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Colfax runners rolled to Reardan Tuesday for a Bi-County run on the Reardan course which features a grade near the turn back point. Nathan Vanos of St. George’s clocked the win at 17:38. Jackson Elfers of Colfax again topped the Colfax entry with a fifth place finish at 18:12. Brock Morgan placed 12th at 19:33 and Tim Cornelius followed behind Morgan with a 19:26. In the junior high race, Cory Newman of Reardan won at 8:48, and Logan Gingerich of Coflax placed second at 9:58. Also placing for the Bullpups were Zach Williams -3rd at 10:14, D...
Colfax Saturday will host teams of the Clearwater Football League which rotates sites for all team game dates during the season. The league is made up of 14 teams. First of the seven games here Saturday will be at 8 a.m. The Colfax third-fourth grade team, now 1-1, will play the LC Wildcats at 12:40, and the Colfax fifth-sixth grade team will play the LC Colts at 3 p.m. Colfax and the Colts are now tied for the lead with 1-0-1 records.... Full story
Colfax Crawdads bagged their first win in the Spokane senior Babe Ruth fall baseball league with a 8-5 decision in the first game Saturday at McDonald Park. Patrick Jacobs pitched the win over the Spokane Red Sox who arrived at McDonald Park undefeated. Hunter Weitz, Brent Becker and Garrett Burke booked the key hits. The Crawdads finished with a 5-6 loss in the second game after a last inning rally loaded the bases but fell short when wind blew a blastoff hit by Jared Paul of Moscow into foul territory. The Crawdads will host one more twin...
Fun Run: 1.C.J. Hansen, 12, Farmington; 2.Tyler Bober, 10, Oakesdale, 3. Gavin Schrope, 10, Oakesdale. Tube-A-Palooza:Best Overall/Farthest Tube Roll: Benjamin Schafer, 12, Farmington. Ages 10-Up: 1.Julie Jo Baljo, 2.Serena Hill, 3. Ian Pierce. Ages 9-Under: 1. Diagostino, 2.Ryan Baljo, 3. Ely Belgarde....
1. In 2011, St. Louis’ David Freese became the sixth player to win MVP awards in the league championship series and World Series in the same year. Name three of the first five. 2. Alan Ashby caught three no-hitters during his 17-year major-league career. Name two of the pitchers. 3. Name the last football team other than Oklahoma or Texas to win the Big 12 Conference championship game. 4. Which two players have won the most NBA All-Star Game MVP awards? 5. When was the last time before 2012 (Andy Murray) that a British tennis player won the g...
Colton Tuesday bumped their season run to 10-2 with a three-game win over Pomeroy on the Wildcats’ court. The Wildcats put down the win in three straight, 25-16 25-26 and 25-18. Jenna Moser hit 12 kills for the Wildcats, and Kaden Dahmen put up 16 assists. Kaitlin Druffel had seven digs. In the Thursday round, Colton and Garfield/Palouse battled for five games with the Wildcats winning the decider at 15-8. Moser had 28 kills in the battle, and Druffel had 24 digs. Cassie Thompson had 22 kills for the Vikings, and Chandler Pfaff had 34 a...
Colfax volleyball players posted a three-game win over Reardan, the defending state champions, Saturday to highlight a week-long run against the championship teams. The Bulldogs finished the run 2-1 with Colville, the A division champions, dropping Colfax in the second go-round Saturday to end the locals’ early season win string at 9-0. Colfax bounced back to defeat Lakeside Tuesday night in a five-game battle. Next action for Coach Sue Doering’s team will be tonight when the LRS Broncos arrive here for the second league round. The wee...
Three of the pre-season “teams to watch” picked up power wins Friday in the first round of league action in the SE eights. Liberty Christian, the team picked by many league coaches to be the power club in the fall race, moved their record to 4-0 with 54-14 blistering of Touchet, a team which had a strong start in non-league action. LaCrosse/Washtucna dominated Sunnyside Christian 50-6 for their third win of the year, and Pomeroy topped the SJE Vikings 64-28. In a smoke-delayed game at Colton Monday, Garfield Palouse Viking weighed into the lea...
After an unscheduled break under smoky skies, Colfax football team will be cranked up Friday night to start the league part of their season. The Bulldogs, who last saw action two weeks ago when they out-battled a skilled Coeur d’Alene jayvee team at Schmuck Park, will host Liberty in the first of five league games. Last Friday, Colfax was booked to travel to Moscow and battle the Bears in what looked like their toughest test in the non-league schedule. The game was scratched because of air quality conditions which shut down part of the F... Full story
With a barrage of big plays, the Nighthawks of Tekoa, Oakesdale and Rosalia stayed perfect Friday night with a 32-22 home win over defending 2B state champions Waitsburg/Prescott at Oakesdale. Waitsburg arrived at Tekoa with a 3-0 mark on the new season after last year’s title run which included a 35-0 league win over TOR and a shutdown of Colfax in the semi-final round. Waitsburg QB Zach Bartlow and nine other seniors graduated off the title club last spring. The TOR defense locked down the potent Cardinals attack in the first half, not g...
THURSDAY Slovak officials rejected the overwhelming results of a popular Internet campaign to name a new pedestrian and cycling bridge near the capital after U.S. action film star Chuck Norris. Negotiations between the dockworkers union and the organization for shipping companies and ports were extended for 90 days, through December 29, averting a potential strike that would stop deliveries to ports along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. FRIDAY Space Shuttle Endeavour touched down in Los Angeles on the back of a jumbo jet, greeted by... Full story
After starting the program last year, the Palouse Area Robotics team has secured a new grant for the 2013 competitions, specifically for a new younger division from Colfax. The student group has been awarded an $800 First Lego League grant from the Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction, to be split between two age 9-14 teams. They are both part of the Palouse Area Robotics team, made up of high school students from Colfax and Pullman. Last year, the older group competed in the... Full story
Farmington Mayor Ron Dugan’s 12-year-old granddaughter left the house and headed to the Farmington basketball court. She came back a few minutes later, basketball in hand. “The hoops are down,” she reported. Mayor Dugan had forgotten to let her know the hoops had to be taken down in May because of concerns that the court’s cracked concrete was a “trip hazard.” A new grant Farmington just received should change all of that. The Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) anno... Full story
Ken Duft of Pullman and Keith Paulson of Diamond were appointed to Whitman County’s planning commission Monday by county commissioners. Both were appointed to represent commissioner District 3 on the citizen panel. The appointments put seven members on the nine-member commission with the pending departure of commission chair Guy Williams. Planner Alan Thomson has proposed shrinking the volunteer panel to a seven member roster because declining ranks have made it tough for the board to field a quorum for official meetings. The volunteer c... Full story
With an assist from the mayor and a city councilman, a summer-long investigation into four alleged junk vehicles in Garfield came to a conclusion last week. In early June, Palouse police officer Joe Merry started investigating a complaint about four vehicles at 604 West Spokane Street at the Garfield trailer park. A series of notices and deadlines followed, leading to a public hearing at the Garfield city council meeting Sept. 19. Officer Merry presented to the council a rundown of events... Full story
Two suspects arrested and jailed Sept. 18 in Endicott on probable drug charges were allowed release on their own recognizance Sept. 19 in Superior Court and ordered to report back to court Friday for arraignment in the event formal charges are filed. The two men were arrested Sept. 18 after warrant searches of their homes in Endicott. The arrest report on Richard Anderson, 54, alleges two purchases of methamphetime were made in separate undercover drug operations earlier this month and the search conducted in his residence on Machin Street...
A motorcycle accident on Highway 272 Wednesday morning, Sept. 19, took the life of Richland resident Bernard B. Biddle, 81. According to the Washington State Patrol report, Biddle was riding eastbound when he lost control of the 2011 C 50 800cc Suzuki on a curve to the right. The motorcycle crossed the highway and went into the ditch on the opposite side of the highway across from the Lee Bannister residence. The motorcycle came to a stop about 20 feet from the highway. The accident scene was spotted by a westbound motorist. The WSP report...
Around 1,200 feet of hillside above the Port of Wilma is all that remains of the Port of Whitman County’s $14 million project to run a fiber optic network link through Whitman County. Joe Poire, port executive director, reported to port commissioners at their regular meeting last Thursday, Sept. 20, that a line of fiber optic cable needs to be buried in ground overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just north of the Port of Wilma to finish installation of the cable. Crews from contractor Henkels and McCoy laid fiber optic cable last m...
Smoke from mountain wildfires hung over the Palouse for another week, forcing the cancellation of high school football games and keeping skies hazy. Wind pushed smoke into Whitman County from the range of wildfires burning on the east slope of the Cascade Mountains and in Idaho. Whitman County Health Officer Brad Bowman recommended residents limit outdoor activities when smoke limits visibility. Whitman County Health department in an air quality advisory reported the Department of Ecology rating was “unhealthy for sensitive groups.” High ris...
They ran out of cheese, beer, pie, ice cream and hot dogs. They had 15 hamburger patties left. The first Farmington Harvest Festival entered the night Saturday with one of the event’s 26 volunteers driving up to Tekoa for 100 hot dogs and cases of beer from C & D’s. The five kegs at the beer garden were dry. “Our whole goal for a first annual was to break even,” said Chairman Frank Triplett. “We were expecting around 200 people and we’re guessing there was about 400.” It all added up to a $3,50...
