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Colfax Coach Scott Parrish and five players received all-league honors at the last round of the NE district playoffs at Medical Lake. Parrish, at left, a first-year head coach, was named for Coach of the Year honors for the south side of the NE league. Players named for all-league honors, left to right, were Layne Gingerich, Kyle Appel, Parker Huber, Nate Akesson and Cal Gregory. Gregory, Huber and Appel played as seniors; Akesson, junior, and Gingerich, freshman. Huber was named the league’s most valuable player....
Four members of the Colfax softball team were recognized for all-league honors for the NE-South at the end of district play. Senior pitcher Abbie Miller, left, was named the league’s MVP, and Coach Michelle Miller received Coach of the Year honors. Seniors Greta Geier and Chelsea Becker were also named to the all-league team. Geier played third base and Becker, right, played catcher....
Fifth-sixth grade girls 50 yard dash More than 200 students in grades three through six from seven schools competed in a track and field day in St. John Friday. Students from Rosalia, St. John, Endicott, LaCrosse, Oakesdale, Tekoa and Washtucna competed in 14 events during the three and half hour event. St. John staff estimate the event has been held at the school for about 40 years. Events were broken down into boys and girls heats for third/fourth and fifth/sixth graders. Students from seven area schools sit on the St. John field for the...
Al Gilson, spokesman for the Eastern District of the Washington State Department of Transportation, May 31 announced his retirement after 25 years of service. Gilson was the source of reports on the progress of road construction projects in the district and occasionally visited Colfax for open house sessions on proposed district highway projects. His most recent subject for Whitman County has been the five bridge surfacing projects and four passing lane projects now underway on Highway 195. Gilson also issued weekly updates on projects which... Full story
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, has revised the 1974 Lower Granite project master plan and prepared a draft master, with an accompanying draft Finding of No Significant Impact and Environmental Assessment, for public review and comment. Comments are due to the Corps no later than Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Contract the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district office Walla Walla for more information....
Olivia Pakootas, a member of the 2015 class at Tekoa High School, was fatally injured Friday afternoon in a one-car accident on Idaho Highway 58 near Worley. Pakootas, 21, was a top basketball player and track athlete for Tekoa when they competed in sports in combination with Oakesdale and Rosalia. According to the Idaho State Police report, Pakootas, who resided at Plummer, was driving westbound on Highway 58 and failed to negotiate a curve at the three-tenths of a mile mark. She struck the guardrail along the highway and the car went off the...
Members of the John Wayne Wagon Drivers and Riders departed Malden Friday morning, June 1, on what is now the Palouse to Cascades Trail Park on a 10-mile ride to Rosalia where they stayed at the Rosalia rodeo grounds. The riders had been on the trail since May 18, when they departed Easton and headed for Thorp. This is the 33rd year the group has made the ride. They arrived in Malden May 30 after riding from Ewan and spent May 31 resting at the city park. Approximately 90 members of the group were served dinner by the Malden OES chapter at the...
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers participated in a candidates town hall meeting last Thursday, May 31, to a packed room at Pullman’s Pioneer Center. McMorris Rodgers began by listing a range of issues important to her, including her work to protect local dams and improve the hydropower relicensing process, making it easier for medical students in Washington to find residency programs and acknowledging the high employment and consumer confidence rates across the country. After her initial statements, McMorris Rodgers opened up to q...
New road signs will soon go up at five points at the Whitman County line to note its claim as the top wheat producing county nationwide in bushels per acre. The signs, now on order through the Whitman County Road Department, will be paid for by the Whitman County Association of Wheat Growers, a 300-member group which voted last fall to spend money from dues to put up the signs. “We’re kind of proud of it,” said Ben Barstow of Palouse, president. “Everybody should know about it. Everybody thinks...
THUNDER STORM HITS A sustained lightning and thunder storm hit Colfax at about 6 p.m. Sunday. The storm was preceded by thunder, and the rain actually started while parts of the town were under sunshine. Rainfall built up to heavy density and then backed off for a short time before increasing again. Monday morning’s reading for precipitation at the NRCS gauge at Colfax totaled .2 of an inch. At Pullman, a large pine tree located next to the flagpole at the city playfield was hit by lightning. The lightning strike knocked bark off the tree, b...
The grain elevator in Dusty is expected to re-open next month after crews wrap-up work to improve the facility which has been closed for several years. The 700,000 bushel-capacity elevator was closed in 2004 due to a lack of customers. However, a recent surge of interest from local farmers indicated to Ritzville Warehouse Co. general manager Brian Gordon that the elevator may be profitable once again. Gordon hired Selkirk Industries to lead the re-commissioning project, which he said should be complete just in time for harvest in July. “Our p...
An increase in contaminants in recycling materials has brought a looming cost issue for Whitman County Solid Waste after China reduced its minimum allowed percentage of contaminants. Whitman County Public Works Department and Latah County are now studying the problem to explore options they may have. “Essentially we shot ourselves in the foot with single-stream,” said County Commissioner Dean Kinzer, a liaison to the county’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee. On Jan. 1, China, a large marke... Full story
The First Thursday summer series returns to downtown Colfax today, Thursday, June 7, with vendors, music, a beer garden and other attractions. Attendees who shop locally can enter a grand prize drawing to win $100 in cash. This month’s free concert features The Hankers starting at 6:30 p.m. just off of Main on Spring Street. This popular band plays high-energy fiddle, honkytonk, old and new country, southern rock and blues music. Vocals are provided by nationally-awarded musicians, Keith and Julie Niehenke. The beer garden will also be l...
Whitman County commissioners voted Monday to join a lawsuit by Washington counties against Purdue Pharma, a pharmaceuticals company which makes the painkiller OxyContin, an opioid whose misuse use has contributed to an epidemic of deaths across the country. With a 2-1 vote, the county joins 11 others in Washington so far on a legal contingency fee agreement which seeks to recoup costs of opioid abuse. The suit contends, in part, that Purdue, based in Stamford, Conn., misled doctors and the... Full story
-Andy King photo Sunny skies for a Colfax motorcycle rally on Sunday morning, June 3, made last year’s soggy conditions a distant memory. This year’s participants departed from Colfax Les Schwab on a 94-mile tour of rural Whitman County. The tally of bikes participating was 92, with a total of $4,527 raised for the Whitman County and WSU Relay for Life Whitman Walkers team. There was also an abundance of raffle prizes given to riders holding winning tickets. Amy Kraut sang the national anthem and Michael Largent gave an invocation before the... Full story
PNW provides a grain box for kids, hats for adults and a grain cleaner for all to see. Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rogers visits with Joe Schmick. Sammy Eubanks and his band combat the heat with cool tunes....
