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The City of Colfax has adjusted its late payment policy for water and sewer bills. Now instead of charging ridiculously large late-payment fees for payments not in city hall by the 15th, they will now only charge the ridiculously large late-payment fee for water/sewer bills not postmarked by the 15th. The adjustment isn’t very meaningful. The late penalty remains at $20. And, the city cut the response time for paying water/sewer bills. According to a Daily Bulletin story, 180 late charges were assessed in the current payment cycle. That is p...
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. PAVING PROJECT FINISHED The Highway 195 paving project in Colfax has been officially finished. Matt Hammer, Colfax Public Works director, said the foreman for the contractor, Poe Asphalt Paving, reported Monday that they had finished in Colfax. He said Poe anticipates a “punch list” of fin...
Fires crews in Colton-Uniontown were busy Tuesday, battling two field fires. Whitman County District 12 and 14 volunteers responded to the first blaze around 1 p.m. west of Uniontown. A motor home caught fire and ignited the blaze, which was fueled by high winds. The blaze consumed over 100 acres of stubble and scattered brush. The motor home, as well as an adjacent trailer, were both destroyed in the blaze. A second blaze which sparked off a small utility vehicle around 6 p.m. near Wolf and Bauer Roads burned about 15 acres of stubble. The...
Alison Macdonald Twenty-four swimmers participated in the third annual “Swim the Snake” event Aug. 8 at Lyons Ferry. The event benefits the Blue Mountain Resource Conservation and Development Council, as well as the Pomeroy and Dayton swim teams, who compete in the Tri-County Swim League. Event organizers hope to be able to expand financial support to the entire swim league as the event grows. The 24 swimmers this year again started from Lyons Ferry State Park on the north side of the river and...
Tekoa/Rosalia football gridders, who were slated to hit the turf for the first time Wednesday morning, are booked for a unique season the year. The Timberwolves are scheduled to play eight games with four at home at Rosalia and four on the road. “They’re all over the place,” Scott Eaton, new head coach of the Timberwolves, commented. He credited Dan Hutton, Tekoa principal who also serves as athletic director, with finding foes for the team and booking the games. Tekoa/Rosalia has to go on the hunt for opponents after opting out of the NE Le...
Meet the Bulldogs night has been scheduled for next Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 6 p.m. for introduction of football and volleyball teams, cheerleaders and coaches. Youth league players will also be introduced and youngsters who participated in cheer camp earlier in the day will perform a routine. Hamburgers and hot dogs will be served....
Anyone who’s ever dreamed of participating in a triathlon might just have their dreams come true next weekend. It won’t be an Iron Man race: it has been dubbed the Tin Foil Man Race. Several Endicott residents have organized a triathlon event in Endicott set for Aug. 29 at 8 a.m. It will be an informal relay-style small triathlon. Jamie Misner, who earlier this summer participated in the Coeur d’Alene Iron Man race, said she was looking for some people to do a triathlon with her, but for various reasons, no one was able to do it. That...
Darrin Swindahl and his daughter, Autumn Swindahl of Tacoma in their Bandit Gold No. 47. The Swindahls are now second place in the points standing for the A-400 class in the sprint boat season standings. Sprint boat racers are booked to compete at Port Angeles this weekend before returning to St. John for the final race of the season. The Aug. 29 round at Webb's Slough will be the first time the sprint boat association stages their last race of the season at St. John. The last race of the...
Is that Mike Leach at the wheel? Perhaps yes, perhaps no, for this combine harvesting east of Garfield. Leach begins his fourth season as head coach of the Cougar football team Sept. 5 at home vs. Portland State....
The St. John-Endicott Eagles have a new coach for the 2015 football season. Ken Gering takes over as a first-year head coach, after serving the past two seasons as Defensive Coordinator for Steve Selk. Selk left the program after his job at Endicott School ran out of a grant funded by WSU. He now works on campus in the provost’s office in institutional research. Gering, in turn, is set to guide a team he has known most of his life, including a previous stint as an assistant, and days and n...
Of the 751 fires reported to have been burning on Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) protected lands as of late last week, 628 had been determined to be caused by human activity. The total fire count was up more than 200 from last year. "The number of human-caused fires continues to rise through a record-breaking summer of drought and high temperatures." Mary Verner, DNR's deputy for wildfires, said people need to be aware that activities that might not normally spark fires have higher potential to in current conditions. "A...
Hatley Bridge on the Pullman-Wawawai Road was opened for traffic Aug. 12 after a partial rebuilding project. The Hatley Bridge contract was awarded last December to Harry Johnson Plumbing and Excavation on a bid of $720,300. Previous county work by the Walla Walla company includes the construction of two bridges in the past five years, the Neel Bridge and the Aune Bridge. The Hatley project included a partial rebuilding of the span to be paid for by Federal Surface Transportation funds,...
A group of eight girls from the Whitman County area went to a new kind of summer camp in July. Held at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, the first Tech Trek camp for Eastern Washington took place July 12 –18, aiming to encourage girls’ interest in STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and math. The camp was put on by Washington chapters of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), an organization formed in 1891. To choose campers for the inaugural E.W.U. week, the Pa...
Richard Lathim, Kahlotus Republican, and Kenneth Caylor, Othello Democrat, appeared headed for a re-count Tuesday after a whisker-close finish in the final count of primary ballots in the race for District Nine state representative. The two finished with Lathim holding a 47-vote edge for what will be the number-two finish in the top two format of the primary round. Mary Dye of Pomeroy, who was appointed to the seat vacated by the resignation of Rep. Susan Fagan in May, posted a strong finish in the returns with 9,132 ballots from voters in the...
The Perkins House, built by Colfax co-founder James Perkins in 1886, has been maintained for several years by the Whitman County Historical Society. The society is in great need of volunteers in order to continue to operate the Perkins House and keep it open. The 43rd annual Perkins House Ice Cream Social almost didn't happen this summer. It wouldn't have happened had it not been for former Pullman resident Ken Vogel, who now resides with his wife and family in western Washington. "He and his...
The 27th edition of the Lentil Festival promises a busy weekend of fun. Events all weekend at Pullman’s Reaney Park will mark the celebrations, as will the World’s Largest Bowl of Lentil Chili. Live music will be on hand Friday at the Hometown Chevy and BullCountry Main Stage in the park. R&B/Soul Rock artist Megan Wilde of Seattle will kick off the evening at 5:15, followed by Atreo Graham of Federal Way at 6:30 with an acoustic pop performance. Ayron Jones & The Way of Seattle will follow at 7:45, and Tango Alpha Tango of Portland will con...
Trevor Bennett, 22, LaCrosse, was fatally injured in a semi-truck accident Tuesday afternoon at the bottom of the Wawawai Grade. Kyle Fuller, 32, also of LaCrosse, was treated at the scene for minor injuries and transported to St. Joe's Hospital in Lewiston, according to a report by Sgt. Chris Chapman of the Whitman County Sheriff's department. Chapman said Bennett was identified as the driver of the truck, a 1992 International, and Fuller was a passenger in the truck. Sheriff's deputies, Washington State Patrol troopers and ambulance crews...
Kreos owners Rod Farrington and Dave Schrecongost. Kreos has staked a claim in Uniontown. The new restaurant, located in the former Farmers State Bank building, opened a month ago and so far all checks are clearing. “I never dreamed we’d be as busy as we are,” said Rod Farrington, a co-owner with longtime associate Deve Schrecongost, both of Lewiston. Serving a menu of pizza, salads, hamburgers and fries – with seven homemade sauces – they combined long experience in the restaurant business...
Zoning designation for 76 acres at the Colfax Airport was changed fromHeavy Industrial to Airport Commercial by Whitman County commissioners Monday. The change was made on a recommendation by the Port of Whitman, which completed an update earlier this year to their Airport Layout Plan which was mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration and aviation division of the Washington Department of Transportation. Layout plans are used for budgeting, planning and other purposes at airports around the state. Assistant Whitman County Planner Jerry...
Smoke continues to fill the skies of Colfax and elsewhere around the county, making visibility poor in many areas. The smoke is from nearby wildfires that continue to burn outside the county. The Department of Ecology ranked the air quality in Whitman County as poor and unhealthy at this time, along with much of eastern Washington. The county is in the 101-150 index range, ranking the air quality unhealthy for sensitive groups. The Air Quality Index warns that members of sensitive groups such as people with heart or lung disease, older adults...
Men stack hay in a field north of Uniontown Aug. 14. Harvest is winding down and the finish date for most farmers is much earlier than normal. At Lamont Grain Growers, Inc., Manager Jim Fuhrman said exact yield numbers are not known yet, but the overall intake has been about 10 percent higher than last year. Fuhrman attributes that to more acres, rather than a higher yield per bushel. “Even though the intake was higher, the quality is poor,” Fuhrman said. He said the wheats have seen higher pro...
Robert Millage photo Wildfires in the Kamiah, Idaho, area destroyed more than 42 homes. The Clearwater River reflects the wildfires Aug. 11. The blazes were sparked Aug. 10 by lightning and turned into an inferno Friday when strong winds hit the region. Drives underway for Kamiah residents A supply drive to help residents of Kamiah hit by forest fires over the weekend has been started in Colfax, according to Tammy Lewis. Members of the First Baptist Church Bible Study group are organizing the...
