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After winning the state championship in basketball in a journey which included a dismissal of Sunnyside Christian, the Colton High baseball team may be on a similar quest. Set to play in the state baseball final on Saturday vs. Oakville in Centralia, the Wildcats got there by beating Sunnyside Christian 19-0 May 24, followed by a 9-6 win over Liberty Christian. Both games were played at Medical Lake. “As much as you might like your offense, you never expect 19-0,” said Colton coach Pat Dou...
Colton and Touchet met last Saturday to decide who got the No. 1 seed to state and the Wildcats took it definitively, 14-2. After four innings and a tie score of 1-1, Colton blew open the game in the fifth inning with 13 runs. In the process, Touchet dropped two fly balls as the Wildcat lead expanded. “When the wheels fall off, I don’t know what causes it,” said Colton coach Brad Nilson. Touchet returned to bat in the bottom of the fifth and scored one more run when the Wildcats overthrew their...
It was named “The Oleander.” It began as a sleeper car on a railroad that once ran freight and passenger trains to the tip of the Florida Keys. Today, the 1948 former Florida-East Coast Railway car is stored on tracks at the edge of Palouse. It’s the only passenger car along a stretch of other rail cars stored on the inert tracks. How it got there is part of a revenue source for the Washington and Idaho Railroad, which leases 126 miles of tracks from the state of Washington, Idaho and the McGre...
Final chapter for high school track will get underway when qualifiers from area B schools compete Friday and Saturday in state finals at Eastern Washington University. Action will start early Friday with the girls pole vault. Qualification rounds wrapped up last Friday with the SE district finals at the University of Idaho. Fifteen competitors from Whitman County’s two combo teams qualified for the state 2B final and will join the Colfax qualifiers who qualified last week at the NE finals at M...
A collaboration between the city of Colfax and the Colfax High School class of 2017 is underway. Mayor Todd Vanek began a series of meetings with the freshman class this winter to introduce a restroom-construction project for Schmuck Park which the students will be involved in bringing to reality. It will be a joint venture between the school and the city – encompassing planning, budgeting, fund raising, gathering bids and eventually construction. “Our hope is that this is their stamp on the sch...
The hot rods are coming and they’d best get here early. Palouse’s 10th annual Spring Barbecue and Hot Rod Gathering will take place on Main Street Saturday. “We busted out of our seams last year and had to turn people away,” said Marc Van Harn, owner of Vintage Velocity Rods and a founding member of the Knuckleskrapers Car Club which puts on the show. Last year’s 150 cars were lined up in the space allowed for the event, which again will be downtown between Bridge Street to Hall Street starting...
Colfax FFA members installed American flags at the cemetery for visitors to honor veterans during the Memorial Day holiday. The 254 flags were put up on Friday and taken down on Monday evening. The FFA members also participated in a ceremony on Monday morning....
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Whitman County Board of Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on Monday, June 2, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. in their Chambers, Courthouse, Colfax, Washington, for the purpose of receiving public comment associated with the proposed Pacific NW Farmers’ Cooperative rezone of 5 acres from Agricultural District to Limited Heavy Industrial District located north of Steptoe, WA off State Route 195, bordered by Klaveano Road and Ragon Road in the W of Section 15, Township 18 N, Range 43 E.W.M. in W...
