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Colfax golfers went 1-2-3 and took the team title in the first round of the District 7 B golf championships Tuesday on the par-72 Meadow Wood golf course at Liberty Lake. Tyler Stevenson’s 79 score was good for the medal, followed by teammates Kyle Johnson at 81 and Kasey Johnson at 84. Hunter Weitze shot an 86 for sixth place as the sub-district tourney advanced 28 boys to next Monday’s finals. The showing gave the Bulldogs a score of 207.5, with placings converted to points. Second place Lind/Ritzville/Sprague’s scored 122. Cusick place...
Reardan, a team which started in the number-six slot for the first round of the District 7 baseball playoffs, came to Colfax Tuesday, turned out two solid wins and left with an entry into the next playoff round. Their second win was a 4-1 verdict over the Colfax Bulldogs. That ended the Colfax season after the hosts had earned the number-three slot in league competition. “They played a great game,” Colfax Coach Mike Parrish noted. “They just made every play.” Key to the Indians’ win was the pitching performance of Devon Wesebaum who went the...
Asotin’s girls bounced back last Wednesday, May 2, to take the last SE track round before the district qualifier. The Panthers rolled up 158 points at Clarkston High for a big win over SJE-LW, their league foe. On the boys side, Waitsburg/Prescott again demonstrated their track prowess by rolling out 185 points, more than double the tally booked by number-two DeSales. SJE-LW had event wins with Heather Siegel in the 3200, Annie Bailey with a 106-7 in the javelin, and Gretchen Van Lith with a 16-4 in the long jump. The TOR 4 X 400 relay team a... Full story
Michal Schuster of St. John/Endicott takes the top score into next Tuesday’s SE District girls B golf final after carding an 87 on the par-72 Palouse Ridge course at Pullman in Monday’s subdistrict match. Schuster’s score led the field, besting Emily Baumgart of DeSales by three strokes. On the boys side, Dakota White of SJE led the local showing with an 87 for a share of fifth place. DeSales golfers Ryan Baumgart and Jimmy Konen each shot 73 to pace the subdistrict scores. Devan Bafus shot 120 for eighth place for the Eagle girls squad, follo...
Tekoa’s Susannah Scaroni placed second in the women’s wheelchair division of Bloomsday Sunday at Spokane with a time of 36:06 and collected a $1,000 prize. Amanda McGrory, Scaroni’s teammate at the University of Illinois, won the event for the sixth straight year at 34:15. Scaroni made the trip back to her home grounds after placing fifth in the Boston Marathon with a 1:50.44. The UI race team at Champaign totals 10 members....
Team low gross: First: Cole McCanna, Dakota White, Ethan White and John Quinton-60. Second: Erin Bailey, William Knott, Spencer Sare and Denny Donahou, Bill Parrisy, Gavin Parrish and Bob Cole-tie at 63. Low net: (three-way tie at 45) David Kjack, David Parrish, and Jerry Parrish; Buck Johnson, Jerry Schauble, Richard West, Mike Webb and David Fitzgferald; Lydia Smith, Carole Scherff, Bruce Throkmorton and Janet Repp. Special awards-women: Erin Bailey, closest to pin at 30 feet; Kathy Pierce, longest drive; Donna Hill, longest putt at 11 feet....
Colfax softball players stacked two big wins over Liberty Saturday afternoon at McDonald Park to finish 12-2 in league play. The Bulldogs needed the sweep to finish on top of the league with the playoff rounds approaching. Northwest Christian, which split with the Bulldogs last week, finished in second place at 11-3, and Kettle Falls finished in third place at 10-4. Coach Terry Eng noted the league’s top slot presented Colfax with a problem, a possible two weeks of inactivity before what is expected to be the final hectic rounds of the s...
THURSDAY A rare white buffalo, a male calf named Lightning Medicine Cloud, was found slaughtered and skinned on Lakota Ranch near Greenville, Texas, just shy of its first birthday. Its mother died the next day. Manhole covers are being stolen from the streets of New York City. More than 30 of the 300-pound covers have been stolen, presumably by thieves selling them for scrap metal. Oceanside,Calif., police found former NFL great Junior Seau dead of an apparent suicidal shot to the chest in his home at the age of 43. Reports said Seau shot his...
Changes to affect Pullman residents County commissioners swapped about 4,000 constituents in Pullman under the redistricting plan approved Monday. The county was required to equalize population in each district following the U.S. Census every 10 years. Monday’s formal approval of the plan came a week after the state deadline for county’s to balance their districts. Auditor Eunice Coker blamed the delay on the lack of a county-owned mapping software and a time-taxed elections department. Commissioners had agreed to contract with a mapping expert...
A giant boiler will be scrapped at Colton High School after 76 years due to an energy efficiency grant received by the district. In April, the state superintendent’s office awarded $326,546 to the district to replace the old boiler with two smaller ones and a computer-control system which allows the heating of only certain rooms at a time. For example, during a basketball game on a weekend, Colton administrators will now have the ability to heat just the gym and locker rooms. The annual s...
Whitman County has upped the warning level on a curve on Rock Lake Road in response to multiple motorcycle accidents, two involving fatalities, that occurred at the spot within eight months. County sign crews posted last week a more explicit warning of a curve on the road just south of the Dewey Road intersection weeks after a second fatality motorcycle accident. Public Works Director Mark Storey said the county was planning to post new signage on the curve this spring. That job was hastened after a two-bike wreck April 22 that took the life...
Two Yakima residents were injured Sunday morning in a collision involving a Toyota Corolla and a Chevrolet Tahoe at the intersection of Highway 26 and the Colfax airport road across from the Palouse Empire Fairground. Erica Moreno, 20, driver of the Corolla was taken by Medstar helicopter to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane where she was reported in critical condition with head and neck injuries Sunday. Ernesto Lopez, 22, a passenger in the Corolla was taken by ambulance to Whitman Hospital where he was treated and released.... Full story
Buck Marsh, assistant principal and athletic director at Bridgeport, will be recommended as the new principal for Colfax High School at the next board meeting, May 14. Marsh was one of two finalists named at the April 23 board meeting. “After interviews and site visits, we feel Mr. Marsh will be the best fit for our students, parents and staff,” Supt. Michael Morgan said in his report. He added the selection committee believes Marsh brings a wealth of knowledge of successful programs and has very high expectations. The other finalist for the... Full story
The Garfield McCroskey House bed and breakfast will host music and food event Sunday, May 20, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Music is by Wires and Wood, which is LeRoy McMasters on guitar and Leanna McMasters on keyboard. Featured food will be “Coug in a blanket” made with WSU Creamery Cougar Sausage, along with homemade cinnamon rolls, apple pie and cookies made with Lentil Crunch granola. Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for kids under 12. For more information, call Donna Gwinn at Garfield....
Richard Chittenden of Tekoa goes into citizen flagger mode in front of the wreckage of a two-car head-on collision on Main Street Colfax Tuesday night. According to the report of Officer Chris Olin, Carl Kevin Pascual, 24, Hawaii, fell asleep while driving his 2012 Nissan Altima down Main. He crossed the center line and ran head-on into the Honda Pilot driven by Jennifer Yearsley, 23, Moscow. Both drivers and Elizabeth St. John, a passenger in Yearsley’s car, were transported to Whitman Hospital, where they were treated for minor injuries a...
Colfax is going to be awful dry for the next month after the liquor store shut down for good Tuesday night. “Last call, Colfax,” said Theresa Knighten, who has manned the counter at the liquor store for the past two decades. Prices were not discounted. The Colfax store was a contract operation through the State Liquor Control Board. Don Stine, the contract vendor for the store, opted not to continue operation after a voter-approved initiative privatized liquor sales. State liquor officials have been scheduled to pick up the store’s lefto...
Two new Uniontown businesses placed in the WSU/Port of Whitman’s business plan competition, including first-place winners’ Grandma Lela’s Oatmeal. Owners Cheryl Waller and Kathy Stilwell took home $6,000 while Nathan Hammond and Enoch Hicks’ Hammond Farm Innovations won $3,500 in a tie for second. The awards were handed out April 20 to conclude the annual competition to encourage new businesses in Whitman County. Grandma Lela’s launched in January, making a business out of Cheryl Waller’s...
A head-on collision on Highway 26 near LaCrosse Friday afternoon took the life of a 93-year-old Bellevue woman and left five other people injured. The fatal accident blocked Highway 26 during high volume traffic when students were departing WSU following the spring semester and families were driving to Pullman for graduation. Susie Koontz, 93, was pronounced dead at the scene. She was a passenger in a 2002 Toyota Prius driven by Mary Koontz, 59, Seattle. The Washington State Patrol report said the Prius was struck by a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt... Full story
Colton girls remained on track Monday with two heavy wins over Garfield/Palouse to wrap up the league campaign. The Wildcats shut down the Vikings 11-1 in the first game and 10-3 in the second game. Taylor Nilson allowed the Vikings six hits in pitching the 11-1 win. Colton pegged an 8-0 lead after two innings and added three in the bottom of the fourth. Haley Moser had three hits with a homer to lead the Colton bats. She had three RBIs. McCenzie McClanahan had two hits for the Vikings. Nilson and GP’s Chandler Pfaff went back to work in the s... Full story
Anthony Tolan, 34, Colfax resident who was released Friday after six months in jail, was returned to jail Monday after being arrested on a federal warrant. Colfax Chief Bill Hickman said Tolan has been charged in U.S. District Court in Spokane with being a felon in possession of stolen firearms and being in possession of stolen firearms. Charges were filed against him in federal court Feb. 22. Tolan was returned to the jail after his arrest Monday, and federal ATF agents were expected to pick him up Tuesday and transfer him to jail in Spokane... Full story
Madison C. Heersink, 20, suspect in a Pullman assault case last December, was sentenced to 30 days in jail Friday after pleading guilty to an amended charge of attempted second degree assault. She was allowed the option of converting the sentence into 232 hours of public service work. She was also ordered to pay $1,078 in fines and fees. Heersink was arrested after Pullman officers Dec. 4 responded to a report of a suspected domestic violence case on NE Howard Street. The investigation said that Heersink had wounded her ex-boyfriend with a...
Hooper Some special visitors were welcomed to Hooper Saturday, April 28. Chuck Turbak of Mill Creek, Wash., the son of John Blair Carter, a Hooper resident who was killed in action on Omaha Beach in Normandy, came to visit the flagpole in the town central park that bears his father’s name. He was accompanied by Stephan Persyn, from Paris, France, who has been caring for John Blair Carter’s gravesite at Omaha Beach. Stephan Persyn is a member of a society of French nationals who sign up to care for and honor the graves of fallen U.S. sol... Full story
• “Keep frosting looking glossy — with your hair dryer. Before guests come over, give the whole cake a once over holding the hair dryer about 7-10 inches away from the frosting and set on high. It will soften the frosting, giving the cake a just-made look.” — R.L. in California • Remove hard-water stains and mineral deposits from your showerhead with this trick: Fill a zip-lock baggie halfway with warm vinegar. Immerse your showerhead in the baggie and secure it to the pipe with a rubber band. Let it hang for an hour or so, then release the... Full story
Members of the Spokane Rocket Velo bicycle club race in front of the Plaza elevators during the club’s Liberty Road Race Saturday. More than 90 riders competed on the 57-mile course which ran two loops from Liberty High School through Waverly and west to the intersection of Prairie View Road and Old Highway 195 just north of Rosalia before heading north through Plaza. Flaggers held off automobile traffic while the racers zoomed by in large groups....
Whitman Health & Rehab plans to host a free public barbecue Friday, May 18, in observance of National Nursing Home Week. The barbecue is scheduled from 11:30 to 12:30 and the theme will be Western Day. Staff members during the week will dress for a different theme each day that week. Monday will be Sports Day; Tuesday, Hawaiian Day; Wednesday, Crazy Hat/Hair day, and Thursday, Nerd Day....
