodist Church building in Farmington may be in use again in the next few years. For the past five years, the white church has stood empty in the heart of town, just up from the community center/town hall/library. The city was given the downtown church building in 2009 under an agreement which stated that Farmington would not sell it for 15 years. Farmington’s new mayor, James Woomack, and a new part-time maintenance man have been removing molded panels in the basement as part of an e...
Steve Fulton, president of Unifine Mill, will be at the Palouse Knowledge Corridor session April 3. Unifine’s presentations will be from 2 to 5 p.m. at the BellTower Event Center in Pullman with other businesses highlighted during the event. The Unifine whole grain flour milling system has been under development at WSU for the last 60 years, according to Fulton. With consumer demand growing for locally milled whole grain flour is skyrocketing, Fulton said. WSU Design Clinic teams have updated the milling system design, the first of which is c...
Students are helping package soup mix for low income families. Storehouse Executive Director Tom Riedner is watching the organization that is dear to his heart grow even more. Riedner grew up on a farm near Colton and got his first after-college job at Continental Grain and worked in the grain industry for 22 years. After he became unemployed, he was approached about directing the charitable organization and eagerly took the reigns. Storehouse was born in 2010 and has already fed thousands of people locally and worldwide. With a donation of...
Colfax Golf Club's grand re-opening was last Friday, March 21, at the newly remodeled club house. More than 100 people showed up for Donna Brost's homemade lasagna and filled both the dining room and bar. After dinner, Trent Goetze, new golf club manager, auctioned off the remaining three pans of lasagna to the highest bidders. The Colfax Golf Club will be starting a new program on Friday nights called "Food, Fun and, oh yeah, Golf" geared for people more inclined to socialize than play... Full story
The new committee that encompasses farm groups and the state Department of Ecology, called the Agriculture and Water Quality Advisory Committee met for the first time on March 19 in Lacey. According to the DOE website, a broad array of agricultural interests is participating on the new advisory committee to improve working relationships and ensure both water quality protection and a healthy agricultural industry. As the committee meets, members will discuss and provide advice and guidance about the work DOE does to prevent pollution. The purpos...
The new Garfield garbage truck remains in Spokane being retrofitted for use in the town’s garbage route. The 2002 Mack truck, which the town bought used from the community of West Valley, Utah, in December, has a mechanical arm that operates a device called a Curotto-Can from the inside. The total cost of the new purchase was $63,500. The truck needed to be retrofitted in order to operate it. The Curotto-Can, which came with the truck when Garfield bought it, was originally installed on a... Full story
Colfax City Council members were advised March 17 that the Transportation Commission has scheduled its April meeting in Pullman. Date of the meeting is April 16. Mayor Todd Vanek said possible topics for Colfax on the agenda could be the south end Colfax bypass and the status of railroad property in town. Vanek noted the Airport Road cutoff from Highway 26 leads to an added traffic load on Fairview and S. Main in Colfax, and that extra traffic load could support a request to help fund repairs to the upper end of W. Fairview. He added the... Full story
Photographer Aaron Cowan will be the featured artist for the April 3 Colfax Arts Council “Meet the Artist” session at the Colfax Library at 7 p.m. Cowan is a self-taught photographer and spends much of his free time searching for new and exciting local vistas to capture with his camera. He shares the results of his photographic adventures on his web site and blog. He will also discuss creative photo editing and the use of Photoshop in his work.... Full story
The town of Garfield is in the midst of an emergency repair to its wastewater treatment plant. At issue is a trickling filter with a base of concrete that was cracked and leaking. To fix it, a long-pipe connection is being installed which will be fully enclosed, so no water will touch concrete in that particular part of the plant. The section was turned off last year because of leaking. “Probably the plant hasn’t been doing a really good job for the last 14 months,” said Garfield Mayor Ray M... Full story
Removal of a few trees in Farmington has led to a broader look at the problem. Because of potentital interference with power lines, Avista has removed five trees off city property since January at the town’s request. The town’s newly-formed tree committee sought advice from Garth Davis, Forestry Program Manager from the Spokane Conservation District. He arrived in February to survey trees on city property to see if any more were a potential liability. “If a tree fell to the south instead of to...
Jacob P. Forster, 32, who was charged with attempted murder after his wife reported a year ago he had placed a cardboard box over her head to inject nitrogen through a hose while she was sleeping, was sentenced to more than 69 months in jail Tuesday afternoon in superior court. Judge David Frazier pronounced the sentence which was jointly recommended by Prosecutor Denis Tracy and Defense Attorney Carl Oreskovich of Spokane on a plea bargain agreement. Forster pleaded guilty to an amended charge of attempted first degree assault. He was charged...
LaCrosse Community Pride members hosted a second meeting March 20 in the meeting room next to the LaCrosse Market to discuss future projects for the town. The first community meeting was Jan. 16 when about 50 people discussed how to make LaCrosse a destination. At that meeting, the Pride group invited Robin Ohlgren of the Southeast Washington Economic Development Association to conduct roundtable discussions about LaCrosse’s assets, improvements and additional economic development. From that mee...
A pickup truck driven by a Lewiston resident plowed into a traffic light standard and crashed into Colfax Computer Services at the southeast corner of Main and Wall streets early Saturday morning. The police report identified the driver as Charles P. Craigen, 47, Lewiston. According to the report, officers received a report of the downtown crash at 1:57 a.m. Witnesses said they saw a man walk away from the accident scene, and Sheriff’s Sgt. Dan Brown located the driver about a block away from t...
