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St. John/Endicott and Pullman volleyball teams will be in Colfax to kickoff the season with a mini-jamboree early on fair Saturday. The jamboree will include jayvee and C-squad teams. Match schedule for the jamboree will have Colfax and the SJE Eagles playing at 8 a.m in the Colfax High School gym followed by the Colfax-Pullman match at 9:30 a.m. Last match will feature SJE vs. Pullman. Junior varsity and C-squad matches will be played at Jennings in the same order. Coach Sue Doering reported the Bulldog team is making progress before the...
With six starters to replace off of last year’s team, the St. John-Endicott Eagles look to be led by an unknown in 2014. Jimmy Hollingshead, a senior, returned to Whitman County from Pendleton, Ore., where he moved after spending part of his freshman year at St. John. He’s never played football here but now will start as the Eagles’ quarterback. "My approach is there’s two guys that touch the ball on every play," said third-year head coach Steve Selk. "The center and the quarterback. I really...
Fishing for fall chinook started Saturday with another strong run predicted for the Snake River. Predictions include 919,000 chinooks entering the Columbia system this year with 61,000 wild fall chinook set for the Snake River. The fishing limits were announced last week by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Anglers will be allowed to catch and keep up to six fall hatchery chinook salmon per day on the Snake River. Fishing will be open seven days a week. Barbless hooks are required, and any salmon or steelhead not marked as hatchery...
It’s the dawn of the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves football team in more ways than one. Practicing at 5:30 a.m. since Aug. 20, the new cooperative under new coach Bob Bucsko will open their season Friday night at Northwest Christian. With 23 players on the roster, up from 19 on the first morning, the new team combines last year’s eight-man Rosalia Spartans who went to the state semifinals, and the Tekoa-Oakesdale team which played a J.V. schedule. Returning players from the Spartans – who lost...
In 1991 when the Codger Pole was built in Colfax, Paul Cocking had a carving of his own created for his residence on S. Main in Colfax. The Codger Pole was made to commemorate the Codger Bowl football game in 1988. The game was a rematch of the 1938 football game between Colfax and St. John. Cocking said he was involved in getting the Codger Pole and he traded some scaffolding and other materials for the pole to the wood carver and the carver made the car. Cocking’s carving is a half-scale repli...
Monica Haugen will begin her senior year at Pullman High School with a whole new attitude. Haugen was chosen for the FFA to Haiti program and traveled to the Caribbean country July 20-30. She is the Pullman FFA president, District VI FFA treasurer and the Albion 4H president. Haugen said an FFA chapter in Iowa started this trip three years ago and then opened it up to any FFA member in the U.S. She said she had no expectations of the trip, but knew she would be going into an area hardest hit by...
Whitman County commissioners approved the Capital Improvements Committee Project Ranking Monday morning. According to commission Chairman Art Swannack, this is a list submitted by Whitman County departments and the county is required to have a ranked list each year. Projects are dependent on funding, but if the county can build up enough reserves or other sources become available, over time the projects could be accomplished, Swannack said. Total amount for the projects listed is $3,801,444. The list in order of the ranking includes...
A tennis ball shorn of its felt lies in crumbled asphalt where it stopped rolling. Strewn next to it are pine needles and an errant branch. A tall weed breaks through the surface a few feet away. But the Oakesdale tennis courts will soon be served again. Last week, the school district received a $13,000 donation from Wilbur-Ellis to build a greenhouse on the site as part of their revitalized agriculture program. “We’ve just got a growing interest,” said Oakesdale Superintendent Jake Dingm...
Above, Sarah Appel, daughter of Eric and Shannon Appel, carefully makes the design for a grain mosaic booth at the fairground on Sunday in the Display Building. Below is the old Jones School house with a new coat of paint....
After the cafe in LaCrosse closed in May, the new operator, Barb Curtiss, in July signed a lease with LaCrosse Community Pride, the organization which owns the building. Although Curtiss originally planned to open by the first of September, she hit a couple of snags along the way. She now plans to open next Wednesday, Sept. 10. The new business is known as Route 26 Cafe, Curtiss said. Curtiss and her husband, Keith, moved to LaCrosse in 2005. They are building a house near Hay. Curtiss, who is o...
The Palouse Lions Club now has a license to operate a bar for members and guests. The project which started after the new Brick Wall Bar and Grill burned down in April will now come to fruition sometime in September, according to plans by the 30-member club. The state Liquor Control Board granted the group a private club beer and wine license July 24 to serve “by the glass to its members and guests.” The renewable, annual license cost is $180, which will be part of calculations about how long the bar stays open. “We hope it will generate some...
Everything from home-grown flowers, home-baked bread, delicious chocolate and canned goods, to cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, rabbits and horses along with bucking broncs and bulls is ready for the Palouse Empire Fair which opens today. Entertainment this year includes the Olson Bros Band which will perform two sets on Friday at the Wilbur-Ellis gazebo at 5 and 9 p.m. Strictly Business, the Ultimate Party Band, takes the stage Saturday at 5 and 9 p.m. The gates open bright and early today at 8 a.m. starting with the Senior Citizens Pancake...
Colfax High School senior Kim Hinnenkamp completed work on her fish mural on the side of the flood control wall Saturday. The fish is located on the wall across from the Rosauers parking lot. The painting depicts a fish which appears to be crashing through the concrete wall of the channel. The artist worked from a scaffold to create the fish along most of the wall. The project was undertaken as her senior project....
Whitman County commissioners Monday were informed of the state Liquor Control Board approval of the county’s first licensed marijuana producer. The marijuana producer approved is RL Farms on Highway 26 near Colfax. The license is submitted to Garrett Lunders of Asotin for marijuana production. When Lunders’ application was submitted to commissioners, they chose to take no action as they have with all 12 applications that have come across their desks. The license allows a maximum of 2,100 square feet of production of marijuana for wholesale to...
Students returning to school at Jennings Elementary on Tuesday morning carry new backpacks, wear new clothes and make new friends. Bright yellow buses carried students to schools all across the county on Tuesday. Motorists must be cautious this time of year and watch for students before and after school....
