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Ron Hammer of Steptoe sells vegetables from his farm at this year’s first Colfax Friday afternoon farmer’s market Aug. 3. The market is held at Eells Park each Friday in August....
Fall sports season for Colfax High School will get its official launch next week with the parent/player meeting slated next Tuesday at 7 p.m. The meeting will start in the Colfax auditorium. First day of football practice will be next Wednesday. Coach Mike Morgan plans an extended practice beginning at 3:30 p.m. A Blue & White scrimmage will be Aug. 25 and the team’s first action will again be the league jamboree at Ritzville Aug. 31. First day of volleyball and cross country practices are slated for the following Monday, Aug. 20, according t...
Football teams in Southeast District 9 will get an early start on the season with a lineup of non-league games on the agenda for Aug. 31, according to an overall league schedule posted Tuesday by Bob Kirk of Pomeroy, SE league director. First round of eight-man action for 1B teams will see Wilbur/Creston at Colfax, Potlatch at Garfield/Palouse, Odessa/Harrington at LaCrosse, St. John/Endicott at Wellpinit and Rainier Christian at Sunnyside Christian. Pomeroy is slated to mix it up with Lummi Sept. 1 at Othello, and Touchet will have a bye....
Mabton has been booked into the SE-11 football schedule for this season. An A division school located about 32 miles west of Richland, Mabton requested bookings with SE B schools. Bob Kirk, SE league director, said Mabton officials sought games with SE-B schools because they have not been competitive against larger A school in the Yakima league. Their games in the SE will not count in league standings, and their option to play down a division takes them out of the state playoff grid. Mabton’s longest road trip will be Oct. 19 when they roll a...
Colfax senior cheerleader Rachel Napier plans to undertake a fund raising campaign for a trip to the All American cheerleaders camp in London. Participants in the camp prepare for participation in the traditional New Years parade in London. Rachel qualified for the trip when the Colfax cheer team participated in cheer camp at Eastern Washington University July 16-19....
Saturday's big Jerry Cluckey Knights of Columbus meet generated a lot of competition and memories for swimmers and former swimmers in the novice league’s season closer. Jackson Ross heads for a strong finish in the butterfly event for 14-under boys. Katie Renstrom of Garfield/Palouse stakes a claim on the finish wall in the senior girls freestyle. Jade Porubek of SJE, behind Porubek, finished in second place, and Allison MacDonald, top, finished in fourth. The daughters of the late Jerry Cluckey, founder of the meet, were on the fence r...
A crew of strong swimmers from Pomeroy stacked up 562 points Saturday to take the Cluckey Cup for another year. The Pomeroy team now has a string of six straight wins in the season ending meet for novice swimmers. Pomeroy, which had 43 entrants in the meet, again took the win with a strong lineup in several events. Pomeroy often had two or more competitors on the mark for the championship heats in each race. The championship heats featured swimmers who had posted the fastest times over the summer campaign. Pomeroy this year had Joel Meyers in...
Kaitlynn Molly McCormack, a member of the 2008 class at Oakesdale High School, earned all-A grades to top the dean’s list for the spring semester at the University of Montana in Missoula. She will start the third year of pharmacy studies at the end of August. She is the daughter of Mary McCormack and the late Mack McCormack....
Maccabee Cemetery has been the victim of thefts for the second time this year. The cemetery, which overlooks Sprague Lake, lost sprinkler pipes and sprinkler heads. Hoses, weed trimmers, fuel and other items have been taken from the locked shed. Last June, the cemetery sustained similar losses in a theft incident. Joy Vold, cemetery district commissioner, said Maccabee’s sprinkler system uses two-inch aluminum pipe which is now difficult to obtain. She said the district is now looking for two-inch aluminum pipe and area residents are e...
An indication of whether Whitman County will receive loan funding from the state to build infrastructure at Hawkins Companies long-proposed stateline strip mall will come next Friday, Aug. 17. The state’s Public Works Trust Fund’s board of directors will rank projects for funding from a pool of hundreds of millions of dollars. Infrastructure at the 714,000-square-foot shopping center is one of those projects. County Administrat-or Gary Petrovich reported Monday that staff in the Public Works Trust Fund have advanced the county’s appli...
The public restroom in Oakesdale may stay open later into the fall according to a proposal discussed at the city council meeting Monday night. The one public restroom in town, at Oakesdale’s park by the pool, is open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. When it’s not, visitors often walk into Crossett’s Market and ask if they have a restroom. The park bathrooms are under the jurisdiction of the Oakesdale parks and recreation board, which proposed developing an agreement with the city to share the l...
THURSDAY Chick-fil-A reported a record-selling day after customers descended on its roughly 1,600 locations across the United States in support of the chain’s president’s contentious stance against gay marriage. “Get me a rope, get me a ladder...I think the brakes got stuck,” declared London Mayor Boris Johnson after being stalled midair while zip-lining through the city to celebrate the U.K.’s first gold medal at this year’s Olympics. FRIDAY The National Collegiate Athletic Association rejected an appeal of sanctions against Penn State filed...
More than 250 bicycle riders converged on Palouse earlier this week as part of the Cascade Bicycle Club’s annual Ride Around Washington. Palouse was chosen for a two-day stop on the seven-day, 400-mile tour. Activities for riders included a tour of a barley mill and the Roy Chatters Printing Museum, along with day-loop rides through the surrounding area. “We usually give riders a chance not to break camp for one night, and Palouse seemed the perfect place” said Peter Verbrugge, Event Produ...
Earth-moving tractors shift land as construction progresses on the $17 million train loading facillity being built by PNW Farmers’ Cooperative and Co-Ag. The joint venture is being built just north of the McCoy siding along the state-owned Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad on the east side of State Route 271 six miles south of Rosalia. The two grain firms are building the facility to more quickly load 110-car unit trains that are predicted to fetch lower rail shipping rates. The railroad was almost sold for scrap by Watco before the s...
Rails were removed from half of the long-dormant railroad crossing Aug. 1 to clear the way for the excavation and fill project to build up the last two blocks on Highway 195. The removal of the rails, which long served as the Union Pacific link between Colfax and Pullman, came three days after the Moses Lake contractor, Central Washington Asphalt, started work on the project. Fate of the railroad crossing had been on the table since the state DOT announced plans for the project. Their removal was an add-on to the highway contract between DOT...
Students begin returning to Washington State University this weekend, and construction on Highway 195 from Colfax south toward Pullman can be expected to slow their migration back to campus. “I think we’re just going to be messed up for rush week and the early kids,” Sgt. Brad Hudson of the Washington State Patrol’s Colfax detachment. Crews from Central Washington Asphalt at Moses Lake have been on the job for the past two weeks for the project which included traffic delays as work advanced on more than eight miles of the project between Colfax...
After two summers of road construction, Tekoa officials are talking about building another road. It would be a truck bypass of Highway 27 for grain rigs and others to avoid the hill up and through Crosby Street, the main street through the Tekoa business section. A bypass route would veer off at the north end of town, run level along Hangman Creek and connect at the south end of town before the bridge. The idea picked up momentum in the past month, after Councilman Roy Schulz relayed a comment t...
The 1956 fire pumper is back on the block in Oakesdale. After the 250-gallon International truck was deemed surplus in June, it then was held in limbo when insurance concerns arose. Now, after checking into it, Mayor Dennis Palmer reported to the Oakesdale city council Monday night that the city’s insurance rating would be unchanged if they went ahead with plans to sell the pumper, one of two pumper trucks in service. “According to the Survey and Ratings Bureau, we don’t need a backup,” said Pa...
Kinzer tops O’Neill Voters in District 1 ousted Whitman County Commissioner Greg Partch by a wide margin in initial returns from Tuesday night’s primary. Though more ballots are set to be counted later this week, Partch placed a distant third behind Art Swannack of Lamont and Bill Tensfeld of Rosalia in the three-way preliminary round Tuesday. Swannack and Tensfeld will likely advance to the general election ballot in November. Swannack received 614 votes for 41 percent, Tensfeld 532 for 36 percent and Partch 325 for 22 percent. The number-thre...
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS COLFAX AIRPORT ROAD, C.R.P. No. 8010-2 WHITMAN COUNTY, STATE OF WASHINGTON Sealed proposals for this project will be received by the Board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, State of Washington, at its office in the Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax, Washington, until 11:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Savings Time, on Monday, August 27, 2012, at which time all bids will be opened and publicly read. Each proposal shall be separately sealed in an envelope addressed to the Whitman County Board of County Commissioners wi...
