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Vikings win V-net opener The Garfield/Palouse Vikings posted a four-game win at LaCrosse Tuesday to open the SE league competition. Line score for the match was 25-21 24-26 25-15 and 25-20. Rosalia was slated to host Touchet Wednesday, and the SJE Eagles play the Nighthawks at Tekoa today. LW will be at the Walla Walla tourney Saturday and play at Colton Tuesday. Fall league nine starts first season The Palouse River Crawdads baseball club will play their inaugural set of fall league games Saturday with a double header at McDonald Field. Coach...
Colton Wildcats and the LaCrosse/Washtucna Tigercats set the scene for the new season by booking wins in different modes Friday night. The Wildcats rolled to Wilbur and booked an 80-36 explosion over Wilbur/ Creston. LaCrosse/Washtucna nipped Salmon 40-38 in a seesaw battle at LaCrosse. Third local SE-Eights team in action Friday, a young SJE Eagle squad, sustained a 14-54 loss from visiting Odessa/Harrington. COLTON’S offense, led by senior QB Josh Straughan, rolled up 599 yards at Wilbur. Straughan hit 14 of 25 passes for 306 yards. Jake S...
The Nighthawks of Tekoa, Oakesdale and Rosalia gave new coach Kaleb Madison’s a remarkable debut, downing Mary Walker of Springdale 49-6 Friday night at Oakesdale. “Overall, it was impressive,” said Coach Madison, who took over this year for long-time coach Ken Lindgren. “These kids have really come in ready to play.” The Nighthawks are looking to rebound from last season, when they finished at the bottom of the SE 2B league with a 1-4 league mark, 4-6 overall. Topping the attack was sophomore tailback Craig Nelson. Nelson accounted for four... Full story
The new-look Colfax Bulldogs will face a tough season launch Friday in their home opener. The DeSales Irish, non-league guests from the SE, will roll into town after opting to make a season start last week and canning a big 39-7 win over LaSalle of Union Gap. Last year, Colfax won their opener when they rolled to DeSales and booked a 38-19 win over the Irish with a 20-point charge in the last quarter. That came over an Irish club which was in a rebuilding mode after advancing to the semi-finals the previous year and being shutout by Colfax in...
Freeman’s Scotties took Colfax in three games Tuesday to take the steam out of the Bulldog’s’ home opener. The Scotties had solid wins in the first two games and then fought off Colfax in the third game for a match win. “We just made a lot of mistakes,” Coach Sue Doering said. “They are unforced mistakes like hitting the ball out-of-bounds.” Line score for the Freeman win was 25-18 25-18 and 27-25. Pullman, a team which topped Colfax in three straight in Saturday’s jamboree, will return to Colfax tonight for a second non-leaguer. Pullman droppe... Full story
THURSDAY Ohio officials sold the Lake Erie Correctional Institution, an 11-year-old prison housing about 1,500 nonviolent prisoners, to the Corrections Corporation of America for $72.7 million. The state will now pay the Nashville-based company to run the facility Nate Smith, the 11-year-old Minnesota boy who made an amazing hockey shot last month into a small hole from center ice while standing in for his identical twin brother Nate, will not get a $50,000 prize. The company that insured the event, Odds On Promotions of Reno, Nevada, will...
Gazette Reporters After 27 years, it was more than she expected. Mickey Leinweber retired this summer as a teacher at Garfield Elementary. She waited until late into June to turn in her resignation. Her career included 17 years as a first grade teacher, seven years as a kindergarten-first teacher and three years as a reading teacher. “It was a hard decision,” she said. “Harder than I ever thought it would be. But I just decided to let younger blood in there.” She started to consider retirin...
Television news veteran Ted Koppel will be honored with the 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcast Journalism during the free public program at Washington State University. He will present a keynote address “… and Murrow was worried back then!” during the program, which will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23 at Beasley Coliseum as part of the 37th Edward R. Murrow Symposium. Best known as the anchor of ABC’s “Nightline” from 1980 to 2005, Koppel spent 42 years with ABC News. He is now a news analyst for National Pu...
Gazette Reporters Lisa Baser, the new FFA teacher in LaCrosse, came to the subject in an unlikely way at the beginning of high school. She was registering for classes at Sumner High, near Tacoma, when Animal Science proved to be the last elective on her list of options. “It was the only class that was open,” Baser said. “But it turned out I really enjoyed it. I didn’t know a thing about agriculture until high school.” Now she knows a lot about it and teaches kids four periods a day in LaCrosse.... Full story
Gazette Reporters The first compilation of Whitman County’s budget for next year now stands $1.5 million short of balancing. Administrative Director Gary Petrovich Tuesday gave commissioners three-inch thick binders of the county’s 2012 spending plan. Leaders in the county’s current expense operating fund departments predict revenues of $12,109,117, which is $1,549,495 shy of the $13,658,612 they expect to spend next year. Overall, the county’s 2012 budget is expected to total $44,628,157. Petrovich cautioned, though, that these are the ope...
They serve as many people’s first I.D. In the future years they become reminders of great haircuts and questionable ones, T-shirt logos, and all that is good and not so good about high school. They are Associated Student Body cards. Around Whitman County, the cards which fund high school athletics and activities come in different prices and packages. Some schools require them for all students, others only for participants in sports or a club. The costs vary from $20 to $40. “I compare ASB to...
A short-term solution for the St. John/Endicott school cooperative may turn out to be a case study for small school administration throughout the state. Gary Wargo began work as superintendent of St. John/Endicott schools Monday, adding to his duty as superintendent at LaCrosse. “It’s been a big learning curve, trying to understand the St. John and Endicott systems and working with a new principal,” said Wargo. “But I’ve had a couple of months to get up to speed on that. Now it’s just a matter of getting to know all the kids and the staff.... Full story
Special ceremony for 9/11 anniversary set for Sunday Palouse Empire Fair officials are inviting attendees this year to fall in love. “There’s a little bit of magic happening right now,” said Fair Manager Bob Reynolds. Reynolds and his helpers were working hard Tuesday to put the final touches on a dazzling four-day slate of attractions that will, as this year’s theme suggests, implore Mockonema visitors to have a “Love-A-Fair.” The fair’s gates open to the public at 8 a.m today,. Thursday morning. Once inside the gates, fairgoers will be able...
Residents pulled out garden hoses to counter the fire at the top end. The Colfax city truck and three rural district trucks from the Colfax station responded to the scene. Steptoe and Albion crews in the rural district arrived with tanker trucks. The fire was stopped short of the big blue reservoir and the radio communications tower which is located uphill from the reservoir. No structures were involved. Chief Ralph Walter said Tuesday cause of the fire is still under investigation.... Full story
