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Pomeroy beat Colton 4-3 to end the Wildcats’ softball season May 26 in a state loser’s bracket game for a chance to advance to play for third and fourth-place. At Yakima’s Gateway Sports Complex, the Wildcats began the state tournament last Friday with a 15-1 win over Wishkah Valley followed by a 5-4 loss to Almira/Coulee/Hartline in the state semifinals. Tied 4-4 with ACH in an extra inning, the top of the eighth, Colton junior catcher Abby Kelly hit a deep shot toward home-run terri... Full story
Almira/Coulee/ Hartline came into the game undefeated with a pitcher who had allowed only one run for the season, earned or not. Dalton Kentner, the ace, a junior, kept up his work in the state final at Wheeler Field in Centralia May 26, throwing into the seventh inning. While Colton batters pushed him, in the field, the Wildcats’ gloves were left wanting, with five errors contributing to six unearned runs for ACH, who won 8-4 to take the 1B championship, capping an undefeated season. “We cle... Full story
Colfax girls placed 21st at the state 2B track finals Saturday at Roos Field in Cheney with 12 team points. They finished behind the 70-point win stacked up by Northwest Christian of Lacey. Senior Piper Cai posted the best finish for the Bulldogs when she placed third in the pole vault at 9-9 and seventh in the high jump at 4-10. Senior Carmen Gfeller finished with an eighth-place finish in the 100 hurdles, and Sara Whelchel placed 11th in the long jump. One big dent for the Colfax girls came in the 4x100 relay when anchor Josie Riebold fell...
Chance Weitze, Augie Allenbach and Bennett Gray booked a second straight state All-B team championship at the two-day state finals which finished last Wednesday at Spokane’s Hangman Valley course. Colfax booked a 46 team point total to finish for a 16-point win over number-two Pomeroy. Again this year, Colfax was the only team to have three players qualify to play in the final round Wednesday. Pomeroy, Crosspoint and DeSales each had two players in the final field of 20. Blake Kukula of Ilwaco,... Full story
Oakesdale girls were all smiles late Saturday when they collected the second-place trophy for the B division after missing a title repeat by just three points. When it was all over Saturday, Oakesdale girls came within three points of nailing a repeat of the title in the B division of the state finals at Roos Field. They finished with 93 points, more than their run to the title last year, three points back of Trout Lake. Coach Cap Perry said the Oakesdale crew all competed at top level, but...
At the Port of Whitman County meeting Thursday, commissioners discussed a recent visit paid by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanding general, Todd T. Semonite, to local Snake River dams. Gen. Semonite, who began serving with the corps about a year ago, came from Washington, D.C., to visit Ice Harbor, Lower Granite and Dworshak dams May 15 with members of the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association. “This is very unique,” Port Commissioner Tom Kammerzell said. “It was excellent that, being...
The Colfax Council on Aging and Human Services (COA) May 23 held an appreciation dinner to honor the service of more than 50 volunteers in attendance. “We have a wide variety of volunteers and they put in a lot of hours,” said COA executive director Paige Collins. “We just wanted to gather them all once a year to really, simply tell them ‘thank you.’” Breaking from years past, event organizers decided not to book live entertainment for the dinner, taking feedback from attendees saying they wanted nothing more than “a nice dinner and to visit...
Whitman County commissioners listened May 21 to a 2017 year-end report for Aging and Long-Term Care of Eastern Washington. Lynn Campbell, executive director made the report with comments from Karen Keisseling of Pullman. The group serves five counties in Washington with a focus to keep older people in their own homes. Kimball told the commissioners that they served 1,156 people in Whitman County last year, including $576,000 in services and $1.5 million in authorizations from Medicaid. She said...
Pullman Fire Department responded to several cotton fluff fires on College Hill every year. Starting mid-May to mid-June, the cottonwood trees in town produce extremely light fluff that can accumulate up to six inches or more in sheltered areas, under brushes and in tall grass. Fluff is dangerous because it collects in the same areas as dead organic matter, such as dried leaves and twigs, increasing the chance of a fire. Once ignited, the fluff burns rapidly and can flash across a yard quickly....
A grand opening for the Palouse Skatepark Saturday will be June 2 in Palouse. After six years of fundraising and construction, the opening ceremony will be at 9 a.m., followed by a “learn to skateboard, skate and use the park” clinic until 12 p.m. At the town’s noon whistle, the park, at the corner of East Whitman and Beach Street, will open to skateboarders, skaters and scooter-users. Saturday’s event will recognize the project’s many donors, along with volunteers and friends of the Palouse S...
Sale of a conservation easement from Tom Kammerzell to the Palouse Conservation Trust involves 509 acres of land east of Colfax. The land extends from the Spring Flat Creek area along the east side of Highway 195 in the S-curves south of Colfax and extends north over the hill to the the bluffs along the South Fork Palouse River. According to Nick Norton, interim director of the Palouse Land Trust Inc., based in Moscow, the conservation easement restricts use of the land to its present ag uses in perpetuity. The restrictions prevent the land... Full story
The 14th annual Spring Hot Rod Gathering will be in Palouse Saturday, June 2, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The show caters to pre-1965 traditional hot rods, kustoms, choppers and bobbers. The event will include Palouse Lions Club hamburger trailer and specials at Palouse Caboose and The Congress, formerly the Green Frog. Rolling Hills Derby Dames will again be on hand to help park cars, but will not do a demonstration this year as they save energy for a roller derby match later that night. About... Full story
At Boyer Park and Marina on June 2, The Port of Whitman County will host the second annual Snake River Family Festival to celebrate all the quality of life and economic benefits afforded to the region by the Columbia and Snake River waterways. The event is free and open to the public and will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday. “Everything is looking fantastic,” said Linda Olson, port staff member who is organizing this year’s event. “Things have actually come together really well so far.” The event will feature live music from local blu... Full story
Colfax Chamber of Commerce’s First Thursday event will debut with the June edition next Thursday, June 7, from 3 until 9 p.m. The monthly celebration will feature a diverse range of goods from 25 different businesses with everything from essential oils to lemonade for sale. Those in attendance can win $100 cash by entering receipts from the local vendors in a raffle at the Explore Colfax booth on Spring Street, with each receipt good for an additional contest entry. Attendees can find a new read at the Colfax Library’s book sale. A beer gar...
High schools across Whitman County will graduate 339 seniors over the next two weekends during the “pomp and circumstance” marches for each school. The class of 2018 marks an increase of 40 graduates from last year's total of 299. The numbers compare with 306 graduating students in 2015 and 305 in 2014. Three schools in the county – Garfield/Palouse, Colfax and Rosalia – collectively increased their graduation numbers over last year's by 22. St. John/Endicott, LaCrosse and Tekoa saw their number of graduating seniors collectively drop by 12 s... Full story
Members of the IOOF started the event in 1970, paying homage to the Indian War of 1878 when Col. Edward Steptoe took a final stand against warriors on what is now the Steptoe monument site on the east hill of Rosalia. Today, the event is known as Battle Days and will play out this weekend. Beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, June 1, a variety of acts will be showcased during a teen talent show at Rosalia High School. Saturday’s festivities kick off at the fire station at 7 a.m.. where Boy Scouts will serve breakfast until 9:30 am. Food vendors and l... Full story
Ideal weather and a large crowd at Roos Field on the EWU campus in Cheney Saturday set the scene for the final day of state track competition for teams in the 1B, 2B and 1A competition brackets. Shown here are runners in an early lap of the girls 3200 race in the B division. Lauren Stubbs of SJEL (701), Anais Mills of Garfield/Palouse, and Madison Dingman of Oakesdale (523) are in the photo. Mills place fifth, Dingman ninth, and Stubbs 10th. Julie Baljo of Oakesdale placed 14th in the...
NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following Whitman County roads/bridges will be closed to thru vehicular traffic as part of the Sand Road Reconstruction, County Road Project No. XFR 1600, pursuant to R.C.W. 47.48.01, for the time periods specified below: County Road No. 9060, the Sand Road from the Brown Road intersection, Milepost 2.53 East to the Idaho State Line, from June 12, 2018 thru June 13, 2018 BY ORDER OF THE COUNTY ENGINEER UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of Whitman County, Washington....
