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Jimmy Kimmel deserves credit for frankness, if nothing else. In a recent interview, the ABC late-night host said he doesn't care about losing Republican viewers. We're a long way from Johnny Carson, whose "Tonight Show" was a national institution that enjoyed a broad audience -- and was conducted like one. Carson steered clear of politics and kept his views to himself because it would "hurt me as an entertainer, which is what I am." Kimmel may be an entertainer, but has no such inhibitions. He uttered what could be the epigraph for our times, s...
YYYY Beautiful pink flags brightening up Colfax all month long!! Thorn Hill, you are very kind and appreciated for enduring hundreds of trick-or-treaters every year. #!*! Phallic symbol, I mean Codger Pole... the game and the story, great. Erecting a monument of these guys’ mugs that the town is saddled with maintaining, no thanks. Send your pet peeves and okeydokes to Whitman County Gazette P.O Box 770, Colfax, WA 99111 or drop them off at the Gazette office...
The debate over the Snake River dams has raged for years. To breach or not to breach has been the question swirling around them. Corrective moves to help save the salmon and steelhead runs and court action have marked the story. An article in a recent Lewiston Tribune has brought the debate back to the surface, and poor fish runs have renewed calls for breaching the dams. Despite evidence that many factors contribute to declining runs, the dams remain the center point of the argument. The advocates of breaching the dams do not equivocate. The o...
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. FIRE TRUCK MISSED CALL A 1994 Pierce pumper fire truck which was added to the Colfax Fire Department last month missed the response to last Monday's fire at the Hickman residence on Valleyview. The truck failed to start because it had a dead battery. Fire Chief Craig Corbeill said something on the truck is suspected to be drawing power which dra...
Colfax marked the end of a big sports chapter Tuesday night when Volleyball Coach Sue Doering coached the last home match of her 30-year career. Doering, who marked her 900th career win two weeks ago, has been on the Colfax sideline since she came here in 1988. A special presentation before the varsity match NE match with Tekoa/Rosalia concluded with Doering presenting a team blanket to Scooter Brannan, the number-one Colfax V-net fan for decades. Doering retired from her Colfax faculty...
The Viking band under the direction of Matt Zook kept the music going during breaks in the game with Touchet....
Colfax Bulldogs Friday rolled up four TDs in the first 20 minutes of the league clash at Springdale on the way to a 44-8 win over the host Chargers. The win advanced the Bulldog’s to 5-3 in the NE League race with Kettle Falls slated to visit here Friday for the last home game of the season. Friday’s win left Colfax at 5-3 in the league race which saw undefeated Liberty stop Davenport 22-14 to remain at the head of the pack. The Gorillas are now in the number-two slot at 6-2, and Colfax remains in a three-team knot at third with Northwest Chr...
Piper Cai goes up for a block against the Broncos in the Thursday match. After rolling through the NE league races with 10 straight three-game wins, Colfax volleyball players will travel to Davenport today for the first round of the NE district playoffs which will wind up with three teams advancing on the road to the state tourney at Yakima. Eight teams will be in the NE district mix with matches today at Reardan and Davenport. The Bulldogs will be matched up against the number-four team from...
Pomeroy cleared the last hurdle for an SE league sweep Thursday with a three-game win at Colton. The win left the Pirates on top of the league at 8-0. Colton dropped to third in the league standings at 6-2. Oakesdale, which posted a sweep Thursday over LWK, landed in second place at 7-1 with a three games win over Garfield/Palouse. Pomeroy Thursday downed the Wildcats 25-15 25-20 and 15-14. Maddie Dixson and Deanna Caruso each hit 10 kills for the Pirates and Sydney Smith put up 21 assists and had nine digs. Emily Schultheis had seven kills,...
Gavin Merritt, Tekoa/Rosalia, finished second at Harrington Saturday. Runners from the SE and NE districts will compete at Colfax Golf Course Saturday for tickets to the state championship run at Sun Willows in Pasco. The top 28 finishers in each race will advance to state, and all members of the top four teams on each side will qualify. The St. George’s won team honors for boys and girls in the District 7 cross-country run at Harrington Saturday. The event drew 96 runners in the boys race a...
Chad Hansen makes tracks for the Vikings with Caleb Shanks of Touchet attempting to close ground. The second of a pack of key games has arrived at the conclusion of the Southeast 1B football season: Garfield/Palouse vs. Colton. After Colton lost to Sunnyside Christian Oct. 13 for their only league loss, Gar/Pal (5-1, 2-0 league) holds the edge over them without a league loss, but they haven’t played unbeaten Sunnyside Christian. They will face-off next week. It will all decide the order of t...
Colfax School District Superintendent Jerry Pugh gave the annual report on choice transfer students to the board Monday night, noting 10 more students than last year chose to attend school outside of the district. The numbers are 82 students choicing out and 25 choicing in. In 2016, 72 choiced out with 24 in. “Principals call, principals meet with parents,” Pugh reported on the district's response, of when they hear of a student leaving. “The reasons for that; they're all over the board. I don't have an answer for it.” Listing reasons cited b...
Here is a partial look at municipal issues and races for the upcoming election on November 7. Those not included will be covered next week. LaCrosse School LaCrosse School District is asking residents to pass a three-year replacement capital levy to modernize, renovate and improve school facilities. The school would collect $1.1 million over the three years, with $366,666 each year. Estimated levy rate would be $2.15 per $1,000 assessed value of property. “We decided years ago not to do a school bond,” noted Doug Curtis, LaCrosse’s part-time su...
Whitman County commissioners approved a new 25-year lease with the Army Corps of Engineers Oct. 16 for Wawawai Park. The lease extends the original agreement which led to the creation of the park in 1977. The Army Corps built the park with the understanding that the county would run it. A first 15-year lease was renewed in 1992 followed by a 25-year lease, which expired this year. The new document includes notations about new pesticide restrictions which have taken effect during the previous lease. The new rules, some as recent as 2012, relate...
Jenny, Sean and Helen Trials come into every life; when they do you can either harden your heart and be down or use those experiences to build your life and the lives of others. At least that is the belief of Sean Neal, son of a Garfield farming family. Neal knows a thing or two about trials. As a young boy, he had dreams to play basketball, work on the family farm and get married. At the age of six, he was consigned to a wheelchair and diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy; one prognosis said...
Charges of dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct and voyeurism were filed Friday in superior court against Roger W. Flook, Jr., former Endicott resident. The charges follow an investigation of a report that a thumb drive found in a Chevrolet Silverado purchased from Flook contained a file of a juvenile girl bathing at Flook's former residence in Endicott. According to a probable cause report filed by Chief Deputy Prosecutor Dan LeBeau, the truck was sold to a former Colfax resident who was a friend of Flook. The...
Washington State Parks staff are at work on a 250-yard section of John Wayne Pioneer Trail near Lone Pine this week to finish a project to clear drainage swales on each side of the former railbed. “The trail prism itself has overgrown, almost become impassable,” said Randy Kline, State Parks’ statewide trails coordinator. The workers will clear rocks, dirt, small trees and plants to allow for drainage and passability. “We would call this routine trail maintenance,” said Kline. The money com...
The Oct. 20 St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse vs. Sunnyside Christian game is viewed on a device. LaCrosse sports fans do not have to travel to watch their kids play anymore, thanks to the efforts of Jeff Gates who is streaming the games live on the internet. Gates, the LaCrosse history teacher and technology director, has been attending LaCrosse games since 2016 to stream the students’ games for those who are not able to be there in person. “It’s like a TV, but it’s over the internet,” Gates exp...
A new store is taking shape in an old building on Main Street in Colfax, expected to be an extension of a path that has seen success in Moscow. Austin Storm and wife Laura bought the gray and maroon 103 Main Street building in August with plans to open a new venture in the spirit of their Storm Cellar in downtown Moscow. Storm Cellar, the second-hand consignment clothing-and-more operation, first opened eight years ago, and then led to the opening of another business, Hansel and Gretel, in...
Richard Morgan of Woodinville shows granddaughter Abbie Herbel of Lakewood how to operate the controls of an International crawler tractor while they make the rounds Saturday morning at the Morgan ranch along the Palouse River. The plowing bee had 20 tractors in action on the 26-acre field. An estimated 150 people attended with 137 signing the guest book and 122 served lunch by LJ's Barbecue of Pullman. The tractors paraded up the road to plow another field before the rains hit Saturday. See...
The Colfax school board approved Monday an $18.9 million bond proposal to go before voters in February. Designated for facilities improvements at Jennings Elementary and Colfax High School – from rooftops to classrooms and the auditorium – the nine-page bond filing will now be submitted to the Whitman County elections office. The $18.9 million final figure comes after refining a $19 million estimate that arose from a series of discussions earlier this year with staff, consultants and com...
