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Colfax runners Tuesday joined a host of schools in the memorial jamboree run at Northwest Christian. The course was made up of two loops around a mile course which featured hills on the NWC campus at Colbert, mud pits and other side distractions. Times or placings were not kept for the memorial run. Jack Ammon of host Northwest Christian led the boys’ race. The host Crusaders and Lakeside had strong team showings. Senior Tim Cornelius led the Colfax boys. Other runners in order of finish were Chase Boerlocher, Carson Cloaninger, Cal Gregory, J...
This did not happen often last Friday night at St. John in a 58-0 loss. Odessa-Harrington’s Sage Elder is knocked backward as the Eagles’ Reagan Harrison pursues. It started with an onside kick by Odessa-Harrington, which succeeded. After a touchdown, they tried another onside kick and recovered again. Two minutes later, after a short St. John-Endicott drive, the Titans scored and got the ball back with another onside kick. “What’s an offense cheer?” said one Odessa-Harrington cheerleader to ano...
Their fortunes were diverted like an Interstate bypass. Losing 26-8 at Wallace, Idaho, to open their season last Friday, the Garfield-Palouse football team found themselves in a contest on the line they couldn’t win. “We fought hard but were just kind of outmanned on the line of scrimmage,” said Vikings coach Will Woltering, who leads a smaller squad than last year. The two teams played to a scoreless first quarter before Gar-Pal junior Cameron Springstead ran back a punt for a touchdown. Quart...
Carmen Gfeller hits a kill against SJE’s Jaden Corder and Jazmyn Ray in the opening round of the Colfax volleyball jamboree Saturday. Abby Glorfield digs one out for the SJE Eagles in second game of the match with Colfax at the jamboree. Colfax volleyball players posted wins against both foes in the Bulldog jamboree Saturday. The Bulldogs split with St. John/Endicott in their first two games, and then dominated with a 15-9 win in the short decider game. Colfax won the first game 25-14, but t...
The Colton Wildcats went to the wire to start their 2015 season, with Brady Chadwick tackled on the two-yard line at Salmon River, Idaho, for a 28-20 loss. Playing last Friday night, Colton trailed 22-6 in the third quarter before scoring twice to cut it to 22-20. A failed two-point conversion pass from senior quarterback Carter Dahmen to Grant Kinzer kept them down by two. Salmon River then took the ball and marched upfield. At the Colton 35-yard line with the Wildcats out of timeouts, 10th...
Colfax receiver Adam Tate attempts to shed Chase Burnham of the Lancers in the Bulldog opener Friday at Liberty. Jon Klaveano of the Bulldogs puts the crunch on Liberty QB Garrett Rogers. Colfax defense totaled six QB sacks in the opener. Colfax struck for two quick scores at the start of the fourth quarter to take the lead on the way to a 28-21 win over Liberty in the NE opener Friday. The two quick strikes, which were posted within 26 seconds, came after Liberty took control of the game with...
Plans for the next edition of Relay for Life are coming together. Community Manager Taylor Johnson, who works at the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life office in Spokane, has taken over planning for the long-running event and said the committee is growing, but more volunteers are needed. "We need as much participation as possible," she said. Johnson said she wants the community to be able to offer up ideas and opinions for the event. "They want to have their voices heard, and I want their voices heard," she said. Johnson will be at the...
Graves mark Tekoa’s Goldenrod Cemetery in this file photo from last year. The town of Tekoa has begun to look at options for a long-sought improved water delivery system for Goldenrod Cemetery. After the town received a $2.2 million gift last year to the cemetery endowment from former Tekoa accountant/bookkeeper Eleanor Cohn, Mayor John Jaeger directed the city’s engineer to lay out some options. “We’re looking at it,” said Jaeger. “We’re at the investigation point now. We’re trying to get t...
Port of Whitman commissioners received an update on the Boyer Park plans at their regular meeting Sept. 3 from Debbie Snell, Port Properties and Development manager, on the latest in a series of projects for Boyer. "The cabins are being built even as we speak," Snell told the commissioners. The newest project is expected to add 13 new RV sites to the campgrounds as well as four cabins. There are already 32 full RV hookup sites, 16 partial RV hookups and seven tent sites. The cabins will bring new options for travelers. They will be fitted with...
The saga of two Malden teens, missing since Aug. 21, ended last Thursday, Sept. 3, in juvenile court here when both were ordered back to detention for failing to comply with conditions ordered. They had been allowed release on a case involving a break-in at the Rosalia swim pool July 19. Chris Thornton, 15, and Ashley Varner, 13, were arrested last Wednesday, Sept. 2, south of Newport after a high speed chase. They were taken to the Pend Oreille County Jail in Newport after a second high speed chase. The report on the arrest from Newport said...
Beginning of high school football also marks the unofficial start of the fall season. The first week Friday night game before sunset provided football fans with a scenic bonus. This view appeared after the start of the game at Liberty between the host Lancers and the Colfax Bulldogs. Clouds which provided a little definition to the scene were actually a harbinger of the weekend rains....
The inaugural Food Olympics is set to open at this year’s Palouse Empire Fair. Taking place Saturday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the fairgrounds’ gazebo, the event will pit four-member teams against each other, eating four individual rounds of food. Whoever finishes their food first wins the round. “We just thought it would be a really fun idea,” said Angie Wick of the Fair office. The food will consist of watermelon, hot dogs, a third round to be decided and the final round of pie. Each member of a team takes on one round. The winning team will...
Pearl Griffiths, Colfax senior, looks up from the Pinegrove Grange grain mural. With the raising of the flag, Community Building pancakes and a goat barn meeting, the 2015 Palouse Empire Fair begins today, Thursday. The four-day event, themed “Stirrup Some Fun,” will feature three rodeo sessions, live entertainment each day and night, animal showings and auctions, carnival rides, the queen’s coronation and food and displays of all kinds. Thursday will start with animal showings from beef to po...
A school-district owned lot in Oakesdale has been appraised following an overture of interest from the owners of the town’s new Versatile Implement dealership. The lot in question also holds Oakesdale’s yard-waste recycling center, for which the town entered an interlocal agreement to build in 2008. “We’ve taken no action,” said Oakesdale School Superintendent Jake Dingman. “Nothing has been decided and there’s really been little discussion.” The lot was appraised at $19,000 as is, or $47,000...
A Case Steam tractor powers the threshing machine via a long belt Sunday at the Palouse Empire Threshing Bee. The Bee used vintage tractors and real horse power to harvest and thresh the barley field across from the fairground at Mockonema. For more coverage on the Bee, see page B3....
As part of the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport Runway Realignment Project, an off-site wetland/stream mitigation site has been under construction just south of Colfax to offset the loss of wetlands at the airport. Tasked with finding an appropriate site for the relocated wetlands, Vince Barthels at J-U-B Engineers in Spokane said he looked into a number of sites in the area before ultimately selecting an 113.6 acre stretch located along the banks of the South Fork of the Palouse River, about two and one-half miles southeast of the Colfax city...
