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Tekoa/Rosalia boys sustained two defeats Tuesday at Davenport to wrap up their baseball season. The Gorilla took out the T-wolves 17-6 in the first game and 14-9 in the second game. Tekoa/Rosalia made the Davenport trip with nine players. For the season, they played eight of the 20 games on the schedules, when grades and discipline measures took a toll on the lineup. Coach Brian Reid noted the young team made progress as the season advanced. Kade Holling led TR batting at Davenport with a triple and finished with five RBIs for the... Full story
Colfax senior Hunter Weitze hit a par 72 for medalist honors in a NE golf outing at Deer Park Monday, and freshman Chance Weitze finished with a 75 for second place honors. Colfax did not have a team entry with some team members remaining in Colfax for the Monday night band concert. Other scores from the Bulldogs were Bennett Gray 88 and Augie Allenbach with a 94. McKenna Davis booked an 89 for a top-five finish on the girls side, and Kylie Gronning carded 104. The next outing for the team will be on the Stone Ridge course at Blanchard Monday...
The Gar-Pal baseball team traveled to Pomeroy last Saturday and went down twice, 11-1 and 5-1. The two losses drop the Vikings out of the playoff race, with an 8-6 overall record and 1-5 in league. "Costly errors," said Garfield-Palouse coach Jim Stewart. "Way too many walks and passed balls in the first game. In the second game, we didn’t walk as many people. But we still didn’t hit the ball again either." The Vikings played the two games without junior Wyatt Griner, who injured his knee against the Colfax J.V. last week.... Full story
Sophomore Brady Chadwick is one of a young rotation for the Wildcats. Colton sophomore Nick Schultheis runs for second base against Waitsburg-Prescott Saturday. In the background, infield dirt and outfield dirt blend into farm hills. With one win in a home doubleheader Saturday against Pomeroy, the Colton baseball team could clinch the Southeast 1B league championship. The Wildcats spent the last week in non-leaugue action, splitting a home doubleheader with Waitsburg-Prescott and beating...
From left, Reagan Harrison, Cole Crider, Marshall Bafus, Kaleb Kolb, Luke Blumenshein and advisor Bob Clements. The St. John-Endicott FFA Trap Shooting Team won the state championship in East Wenatchee April 18. The team’s overall high score earned them the crown in the two-day tournament. In individual results, Marshall Bafus took second place in Individual Shooter and Second in Buddy Shoot. Kaleb Kolb took third in Individual Shooter. Luke Blumenshein tied for fifth in Individual Shooter a...
Trailing 3-0 in the seventh inning, Colton delivered four runs to beat Genessee Monday night. In a sparse day at the plate, the Wildcats managed six hits in the game – six different batters with one single. On the mound, Zoe Moser pitched the first three innings to allow two hits with one walk and two strikeouts. Winnie Schultheis then threw four innings to allow two hits with no walks and four strikeouts. On Saturday, April 25, Colton traveled to LaCrosse where Schultheis threw a no-hitter in the second game of a doubleheader sweep of L... Full story
The season-long win string for the Colfax softball team came to an end Tuesday at Reardan when the Indians rallied in the sixth inning for a 5-2 win in the second game. The Reardan charge ended the Colfax run at 15 games. The Bulldogs have four more league games to finish out the league run. Both double headers will be at home with Northwest Christian here Saturday, and Davenport visiting Tuesday. Both of the visitors are now tracking Colfax with the NWC test Saturday booked as a key challenge Tuesday at Reardan the Bulldogs opened with an 11-2...
The Colfax baseball players added two more wins to stretch their win string to 18-0 in the NE race after escaping a late-inning charge by the Indians at Reardan Tuesday night. The Bulldogs pegged a 5-4 win in the first game and dropped Reardan 24-3 in the second game for their ninth straight doubleheader league win. The double win locks up the league’s top spot with one more league round left, a double bill with Davenport in a makeup round Friday. Davenport and Wilbur/Creston are tied at second in the league run with three defeats. The top l...
Work has started to bring back an old Tekoa Slippery Gulch Days feature called “Whistle-Stop Revue.” The show, slated June 19-20 at the Empire Theater, is billed as a musical train ride across America with acts designated for each state stop along the way. A committee led by volunteers Fran Martin and Debbie Dean met Wednesday to kick off the preparation. “It’s an attempt to get the Slippery Gulch Players moving again,” said Dean, referring to anyone who ever performed in a Slippery Gulch sho...
First row (left to right): Sam Woodhouse, Hayden Cole, Sara Moore, Shane Roberts, Isaac Love, Cameron Dearien, Riley Kopp, Clare Jacobs, Macy Bishop, Joseph Cornwall and Ellen O’Toole. Second row (top, left to right): Aaron Johnson, Austin Hanks, Michael Henderson, Josh Heithe, Connor Johnson, Jason Dearien, Grant Farrand, Mike Milano, Steve Warnecke and Alan Love. The Sciborgs compete on the world stage in St. Louis. The Sciborgs, the Palouse area 4H robotics team, last weekend competed in t...
The Colfax School District board has approved a candidate for appointment as the next principal of Colfax High School. The vote Monday night was unanimous, choosing Nathan Whittle — an assistant principal/athletic director from American Falls, Idaho — out of six original candidates. The board will now enter negotiations with him for a contract. Whittle, along with four other candidates, came to Colfax last week as part of two days of interviewing, culminating in public forums on Tuesday and Wed...
The Colfax High School FFA will sponsor the annual “Mr. Bulldog,” comedy pageant Monday night, May 4, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. as a benefit for the Colfax Food Bank. Admission will be five pounds of food, five cans of food or $10. Nine senior boys booked for the competiton are Andrew Becker, Josh Brown, Bo Claussen, Cody Gronning, Dylan Hall, Kacey Johnson, Casey Martin, Brian Stueckle and Mark Webber.... Full story
Aerial photos of Main Street Colfax were on display April 23 at the Department of Transportation open house in Colfax to inform residents of the Highway 195 project which will start in June. Poe Asphalt Paving of Clarkston was awarded the contract for the Main Street grinding and resurfacing project on Main Street in Colfax. The Poe bid was $2,028,765. The contract includes resurfacing of Hwy. 195 through Colfax and north to the Dry Creek Road intersection. Poe Asphalt was also the successful... Full story
Conny Crow teaches her fifth grade class at Oakesdale School. Oakesdale teacher Conny Crow was the subject of a surprise assembly Friday, April 17, when she was named EWU/KHQ-6 “Teacher of the Month.” The award was presented by KHQ anchors Dan Kleckner and Stephanie Vigil, along with representatives from Eastern Washington University. Crow, a 1974 graduate of Oakesdale High School and longtime teacher at the school, has taught kindergarten, fourth grade, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth. Nex...
In front, from the left, are Jolie Haug; Charlotte Hoffman, Darcy Malberg and Katie Malberg. In back, from the left, are Peter Haug, Linda Cook, ViviAnne Fischer, Justin Fischer and Brad Cook. Peter Haug is chair; Hoffman, secretary and Justin Fischer, treasurer. The Baha’i community of Whitman County formed its first spiritual assembly April 21 at the home of Brad and Linda Cook, Almota Road, Colfax. It joins thousands of other communities, including Pullman and Moscow, in forming their l... Full story
Kindergartner Tena Allison presents her “Apple Experiment” to two judges as her father looks on. The annual Jennings Elementary Science Fair took place Thursday, April 16, with an awards assembly the next day for its kindergarten through sixth-grade participants. Experiments were judged by representatives of WSU’s Veterinary School, College of Education and Chi Omega Sorority. People’s Choice awards were voted on by community members who attended the Science Fair open house Thursday evening...
A series of full-page advertisements in the Spokesman-Review and three other Washington publications last week have renewed a call to remove four Snake River dams. The black-and-white ads, paid for by Patagonia, Inc., ask readers to call Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray and ask them to “help remove four deadbeat dams on the lower Snake River.” These include Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental and Ice Harbor Dam. The ad copy states that at the four dams’ “costs far outweig...
All three measures on Tuesday’s special election ballot were approved by voters. Oakesdale’s request for a three-year levy to raise $600,000 with a three-year special levy was approved by over 63 percent with 195 yes votes and 114 no. “Very excited to have 65 percent passing,” said Oakesdale Superintendent Jake Dingman. After three failed bond measures, Dingman noted he, the board and staff were excited and appreciative of the support. “This will help take care of things we needed,” he said. The Oakesdale proposal this year was for electrical,...
It all hinges on Debbie Niehenke’s weather order. The Colton/Uniontown Fair Financial Manager, in her 12th year, always makes sure to get that in well ahead of time for the annual event, set for Friday, May 1. “We’re looking forward to a nice 60 degrees mark,” Niehenke said. The reason she didn’t go higher is that spectators will have to walk further from their cars this year as a result of the Colton school construction project – which will impact the 2015 Fair in several ways. “The newest feat... Full story
Colfax residents and businesses were disconnected from rest of the world Friday and Saturday when internet and telephone services went down. Century Link reported Saturday the shutdown was caused by a cut fiber line near Colfax. Long distance callers and internet users discovered around 9:30 a.m. Friday that service was knocked out. Full service was not restored until about 6 p.m. Saturday according to the Century Link report. The cut knocked out service to an estimated 300 telephone customers and 1,760 Internet customers. Among services...
Five-year-old Mason DeBolt rode in the St. John Community Fair parade Saturday as a junior member of the Whitman County Sheriff's Posse. He was being assisted by his grandmother, Roxanna Scholz of Colfax....
