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For coverage and photos of High School Championship sports, please see the "Weekly Pages" section for 5/30/2013, pages A5, A6, A7 and A8.... Full story
Whitman county qualifiers carved out a slice of the action Friday and Saturday in the 2B section of the state track and field championships at Cheney. Top team honors for the girls side again went to the west side schools with Northwest Christian of Lacey stacking an amazing 141 points, 49 ahead of number-two Pe Ell. Colfax girls finished seventh at 31.75 points and Tekoa/Oakesdale/Rosalia finished two places back with 24. The SJELW girls team finished with nine team points. Asotin boys carried...
Colfax softball season came to a sudden end Sunday morning at Gateway Park in Yakima when the Bulldog entry was shut down with a 1-10 loss to Napavine. The defeat put Colfax out of the playoff with a 1-2 record for the state show. Colfax, which had a number-five ticket to Gateway after the last round of playoff in Spokane among the SE-NE contenders, started with a 12-3 win over Kittitas, and then lost to Morton-White Pass on a 6-0 shutout. The quarterfinal loss put them in the consolation bracket where they would have needed three straight...
(Front row, left to right) Hailey Meyer, Jenna Moser, Kaden Dahmen, Kaitlin Druffel, Hannah Kramer, Maryann Jacobs. (Back row, left to right) Head Coach Brad Nilson, Zoe Moser, Kamryn Nuttman, Carrie Hennigar, Savannah Chadwick, Winnie Schultheis, Rachel Meyer, Daylynn Smith, Kendyl Druffel, Emma Schultheis and Assistant Coach Taryn Russell. Right before the 1B District 7/9 softball tournament, Colton coach Brad Nilson noticed that his team was swinging at pitches they shouldn’t be. In b...
Little Goose dam will be closed to public vehicle traffic now through July 13 while construction crews replace the intake gantry crane. The north and south shore approaches to the top of the dam will be gated. Access through the construction work area will be limited to employees, contractors and delivery vehicles. Crossings on Lower Monumental are allowed once an hour, on the half-hour, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.... Full story
Top left to right: Berlyn Hegg, Caleb Zehm, Kaleb Gibler, Macy Brantner, Lexi Brantner, Ethan Cook. Bottom left to right: Alexa Rojas, Kennedy Cook, Kodi Mae Gibler, Lionardo Rojas, Jazmyne Beard, Mason Parzuchowski. Not pictured: Calvin Heusser, Dane Syke, and Cameron Merrill. From March to May, students from Palouse Elementary School participated in a new after-school running program. Lead by physical education teacher Amy Heusser, a group of 16 kindergartners through fifth-graders...
Whitman County Administrative Director Gary Petrovich suggested to the board of county commissioners that they hold a series of workshops about budget planning. Petrovich May 20 suggested that the board look at developing budget goals. “I suggest holding a series of workshops to discuss goals for the budget,” he told the board. “Past boards have tended to be reactionary, not proactive,” commented board chair Michael Largent. “We don’t print our own money,” he said. “We have budget constraints. I would like to stop thinking of the budget as a ye...
The timing of the restoration of Farmington’s basketball court was discussed at the city council meeting May 20. Mayor Ron Dugan announced that he wanted to hold off until the next meeting to discuss how to remove the 65 cubic yards of old concrete and what to do with it. Later, during citizens’ comments at the end of the meeting, Brian Oliver suggested the council not wait on the basketball court. “We should have it by Harvest Festival,” said new councilman Joel Abbott. Councilman Todd Lodbell...
LaCrosse students practice cursive writing in the manner of 1895 at the Jones School House May 24 at the Palouse Empire Fairgrounds. Kathy Meyer taught the Palmer method of cursive writing to LaCrosse third through sixth-graders. Dan Leonard, a Whitman County Historical Society board member, observes in the background. The Jones School was moved from Dusty to the fairground site in 2010. The program was an extension of the 1895 classes put on at the Palouse Empire Fair.“This is further development of that. If it serves a purpose, we would l... Full story
The Endicott branch of Whitman County Library will host a grand re-opening today (Thursday) from 5 to 7 p.m. The ceremony is set for 6 p.m. and features recognition of donors, refreshments and announcement of the winners of the silent auction and raffle. Community members are invited to participate in the silent auction and raffle until the grand re-opening. The library underwent a complete renovation and had operated in an alternate location for more than a year. The renovation cost $130,000 and was funded almost entirely from grants and... Full story
Plans for the Whitman County Library’s Bettie Steiger Community Enrichment Center are moving forward. Drawings for what the center may become were presented by Whitman County Library Director Kristie Kirkpatrick at a Colfax Chamber of Commerce meeting May 21. Showing several slides of architectural drawings by Tom Maul of Seattle-based Hutchison & Maul Architecture, Kirkpatrick explained how the former Hamilton Drug building may be modified. Maul donated the drawings, which show a modern, open s...
Whitman County Park’s Kamiak Butte Evening Campfire programs, which were discontinued several years ago as part of a budget crunch, will return to the area’s summer agenda this year. The first program will be Saturday, June 1. A “Flowers of Kamiak” hike will be led by parks board member Dan Leonard. Participants will hike up the Pine Ridge Trail to observe spring flowers of the butte. The program begins at 5 p.m. with a choice of either a one- or two-hour hike. Participants are advised to bring a picnic dinner to enjoy afterwards in the day...
Eighteen years ago, when Galen McGraw was a fourth grader at Jennings Elementary School, he was the shortest boy in his class. There was only one girl who was shorter. He confided in his teacher, Sharon Hall, that he knew he was going to remain short for his entire life. “He had a melt-down one day, and I was trying to console him,” Hall said. “I said, ‘You will grow. I bet you will be taller than me some day.’” To back up her promise, she offered to buy Galen pizza if some day he didn’t top her height. If he did grow taller, he had to buy th...
The ninth annual Palouse Spring Barbecue and Hot Rod Gathering will be Saturday from from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. In addition to the unique Main Street car show, the day will feature live music, vendors, a beer garden and Texas-style barbecue by C.D.’s of Moscow. Vehicles featured include traditional hot rods, customs, jalopies, sleds, choppers, bobbers and more. All hot rods are pre-1973. “We’ve been known to give out trophies but not for a particular reason,” said Marc VanHarn, one of the organizers. “It’s not about classes or winning; it’s about... Full story
Landowners and producers can now enroll in continuous CRP with general sign-up to follow. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on May 14 reminded farmers and ranchers that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will conduct a four-week Conservation Reserve Program general sign-up beginning May 20 and ending on June 14. Vilsack also announced the restart of sign-up for continuous CRP, including the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement Initiative, the Highly Erodible Land Initiative, the Grassland...
The extended filing on 62 city and town offices, school, fire, cemetery and park and recreation boards added five candidates to the list of office seekers. The extended filing period was opened last week only for those positions which failed to attract a candidate in the week-long filing period the previous week. After the initial week of filing, the elections office listed 62 positions which remained open for election after not attracting a candidate. That means 57 of the slots still lack candidates. Debbie Hooper, elections supervisor for... Full story
** For listings and photos of 2013 High School Graduates, see the "Weekly Pages" Section for 5/30/2013, pages D1-D10....
Jury selection for the second trial of Daniel Lazcano continued into a second day Wednesday in Whitman County Superior Court. A total of 92 county residents were called to report Tuesday and 87 were seated for the start of the selection process. The selection process started after Judge David Frazier decided the court would attempt to seat a jury here before ruling on a motion by Lazcano’s defense attorneys to move the trial out of Whitman County. Tuesday the 87 residents filled most of the courtroom as the selection process got underway. T...
A total of 297 seniors will receive diplomas at the county’s nine high schools in the coming week. Again, the count of graduates has declined. This year’s class compares with 319 for last year and 323 for 2011. The county’s diploma rite will begin Saturday at five schools, Colfax, Colton, Garfield-Palouse, Pullman and Tekoa. Commencement has been slated Sunday for St. John/Endicott and Oakesdale. LaCrosse and Rosalia have set commencement for next Saturday, June 8. Class sizes for Pullman and Colfax, the two largest high schools in the count...
Bob and Fran Blank will be this year’s grand marshals of the Rosalia Battle Days parade. “They ran out of old people,” Bob Blank said. “I think they scraped the bottom of the barrel and had to look under it.” Bob said his parents lived south of Rosalia near where the wind turbines are now. He is a 1955 graduate of Rosalia High School and has lived in Rosalia all his life, except for two years in the military. He said he worked on the Pacific pipeline from 1961 until he retired in 1995. He worked as a maintenance man for the supply line that... Full story
The 44th Annual Rosalia Battle Days starts Friday and runs through Sunday, June 2. Friday’s activities include drover events at the rodeo grounds, a talent show at 7 p.m. and a teen dance sponsored by the Rosalia cheerleaders from 9 p.m. to midnight. Saturday’s festivities begin with a Scout breakfast at the fire station from 7 to 9:30 a.m., a fun run at 8 a.m. and vendors selling wares from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. At 10:30 a.m. the Children’s Parade begins followed by the main parade at 11 a.m. Master of Ceremonies for the parade is Rusty McGuire, an...
—Jerry Morse photo Colton’s Kaden Dahmen makes a catch in left field on the way to the Wildcats’ fifth-straight state 1B softball championship. See Sports starting on Page 5A....
