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Pomeroy’s Pirates, who had just one loss in the SE league run, stacked a sweep over Oakesdale in the title round of the SE district final at Colfax Saturday to take the top slot in the 1B championship round at Yakima’s SunDome Friday and Saturday. The number-two finisher at the tourney in Colfax was the SJE Eagles who locked it up in a five-game enduro with Oakesdale’s Nighthawks for the last ticket to state. The cross-county battle went to a dramatic fifth game with the Eagles staging a late...
The Colfax football season ended Friday at Reardan where the hosts again used their explosive offense to offset a solid Bulldog attempt at an upset. Reardan’s defense and big-play offense advanced the Indians to the first round of the state 2B playoffs as the number-two team out of the NE-SE crossover round. The loss ended the Colfax season with a 6-4 record. The four losses came at the end of the schedule which matched up most of the NE teams who made a power run through the first six weeks o...
Colfax volleyball players stitched another three-for-three playoff run Saturday in the regional round at Cheney to nail down a slot in the state 2B finals at the SunDome in Yakima starting Friday. Colfax will return as the defending champion and figure to be one of the target teams for the other entrants in the 16-team show. Coach Sue Doering, who has led the Bulldogs to 11 titles in state 2B and 1A finals, said she believes the Bulldogs can cope with what a 29-2 record will net in the pre-tourney ratings, but she also noted a state tourney...
St. John/Endicott’s Shania Bailey finished 14th Saturday in the girls all-B state final race at Sun Willows golf course in Pasco, and sophomore Zoe Robertson finished 18th in a race which featured a strong finish for qualifiers from last week’s east side regional at Pasco. Tracy Melville, leader of the regional pack last week, won the state race with an 18:25.4 over the Sun Willows 5K course. Bailey, a senior, clocked 20:32.24, and Robertson, a sophomore from Oakesdale, clocked 21:20.19 to finish 26th. Lucy Eggleston, who led the SE pack dur...
The state playoff road leads west to Odessa for the Garfield-Palouse Vikings. Finishing off Colton last Thursday night 44-12 to complete a 7-2 regular season (6-2 in league), Gar-Pal continues on as the No. 3 seed from District 9, one of 16 1B teams in Washington remaining. Vikings coach Will Woltering will make a second Odessa trip in a week, after scouting the Titans Nov. 7, a loss to Republic 76-14. Odessa-Harrington completed their regular season with District 7’s No. 2 seed. While W...
Whitman County commissioners Monday approved a call for bids for the Hatley Bridge Reconstruction project. The project will reconstruct a concrete, single-span bridge on the Pullman-Wawawai Road, to be paid for with funding from the Federal Bridge Replacement fund. The span was built in the 1960s and is now moving off its foundation. The county has previously reduced the speed limit for the bridge and limited crossing to one truck on the span at a time. The work is expected to be done next spring....
Whitman County commissioners on Nov. 3 approved a resolution on veterans’ relief payments which was revised after they received objections to the initial proposal. As approved, the payments will still have a $2,500 annual payment per veteran, but the payments can be made in increments during the year. A month ago, Roy Lord and Charles Klaudt told the commissioners they objected to a proposed change which called for a one-time payment of up to $2,500. The county’s Veteran’s Advisory Board had proposed the single payment policy and forwa...
The Southeast Washington Economic Development Association (SEWEDA) will host a community “ideation” event in Palouse Nov. 17. All are invited to pitch a business idea or social venture, discuss a community problem that needs solving, or come to listen or give feedback to others. The Open Mic Ideation Event will be Monday night from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Green Frog Café on Main Street in Palouse. The event is free and open to the public. A lasagna dinner is available for $15. Anne Nelson, a graphic facilitator and business management inst...
County Assessor Joe Reynolds 4,143 50.93% Jim Hawkes 3,991 49.07% County Sheriff Brett Myers 7,594 81.55% Adam Assenberg 1,718 18.45% County Auditor Eunice Coker 6,539 County Clerk Jill Whelchel Wahl 6,662 County Commissioner, Dist. 3 Michael Largent 6,740 County Coroner Pete Martin 6,952 County Prosecuting Attorney Denis P. Tracy 6,764 County Treasurer Mark R. Clinton 6,491 District Court Judge Position 1 Douglas B. Robinson 6,617 U.S. Representative District 5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R) 6,069 58.93% Joseph Pakootas (D) 4,230 41.07% State...
The 22nd annual Washington Cattlemen’s Association, all breed bull test started three weeks ago when 133 bulls consigned by 49 breeders were weighed. The weigh-in begins the 120-day feed trial. The consignment consists of 73 Angus, 33 Herefords (12 Polled, 21 Horned), seven Red Angus, seven SimAngus and 13 Simmental. The bulls are fed under the supervision of Bob and Nina Lundgren at their Bonina Feed Facility at Eltopia. A stringent health, vaccination and testing protocol is supervised by the Washington Cattlemen’s Association. The 120 day...
The City of Tekoa expects to find out this week if a retaining wall which was built in 2013 can be improved to the point where construction funds now retained by the city will be paid to the contractor. Built along Warren Street in summer 2013, the construction was deemed unsatisfactory by Mayor John Jaeger and the city council. The job was performed by Accelerated Construction of Plummer, Idaho, as part of a streets and sidewalks reconstruction project. A crew from the company returned Monday...
The Whitman County Commissioners Monday voted to vacate a half-mile gravel section of Charles Tobin Road near Hooper at the request of landowners. Also vacated were six right-of-way parcels along Colfax Airport Road. The land parcels were determined surplus after completion of the Airport Road reconstruction project in the summer of 2013. The vacated parcels will revert to prior property owners....
A long-term restoration of a 1943 airplane which was used for photo reconnaissance in World War II is scheduled to get underway in Colfax. Kenneth Kennedy, who has moved here from Paul, Idaho, has rented a hangar from the Port of Whitman at the Colfax Airport to store the plane. Kennedy, now retired, and his brother, Kevin, are planning the project. Kevin is still employed by Boeing, Co., in Seattle, and plans to retire in two years and assist in the project. Kennedy opted to move here to...
In its account of the election returns last week the Gazette incorrectly reported the Farmington propositions had failed to pass. Both propositions passed by topping 60 percent approval. The results after Friday’s count show Proposition 1 with 53 votes approving and 23 votes against, or 70 percent to 30 percent. Proposition 2 is also passing with 54 votes approving and 23 rejecting, or 70 percent to 30 percent. The two propositions failed on the primary election ballot in August....
The close race between Joe Reynolds and Jim Hawkes for county assessor became even closer Friday after another 4,058 ballots were counted by the county elections staffers Friday afternoon. Reynolds, who led by 252 votes after the election night count, now leads by 152 ballots. Hawkes, chief appraiser on the assessor’s staff, picked up the 100 votes in the added count Friday. The elections staff now has only about 600 more votes to tally when the last count is made before the Nov. 25 certification date for the election. The Reynolds-Hawkes r...
Boyer Park will see additional RV space plus four new cabins added to the park within the next two years. Port of Whitman County Property and Development Manager Debbie Snell explained to port commissioners a new map showing the proposed sites for the projects at the Nov. 6 meeting. She is preparing to revise the application to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The port leases Boyer from the corps. The plans call for 14 RV spaces on the northern part of the day use portion of the park, just past the exit to the main park. The full hookup RV...
The city of Tekoa will reactivate its Unfit Dwelling Committee after discussion among city council members at their Oct. 27 meeting. The former committee acted to determine which unlived-in buildings were past saving or revitalizing. If a property was deemed unfit, an appeal process followed. If the designation stood for the building, or buildings in question, it was the responsibility of the owner to tear them down in a certain timeline. If they didn’t, the city would put a lien on the p...
Tekoa and Colton school districts are both looking to replace their football lights after they were deemed a problem over the summer. Colton has played afternoon games this fall as a result, while Tekoa-Rosalia played two night games at the Tekoa field, completing the last season of use for the lights. Other home games were played at Rosalia for the Timberwolves team. The Tekoa lights were installed by volunteers in 1953 and have been inspected periodically since. They were inspected this...
Colfax School District board voted Monday night to formally consider remodeling Jennings Elementary School for 2017. The vote begins a process that may or may not lead to changes at the school. The board had been advised at its previous meeting that if they wanted to start the project in 2017 they would need to consider placing a bond proposal before the voters next spring. Colfax Superintendent Michael Morgan will now hire an architect for initial planning, followed by verifying engineering...
“Do not fiddle, while Rome burns,” the sage once said. After a final burst of fall color, winter chill arrived suddenly in Whitman County this week. Overnight lows have dropped into the teens with the possibility of snow by the end of the week....
