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Two more league wins of three games each kept Tekoa/Oakesdale and Pomeroy at the top of the SE net race. The two league leaders are slated to collide next Tuesday at Pomeroy. Tekoa/Oakesdale has a tough test tonight when Colton visits at Oakesdale. Pomeroy will be at Palouse. TEKOA/OAKESDALE Tuesday defeated the Spartans at Rosalia in three games, 25-11 25-13 and 25-13 with Cassy Mendoza hitting 11 kills and Kaela Dewan putting up 18 assists. Alexa Overton had five aces for the ‘hawks. SE 1B STANDINGS Tekoa/Oakesdale 9-1 Pomeroy 9-1 Colton 7... Full story
St. John/Endicott, Colton and Pomeroy moved up in the SE Eights standings with wins in the Friday round. The Eagles, who prevailed against the Garfield/Palouse Vikings at Palouse claimed sole possession of the league’s top spot. Coach Bob Clements said the Eagles still have tough tests in the league and don’t intend to look past any foe in their last four regular games. They host last-place Sunnyside Christian this week, but Clements said they don’t intend to look past the Knights. ST. JOHN/ENDICOTT rolled past Garfield/Palouse Friday at Palou... Full story
Colfax Bulldog starters worked a full shift Friday and finished up a solid night’s work for a 27-0 win over the Lakeland Eagles in a non-league home game. The Eagles provided the undefeated Bulldogs with a solid challenge for four quarters, a good tuner for the balance of the NE 2B action and the start of the playoffs. Colfax will travel to Ritzville Friday to play the number-two Broncos, now officially Lind/Ritzville/ Sprague after signing on their I-90 neighbors. NE 2B STANDINGS Colfax 3-0 5-0 228-67 L/R/Sprag 3-0 4-1 123-35 Reardan 1-2 3...
Marriages Jon Manning, 24, Moscow, and Kelsey Einig, 23, Pullman, Oct. 5 Clyde Bingham III, 54, Pullman, and Debra Robole, 55, Pullman, Oct. 7 Justin Clements, 23, Pullman, and Ashley Packard, 20, Pullman, Oct. 7 Building Permits Kim Johner, reroof residence, 306 S. Mill, Oct. 5 Larry Harrison, $60,000, pole building, 800 W. River Drive, Oct. 7 Real Estate Sales Hickman Boot and Saddlery, Inc., Post Falls, to Events on Main, Inc., by Kari Rimbey, commercial building in 200 block of N. Main, Colfax, $60,000, April 22. Shari and Michael Baker,...
Letters on a weathered, gray cornerstone on the outer wall of the Good Samaritan Episcopalian Church in Colfax are barely legible; “AD 1891.” The cornerstone on the other side reads 1960. The 50th anniversary of the Good Samaritan Episcopalian Church building will be observed Sunday, Oct. 17. Episcopalian services have been conducted in Colfax since 1887. An open house will be at the church with a morning prayer session at 11 a.m. Visitors can tour the church, meet members and partake in the refreshments. A lesson on the church’s history since...
Women have born the brunt of job cuts by Whitman County since the financial collapse of 2008. The gender of county employees of Whitman County is reported monthly to the federal Department of Labor. Those statistics show 23 fewer women are employed by Whitman County today than were working for the county in September of 2008, when the recession began. Over that same time span, the number of male employees has increased by seven. Men have historically out-numbered women on the county’s payroll. As of September, there were 154 men employed by the...
Faced with skyrocketing costs for medical insurance, a married couple, both of whom work for the county, Monday asked commissioners to let them combine their insurance benefits. Currently, the county requires each employee enroll in an insurance plan. Rates for the county’s insurance plans have skyrocketed this year, with monthly enrollment fees increasing $95 to $1,128 over this year’s rates. That increase hits double for couples like Chad and Tina Kincheloe who both work for the public works department. “It is a sad day when the employees of...
Candidate and initiative forums have been slated for Oct. 19 at the Whitman County Library in Colfax and Oct. 20 at Pullman City Hall. Both forums will be from 7 to 9 p.m. The forums are arranged by the League of Women Voters. Whitman County Library, the Pullman Chamber of Commerce, the Whitman County Gazette, Daily News and Inland Northwest Broadcasting are sponsors. Candidates will be at both forums and unopposed candidates have also been invited so residents can discuss the issues. Local races feature the challenge filed by Glenn Stockwell...
The Colfax school district’s two new math teachers are a month into the school year, having filled the vacancies from the two teachers who resigned in late August. Long-time Colfax substitute Carey Fulfs is teaching junior high math and Louisiana native Kenny McAllister is teaching high school math this year. McAllister is teaching algebra and geometry at the high school. He and his wife moved here from Baton Rouge, La., after his wife was accepted into the WSU program for doctorate studies in neuro-psychology. McAllister worked as a math t... Full story
The newest staff member of the county parks department, Todd Heitstuman, introduced himself to the park board at the Oct. 7 meeting. Heitstuman has been hired to be the ranger at Kamiak Butte, a slot vacated by the resignation of Justus Barton. Heitstuman will live at the ranger residence at the park and manage the campground and trails, along with projects at the other county parks. “There are more pine needles than I know what to do with right now,” Heitstuman joked of his new job. The county parks department employs two rangers; Hei...
Two inmates were ordered placed on lock down status for hoarding drugs after a search of cells by jail staffers Oct. 2. One tablet of hydrocodone and one tablet of Ibuprofen were found in cells which were searched after inmates were taken to a holding area....
A motion to suppress evidence, a large amount of stolen property which was recovered from a mobile home in LaCrosse Aug. 9, was filed Oct. 5 on behalf of Paul Bickle, the suspect in the burglary cases. The motion contends the affidavit for the search warrant of the mobile home, located in the N. 300 Block of Clark Street in LaCrosse, did not provide sufficient information to qualify for the search warrant. Bickle is a suspect in thefts of property from Arrow Machinery, the Department of Transportation north of Colfax, Rite Aid, Ace Hardware... Full story
Rosalia’s own alleged meteorite got a look-see Monday from a field scientist touring the Palouse this week. Portland State University scientist Dick Pugh gave presentations at Palouse, St. John and Colfax this week, drawing crowds as he talked on how to identify and report on the rocks from outer space. He took a side trip to check out the Rosalia “meteorite.” Pugh identified the Rosalia rock as a fulgurite; a porous rock formed when lightening hits a clot of dirt with enough energy to melt it. A crowd of 27 collected in the Palouse library Mon...
In an effort to ensure land can remain in their families, 18 landowners have banded together to bring sportsmen onto their 45,000 contiguous acres of rugged and picturesque land on the western part of the Palouse. Blue Ridge Ranch is their effort to capitalize on the interest that sportsmen have shown in hunting and riding across their land where the Palouse hills and the Columbia Plateau meet. Much of area, now covered in CRP grasses, has long drawn the attention of hunters and horse riders. In 2000, after their ground was planted to CRP,...
At its highest flow, the South Fork Palouse River needs a reduction in the amount of fecal coliform living in it by 72 percent to meet federal Clean Water Act standards. A draft report of the Washington State Department of Ecology plan to reduce bacteria counts in the South Palouse River has been completed and is posted on the agency’s web site. Several tributaries of the Palouse River, downstream from the South Palouse junction at Colfax were also listed as impaired waterways, even in wet seasons. According to the report, Dry Creek needs a 6...
The two candidates for Whitman County auditor, the lone contest for a county office in the Nov. 2 election, have been at the center of the financial melee that has taken place this year. Following the June dismantling of the county’s finance department, Auditor Eunice Coker, 54, put responsibility for year-end financial statements and initial budget preparations back under the auditor’s authority. That authority had been with county commissioners for decades. Challenger Esther Wilson, 49, meanwhile, is the only remaining member of the finance d... Full story
THURSDAY Peruvian writer and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, a chronicler of human struggles against authoritarian power in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature. Paris japonica, a striking plant native to Japan, was identified by researchers as the species with the largest genome ever recorded. Paris japonica has 15 percent more DNA than the previous record holder, the marbled lungfish. Larger genomes increase a species risk of extinction. Philadelphia Phillies ace Roy Halladay pitched the second no-hitter... Full story
Sizable portions of Uniontown’s famed sausage will be served up Sunday, Oct. 17, at St. Boniface Catholic Church Oktoberfest sausage dinner to raise funds for church maintenance and operation. “The recipe for the sausage has been handed from one generation to the next. They don’t like to deviate from the recipe,” said Rita Moneymaker, one of the organizers of the event and a member of the church Altar Society. The annual German sausage dinner is a direct recipe from the town’s German-American population. “Their heritage is important t...
Thirty-three Chilean miners were rescued in a tiny capsule after spending more than two months in a collapsed mine shaft. What’s the tightest spot you’ve ever been in?... Full story
The USDA Risk Management Agency’s projected 2011 price for winter wheat was announced at $7.12 per bushel last month. Winter barley is projected at $3.91 per bushel. In August 2011, the agency will announce the harvest price and determine whether farmers fall below their revenue guarantee, Paul said. Insurance with upside protection, provides coverage that increases with an increase in price. Down price protection guarantees it will remain at the same level if prices decline. Yield protection guarantees any shortfall below the yield g... Full story
Four lost years. That’s what Washington’s Chief Economist Arun Raha is calling the recession brought on by the financial collapse of 2008. Raha told a crowd at the Pullman Chamber of Commerce luncheon Tuesday that, while the recession has ended, the state’s economy will not return to its pre-collapse performance until 2012 at the earliest. “We’re doing okay if we can get out in four or five years,” said Raha. “So, hang in there, and before you know it we’ll be better.” The recession hit Washington’s economy hard and deep, making for a steep...
Don’t get fooled I am supporting a ‘no’ vote on Initiative 1098. Don’t be fooled, if 1098 passes it could come to haunt everyone. David J. Stueckle, LaCrosse Tax initiative This is a note to the voters of Whitman County. Please join me in voting for Initiative 1098. This is an attempt to help reform our state’s outdated and regressive tax system. I-1098 would establish a progressive income tax on the wealthiest 1.2 percent of households. Individuals who earn $200,000 and couples who earn $400,000 annually would pay a tiny income tax. I-1098 wo... Full story
Portions of the new national health-reform law are just now going into effect, but the impact is already being felt. Insurers are warning of higher premiums, and some companies say the law will force them to eliminate employee health insurance coverage. Beginning Sept. 23, insurers are required to cover “children” under their parents’ policy to the age of 26, even if those children are married and live in another state. As a result, some insurers are dropping their “child only” policies. Ironically, rather than expand coverage as promised,... Full story
DICK MORRIS says a Patty Murray win over Dino Rossi in Washington State is the key Democrats need for a 60th filibuster proof majority in the Senate. USA Today listed Sen. Murray as one of the top four female incumbent senators on the ropes. Deja vu. Patty Murray kicked off her career in 1992 as “a mom in tennis shoes” who was the first to declare against fellow Democrat Brock Adams just before he threw in the towel when he was named the most vulnerable of the senators up for his meandering among the female flocks. She outpolled Republican Rod...
About midway through second grade, I decided to take a break from women. At school, a hot brunette named Barb told me that she would be my girlfriend forever if I would link arms with her and walk the circumference of the playground so that all the second-grade women playing pony would see us. If I elected not to, she would leave me for a boy named Billy. When she put it like that, I didn’t see that I had much choice in the matter and agreed that she should go to Billy. At home, a hot redhead named Susie O’Dell said she loved me and wanted to...
