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Oakesdale volleyball team advanced their record to 2-1 Tuesday with a three-game win over the LWK Tigercats. The Panthers prevailed 25-17, 25-19 and 25-9. Jacey Johnson led Oakesale with 12 kills and 13 digs. She and Lindsey Lindgren each had three aces. Maddy Shrope put up 26 assists for the hosts. Britte Harder hit eight kills for LWK, and Nicole Harder had eight digs and 10 assists. Jessica Guske hit three aces and Jazzmyn Gordon put up three blocks. Oakesdale took the win after Colton rolled north last Wednesday and posted a 3-1 win before...
The St. John-Endicott Eagles returned to the football field Friday night for game two of the regular season, looking to erase a 58-0 season-opening home loss to Odessa-Harrington last week. This time, the Eagles hung tough, with the Troy Trojans running into competition, except for perhaps two asterisks. “I can assure you that Troy, Idaho has two studs,” said St. John-Endicott coach Ken Gering. Junior running back Jonah Lay ran for 268 yards. “The kid was absolutely lightning,” Gering said. D...
Garfield-Palouse’s home opener featured moves both planned and improvised in a 28-12 win over Lakeside of Plummer, Idaho, last Friday. By the end, a new quarterback was handling a position he’s never played before in a game, and a senior special teams player who hasn’t played football since junior high was in at receiver and defensive end. “We were having a Rube Goldberg project there for awhile,” said Garfield-Palouse coach Will Woltering. The game began with an intentional move, taking la...
Scout Cai of Colfax goes up for a hit against Emily Zinc of Gonzaga Prep of the Greater Spokane League in the Thursday match. Taylor Garcia and Scout Cai put up the fence in front of Kate Budig and Ellie Rivard of Gonzaga at the Colfax gym. Colfax Volleyball players will try it again tonight on their home court when they host Mt. Spokane, another GSL team which is expected to bring a lot of talent to face the Bulldogs. Colfax will host the Wildcats after losing a hard-fought battle with Gonzaga...
After two weeks on the road, Colfax will open the football season on their home grid Friday with the Wilbur/Creston Wildcats making the trip to the Schmuck Park field. Colfax will host after sustaining a 47-16 crunch job from the LaConner Braves last Friday in the first ever game against the westside team. The big loss to the Braves follows a league win by Colfax over Liberty last week in the NE opener to leave the Bulldlogs at 1-1 on the season. Wilbur Creston will arrive with a 1-1 mark after sustaining a 12-30 loss to the Davenport in the...
Alex Pakootas of the Timberwolves missed the handle on this pass as Grant Kinzer pursues. The Colton School District bus rolled through Colfax last Friday evening and pulled into the Busch Distributors’ Chevron lot. Waiting there were four football players on leave from the Palouse Empire Fair. “We picked them up on the way,” said Colton coach Clark Vining, whose team won 72-36 later that night at Rosalia to improve to 1-1 on the year. “I thought we played well,” Vining said. “We improved fr... Full story
Caleb McMillan of Soap Lake, right, booked the first ride on a bull in four years of competition at the Palouse Empire Rodeo Sunday. McMillan scored 75 points with the ride to take the event. Still a high school student, he also competed in bareback, saddle bronc and steer wrestling. Jacob Stacy of Moses Lake, above, made an early grab in the steer wrestling event Sunday.... Full story
Colfax library will host the INBC mobile blood collection van Sept. 25 from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Donors can enter to win two free movie passes, a Samsung Galaxy Tab and a one-year lease on a BMW. Priority will be given to those with pre-scheduled appointments. Walk-ins will be seen on a first come, first serve basis with photo I.D. required. Donors must be 18 years old or have an INBC permission form signed by a parent or guardian.... Full story
Saturday, Sept. 26 will be a state parks free day in recognition of the 22nd anniversary of National Public Lands Day. ‘Free days’ apply only to day-use access by vehicles, not overnight stays or rented facilities. Washington State Parks will have one more ‘free day’ Wednesday, Nov. 11, in honor of Veterans Day....
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories will host the annual Education and Wellness Expo Oct. 7 from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the S.E.L. Event Center. The Expo will feature more than 50 health and education vendors. Workshops will be presented on bodyweight strength training, financial planning for college, meal planning for the busy person, interview skills and resumé building, and achieving your best mental health. Attendees will have access to several on-site services, including free glucose, cholesterol and fitness screening. Door prizes...
A formal complaint has been filed against the Palouse Police Department. Palouse resident Jamie Gaber appeared at the city council meeting Sept. 8 and read a statement saying that she and her family have been contacted several times by police and feel they are being harassed. Their complaint also noted that officers’ demeanors were below expectations. The formal complaint filed was against the police department as well as Mayor Michael Echanove for not addressing their concerns previously. G... Full story
The community will soon have the opportunity to see and learn about the work of the Port of Whitman County and other local ports. The Pullman Chamber of Commerce is bringing back the port tour that took place yearly in the past. “We have done it on a yearly basis, and we took a couple years off,” said Marie Dymkoski, executive director at the chamber. “People were asking for it again, and we felt like there was enough want for it.” The regional tour, scheduled for Friday Nov. 6, will start at the chamber in Pullman. Dymkoski said the time is... Full story
City Administrator Mike Rizzitiello said the first year of the revised Colfax Farmers' Market, which closed down operations Sept. 4, was a good year of learning and experimentation, and he is optimistic about the future of it. It also had its rough spots. “We believe in some way, shape or form it will happen next year. We hear there is a desire (for it),” he said. The market this year had 16 registered vendors, but the most vendors at any single market was 10. “The big issue is that not all of them showed up,” he said. At the final Friday...
The town of Palouse has submitted its Transportation Improvement Board application once more for their proposed West Whitman Street project. Filing the paperwork at the end of August, the work would extend previous work in 2008 on the East Whitman Street revitalization project. Palouse mayor Michael Echanove directed engineers Munir Daud & Associates to update the numbers on the request, which was turned down last year in the state sweepstakes which funds road projects around Washington. Last ye... Full story
Michele Olson, Leslie Rounds and Gail Webster pose with one of the Coats for Colfax collection bins at the U.S. Post Office in Colfax. Eagles members started the Coats for Colfax drive after seeing requests for coats on children's Christmas wish lists. When Michele Olson was reading through children's wish lists for the Colfax Giving Tree last Christmas in Colfax, she noticed an item several of the children were asking for: a coat. “I was buying all these coats for the Giving Tree,” Olson sai... Full story
The 13th annual deer collision statistics were released Monday for 2015, showing that a driver in Washington state has slightly worse odds of hitting a deer than at this same time last year. According to the release, Washington drivers are nearly 10 percent more likely to collide with a deer than last year. The data was collected by State Farm on a nationwide level. According to this data, the odds that a driver in Washington will hit a deer are 1 out of 337, while the national odds are 1 out of 169. The data was collected between July 1, 2014... Full story
Firetronics, Inc., Cheney, has received a Colfax building permit to make improvements to the fire alarm system at Paul's Place on S. Mill in Colfax. The firm will install a gas valve for an automatic shutoff which will be tied to the alarm system at the facility. Also planned will be a changeover of several smoke detectors in the alarm system. The report noted some of the detectors in place cannot be cleaned....
Colfax School District board will hold a special work session Monday, Sept. 21, to hear presentations by two potential architects for its pending track project. Set for 6 p.m., representatives from Design West of Pullman and Architects West of Coeur d’Alene will present information about options and costs related to what is known as the C-Town Project, a more than year-long effort to raise funds to replace ―or resurface the aging track. The meeting will be open to the public. “People are invit...
Human Foosball is back for the second year and Lions Club burgers will achieve tenure. Palouse Days 2015 returns with a full slate of town events Saturday. “Our city guys will polish the streets, everyone will be out Friday night to set up barriers and we go for it,” said Debbie Goetz, president of the Palouse Chamber of Commerce. The day begins with the Lions Club breakfast from 7-10 a.m. for a $5 donation. At 8 a.m. the Young Life-sponsored 1k/5k/10k starts followed by the opening of the 33r...
Although gas prices have dropped, the gas tax has increased by seven cents per gallon. With a recent decline in prices at the pump, it may have been difficult to notice how the state's higher gas tax is affecting drivers, but a recent study released Tuesday may have made it easier. The gas tax, approved in the extended legislative session in July, increased the tax by seven cents per gallon Aug. 1, upping the tax for Washington drivers to 62.9 cents–44.5 cents for the Washington tax and 18.4 cen...
Tyler and Brett Kincaid of Colfax assist their younger brother, Kacy, in fitting and showing at the Palouse Empire Fair. Kacy has autism. Three years ago, his brothers decided he had been a spectator outside the show ring long enough and deserved his own turn inside of the ring. Barn supervisors, Nathan and Jessica Moore, have accommodated him by creating his own show class and his allowing brothers to help. Kacy is a seventh grader, Brett is a sophomore and Tyler is a senior. All are Colfax...
Eliza Lundberg and Isabel Shepherd, both St. John, enjoy a fair ride. Miranda Davidson, Pullman High School junior, was named Miss Palouse Empire Fair Queen Friday after competition at the fair's community building. Her talent competition included a vocal solo, “Put Your Records On.” Olivia Mellor of Colfax and Gracie Dickerson of St. John/Endicott were named fair princesses. Lucy Ward, a junior at Pullman High School, was named Palouse Empire Rodeo Queen Sunday. Courtney Devorak from Uni... Full story
