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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. **************** AUGUST RAIN TALLY: .20 Rainfall reading at the NRCS office in Colfax after Sunday’s rainfall was .17 inches. That combined with an Aug. 11 reading of .03 amounted to a .20 total for the month. A normal rainfall total for August here is .72 inches. The low tally for August follows a .12 total for July which also has a .72 n...
First volleyball action for Colfax will be the jamboree here Saturday with varsity action in the CHS gym and jayvee and C squad action in the JES gym. Colfax varsity has been booked to play St. John/Endicott and Pullman. All matches will start at 8 a.m. and teams will be limited to six games.... Full story
Colfax Cross country team will start its season next Tuesday with a league meet at Northwest Christian. Coach Jamie Kinley has 11 runners out for the season which has six meets slated before the District 7 championships at Audubon Park in Spokane Oct. 24. Five runners are back in the lineup from last year with Tim Cornelius returning for his senior season. Also back are Doug Wilson and Josh Goebel, juniors; and Chas Baerlocher, sophomore. Alicia Knee, also a sophomore, is the lone girl back in the varsity lineup. Three new recruits for the XC...
Playing volleyball for Northwest University in Kirkland, Mattie Jo Johnson, a member of three Tekoa-Oakesdale state championship volleyball teams, was named to the Red Lion Invitational All-Tournament Team Saturday at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston. Johnson, No. 10 here, hit .447 over three matches, had 24 kills and six blocks with only three errors. Other All-Tournament selections were Dylan Fowler (Montana-Western), Brenna Meehan (North Idaho College), Brittany Gray (North Idaho...
Cooper Mills and Caleb Berquist participate in the team roping event at the 2015 High School Nationals Finals Rodeo in Rock Springs, Wyo. The duo earned 17th in the nation for the event. Tommi Swannack is shown during the goat tying event at the nationals event, in which she placed fifth in the nation. Local high school students participated in the 2015 High School National Finals Rodeo in Rock Springs, Wyo., earlier this summer. Cooper Mills of St. John/Endicott, Caleb Berquist, Colfax student...
Eric and Rhonda Werner hit the shore in the final run for the unlimiteds. Skylar Smith and Casey Donahoe of St. John make their run in the semi-final. (Below) Dennis Hughes and Matia Haskey take the victory lab after winning the final round in the modified. Final season’s action for the American Sprint Boat racers at Webb’s Slough in St. John Saturday featured strong competition with some added features in the championship round. Saturday’s competition ended with conditions improving from the s...
That lithe freshman running back streaking through the line for Garfield-Palouse last year is now playing left guard. “We needed somebody to play line,” said second-year Gar-Pal coach Will Woltering. “He didn’t even question it. A heck of a good team player.” Sophomore Travis Knauff as lineman is one part of the new look of the 2015 Vikings, which graduated six seniors from last year’s final-8 state playoff team, including five veteran starters. One of them was Hunter Woltering – the coach’s s... Full story
A brand new NE season will start for the Colfax High football team when they roll north Friday to play neighboring Liberty in the league opener. Coach Mike Morgan said the first round of the season rates as an unknown for all league teams, but he believes Liberty and Northwest Christian are two teams that have been building programs that could make a mark in this year’s league race. “They have quietly been developing the program up there,” Morgan noted of the Lancers who are again headed by Coach Mike Dewey. Liberty will take to the grid with...
Women’s teams start Tuesday evening at the Inland Empire cross country race at the Colfax Golf Club. Teams from WSU and Lewis-Clark State College are in foreground. Colfax runner Morgan Willson (13) sticks with the lead pack as they make the turns at about the halfway mark on the Colfax course. First edition of college cross country racing brought more than 200 runners from six area schools to the Colfax Golf Club Tuesday for the Inland Empire season opener. The races, hosted by Washington S...
Colfax High School grad James Stoner, a long-time teacher at Troy High School, was among those who welcomed Troy voters’ approval of the special school levy Aug. 25. Stoner also serves as the athletic director at Troy. A member of the basketball team during his years here, Stoner earned his teaching degree from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, where he also played basketball. According to a Sunday Lewiston Tribune report from Stoner, Troy’s football team planned to conduct a meeting Tuesday night after the election. If voters rej... Full story
Jennifer Charawell, Pullman resident who was arrested Aug. 13 after deputies responded to a report of a man being assaulted and hit with a pickup on Upper Union Flat Road, was sentenced to 60 months in prison Friday morning in Whitman County Superior Court. The 60-month term was the maximum she could have received for the conviction on four drug charges which she admitted to July 10 in court. After entering that plea, Charawell was allowed release until her sentencing date. At that time she vowed to stay out of trouble, and Judge David Frazier...
One of the major improvements to the Palouse Empire Fair this year is something fairgoers will not see. It also can be rated as the most critically needed addition to the facility. During last year's fair, the disposal system for the fair's main restroom installation failed. The failure led to a shutdown of the restrooms which are located on each side of the entrance to the community building. "It just totally failed," Fair Manager Bob Reynolds said. He said a pump truck had to be called to the fair in the early morning hours to pump out the... Full story
County commissioners Monday voted unanimously to approve a right-of-way easement agreement with Avista Utilities. The easement will allow Avista to install a new electric line underground that will serve a new building which will be built by Palouse River Rock near Wilbur-Ellis in the northwest corner of Colfax. The timeline of when the building will be built is not known at this time, but the electric line is expected to be installed soon. Commissioner Art Swannack said the easement grants Avista the ability to proceed. "They needed to put a p...
Colfax High junior and FCCLA state officer Airelle Grimaud reports to the Colfax school board Monday night, next to others who went to the national convention this summer in Washington, D.C., on the group’s trip....
The Eagles Club in Colfax is sponsoring a "Coats for Colfax" coat drive. The drive will benefit local children and adults in need of winter coats. Led by Eagles members Gail Webster and Michele Olson, the drive will benefit people locally in Colfax who are in need of coats. The drive is being started now to be ahead of the winter season. Olson said that she and Webster have been involved with the Giving Tree in Colfax at Christmas time and noticed the amount of children asking for coats. "By the time Christmas comes, it's too late," Webster...
Whitman County Commissioners Monday voted to table a decision on a road vacation Monday for Cottonwood Road/Kearns Bridge between Thornton and St. John after discussion at a public hearing. “It’s a small road that basically dead-ends; it used to be part of a longer road,” said Whitman County Public Works Director Mark Storey, in describing it to the commissioners and gathered public. As the hearing began, Milt Nelson of Thornton, started to speak. “This is not the Kearns Bridge,” he said. After...
Two days of special tours to search for ghosts in the former St. Ignatius Hospital in Colfax have already been booked. Fifty people have responded to a posting for the tours which will be conducted in the basement and the first two floors of the building. The individual tours have been offered at $45 each, and the ghost hunters will be escorted on a three-hour tour, according to Michael Rizzitiello, city administrator. He noted a lot of the ghost hunters who made on-line reservations were from the Lewiston/Clarkston area. They will be allowed t... Full story
Smoke and dust fill Colfax skies Saturday morning, creating hazardous conditions. Wildfires claimed another victim Saturday: Endicott’s Tin Foil Man race. Smoke from nearby wildfires significantly worsened the air quality across the Palouse region, even reaching the hazardous level in Pullman and drawing close to hazardous rankings in LaCrosse and Rosalia, according to Department of Ecology readings. The hazardous rating forced a cancellation for the event with the air deemed unsafe for all p...
New “Fit” Colfax fitness club owner Steve Warwick stands inside the unfinished premises Tuesday. The operation is expected to open Oct. 1. A new fitness center and Sport Town athletic store location is near completion in Colfax. A new red-brick front and expansive windows of the former Hunter’s Appliance building have been taking shape since last fall as the owners, the Warwick family of Colfax, take on their latest venture. To be called “Fit,” the fitness center will feature 4,200-squ...
Gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant In late May, Seattle Port Commissioner Bill Bryant declared his candidacy for the 2016 governor’s election, officially beginning his bid to run against Democratic-incumbent Jay Inslee, who was elected in 2012. The two-term Port Commissioner, who identifies mostly with the Republican party, was first elected to the position in 2007, where he took just more than 50 percent of the votes and unseated an incumbent commissioner. When he ran for re-election in 2...
Colfax students step off the bus to face the first day of the new school year Tuesday.... Full story
Two Malden teenagers, ages 15 and 13, who have been reported missing since Aug. 21, were reported back in Malden Monday evening where they are suspected of burglarizing a house and departing in a Ford F-250 pickup truck which had been reported stolen at Longview over the weekend. The pickup truck was spotted later heading northbound on the Old Highway 195, and Washington State Patrol troopers attempted to stop the truck. The chase was broken off for safety reasons because the pickup was traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour as it approached...
