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Firefighters responded to a fire June 22 along Highway 272 which destroyed three vehicles and threatened others. Palouse Fire Chief Mike Bagott said crews responded at about 1:15 p.m. to the fire which was at a residence at the intersection of Highway 272 and Swanson Road. Crews had the fire contained in about 30 minutes and extinguished by about 2:30. Two other vehicles parked next to the RV were also destroyed and other vehicles at the site were threatened. Chief Bagott said they were lucky to get the alarm early enough to stop the fire from...
The ninth annual Peter Zornes Memorial Golf Tournament was played Saturday, June 25, at the Colfax Golf Course. The tournament raises funds in support of the Peter A. Zornes Memorial Neuroscience Scholarship at Washington State University. Golfers enjoyed lunch, an 18-hole scramble, a catered Italian dinner and a silent auction. Top team honors for the day with a score of 50 went to the team of Seth Thomas, Boise; Austin Mudd, Black Diamond, and Tyler Barkstrom, Spokane. Second-place with a 54 was turned in by the team of Alex Gordon, Wade... Full story
Swim coaches have booked a run of 15 swim meets in the Tri-County Novice league which will get underway Tuesday, July 5. A total of 16 meets have been booked with most of them on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Jill Cocking of Colfax, new league coordinator, said league coaches and officials opted to work out the league schedule via e-mails instead of conducting a pre-league league session. The league lineup matches last year and will include Dayton, Pomeroy, St. John/Endicott/ LaCrosse, Colfax, Pullman and Garfield/Palouse/Oakesdale and Plummer. The... Full story
Colfax High track coach Jason Cooper presents a check June 22 to school board Chair Jennifer Hauser for $56,000, raised in the name of C-Town Project, which formed in 2014 to help fund a new track. From left, Mark Mackleit of C-Town Project, Cooper, Hauser and board members Terry Huber, Brian Becker and David Nails.... Full story
Jim "Zeke" Schuldt, Colfax High grad with the class of 1963, was honored last week with induction into the Tacoma-Pierce County Hall of Fame at a ceremony in the Tacoma Dome's exhibition hall. Schuldt retired in 2005 after 35 years at the University of Puget Sound where he started the athletic training program. A sports career which started in the locker room at Colfax High School and ran for 35 years at Tacoma's University of Puget Sound was among accomplishments honored last Thursday at the... Full story
Rick McKinney in front of his 1942 Wolf range. Rick McKinney’s parents moved to Palouse in 1936, and Rick has found that an agreeable choice. He graduated from Palouse High School and returned here after Spokane Community College and failing his draft physical. His high blood pressure was a shock to both him and the doctors who conducted his physical since he was tall, thin and otherwise healthy. While attending community college, Rick worked at a movie theater and Pizza Hut. Those turned out t...
Dusty Oscar Broeckel, 93, Dusty native and life-long farmer in the Dusty area, passed away Sunday, June 26. He is survived by his children Doreen (Tom) Riedner, Dusty; Denise (Tony) Kendall, Tacoma, and Brian (Angela) Broeckel, Dusty; three step-grandchildren, Alex, Sami and Graham BeDell; one brother, Randall (Pat) Broeckel, Vancouver; and many relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his wife, Pauline. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, July 1, at the Country Bible Church three miles south of Dusty on Highway 127 with burial...
An order was filed in court June 17 allowing David Warner of Pullman an alternate means of serving notice to defendants in the civil suit he has filed for alleged damages in a fight outside of Stubblefield's Bar on college hill in Pullman. Warner was allowed to serve notice on the three defendants by publication or certified mail. His motion stated he was unable to complete serving notice of the suit by conventional means to three of the defendants in the case. Warner's attorney filed a civil suit for damages March 29, three years after the 201...
The Palouse Falls Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute has scheduled its fall outing, and registration is now open. The fall outing, titled “Changing the Course of the Palouse River,” will take participants on a bus tour north of Washtucna to Staircase Rapids Saturday, Oct. 1. The group will explore two spillways, the first including the Palouse Canyon, HU Canyon, Palouse Falls and Lyons Ferry. The second spillway is known as Devil's Canyon. It will include stories related to the Ice Age floods and the region's early history. Lloyd Sto... Full story
Gazette intern reporter The WSU extension in Colfax and 4H program have teamed up this summer to put on a 4H adventure day camp to introduce kids to robotics. There are four different camps available: June 27-29, from 1-4 p.m. in Pomeroy at Pomeroy Elementary School; July 6-8, from 1-4 p.m. in Dayton at the Columbia County Fairgrounds; July 13-15, from 9 a.m. to noon in Colfax at the Public Service building and July 18-21, from 3:10-5 p.m. in Clarkston at Parkway Elementary, extension youth activity camp. The camp is designed for kids to learn...
Gazette intern reporter The federal crop insurance program will provide more flexibility for farmers, Acting Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Michael Scuse said. The insurance will give them an opportunity to practice the growing of more than one crop on the same field at different times of the year, which is commonly known as double cropping. Double cropping requirements are reviewed to sufficiently recognize changes in increasing farm operations or for additional land. This change will cover land added as well as account for multiple...
Colfax barber Terry Vietz made a move two spaces up from his former place of business. His new shop at 213 N. Main Street is pictured here. Colfax barber Terry Vietz has made a move on Main Street. The barber, who formerly occupied a downstairs space in the Masonic building at 209 N. Main Street, has moved a couple doors north to 213 N. Main Street, the location of Secure Shred. Vietz leases the space from Kimberly DeHart, building owner. He has about a quarter of the building space in the...
The City of Colfax has released an online parks survey in order to help plan for the future of Colfax's park system. Included in the survey is a map of existing and potential parks and trails. Among those proposed is the Colfax to Pullman trail on the former Union Pacific railroad, which would run from Colfax to Pullman through Albion if the state banks the rail line and decides to convert it to a recreational trail. Public meetings have been organized by Pullman Civic Trust to discuss options for the rail line which has been out of use for 10...
Nathan Kubej, recent WSU graduate and PT intern at WHMC, is hosed off in the decontamination tent Tuesday by Bruce Haley, who heads security at the hospital and organized the decontamination drill. At top: Colfax firefighter Randy Miller hooks up a fire hose to the hydrant in the WHMC parking lot while firefighter David Buckley looks on Tuesday afternoon. Above: Hoses hang from the inside of the decontamination tent, which is supplied water via hoses hooked up to either a garden hose or fire...
The digital recorder which was reported to be temporarily missing after a reported dispute at the June 8 Malden City Council session did not belong to the Town of Malden as reported in the June 16 Gazette. Also, the unidentified Facebook report mentioned in the article was not posted by a Town of Malden official. The town does not have a Facebook account....
Samuel A. Martin, Clarkston, sustained lacerations early July 23 when he lost control of the 2001 Kia he was driving on Highway 128 just east of the Red Wolf Bridge across the Snake River at Clarkston. According to the Washington State Patrol report, Martin was driving westbound at 3:57 a.m. when an animal ran onto the roadway. He swerved and the Kia went off the side of the roadway. He then over-corrected and the car crossed back across both lanes before coming to a stop in the eastbound lane.... Full story
Nicole and Katerina Wiley, sisters from Diamond, sang “He Knows My Name” as part of the opening ceremony for the Relay for Life event in Colfax, which was included on a photo page in the June 16 edition. The caption printed in the paper was written for an earlier photo in which Nicole Wiley sang a solo and misspelled Katerina’s name....
Ferguson Gazette intern reporter Pullman Planning Commission Wednesday, June 22, voted to send proposed amendments to the current marijuana zoning code to the city council. These amendments would allow a number of changes to the current code, such as the location of pot shops and the number that can exist within Pullman, among other things. “Due to recent changes in state legislation, the City Council has deemed it appropriate to update the city’s marijuana regulations,” stated the PPC memorandum from the meeting. These draft updates, or “spec...
The Uniontown Co-op marked its 100th anniversary June 21 with a barbecue at the Dahmen Barn. An estimated 120 people gathered for hot dogs, hamburgers, baked beans and potato salad. “What made it fun was the people that showed up,” said Neill Nuxoll, manager. “It was a big success.” The Co-op is now seeking pictures and mementos from the organization’s history in order to compile an exhibit for the Dahmen Barn....
Ruling the recall petition filed against Garfield Mayor Ray McCown was not legally sufficient because it repeatedly failed to cite standards, specific laws or facts in making charges, Superior Court Judge David Frazier last week dismissed the petition filed by five Garfield residents. The judge’s ruling June 21 follows a June 10 hearing in court in which Mayor McCown appeared with Colfax attorney Guy Nelson. The petitioners were represented by Rebecca Strange, one of the five petitioners. The judge noted the petitioners at the hearing ...
St. Ignatius ghost hunts are once again returning. Announced as a one-time Haunted Hospital event last October, the ghost hunts made their first return in December with the “Nightmare Before the Holidays” theme and will return July 8 and 9. The tours will coincide with the Concrete River Festival. “People still want to see it,” said Valoree Gregory, Colfax’s unified executive director. “It will be one more thing people can do at Concrete River Festival.” The hunts July 8 and 9 will be three-hour hunts of all six floors of the former hospital bu...
Barbecued food, parades and fireworks are some of the fun planned around the county Monday for the annual Fourth of July celebrations. Traditional celebrations will take place in Johnson, Albion, Endicott and Pullman throughout the day. JOHNSON No one ever really knows how many entrants will come for the parade, but one thing is for sure: the Johnson parade will be packed full of fun. The small community swells to anywhere from 3,000 to 4,000 people for the “spontaneous” parade each year. County celebrations on the Fourth of July begin in Joh... Full story
A Boeing-Stearman PT 17 and a Ryan ST3KR PT 22, closest to the camera, were flown up from Lewiston Saturday morning for the Colfax fly-in which was sponsored by the Lewiston Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft association. The PT designation stands for Primary Trainer. These two airplanes were among 35 which made a stop at Colfax. See page B3 for more fly-in coverage.... Full story
The Continental Congress declared the separation of the American colonies from British rule on July 2, 1776. The declaration was formally approved on that day. Many thought this would forever be a special day. Two days later the official declaration was presented. It is the one we know. The beginning of this document is famous: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station...
The difference between the valuation on the Colfax School District and the City of Colfax is $244,886,058, according to the county assessor's office. The figure is based on the valuations used for determining excess levies. The valuations have been included in discussions on the proposed formation of the Colfax Parks and Recreation board to operate city parks and particularly the Colfax swim pool, which faces large capital expenses and possibly replacement in the coming years. Colfax park board members have asked the county commissioners to...
