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--Keith Miller photo. Colfax quarterback Alex Teade rounds the corner and looks for an upfield lane in the Colfax shutout at Reardan with a little rear guard protection. Chapter one of the Colfax football 2009 road saga ended with a 28-0 shutout at Reardan Friday night. Chapter two will be a trip to Springdale, a place were the Colfax varsity hasn’t played since 1998. Friday’s action will be the second round of the NE Big B action with the Bulldogs and Davenport pegging the big wins in week one. --Keith Miller photo. Kellen Morgan takes out... Full story
LWK quarterback Jake Aune puts the option pitch right in front of Garrett Blauert Friday night at Washtucna. Valley Christian's Sam Poston looks like he has a line on Blauert, but the Tigercat speed back cut to the inside to pick up blocks and rolled to a touchdown. A mid-season clash for two teams on a roll has been booked Friday at LaCrosse. The 4-0 LaCrosse/Washtucna/ Kahlotus Tigercats will host the 3-0 Colton Wildcats after both teams rolled up big wins Friday night. Tigercat Coach Jeff Nelson Tuesday said his team is beginning to get... Full story
THURSDAY Five baristas from a bikini coffee stand in Everett were charged with prostitution for charging customers to touch their breasts and buttocks. Johnson & Johnson recalls some lots of infants’ and children’s Tylenol because of a possible bacterial contamination. Suspected drug hitmen burst into a Mexican radio station in Chihuahua state and shot dead a journalist in front of his colleagues. Four reports published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science show clear evidence of water, likely frozen, on the desert surfaces of both the M...
Two new faces are patrolling Oakesdale for crime these days. Keith Cooper and Dan Brown, Whitman County sheriffs who reside in Oakesdale, are providing a total 20 hours of police coverage in the town per week. They started working for Oakesdale Sept.1 after town council members Aug. 18 approved signing on the deputies. “It’s easier for Oakesdale than having to hire somebody new- where we just stepped in on the first day,” said Brown. County deputies normally work four 10-hour shifts per week. The two deputies’ work in Oakesdale is indepen...
A new real estate office opened its doors in Colfax today. Team Washington Real Estate, managed by Carmen Bruya, had a grand opening this morning at 222 1/2 S. Main Street next to Flowers & More. The idea for the new office came when she was chatting one day with the current owners of Team Idaho Real Estate, Mark and Debbie Loiaza. Team Idaho Real Estate, based in Moscow, already has one office in Pullman and was interested in branching out to Colfax. Bruya will sell mostly residential real estate, and some land and commercial real estate,...
Game day at WSU is bringing a little extra cash to Palouse with football fans staying overnight in the new RV park. So far, the park has earned $2,800 since it opened in early July, notching 112 reservations. The Nov. 14 WSU-UCLA game has already produced reservations for the Palouse Park. Just one spot was left in the park last Friday before the Palouse Days weekend and the WSU-Southern Methodist game. “It’s great to have the business there,” said Palouse councilman Mike Milano. Eight out of the 10 park sites have already been snatched up fo...
Farmington has a brand new Third Street through the east side of town. Farmington received a Washington TIB Grant for $896,100 for the project. The street was designed to WSDOT standards to meet the traffic flow of cars, farm equipment and semi-trucks. The project started just after July 4 and finished the first week of September, ahead of schedule. The job includes new sidewalks. TD&H Engineers, HLT Construction and POE Paving were involved in the project. Transportation Improvement Board stands for TIB. “It has potholes and is alligatoring w...
Heidi Brincken holds a bolt of quilting fabric in the new quilting store. Standing among a maze of quilting fabric bolts, shelves holding embroidery thread, and display cases of hand-hewn nick-nacks are two women trying to pull a quilting store together before opening day today, Oct. 1. “Do you have any idea how many bolts we have now?” calls Heidi Brincken to her mother, Caren Barber. A doubtful laugh comes from the next room. “Uh, no,” Barber answers back. The Quilted Moose is the new quilting store in Colfax, located on Main Street across... Full story
Complaints from neighbors of a proposed housing development delayed the Pullman Planning Commission’s decision to re-zone the Port of Whitman’s new development and an industrial park after a public hearing last Wednesday, Sept. 23. The port is partnering with the Steve Mader family to build an industrial park and a new housing development on ground that will be eventually annexed into Pullman. The developments would cover more than 515 acres on the northern edge of Pullman. The land is bound by Highway 27 on the east, the Pullman-Albion Roa...
Four final candidates are in the running to replace the retiring Whitman Hospital and Medical Center administrator Jon Davis. All four have worked in Washington at one point in their careers and have experience working in a small town, said Gerard Fischer, the liaison official between Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Whitman Hospital. Fischer declined to name the candidates. He said the hiring will be announced early this month. Three of the four candidates have already visited the hospital for rounds of interviews with the hospital...
The vaccine for seasonal flu is now in stock and available in area pharmacies, clinics and local public health office. Seasonal flu is the flu that comes around every winter, said Dr. Tim Moody, county health officer. The vaccine covers three strains of influenza; two type A flu strains and one type B. It does NOT cover the new H1N1 strain or swine flu. The strains of influenza virus that make up this year’s seasonal flu vaccine were decided upon and produced well before we even knew about the new H1N1 Influenza. Moody warned nobody knows h...
Parents of children with disabilities asked questions to a panel of agency representatives that help their children make the transition to life after high school at a meeting Sept. 25. One father asked about options for employment for his 14-year-old adopted daughter with full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome. “We see her future as pretty bleak,” he told the panel of agency representatives. The meeting was in the Colfax library. The panel included representatives from the Division of Developmental Disabilities, Whitman County Developmental Ser... Full story
Whitman County District Court Judge Douglas Robinson ruled Columbia Phytotechnology owes the Port of Whitman $1,154 for unpaid rent on a building the company leased in the port’s Pullman Industrial Park. “O.k., now what’s the chance of us getting it,” Port Commissioner John Love asked Joe Poire, port’ executive director, at a port meeting Tuesday. Port officials have not been able to contact the company, and had to publish a summons to appear in order for court action to advance. A representative of the company did not appear at the court hea...
Food supplies are alarmingly low at the Colfax food pantry and donations are greatly needed at the moment. Residents hit by the recession and higher costs for food and fuel have had an increased need for the pantry in recent months, said Hannah Walker, director of the F.I.S.H. food pantry. F.I.S.H. stands for Friends In Service of Humanity. “I’m beginning to get that kind of panicky feeling,” Walker said. Today, their supplies are at a record low, Walker said. In addition to the economic factors, the pantry is also low because families tend...
Come rain or come shine Colfax has put on its finest face for the fourth edition of the Autumn Harvest Hullabaloo this weekend. “We’ve taken care of just about everything, but even we can’t do anything about the weather,” said Elaine McClintock, chair of the Hullabaloo committee. “So my advice is to just bundle up and have fun anyway.” The National Weather Service is predicting a high likelihood of showers this weekend. Soggy or sunny, this year’s Hullabaloo kicks off at 3 p.m. Friday, as artisans roll out their craft booths at the First Baptis...
Extracurricular staff let it be known loud and clear Monday night they were unhappy with the Colfax school board’s decision two weeks ago to cut their pay by one percent to fund the Knowledge Bowl program which was otherwise set to be eliminated. “To me, it was kind of a slap in the face,” said Sue Doering, long-time Colfax volleyball coach, as she addressed the board about their prior motion. In response, school board members said they were open to considering other options to come up with the $2,000 needed to fund the program. The board...
Whitman County government lacks an open dialogue between county offices, according to a recent report from Washington State University’s Division of Government Studies and Services. That lack of communication exhibits itself in a lack of “factual or empathetic understanding” between departments. “A general lack of trust is apparent within the County system, especially across departments,” the report stated. WSU’s researchers found that, while employees take a great deal of pride in their own jobs, they do not understand or appreciate...
Players from both teams join referees in a prayer circle led by a Valley Christian coach for Andrew Swank in the end zone at Washtucna. Football players from Valley Christian and LaCrosse-Washtucna-Kahlotus gathered for a prayer circle in the end zone at Washtucna Friday night while Andrew F. Swank, 17, a junior on the Valley Christain Panthers’ football team was loaded into an ambulance after he collapsed along the visitors’ sideline of the football field. After he was blocked and fell, Swank, who was known as Drew, went to the Valley Chr...
NOTICE OF HEARING/INTENT TO DISPOSE OF SURPLUS COUNTY PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Legislative Authority of Whitman County, Washington, will hold a public hearing on Monday, October 19, 2009, at 11:15 a.m., or as soon as possible thereafter, in the Commissioner’s Chambers, in the Whitman County Courthouse, Colfax, Washington, for the purpose of declaring their intention to dispose of surplus county property, more particularly described as follows: ER&R Vehicles and Equipment: Equip.# Type Serial # 9403 2001 Ford Crown Victoria 2FAFP... Full story
