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Libraries to partially close Friday for training COLFAX — Each of the 14 branches of the Whitman County Library closes Friday morning for staff training. Some branches open again Friday afternoon. Book returns and free public Wi-Fi will be accessible all day. Online Beans N’ Jeans raises $82,000 PULLMAN — The Palouse Habitat for Humanity generated $82,000 with this year’s Beans N’ Jeans fundraiser. It was held online this year. The money goes to building a house in Uniontown. Palouse forming youth advisory board PALOUSE — Teenagers interested...
COLFAX — New batting cages for high school baseball and softball teams might be built for Colfax High School in conjunction with the city. The idea is in the talking stages. Both teams have been effectively banned from using the newly remodeled junior-senior high school gym as a batting cage on rainy days. “As a superintendent, I feel there is an obligation,” said Jerry Pugh, Colfax School District superintendent. “The baseball and softball teams need something to use.” Pugh indicated the process may take several years to decide on a plan, get...
PULLMAN — Whitman County Humane Society was granted $5,000 from the non-profit Petco Love. “Petco Love is a nonprofit leading change for pets nationally by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier,” stated Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love. Since 1999, the Petco Foundation provided $300 million to organizations invested in adoption and other animal lifesaving efforts. Kogut stated they’ve helped find homes for more than 6.5 million...
COLFAX - An inmate faces a felony charge for breaking a security window in the door to the visiting room in the Whitman County Jail. Kyler J. Paine, 22, of Lewiston, Idaho, was charged May 5 in Whitman County Superior Court with malicious mischief in the second degree. He was booked on a warrant on May 4 for failure to appear in Whitman County District Court regarding a charge of malicious mischief in the third degree. Paine was temporarily housed in the jail visiting room and allegedly broke a...
COLFAX — American Legion Codd-French Post 41 voted to donate flags, flag poles and expand their scholarship program in Colfax. Colfax Mayor Jim Retzer attended the May 4 meeting and discussed if the legion would help the city purchase new flags for Main Street and two 35 foot flag poles for McDonald Park, according to legion member Jim Lemon. Legion members voted in favor of purchasing eight 5 x 8-foot nylon American flags for McDonald Park, 70 3 x 5-foot American flags for Main Street. A d...
WALLA WALLA — Garfield-Palouse softball Coach Rochelle Pedersen is sporting an unusual look – a notched eyebrow to show the Vikings won a post-season game. She told the team she would notch her eyebrows for every post-season win. It was something Rochelle Pedersen did when she played softball her high school. “I told them I would do it if we beat Pomeroy and I did,” she said. A tiebreaker game with the Pomeroy Pirates was needed after the Vikings tied with them for fourth place in the 1B Southeast league. The winner was going to play in the...
DEER PARK — Five Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves played at Districts on May 3 in Deer Park and the girls came away champions. Colfax Bulldogs' Kennedy Schmidt took first place shooting a 107. Timberwolves' Ava Rambo and Maddie Haas both shot scores of 109, earning Ava Rambo a second place medal and Haas a third place medal, said Coach Angie Rambo. Their combined total scores earned them the Northeast 1B/2B Girls Golf Champions title. They were to compete in the culminating event with teammate K...
POMEROY — The Colton Wildcats baseball season ended on a bittersweet note for Coach Steve Judy. The Asotin Panthers handed the Wildcats their final loss of the season with a score of 14-3 on May 3 in Pomeroy. Steve Judy’s son, Kelton Judy, led the offense for the Panthers. “My own son did most of the damage in Asotin,” said Steve Judy. “I hugged him and congratulated him for having such a good game at my team’s expense.” Kelton Judy plays second-base for the Panthers. He went 3 for 4 at-bats...
COLTON — The last doubleheader of the season for Garfield-Palouse left the Vikings tied for fourth place with the Pomeroy Pirates heading into the post-season. The Viking went to Colton on May 1 and lost to the Wildcats 14-4 and 14-2. Garfield-Palouse ended the abbreviated season 7-7. “The (Wildcats) ended the season undefeated,” said Garfield-Palouse Coach Rochelle Pederson. “They hit the ball well and field the ball well.” A difference between the Vikings and the Wildcats is experienc...
COLFAX — The Colfax baseball team played a home doubleheader against the Northwest Christian and split by winning 12-4 and losing 3-1. In the first game, Braden Plummer hit three singles for Bulldogs while Eric Akesson, Layne Gingerich, Mason Gilchrist, and Cody Inderrieden all had a base hit each. J.D. Peterson pitched all seven innings in the loss. In game two, Gingerich pitched five innings for the win, relieved by Sam Kopp for two innings. At the plate for Colfax, Gilchrist hit a triple, two doubles, and a single. Anthony Becker had two b...
COLBERT — Colfax softball split a doubleheader against Northwest Christian (NWC) on May 4 in Colbert. The Bulldogs won the first game 10-8 and lost the second game 6-4. It was the first loss of the year for the Bulldogs and for the Crusaders. Colfax won the first game in the eighth inning, after a 7-7 tie at the end of seven. “We played pretty well. Northwest Christian’s a good team,” said Colfax Coach Tracy Imler. “We hit the ball well off a pretty quality pitcher.” Bulldog Jorja Koerner pitched both complete softball games, throwing ni...
SPANGLE — The Colfax High School softball team went to 13-1 on the year with a sweep at Liberty on Saturday, winning 7-5 and 11-1. "The difference was our errors in the first game," said Coach Tracy Imler. The games were only Liberty's fourth and fifth of their season, which was cut back by a pause for COVID-19. Colfax junior Jorja Koerner hit two home runs in the first game. She pitched, going all seven innings to allow eight hits and five runs, with five strikeouts. In the second game, H...
SPANGLE — The Colfax High School baseball team swept Liberty on Saturday to secure the No. 1 seed for a four-team district playoff set for Friday. It concludes the season as no state playoffs take place. Colfax (11-3) beat Liberty 19-5 and 13-1. Sophomore Mason Gilchrist hit the Bulldogs' first home run of the year over the left-field fence in the fifth inning. His team was up 8-0 with two runners on. "I was hoping to get a 10-run rule to save some pitches," said Coach Scott Parrish. "It w...
COLFAX — Plans are taking shape in limiting attendance for the Colfax High School graduation on June 5. The ceremony starts at 11 a.m. in the football stadium. Principal David Gibb announced the school’s plans for COVID-19 restrictions. For people to attend, they must have a wristband provided by the graduating student. Each graduate may distribute 10 wristbands to family and friends to sit in the stadium. If bad weather pushes the event into the school auditorium, four of them will be all...
ROSALIA — Work continues on the Rosalia Trestle with the application of shotcrete to shore up damaged concrete. The work is being completed by Bend, Ore.-based Rock Supremacy, said Washington State Parks Acting Capital Program Coordinator Brian Patnode. Washington State Parks manages the trestle as part of the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail. "They'll be done in about three weeks," Patnode said on May 11. Rock Supremacy was the low bidder on the project at approximately $100,000, he s...
COLFAX — A building-front restoration project at the Buri building on Main Street is expected to be completed today after five days of work. A crew from Spokane Valley-based Milestone Masonry did structural work, brick repair at the top of the building, and painted and sealed window frames. "Bricks were falling off," said Mike Sablan, Milestone Masonry owner. The project was paid for by building owner Angela Buri, plus a $1,100 grant provided to the Colfax Downtown Association for p...
COLTON — The day after Colton swept the four-team league softball playoffs to finish 11-0, Wildcats Coach Brad Nilson woke up past 3 a.m. “All dressed up and nowhere to go,” he said he was thinking. His team often has T-shirts made after state tournaments, and this year with no state event, Nilson laid there and thought that might be something good for the T-shirt. Playing at Walla Walla’s Pioneer Park on May 4, No. 1 seed the Colton Wildcats first met No. 4 Garfield-Palouse and won 19-0. I...
RITZVILLE - Kennedy and Ethan Cook led Garfield-Palouse to second and sixth place team finishes at the May 7 district meet. For the Vikings, Ethan Cook won the 400 meters and finished second in the 100 and 200. Jaxson Orr was second in the triple jump. Harvard-bound senior Danny Laughary finished fourth in the 800 and fifth in the 1600. For the girls, Kennedy came from behind in the 400 meters to win, breaking a school record that stood since 2006. She finished second in the 200 and second in...
RITZVILLE — The Oakesdale girls finished third overall at districts on May 7 and the boys took fourth. Individually, Jessie Reed won the girls’ 200 meters and the long jump, while Bree Rawls took first in the 100-meter hurdles and triple jump. Jenna Rawls, Emily Dingman, Bree Rawls and Reed combined to win the 4X100 relay. For the boys, Jackson Perry won the high jump and Tyler Bober finished second in the 800. “(The meet)’s important for the kids. They had a last hurrah. They really needed...
RITZVILLE — St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse boys and girls both took first in the 18-team 1B District track meet in Ritzville on May 7 "I felt like we had a chance in both the boys and the girls if things had gone our way," said second-year Coach Paul Johnson. Senior Kameron Greenhalgh won the shot put and discus for the boys and senior Ellie Tollett got first in the girls' pole vault, setting a new school record at 8-feet for a sport brought back to St. John by Johnson after a 15-year absence. M...
RITZVILLE —The Tekoa-Rosalia boys finished third at the Ritzville District 18-team 1B meet on May 7. Senior Kale Struble won the 200 meters with a time of 25.09 and the team of Struble, Zack Saenz, Cole Peterson and Anthony Gehring took first-place in the 4X100. Struble also finished second in the long jump for 18-feet, 5-inches. Gehring, another senior, got third in the javelin and the long jump. Peterson was third in the high jump. For the small Tekoa-Rosalia girls’ team, Trinity Bingaman fin...
PALOUSE FALLS - A hikers was airlifted from Palouse Falls State Park to an area hospital Tuesday afternoon after he was knocked unconscious by a falling rock and hoisted from the waterfall basin. The man and his wife were hiking near the bottom of the falls when a rock "described as being the size of a football" fell and struck him, knocking him unconscious, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office reported. The 28-year-old man, whose name has yet to be released, was hoisted out of the waterfall bas...
PALOUSE FALLS - A hikers was airlifted from Palouse Falls State Park to an area hospital Tuesday afternoon after he was knocked unconscious by a falling rock and hoisted from the waterfall basin. The man and his wife were hiking near the bottom of the falls when a rock "described as being the size of a football" fell and struck him, knocking him unconscious, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office reported. The 28-year-old man, whose name has yet to be released, was hoisted out of the waterfall bas...
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