Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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• On Sept. 27, 1854, two ships collide off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 322 passengers and crew. The wooden-hulled Arctic was severely damaged when it slammed into the iron-hulled steamer Vesta. In trying to beach the ship, the Arctic’s captain ran over several lifeboats, causing even more people to drown. • On Oct. 1, 1890, an act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park, home of such natural wonders as the 2,425-foot-high Yosemite Falls, rock formations Half Dome and El Capitan, and three groves of giant sequoias, the world’s biggest...
After graduating most of last year’s squad, Liberty brought a team loaded with freshmen and sophomores to Tekoa last Friday night into a mismatch that saw the TOR Nighthawks post a 84-0 win. Unlike WIAA rules with limit margins for eight-man football, the rules for 11-man action carry no limit. With no mercy rule, the refs at Tekoa instituted a running clock early in the second quarter when the game was already out of hand. “It wasn’t anything I expected to see happen, “ said TOR Coach Kaleb Madison. “They’re young. They’re a very young te...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Johnathon B. Wilson, 20 and Brandi A. Headrick, 19, both Pullman, Aug. 23. Jordan M. Tanasse, 26 and Kaitlyn A. Richards, 23, both Pullman, Aug. 25. Lester C. Grammer, 59, Pullman and Yi Lu, 54, Walnut Creek, Calif., Aug. 26. Jason C. Russell, 30, and Dianna M. Gearhiser, 28, both Seattle, Aug. 26. Chad H. Hattenburg, 32, and Elizabeth A. Walker, 25, both Pullman, Aug. 26. Daniel J. Riener, 22, and Kendall J. Wilson, 22, both Lewiston, Aug. 26. Timothy C. Chatburn, 27 and Kasi M. Callister, 24, both Pullman, Aug. 26. John A....
Good Old Days 125 years ago September 17, 1886 Colfax College begins its regular term next Tuesday, Sept. 21, with every prospect of having a prosperous year. Tuition is $8, $10 and $12 per term. Board and rooms, $3.50 to $4.00 per week. Students who desire may rent rooms and board themselves, lowering the expense of boarding. Tuition for Music: Organ, $15; Piano, $20, per term. Use of instruments for practice: Organ, $3; Piano, $5, per term. E.W. Talbott, C.H. Warner and L.T. Bragg have purchased the flouring mill in this city and formed the...
Tekoa/Oakesdale bagged a second league win, and a young SJE team topped a tourney at Walla Walla to set the pace for the SE 1B volleyball campaign this week. TEKOA/OAKESDALE defeated the GP Vikings at Palouse in four games, 25-12 25-14 124-26 and 25-8. Cassie Mendoza hit 18 kills in the match, and Kaela Dewan put up 35 assists. Eden Anderson had six blocks. Cassie Thompson had 11 kills and 2 blocks for the Vikings, and Holly Leendertsen put up 16 assists. Chandler Pfaff and Kaycie Adair each hit three aces. The Nighthawks Thursday defeated St....
Colfax and DeSales went at it for four quarters Friday in the grid opener at Colfax, and the outcome was unknown until the last 30 seconds of the game when Justin Berarducci picked off a DeSales pass to end a last blitz drive for the Irish. Final score was 20-13 in favor of the Bulldogs. “I don’t know how long DeSales wants to keep playing these games, but I’m sure in favor of keeping it going,” Colfax Coach Mike Morgan said. He added the Irish get all they can into four quarters of football and that means a big return for the pre-lea...
Jase Berg of Colville won the top pot when he collected $1,219 for eight seconds of work in the bull riding event Sunday at the Palouse Empire Rodeo. Berg was the lone rider among 13 entrants over three days to go the distance and scored 58 points in the Sunday event. Caleb McMillan, oldest of the McMillan Family Trick Riders at 12, also booked an entry in break-away roping. He clocked a 1.84 for the top money in that event. Shane Erickson of Terrebonne, Ore., clocked an 8.7 Saturday night to top 13 qualifiers in calf roping. Brad Goodrich...
Three county eight man teams booked wins in the second round of pre-league action last Friday. The three clubs have another pre-league round booked this Friday with Colton, now 2-0, hosting Joseph, Ore., in the revamped Kibbie Dome; LaCrosse/Washtucna, also 2-0, rolling to Odessa, and Garfield/Palouse, now 1-0, traveling all the way to Coulee City to play Almira/Coulee/Hartline. St. John/Endicott will mark a second week out of varsity competition. LaCROSSE/WASHTUCNA will hit the road again after a 42-14 win over Kootenai at Harrison Flats last...
Colfax volleyball players took a second straight defeat Tuesday when they went to Lakeside and bowed out in three straight games. Line score in the match with the Eagles, a one-time foe when both schools were in the NE-A, was 25-15 25-22 and 25-21. Colfax last Thursday in their Dig Pink night matchup took Pullman into a fifth game before bowing to the ‘hounds. The five-game match was an improvement over the jamboree five days earlier. “The Pullman match marked a big improvement for us, but tonight was a setback,” Coach Sue Doering said after...
Willson stacks two wins in XC Colfax senior Morgan Willson clocked a 18.47 to finish three minutes ahead of the field in an NE league run Tuesday at Kettle Falls. Runners followed a 5 K campground course along the Columbia River. For the boys side of the varsity race, Jackson Elfers placed 12th at 19.23, and Justin Williams placed 42nd at 23.43. Tim Cornelius placed third in the junior high race at 10.09 over 1.5 miles. Other Colfax finishers were Mitch Varney, 13th at 11:45; Logan Gingerich, 18th at 12.02; Zach Williams 12:37, and Brady Wueste...
THURSDAY More than 500 protesting port workers stormed the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview and damaged railcars and other property. Protesters stormed the EGT facility, smashed guard shack windows, pushed a security vehicle into a ditch, cut brake lines on several rail cars and dumped grain from some cars onto the ground California astronomers found the closest, brightest supernova of its kind in 25 years, catching the glimmer of PTF 11kly, a tiny self-destructing star a mere 21 million light years from Earth. A man dressed as Gumby...
Whitman County’s committee overseeing the USDA’s Farm Service Agency is once again looking for a director. Kathy Wolfe, who was named to the post in August of last year, retired as of Aug. 31. Wolfe worked with the FSA for 28 years, both in offices in Whitman County and Colorado and in the national offices in Washington, D.C. She and husband Richard moved here from Colorado with their eight-year-old son, Marcus. Fred Hendrickson, a program technician, will serve as the interim director while the county committee seeks a new dir...
Whitman County Shriners announced their fair drawing winners. Ryan Bothman won $100. Jim Helm won $75, Conrad McGuire claimed $50 and Marlana Vandyke took $25. Ignacio Mendoze won $15. All proceeds are used to support the Palouse Empire Fire livestock shows and sales....
Whitman County could have a new U.S. Representative and have a new legislative district under some of the proposals released Tuesday by the state Redistricting Commission. The commission, comprised of two Democrats and two Republicans, released four separate maps for updated legislative and congressional districts as required every 10 years in response to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Democrats’ plans would move the state’s 9th Legislative District to the Tri-Cities and place Whitman County in the 16th district with Asotin Gar...
USDA’s Risk Management Agency said it continues to see increased participation in the Multi-Peril Insurance program for crops in Washington. Sept. 30 is the sales closing date for several crops in the Pacific Northwest. Among them, all wheat, Fall Planted Barley with Winter Coverage and Fall Planted Dry Peas and Lentils with Winter Coverage. RMA says last year’s rollout of the Common Crop Insurance Policy regulations, COMBO, fundamentally revising and creating one insurance plan out of four similar plans of insurance, was a success. An add...
Michele R. Brown, who has served on the Rosalia Schoolboard since 2005, has filed as a write-in for the position four seat. Brown said she missed the deadline for filing for the position due to the "chaotic life" involved in raising four children. She and her husband, Dan V. Brown, are the parents of DJ, Jason, Steven and Paige. Brown began service on the board Dec. 15, 2005, to fill an unexpired term. She has been elected to the seat twice since then. Ken Jacobs, former Rosalia mayor, filed for the board seat and is the lone candidate listed...
Seven schools in Whitman County have been granted a total of $502,712 from the state to make repairs to their buildings. The office of Randy Dorn, state Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced Monday grant awards to Colfax, Endicott, Garfield, LaCrosse, Lamont, Rosalia and Tekoa schools. The local schools were part of a 62-school, $5 million grant award throughout the state. Funding came from the Urgent Repair Grant program, which was created by the Legislature to fund repairs and renovations that relate to student health and safety....
After many months and much work, the “Coming Soon” sign has changed to “Open.” Events on Main will open Friday as a new coffee shop in the Hickman Building at Main Street and Wall in Colfax. It has been a long time coming, both in thought and action. “I always used to drive by and think ‘that’d be a great place for a coffee shop,” said Kari Rimbey, proprietor. She told her husband Steve, an electrician at Harrison Electric. “Absolutely not,” he said. “I am not going to buy that building.” But e...
After learning last week the first draft of Whitman County’s 2012 budget is more than $1.5 million in the hole, commissioners Monday began discussing how they want to balance next year’s spending plan. “I think we all can agree we’re not here to micromanage each department’s budgets,” said Commissioner Greg Partch. Department leaders in the county’s current expense operating fund predicted revenues of $12,109,117, which is $1,549,495 shy of the $13,658,612 they expect to spend next year. Administrative Director Gary Petrovich said he doubl...
Pullman Police Department has received a $300,000 “Smart Policing Initiative” from the U.S. Department of Justice. A report from Chief Gary Jenkins Sept. 8 said the department will use the grant funds to install video cameras at public locations where they have experienced a high frequency of violent crimes and neighborhood disorders. The department was one of 12 SPI grant recipients in the United States. In addition to storing video for investigative use, they hope to include the ability to send live video feeds to the police station and pat...
An industrial accident at a rock crushing operation on Warner Road east of Oakesdale Tuesday morning took the life of a Peck, Idaho, man. James C. Husey, 38, was pronounced dead at the scene by the flight nurse from a Medstar helicopter which had been called to the scene. She made the pronouncement after consulting with doctors at a Spokane Trauma Center. According to a report by Deputy Vincent Waltz, employees of DeAtley Crushing Sevice were working with electrical lines off a generator when Husey came in contact with a line that was...
Parade starts at 10 a.m., followed by royalty crowning, the egg toss and famed Ping Pong Ball Drop. Palouse Days arrives again Friday and Saturday with a lineup of long-standing attractions like the parade, car show and ping pong ball drop, along with a list of new attractons. “Palouse Days is a pretty full day this year,” said Bev Pearce, President of the Palouse Chamber of Commerce. “We always have fun here and with the added activities, more folks should come out and check out Palou...
Oakesdale-area resident Roger Whitten’s opposition to a north county wind farm may be over. Whitten told the Gazette Monday morning he is planning to drop his appeal and move to rural Spokane County. “We wish him well,” said Whitman County Planner Alan Thomson. Whitten’s appeal was scheduled for Monday before Lincoln County Judge John F. Strohmaier who is presiding over the appeal. Whitman County Judge David Frazier recused himself from the hearing because he knew landowners involved in the project. Whitten had appealed in Whitman County Superi...
It was hot at last week’s Palouse Empire Fair. How hot was it? So hot the the lines at the lemonade stand stretched almost to Diamond. So hot, an uncomfortable bull tried to escape Thursday’s Pee Wee Cowpokes show in favor of a shady spot outside. So hot that Fair Manager Bob Reynolds said preliminary attendance figures from the fair’s 62nd edition were down about 3,000 from last year’s big show. “It was a good fair. It would have been better if it hadn’t been so damn hot!” Reynolds said. Mercury stayed above 90 for most of the blazing hot f...
