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Candace Hodges Fisher of Steptoe, now financial coordinator for Whitman County District Court, has been named to the Colfax City treasurer’s job. In addition to coordinating funds for the justice court, Fisher has had prior experience as the clerk and treasurer to the Town of Farmington, Colfax City Administrator Michael Rizzitiello told city council members Monday night. An Oakesdale High School graduate, Fisher earned degrees in business education and accounting from Eastern Washington University. She has been employed with the county for t...
Pullman League of Women Voters has scheduled an election forum in Colfax at the library Oct. 21 and a forum at Umpqua Bank on N. Grand in Pullman Oct. 22. Both start at 7 p.m. County contested races, Joe Reynolds and Jim Hawkes for assessor, and Brett Myers and Adam Assenberg for sheriff, have been invited to attend. Three initiatives are on the ballot. I-591 which would prohibit government agencies from confiscating guns or other firearms from citizens without due process or from requiring background checks on firearm recipients unless a...
Three area WSU students who earned undergraduate degrees during the summer semester were Dorothy R. Thomas of Colton, bachelor of arts in business administration; Alexander Joseph Mueller of Farmington, bachelor of arts in social sciences, and Erik G. Johnson of Garfield, bachelor of science in kinesiology....
Colfax Mayor Todd Vanek will be the featured speaker at a Building Community banquet at the Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Event Center in Pullman Oct. 18. Invitations to the banquet have been sent out by Community Action Center of Pullman and recipients have been asked to respond to the center. Reservation fee will be $25 per plate. Mayor Vanek will talk on the topic of building community. He is now in the third year of his term as mayor. Avista is the presenting sponsor of the banquet....
The Palouse city council granted preliminary approval Sept. 23 to the town’s planning commission regarding the proposed Palouse Cove development. Developer Roy Druffel of Sand Road Land Company will now proceed with a final development plan to go before the city council. “Stay tuned,” said mayor Michael Echanove. Druffel’s engineer, Munir Daud of Pullman, has supplied the city of Palouse with a water and sewer plan to review. The 21 lots would be phase one of what Druffel intends as a two-phase, 42-lot development on Cove Road south of town. E...
Just a bump on the horizon is Steptoe Butte in this scene east of Colfax. After an unusually warm start to the fall season, temperatures are expected to come down this week around the county....
Real estate sales Dick L. Goodsen, Lewiston, to Russell P. and Debbie Hoisington, Culdesac, Idaho, house on Johnson Douglas Road in Colton, $50,000, Sept. 23. Robin C. Whitmore, Colfax, to William and Sue Marie Isbell, Colfax, 1982 14x66 mobile home on S. Hillcrest Drive in Colfax, $12,000, Sept. 23. Cheryl Coulter, Albion, to Albert T. and Bonnie A. Shoemaker, Albion, 1977 14x66 mobile home on N. G Street in Albion, $6,080, Sept. 23. Larry and Grace Altman, Lewiston, to Hinrichs and Company, LLC, Pullman, 50x30 shop building with 25x50 shed...
Entrepreneurs helped make America great. Many of the “big businesses” we know today started in the imaginations of immigrants who came to America, the land of opportunity — a place of boundless possibilities where your station in life didn’t matter, a land where hard work, innovation and perseverance held the key to the American dream. The story of M&Ms is a good example. Today, we know the Mars Company as a global giant marketing its candy and products in 100 nations. But it didn’t start that way. The Mars Company was founded in 1911 in Tacoma...
NOTICE OF DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS) Whitman County Planning issued a Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: Whitman County is proposing to expand its cluster residential opportunity zone to include ONLY a 97-acre parcel owned by the Evangelical Free Church located at 4812 Pullman Airport Road. After review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file with us, the Planning Office has determined that this proposal...
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2010. I don’t have a newborn baby in my house — if I did, I think I’d know. But my friend Tom is expecting a baby — or rather, he’s expecting his wife to give him a baby. “What’s it like?” Tom asked. “Having a new baby.” I think back to the sleeplessness surrounding the initial few weeks in the life of my first child. (I’ve always said that having a baby presents a great chance to catch up on your awake.) “Picture enemy artillery,” I advise. My basic position on newborns is tha...
Equal “Slap ‘er down again, Paw, slap ‘er down again. Make ‘er tell us more, Paw, tell us where she’s been. We don’t want our neighbors talkin’ ‘bout our kin. Slap ‘er down again, Paw, slap ‘er down again.” For those too young to remember, this was a 1948 hit song in America. It was right up there with, “I don’t want ‘er, you can have ‘er, she’s too fat for me…” I’m not making this up. I sang both with glee when I was a child. It was not only acceptable, it was encouraged. But times have changed, or so I thought. It seems domestic violence i...
The “war on women” is back, and more tendentious than ever. Democrats are replaying one of their greatest hits of 2012 in their furious battle to minimize their midterm losses in a political environment defined by an unpopular president and general unease. And why not? The war on women has a proven record of success — in mobilizing Democratic women and trumping what would otherwise seem much more important issues — and it is so simple that any idiot can run on it. The recipe is one part taking offense where clearly none was intended, and one...
I’m associated with a group called No Labels. You might have heard about the organization. It’s methodically trying to construct an environment that will encourage members of both parties to collaborate, to see past their rigid positions that have left the federal government largely paralyzed. Frankly, that approach is a no-brainer, but still a huge task considering the hateful venom that passes for political debate these days. But this is not about No Labels. This is about all of us. We need to rethink just what is acceptable in public con...
Remember Mary Mallon? Perhaps you’ll recognize her moniker: Typhoid Mary. She was a carrier of typhoid fever although she never was ill with the disease. Mary worked as a cook in the early 1900s. Although she showed no symptoms of the disease, she infected others. Once the link between her comings and goings and new cases of the disease was recognized, she was warned against working as a cook. She refused to accept the prohibition and was locked up for three years. Released, she changed cities and her name to avoid the authorities. The d...
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. COLFAX CAR THEFT SUSPECT A warrant for the arrest of Shauna H. Robison, 41, formerly of LaCrosse, was issued last week by Whitman County Superior Court. Robison is wanted here in a charge of theft of a motor vehicle. Colfax Police Chief Rick McNannay said Robison is a suspect in the theft of a 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer pickup truck which was ta...
The St. John scoreboard showed Home 62, Guests 52. But a light was out. The game was really tied 62-62 after Colton quarterback Carter Dahmen threw for a two-point conversion to Lane Moore with 24 seconds remaining. The Wildcats’ Luke Moore set up for the ensuing kickoff. He had already converted -- and recovered himself -- two onside kicks straight up the field. Colton coach Clark Vining had otherwise elected to kick short for most of the game. This time, however, Moore sent the ball high a...
After a tough first quarter on their home turf the Colfax football team Friday found the right gear and rolled up 41 unanswered points on the way to a 41-8 win over the Springdale Chargers. The Bulldogs rolled up 364 yards of offense with 219 yards passing and 135 rushing. “You can look at all the offensive stats and the scoring, but the real work for us was done by the defense,” Coach Mike Morgan commented. Colfax defense held the Chargers to just 94 yards total for the game. They had just six...
An 800th career win for Coach Sue Doering during a strong campaign in Spokane, and a hard fought league win over Northwest Christian Tuesday went into the books for the Colfax V netters this week. The Bulldogs out-fought the visiting Crusaders in a five game battle on the home court Tuesday to advance to 4-0 in league play and 16-2 overall. Coach Doering expected NWC to be tough after the two NE schools crossed paths in the Okanogan tournament three weeks ago. Tuesday the Bulldogs had trouble...
Pomeroy stayed ahead of the SE 1B volleyball pack Tuesday with a three-game win over the Liberty Christian Patriots at Richland. The win put the Pirates at 7-1 in the league race with six more rounds to go before the district playoffs. Pomeroy downed the Pats 25-13 25=9 and 25-18. Skylar Smith hit five aces and Ally Bott had eight kills in the Pirates win over the Patriots. Ireland Mayfield had 18 assists. Pomeroy swept Colton in the Thursday round 25-11 25-19 and 25-18 with Cheyenne Miller...
Garfield-Palouse played at Liberty Christian last Friday with four starters missing and went down 64-18. With two players out with injuries and two for disciplinary reasons, the Vikings (3-2) struggled in the Tri-Cities. They hope to have receiver Ian Niebergs back in the lineup this week as they travel to St. John for a key league game against the S.J.E. Eagles (1-4), who beat Colton last Friday....
KREM-2 News in Spokane has announced it’s “Tom’s Tailgate” production will be at the St. John Friday night for the football game between Garfield-Palouse and the home Eagles....
The Tekoa-Rosalia football team played Kettle Falls at home Friday and went down 48-0. With the score 40-0 halftime, and two T.R. kids out with concussions, coach Bob Bucsko converged with the Kettle Falls coach and they agreed to play a J.V. game the rest of the way. The score in the second half was 6-0 Kettle Falls. "When our kids match up with a team their age, they do well," said Bucsko of his young roster. The Timberwolves started the year with 26 players and, due to injuries, are now down to 14 or 15. This week, one of the injured T.R....
Colfax Crawdads fall baseball team placed second in the Spokane Fall Spokane Indians Pony baseball league after booking a split in four-team playoff Satruday at A.K. Jackson field The `dads wound up playing the two undereated teams in the league. The Crawdads blanked the top seeded Spokane Capital 10-0 in five innings of the first game and lost to Roger 5-6 in the championship game. In front, from the left, are Dustyn Hall, Nathan Coats, Matt Sharp, and Glen Gosse. In the back row, from the...
The two power runners on the local scene took overall wins in the big Pasco Invitational cross country run Saturday. Race officials split the big school and small school team scores, but Asotin’s Chandler Tiegen topped the whole field with a 16:00. Tracy Melville, a member of the LRS Bronco team from Sprague, led all the girls with a 18:59. In the team scoring for small schools, Northwest Christian won with 27 points; Asotin was second with 42 and Tri Cities Prep was third with 70. Kaleb Kolb again led the SJE boys with 21:26 for 41st place a...
A member of Garfield’s planning and zoning board is questioning the city after a large increase – which was later adjusted – in an assessed property value. Kevin Pickron has been working on his house at 408 West Adams Street for the past two and half years after buying it from a bank in a foreclosure sale for $44,000. “The plumbing was rotten, the electrical unsafe,” said Pickron. He put in new windows, painted and fixed the chimney. A new assessment in September put the value at $81,000....
