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Dusty Pastor Floyd Overstreet will share the highlights of his Honor Flight with other veterans to view the WWII memorial in Washington, D.C. May 29, at 11 a.m. at the Country Bible Church. Photos will also be displayed, and a question and answer period will follow. All are welcome. Art and Colene Sager attended the Tri-state (Washington, Idaho and Oregon) Flying Farmers Convention in Omak May 13-15. Thirty plus members attended the event. Lauren Moore, daughter of Steve and Carol Moore, is a member of the Colfax High School softball team that...
Olson grandson will graduate at Annapolis Olaf Douglas Olson, grandson of Ray Olson and the late Jerrie Olson of Colfax, will receive his commission May 27 from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. A 2007 graduate of Bainbridge High School, he is the son of Douglas and Melanie Olson of Bainbridge Island. A two-time state diving champion in the state AA, Olson competed on the diving team at the academy. He has been selected to join the Navy’s Special Warfare Community and will report to Coronado at San Diego in October. Earns doctorate L...
A slight reprieve from Doomsday Last week the world was supposed to come to an end. Radio pastor Harold Camping declared that at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, 2011, Rapture would occur. Starting in New Zealand with massive earthquakes, Judgement Day was to encircle the globe and all mankind. Camping was wrong, just as he had been wrong years ago with his first prediction of Doomsday. The mistake was his. A simple miscalculation, he said. He had forgotten to carry the one. Now, he says the world will end in October, presumably after the...
Two Pullman residents were jailed Saturday after Pullman police alleged golf balls landed next to an arrest scene early that morning on N. Grand Street near the Pufferbelly Depot. One of the golf balls allegedly shattered a side window on one of the Pullman patrol cars. Arrested were Scott P. Langdon, 24, and Collin J. Tuggle, 22. Both were arrested and jailed for charges of assault and malicious mischief. According officers’ reports, a Pullman officer had stopped a drunken driving suspect on N. Grand when he heard what sounded like a golf b...
Colfax junior pitcher Amy Hickman received league MVP honors Saturday before the district championship round at Merkel Field in Spokane. Hickman has been the number-one pitcher for the Colfax softball team and posted a 13-6 record before the state tournament opens at Gateway Park in Yakima Friday. She has also hit six home runs during the season. Christa Nyholm, senior outfielder, and Rachel Robinson, sophomore catcher, were also named for first-team honors....
Track qualifiers from Whitman 2B combo teams will compete for state medals Friday and Saturday at the state's three division combo meet at EWU in Cheney. Top two qualifiers in the two-day SE meet at Walla Walla advance to the state show. Viking senior Chad Redman tops the local entry with wins in both hurdle events at Martin Field. Redman also booked a number-two finish in the high jump. LaCrosse freshman Darcy Stamper cleared a 6-2 to win the high jump for the SJLW combo team. Stamper hit the 6-2, his best for the season, after topping the... Full story
THURSDAY Amazon.com said it now sells more digital e-books than paper books. For every 100 print books it has sold since April 1, it has sold 105 e-books. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Americans to keep watch for a “zombie apocalypse” as a lighthearted way to get Americans to read about preparing for hurricane season. The Texas legislature made legal the time-honored Southern practice of catching catfish by hand, or “noodling.” Noodlers had been subject to fines of up to $500. Canadian Robert Spearing now faces f...
