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Whitman County Commissioners Monday approved the publishing of a notice of intent to surplus 12 items from the Public Works Department. The annual list, which usually consists of six or seven items, includes pickups, two Mack trucks, a road grader and other equipment. The equipment will be sold at auction sites, according to Mark Storey, public works director....
Building began last weekend for Haunted Palouse, which is celebrating its 14th year. Through the past 13 years, more than $400,000 has been generated for local non-profit groups. This year the beneficiaries will be Palouse Lions, GPAC, Viking Crew, Gar-Pal FFA, Palouse Skate Park, Palouse Area Robotics Team, Palouse Museum, Palouse Chamber and Palouse Community Center. Other local clubs also benefit from selling food and hot drinks during the event, which will be Oct. 23, 24, 30 and 31. Haunted Palouse requires many hours of volunteer work,...
A superior court jury Sept. 30 found Ruddy Aladina, 25, Pullman, not guilty of a charge of second degree rape. The jury was also unable to reach a verdict on a lesser charge of third degree rape. The jury verdict came after a three-day trial. The charge was filed after Pullman Police received a report from a 21-year-old Pullman woman who alleged Aladina had forced her to have sex. The report said the alleged victim met Aladina on the dance floor at Mike's, which is located in Adams Mall on College Hill in Pullman, Dec. 13, 2014. She told...
While many area schools are seeing declining enrollment, the LaCrosse school has seen a slight jump in enrollment and staffing, Superintendent Doug Curtis reported at the LaCrosse Community Pride community discussion Sept. 30. Curtis, serving in his first year as full-time superintendent after filling the superintendent’s and principal’s seat last year, shared the news of the school’s growth with optimism. “This whole area has just been tough,” said Curtis, referring to the declining enrollment numbers at many of the county’s schools. “We picke...
Volunteers are needed to help with the big Pac-12 cross country meet which is now three weeks away from hitting the Colfax Golf Course. The races will bring men’s and women’s teams from all Pac-12 teams for an event which will stretch over three days, Oct. 28-30. The first two days of the events will involve setup on Wednesday followed by practice runs on for the team on Thursday before the race day Oct. 30....
Nathan Vanos of St. George's prevailed Tuesday in an all NE run at Wilbur with a 15:45.4 clocking. Vanos finished almost 18 seconds ahead of league foe Jack Ammon of Northwest Christian who clocked 16:03.23 for second place. The Crusaders, who had three finishers in the top five, took the team honor with 52 points, three under the St. George's totaled. Finishers for Colfax were Tim Cornelius, 24th at 18:31; Chase Baerlocher, 29th at 18:42; Carson Cloaninger, 42nd at 20:11; and Josh Goebel, 59th at 21:22. Madison Ward of St. Georges led the...
Alex Pakootas goes up for an extra point catch attempt in the first half in the Tekoa-Rosalia homecoming game. The game ball gets suspended between Pakootas and Isaiah Ellenwood of Yakama Tribal. Tekoa/Rosalia Timberwolves booked their first win of the season in a big way Friday night when they rolled past Yakama Tribal 66-16. The T-Wolves ripped 28 quick points in the first quarter to take control of the game. Cody Thornton, who had rolled for 205 yards on the night and four TDs, hit the f...
Zoe Moser goes up for kill shot againts the Pirates in the Thursday battle at Colton with MaryAnn Jacobs in the background. McKenzie Kimberling, Georgia Meyer and MaryAnn Jacobs hit the deck for Colton in the final hectic moments of Thursday’s showdown with Pomeroy. Pomeroy Pirates bounced to the top of the SE volleyball race with an 8-0 record after winning last Thursday's showdown with Colton and sweeping Liberty Christian in the Tuesday round. Thursday at Colton the Wildcats and Pirates l...
Colfax volleyball team departs today for Colbert to play the first of two matches booked against NE foes during homecoming week. The Bulldogs, who are undefeated in league play, will have their official homecoming match in front of the home crowd Saturday when they host St. George's with the jayvee match starting at 11 a.m. The Bulldogs will have five more NE matches after facing the Dragons. Friday and Saturday, Colfax again ventured north to play in the Sheridan Crossover tournament in Spokane. They lost to one of three foes in their opening...
Garfield-Palouse freshman Ely Hawkins tackles Dayton’s Tristan Willis in the second quarter Oct. 3 at Palouse. The Vikings play their homecoming game Friday. His voice cut into the night sky. “Ely, make a tackle!” yelled Garfield-Palouse coach Will Woltering last Friday night across the home field in the first half against Dayton. Seconds later, No. 40 was called to the sidelines. Sent back into the game, freshman Ely Hawkins and the Vikings scored on their next drive. On the ensuing kicko...
After two weeks on the road, Colfax gridders will return to their home grid to host Kettle Falls Friday in the homecoming game. The Kettle club will arrive after getting their first win of the season, a 16-14 trim over Oroville with a charge in the last quarter. Kettle picked up the Oroville game for their non-league week in the campaign. Kettle has posted a 0-4 record in the league with a 6-47 loss to Liberty in their last NE round two weeks ago. Coach Mike Morgan said scout films show Kettle can be expected to run a variety of offensive sets...
A new road project is underway at the Port of Whitman County industrial park in Pullman. Representatives from Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) met with port commissioners in July regarding the road project and are now moving forward with it. The road, which will be on SEL property in the Port, will run parallel to NE Hopkins Court beginning at NE Terre View and ending at NE Hickman Court, according to a news release from SEL. Already in place at the construction site is a dirt road, which will now be paved and improved into a fun...
Sydney Farnsworth, shown here in her Palouse Empire Rodeo Queen mode, will compete this weekend for the title of Miss Teen Rodeo Washington at Ellensburg. Sydney Farnsworth, who completed her reign as the Palouse Empire Rodeo Queen at this year's fair, has her sights set on another crown. The Pullman High School senior will compete in the Miss Teen Rodeo Washington Pageant this weekend in Ellensburg. The three-day competition begins today and concludes Saturday. Most of the events will take...
Resolution of a complaint against the Palouse Police Department and Mayor Michael Echanove remains on hold because the town’s Police, Fire & Safety committee chairman has been away on vacation. Rick Wekenman presented an initial report to the Palouse city council Sept. 22. He and his committee had not yet met with Phil Gaber and other parties involved in what has been described as a neighbors’ dispute. The Gabers contend that police response has been inappropriate, and that Echanove failed to ad...
Motley & Motley construction crews are expected to be at the Colfax airport for at least another two weeks to fix unforeseen issues with tile lines which have caused water to surface around the $1.8 million runway project at the Port of Whitman County Business Air Center. The runway paving, however, has been completed, and temporary striping has been painted. The Port of Whitman County Business Air Center, originally expected to re-open this week after more than two months of construction, will...
Demolition work commences on the Uniontown library. With big concrete slabs in a pile on the street last Monday, the Uniontown Library expansion project got underway. “Amen,” said project coordinator Leslee Miller. “It’s been a lot of work.” Mangum Construction of Clarkston began Sept. 28, cutting out the old concrete floor of the former fire station garage which will be the main room of the new library. The floor was replaced to remove the previous sloped surface for drainage. The library p...
Colfax City council Monday night approved annexation of 1.59 acres of land behind St. Ignatius, the site of a proposed housing development, on a 4-2 vote. The vote came after the council received a petition from 22 residents of the South Hill area who objected to annexing the property at this time without more information on the type of development which could go on the site. The 1.59 acre site is part of the St. Ignatius property which had been located in the county. The city sought to annex the land to place all the St. Ignatius land inside...
Events on Main owner Kari Rimbey has a few reasons to be thankful – 76 million to be more exact. Hackers unsuccessfully attempted to work their way into the Events on Main credit card machine via Rimbey's merchant number Monday, causing debit and credit cards to not work at the terminal. “It was just an attack on our merchant account,” said Rimbey. The terminal was shut down Monday, and did not get back up and running until Tuesday afternoon, Rimbey said. The hackers attempted to run the merchant number for $20,000 nearly every time cards...
The stone service station is one of six rock dwellings acquired by LaCrosse Community Pride. The group plans to transform the service station into an Ice Age Flood museum and visitors’ center. It was 13,000 to 18,000 years ago when the most recent historic Ice Age floods swept through areas of Idaho, Washington and Oregon, shaping the landscape and depositing soil and rock in the areas the floods affected. “The Ice Age Floods carved the huge, bare, basalt channels and dry falls, stranded mas...
