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Cross-country runners for B division schools on the east side of the state raced Saturday in the sun at the Harrington Golf course in a bid for entry in the state run which will be Saturday at Pasco. Both Asotin teams, which started on the right side in the alphabetical order, took the team wins....
Whitman County Waste Transfer Station will hold its annual Fall Cleanup starting Friday, to run Nov. 2-10, following the re-opening of the garbage-intake building Oct. 19 after an August fire. County Public Works Director Mark Storey will now ask commissioners to lift a state of emergency for the transfer station declared in the first week of August. The designation allowed Public Works to bypass state bidding laws in order to find a contractor and get repairs underway faster. Holcomb Construction of Grangeville, Idaho, did the repair work. “He...
Pullman Police Sgt. Dan Hargraves, a 19-year veteran of the department, was arrested Tuesday morning by the Washington State Patrol and booked into jail here at 6:30 a.m. on a probable charge of custodial sexual misconduct. An arrest warrant was issued for his arrest late Monday, and a formal charge of custodial sexual misconduct was filed Tuesday morning in superior court by Prosecutor Denis Tracy. The WSP arrest report filed in court alleges Hargraves, 48, had oral sex with a WSU freshman in Reaney Park after she was ordered into a patrol car...
Work on the passing lane projects along Highway 195 between Colfax and Spangle have officially ended with some detail work remaining. The passing lanes and bridge deck projects were both done by crews from N.E. Degerstrom of Spokane. Mark Allen, project engineer, said the passing lane project was marked substantially complete Oct. 18. He added tree plantings were done along one of the lanes north of Rosalia, and the trees will need to be checked for survival after a year before the books can be closed on the project. A total of 326 trees were...
Palouse Police Officer Joe Handley resigned to become a full-time officer in Colfax. He served his last day Oct. 29 for the Palouse department which also covers Garfield. Handley worked for Palouse since May 2015. “Officer Handley is a very well-respected peace officer,” said Michael Echanove, Palouse mayor. “He’s a young man with a bright future. I told him ‘I am not accepting your resignation.’ He has a real sixth sense about police work.” Reserve Officer Terry Snead is set to fill-in for Handley in Palouse. The city hired full-time officer J...
Whitman County Commissioners approved two speed changes Monday. The first, a 7.9 mile-stretch of Cache Creek Road, south of Malden to Highway 195, came about after a petition by residents. A subsequent traffic study was conducted by Marc LaVanWay, staff engineer for Whitman County. Mark Storey, Public Works director, recommended to commissioners to lower the limit from 50 to 40 mph, effective Nov. 15. “Most people are already driving 35-40 on that anyways,” said Storey, referring to what was found in the traffic study. The second speed reductio...
County Building Inspector Dan Gladwill presented a 2018 third quarter report to county commissioners Monday. Total valuations for the July-September period added up to $3,045,294, with fees of $34,819. A total of 44 building permits were issued and 108 inspections completed. Commercial valuation was $538,079, which is included in total valuations. “Pretty average, almost a high average,” said Gladwill. He noted six single family homes were built and two mobile homes put in place. For cluster developments around Pullman, approved by com...
Rosalia veterans will conduct a Veterans Day ceremony Sunday, Nov. 11, at 2 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Park, located behind the Texaco Station and visitor’s center on Whitman Street. Patricia Voge will be the mistress of ceremony. Father Mike Savelesky will give the invocation. Rosalia Mayor Lee Root will give the welcome. Rosalia Boy Scout Troop will present a flag ceremony and lead the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance. The Scouts will conduct a ceremony for retiring old flags. Guest speaker will be Sr. Master Sgt. Bruce Pritchard (...
Home port for the NOAA ship Rainier, a hyrographic survey vessel, is Newport, Ore. The Nov. 18 account of NOAA recognition for CHS graduate Eli Smith gave an incorrect port for the ship. Smith is stationed at Providence, R.I....
The summer after Emily Ruskovich got her Master's Degree, back home visiting Hoodoo Mountain, Idaho, she went with her parents in a truck to a clearing to retrieve a stack of firewood. "I felt this place had a memory," she said. "I had a very, very unsettled feeling. I felt it knew something I didn't." The feeling stayed with her and she began to write a short story. In 2012, three years later, the untitled piece was about to be published in a collection by Random House when its editors asked...
Whitman County Public Works Department is in preparation for its yearly notice to close 361 miles of roads around the county from Nov. 15 until March 15. This year, an extra precaution will be added at one road, to supplement the familiar seasonal closure signs. Concrete highway barriers will be placed at each end of Catholic Cemetery Road north of Tekoa. The move comes after the Washington State Department of Ecology informed the county that erosion caused by vehicles using the road in winter was adding mud to Hangman Creek. The...
Daylight Savings time ends Sunday, Nov. 4, when clocks are scheduled to fall back at 2 a.m. University of Washington Assistant Professor of Economics, Hendrik Wolff, stated that during World War I, Germany was the first nation to implement daylight savings time. The practice spread to America during World War II. The European Union is planning on phasing out daylight savings time as soon as 2019, according to Scripps Media....
Both Colfax boys and girls teams placed second Saturday in the regional qualifier on the Harrington Golf Course to win team entries into the state all-B race at Sun Willows Golf course Saturday in Pasco. Colfax boys finished with 95 points behind the 52 win stacked by Asotin, and the Bulldog girls totaled 72 behind the 39 total by Asotin. The Panthers had three finishers in the top 10. Gavin Merritt of Tekoa/Rosalia continued his win string with a 16:58 clocking over the tough Harrington race...
Colfax volleyball players will travel to St. George's today for the final chapters of the NE playoff action which will send four teams to the state finals at Yakima next week. Colfax, which stopped Davenport in a three-game win last Thursday at Davenport, will face Asotin in the semi-final round of the playoff at 5 p.m. Semi-final winners get a guarantee of a state berth because both the winner and the loser of the title game advance to state. Colfax last week dominated the Gorillas 25-13,...
Tekoa/Rosalia Timberwolves Friday rolled out a 54-0 shutout over Columbia of Hunters to finish their run in the NE-north for 1B action. The T-wolves are now 7-1 in the season and will play Odessa, top team on the south side, Friday in a crossover round. Odessa Friday stacked up a 95-6 win over Yakama Tribal in their last matchup on the south side to continue their power run through the league. On their home field Friday, the T-Wolves rolled up a 32-0 lead in the first half and came out for...
In the last week of the regular season for Southeast 1B league football, Garfield/Palouse and Sunnyside Christian held in a first-place tie after both teams won Oct. 26. Gar/Pal handled Pomeroy 78-40 while Sunnyside Christian beat St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse 60-26. Colton stayed at third in league after a win by forfeit over Touchet. The Wildcats play at home Thursday in their second game against Gar/Pal this year. The Vikings won the first 90-52 Sept. 28. Garfield/Palouse 78, Pomeroy 40 Playing...
Colfax football players, who sat out the last round of NE action with a bye last week, face a big challenge when they travel to Chewelah Friday to play the Cougars. Colfax travels north as the number-three finisher on the NE south side to face a Cougar team which finished first on the NE north side. Chewelah Friday finished out their league run with a 55-14 win over Davenport. The Cougars last week knocked Northwest Christian out of the top spot to get an early claim on the number-one. Colfax and Chewelah football lore goes back to when both...
Whitman County Public Works returns to its winter schedule Nov. 5, running five eight-hour days from 7 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. The change marks the end of the summer schedule of four ten-hour days, which began in April at daylight savings time. The five days per week schedule costs the county more money, as now there may be five round trips made per week to a job site instead of four, along with less daylight time to work. The five days on also allows the county to have more immediate coverage for snowplow drivers in the event of s...
It will be Oakesdale vs. Pomeroy, one more time, Friday at Oakesdale in the SE qualifier for next week’s state action at the Yakima Sundome. Both the Nighthawks and the Pirates prevailed Tuesday in the first round of the SE playoff which matched up the first four finishers in the league. Oakesdale, which topped Pomeroy twice in the league campaign, defeated fourth-place Colton in three straight Tuesday at Oakesdale, and Pomeroy beat third-place St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse in four games Tuesday at Pomeroy. The SE league this year has been a...
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. INSPIRED PALOUSE ART WINNERS Prize winners for the Inspired Palouse exhibit, now on display at The Center in Colfax, were announced Monday. The entrants in the Colfax Arts Council contest were rated by a panel of judges. The $300 first place prize went to Gayle Havercroft of Spokane, who entered a block print and watercolor wash. The $200...
During a recent visit to Colfax, my son asked about the pink X things. I told him it was to raise people's awareness of breast cancer and the people who pass through that ordeal. There sure are a lot of the pink ribbons; people must really be aware, then. Are they? For those who put a pink ribbon on their window, how are you more aware of breast cancer and what have you done about it? Some people spent money on buying a variety of pink decorations. How much money did they put toward cancer...
Imagine that: It's getting so it's difficult to get away with being slime in the Washington "swamp" these days -- or at the very least, much tougher to paper it over by placing a fake-believe veneer of money from the most noxious sources. For generations, we have allowed so many of our most prominent operators to perfume over the stench of their ill-gained prosperity as they have represented the interests here of some of the planet's most rotten individuals and their brutal tyrannies. Now we have the Saudis and the likelihood that they have...
