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Colfax girls hammered Wilbur/Creston in two games Saturday at Creston to advance their record to 5-1. Scores of the power wins were 36-3 and 39-0 Lauren Moore faced 20 ‘cats, allowed just four hits and walked one in pitching the win in the first game. Moore also booked one hit short of the cycle with a single, double and triple in the first game. Kayleigh Maltone clubbed a grand slam homer over the fence in the third inning of the first game. Wildcats fans said the distance for the fence was 205 feet at center. In the second game, Amy H...
Girls all-opponent players, in front from the left, are Amy Peone and Chantel Heath of Reardan, Colbi Neal of Northwest Christian and Rachel Johnson of Colfax. In back, from the left, are Kelsey Arlt of Lind/Ritzville, Miranda Mielke of Davenport, Katie Worley of Valley Christian, Kelly Hennessey of Liberty, Kelsey Moos of Reardan, Kayla Johnson of Colfax, Bryanna Bailey of Northwest Christian and Teara Cornmesser of Liberty. Neal, Arlt, Worley, Hennessey, Moos and Kayla Johnson were on the first team. Boys all-opponent players on the second...
Garfield/Palouse girls placed fifth among 19 teams with 49 points and SJE-LW girls placed 10th with 31.5 points in the big Ron Vanderholm Invitational at Royal City Saturday. Connell girls topped the team score with 129 points On the boys side, SJE-LW booked 40 points to place sixth behind the 118 win posted by Kennewick. Garfield/Palouse finished in eighth with 29 points. For the Viking girls, Annie Leendertsen easily won the 400 with a 65:39. Leendertsen is now ranked seventh in the state 2B for the 400. She also placed sixth in the 100 and...
County baseball teams came out from under the clouds Tuesday with a few game sites changed to get games in the books. Game sites were switched from Tekoa to LaCrosse and Endicott to Pomeroy to find turf dry enough to play. ST. JOHN/ENDICOTT Tuesday posted two big wins at Pomeroy, 22-6 and 16-0 to advance their record to 6-1. In the opener, the Eagles laced 15 hits. They led 11-0 after four innings, but the Bucs came back to score four in the fifth to keep the game going. Eleven more SJE runs in the sixth ended it. Dallas Schluneger and JC West... Full story
Chad Redman of Garfield/Palouse gets off to a fast start for his win in the 110 hurdles with Wyatt Withers of the Cardinals and Warren Miller of SJE in close pursuit. Track power for Waitsburg/Prescott kicked in again last Wednesday, April 7, in the SE track opener at Colfax. The Cardinal boys took a 63 point win over the SJE-LW combo with the GP Vikings in third place. Team scores for the girls were closer with the Cards taking a 17-point win over SJE-LW. SJE’s Warren Miller cleared 6-6 in the high jump and won the long jump at 19-7.5. Cody S...
THURSDAY Federal Reserve officials again reiterated their commitment to low interest rates for “an extended period,” given the fragile nature of the economic recovery, and suggested a reduction in the size of the central bank’s balance sheet could take as long as two decades. Disgraced golf superstar Tiger Woods returned to the golf course, shooting a four-under-par 68 in the opening round of the U.S. Masters in Augusta, Ga. Fifty-year-old Fred Couples, the 1992 champion, staked the first round lead with a 66. Florida’s top court has taken o...
Camp fire recollections of the sprawling expanse of the Palouse were a thing of the past for county parks until this year. This summer, the outdoor amphitheater at Kamiak Butte county park will open Saturday nights with speakers talking about various aspects of the Palouse country. “A lot of people can come out for the picnic and stay a bit later,” said Dan Leonard of Johnson, a member of the Whitman County Park board. He reported on the revival of the program at the park board meeting last Thursday at the Wawawai Park picnic shelter. Leo...
An ROTC volunteer covers up as he is subdued by squad members. Lines of law officers fire beanbags, rubber bullets and pellets of pepper in retaliatory strikes against a mob of angry students railing against authority. As the two crowds converge, a canister of gas is let off, smoking up an alleyway and sending the rioters running off in disarray. Full disclosure: this was not an actual clash between law enforcement and protestors, it was, in fact, the annual training session for the regional riot squad. Law officers from Whitman, Latah and Nez...
NOTICE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF AVAILABILITY OF APPLICATION PERMIT NO.: ST-5371 APPLICANT: Town of Uniontown P.O. Box 87 Uniontown, WA 99179 FACILITY: Town of Uniontown Wastewater Treatment Facility P.O. Box 87 Uniontown, WA 99179 The Town of Uniontown has applied for renewal of its State Waste Discharge permit in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 90.48 Revised Code of Washington (RCW) and Chapter 173-216 Washington Administrative Code (WAC). The town presently owns and operates a sanitary wastewater treatment facility which is designed to... Full story
Lacking candidates for the number of local offices up for election this year, Whitman County Democrats focused on crafting their platform at the party’s biennial convention Saturday. About a dozen party members gathered in the conference room of the Hilltop Inn and Suites in Pullman for the convention Saturday morning. Party leaders noted the sizeable reduction in attendance in this year’s convention from the last in 2008, when the party was driven by students pushing for the election of now-President Barack Obama. “I know we’re here in smaller...
Grant Schultz of Davenport and Jonathan Burkholder of Warden were named recipients of the 15th annual Ken Troutt Memorial Scholarships at the Annual Bull Test Sale March 24, at Prosser. Mary Burkholder represented her son Jonathan who was unable to attend. The $350 scholarships were issued by Jerry York, sale representative for the scholarship fund, on behalf of the consignors, management and staff of the Washington Cattlemen’s Association/WSU Bull Test Sale. Scholarships are awarded each year to an enrolling college freshman from a family t... Full story
Whitman county parks are in dire need of volunteers this year because the parks department has fewer seasonal employees. Leaf raking, tree planting, trash collecting, sign painting and other outdoor chores all need to be done in the county’s four parks and miles of county trails. The department has two full-time office staff, two full-time park rangers and one and a half seasonal employees to cover a year fraught with cuts and delays to the park budget. “We are so limited in staff now. We just don’t have enough people to put together to do so...
Green Frog co-owner Tiana Gregg is releasing several CDs of her music, some of which has been played during the cafe’s live music nights. Tiana Gregg of the Green Frog reaches for something between the bins of the Green Frog sandwich table. It is a sheet of lyrics. She grabs some slices of ham off the counter, where a Walkman lies. In the corner, next to a refrigerator rests a little red guitar; a gift from a friend that day. This is the woman behind the live music Friday nights at the Green Frog cafe in Palouse. Gregg just released two of h...
The Bill Chipman trail will soon have a mid-trail “trail head” for users. A lighted parking lot will be constructed along the trail, just off the Sunshine Road overpass along the Moscow/Pullman highway. The lot will have 14 to 21 parking spaces, depending on how much funding is available. While this current work on the lot does not include a restroom, the department has plans to leave in space for future space for a facility. The project will be put out to bid early to mid-summer, according to Park Ranger Justus Barton. The trail runs eig...
In the wake of two tense public meetings full of protesting land-owners, the state department of fish and wildlife is holding its own public meeting April 27. The game department is floating a proposal to turn thousands of acres of farmland along Bonnie and Rock Lake into a state-owned, public water corridor. More than 40 land-owners, some from families that have farmed the land for more than 100 years, have strongly protested the state’s plan. Protestors came to a county park board meeting and a county commissioner meeting in March. R...
Floyd speaks to locals at Hill-Ray Plaza. Stressing the need for the university to focus on its local community, WSU President Elson Floyd spoke to locals at a series of meetings in Colfax last Thursday afternoon, April 8. “We have been so successful in this global engagement that we have forgotten the states we’re in,” he said. “The university needs to start making an influence on our local community. If we do that, our influence on the state, the nation and the world should follow.” The Colfax stop was one of several Floyd made at various l...
- Photo by Mike Day.Mangled metal reveals a missing cash box on this Rosalia vending machine. Thieves dragged a pop vending machine from outside the Tekoa Market and smashed open the contents in the early morning hours Monday. Another machine in Tekoa, one in Farmington and one in Rosalia were also broken into the same morning. Deputy Vince Waltz believes the crimes are linked. The thieves emptied the dollar changers of each machine and stole all the pop from the machines. Waltz said they have no suspects at this time. He believed the thefts...
A pair of appeals of Whitman County’s industrial wind farm zoning ordinance were dismissed by Superior Court Judge David Frazier last Wednesday, April 7. Frazier granted Prosecutor Denis Tracy’s motion to throw out appeals of County Planner Alan Thomson’s ruling that the ordinance would not have a significant negative environmental impact. The appeals were filed by Roger Whitten of Oakesdale and Carolyn Kiesz of Thornton. Both were outspoken critics of industrial wind farms throughout the two-year process of crafting the ordinance. “It’s...
Downtown Colfax is going all 1940s for three days next month at the hands of a Japanese television station here to film a TV mini-series. Up to 100 Japanese filmmakers out of Los Angeles and New York City will fly into Spokane to film for three weeks on locations around Eastern Washington. A major Japanese company, Tokyo Broadcasting System, plans to shoot a 10 hour, five episode docu-drama mini-series depicting the Japanese interment camps in America during World War II. It will be broadcast exclusively on the Tokyo Broadcasting System for...
A trail of wreckage lies across East Street in Colfax, as last Thursday’s high winds took down this brick encased duct on the four-story St. Ignatius building, pictured above. Bricks and debris fell across South East Street and hit the power line which broke at several locations. No poles were destroyed. Pictured is a flame caused by a live broken wire two blocks down the hill from the manor building. The live wire shot out sparks and flames as the wind blew it into the sidewalk and grass in this yard. Power was cut out to the south hill, a...
