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A question has come up over what to do about the aging track at Colfax High School. While District Superintendent Michael Morgan waits on two more bids regarding repair and resurfacing options, track coach Jason Cooper advocates for a longer-term, more expensive solution. Morgan solicited bids from track surface companies in February to get an indication of what it might cost to improve the 32-year-old track, starting with crack repair and re-coating all the way up to replacing the track... Full story
Members of the Whitman Conservation District board are pondering whether to support adding more streams within the district to a state conservation program. Jennifer Boie, District Manager of the Palouse Conservation District, asked the board on May 8 to consider supporting adding more streams in Whitman County to the program and presented the board with a sample letter to send to the state Farm Service Agency. WCD board members balked at the language used in the letter and will meet May 22 to discuss what they want to send to the FSA or if...
Colfax Chamber of Commerce President Diana Frey, right, assists a JTI employee during the chamber’s Shred Day on May 9. Kathy Clark, center, chamber secretary, also helps unload a box.... Full story
The Garfield-Palouse/Tekoa-Oakesdale softball team faced an elimination game at Dayton Tuesday night and came through with an 8-5 win to keep their season alive. In a play-in game between the No. 5 seed Vikings and the No. 4 seed Dayton, the score was tied 3-3 in the fourth inning before Gar-Pal/T.O. went up 8-4 in the fifth and held the lead to win. Four players had two hits each for the Vikings, including Alexa Lindgren, Lexi Rodriguez, McKenzie McLanahan and Kelsey Bielenberg. Chandler Pfaff pitched the whole game, giving up one earned run... Full story
The St. John-Endicott-Lacrosse-Washtucna-Kahlotus track athletes competed at two meets last week in preparation for the sub-district meet in Walla Walla yesterday. The top eight places will advance to the district meet from there. At a District 9 meet last Wednesday in Clarkston, LaCrosse senior Darcy Stamper won the high jump (6’-2”) and the long jump (19’-6”) while St. John freshman Adam Blakeley took third with a 17-7” in the long jump. He also finished fifth in the 400 with a time of 57.59. St. John junior Wilson Lundberg took fourth in the...
More than 40 athletes and parents worked April 30 to prepare the CHS track to start the work toward a new track surface. The volunteers spent hours edging, cleaning and clearing. More than 75 athletles now participate in track for this season on high school and junior high teams....
After trailing Northwest Christian for five and one-half innings, Colfax broke out for two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning Monday to win the district title and a top slot in the state regionals. The two-run rally in the bottom of the sixth decided a tension-filled game between the two NE foes who topped the NE league race. Colfax left a total of 12 runners on the bases in the game. The Bulldogs also made a few mistakes and a key error before taking the one-run win. The playoff game...
Colfax boys topped four other teams Monday in the NE sub-district golf round at the Liberty Lake Meadowood golf course. The Bulldogs booked 108.5 team points. Eric Weitze of Colfax and Palmer Guhlke of Davenport tied for medalist honors with scores of 72. Other scorers for Colfax were Kasey Johnson 86, Cody Gronning 88, Chance Weitze 94, Cody Muir 108, and A.J. Miller 111. The first five Bulldog golfers made the 50 percent cut for next week’s district round, and Miller qualified as an alternate....
Freshman Shaina Johnson of Rosalia will represent Eastern Washington University at the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo., beginning June 15. Shaina won the goat tying buckle at the Northwest Intercollegiate Rodeo Finals in Hermiston last weekend. For the regular season she placed third in breakaway roping and second in goat tying. Top three finishers in each event in the Northwest Region qualify for the nationals....
The Southeast 1B girls softball playoffs were set to begin Wednesday with No. 2 seed Colton to play the winner of No. 6 LaCrosse-Washtucna vs. No. 3 Liberty Christian. No. 4 Rosalia was set to play No. 5 Pomeroy, after which the winner would advance to play No. 1-seed Touchet. Touchet took the first seed over Colton due to winning the Athletic Director’s draw at the start of the season. The Wednesday games were to be the start of a double-elimination series which will culminate in Touchet on Saturday, May 24 with the top two teams advancing t...
The No. 1-seed Colton High School baseball team began the playoffs with a 7-2 victory over District 7 No. 4 seed Elmira Coulee Hartline Tuesday afternoon. Playing at Medical Lake, Colton led 4-1 at the end of the second inning and 7-1 at the end of the third. “Nothing pretty,” said Colton coach Pat Doumit of the Wildcats’ scoring, which came on six bases-loaded walks and an error by the shortstop. Cody Meyer led Colton at the plate going 2 for 3 while the team posted just five hits. Jake Strau...
More than 20 Colfax track team members qualified for the regional round at the NE all-district meet at Mt. Spokane High School Tuesday. The Regional round will be May 20 at Whitworth with the top three boys qualifiers and the top two girls advancing to the state meet the following week at Eastern Washington University. Top eight finishers in running events and the top 12 in field events qualified out of the district meet Tuesday Colfax the girls won their side of the event with 157.5 points to take the district trophy for the fifth year in a ro...
Colfax softball team downed Davenport in five innings Tuesday night at McDonald field to keep the number-two slot in the NE district’s playoff set. Colfax won 13-3 with Kasey Cloaninger getting the last RBI rap in the fifth inning to get the Bulldogs to the 10-run margin for an early close. Davenport faced Colfax in the second game of the set Tuesday after downing Liberty 15-3 in the first round. That matched up the third-place Gorillas with the sixth-place Lancer team. Coach Terry Eng noted the Bulldogs booked the Tuesday win with the help o... Full story
Three marijuana retail winners were announced by the state Liquor Control Board last week and one retail license assignment for the county remains in open status after failing to attract any applications. John Anthony Villa Jr. of Spokane with T&H Consulting, Mary Jane Smith of Pullman with For Art’s Sake and Leonard Breuer of Spokane with Silver Sands Distributors are the top three applicants drawn from the lottery from among 14 vying for the retail licenses. All three applied for space on the 1300 block of Southeast Bishop Avenue in Pullman.... Full story
Six county incumbents filed for re-election Monday morning when filing week opened at the elections office. Incumbents filing on Monday morning were Sheriff Brett Myers, Assessor Joe Reynolds, District Court Judge Doug Robinson, Prosecutor Denis Tracy, Commissioner Michael Largent and Auditor Eunice Coker. Coroner Peter Martin, who also announced earlier plans to seek another term, said he filed Tuesday at the elections office. Also filing was Michael Assenberg who announced last year he planned to challenge Sheriff Brett Myers for his office.... Full story
The annual Garfield May Day celebration returns Saturday with some old favorites and new twists. One event that is back to conclude the night after years away is the over-21 dance at the American Legion building. Sponsored by the Ladow Grange, it will feature the music of Moscow’s Bare Wires. Beginning the day’s events will be the Boy Scout breakfast at Garfield Middle School from 6 to 10 a.m. Next will be the Mustache Run, starting at 8 a.m. in Garfield City Park, followed by a silent auc...
Two Spokane men were taken by MedStar helicopter to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane May 9 after they were injured in a car-truck accident on Highway 195 near the landfill turnoff on Carothers Road. The injured men were identified as Ryan W. Tritten, 24, Enumclaw, and James W. Sullins, 23, Spokane. The driver of the truck, Norman Druffel, 82, Pullman, was not injured in the crash. According to the Washington State Patrol report, Tritten was driving a 2003 Chevrolet Sunfire...
NOTICE OF MEETING WHITMAN COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION Notice is hereby given that the 2014 County Board of Equalization will convene at 9:45 a.m. on July 7, 2014, in the Whitman County Commissioners’ Chambers, 400 N. Main Street, Colfax, Washington, and will continue in session and adjourn from time to time for a period of not less than three (3) days, and not to exceed twenty-eight (28) days. Additional meetings will be held on July 21 and August 4, 2014 at 9:45 a.m. and at other times as required, to publicly examine and equalize the a...
