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These reports are from the previous three 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. CAR TAKES DIVE AT HAMILTON PARK Tracks left by what is believed to be a car were discovered early Saturday morning at Hamilton Park in south Colfax. Tracks show the car entered the park on the south side and crossed the park diagonally. Police Chief Rick McNannay said the evidence indicates the driver exited the park by going off the retaining...
A $20,000 bond for pre-trial release was set for Scott D. Jess, 40, after he was booked into the county jail late Nov. 6 night on probable charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and domestic violence. Jess is also being held in the jail on an arrest warrant issued by Okanogan County. According to the arrest report, deputies and a trooper responded to a report of a probable domestic violence at a residence on Big Alkali Road in the Hay area. The report originated from a third party who was not present at the residence. Deputies said when...
Above: Colton Wildcats celebrate after finishing number-three in the 1B tournament. At right: Josie Schultheis raps a hit for the Wildcats against Pomeroy. Above: Jordan Moehrle serves for Colton in the semi. At right: Emily Schultheis makes a tip for the Wildcats against Pomeroy. Abby Kelly (23) and Addison Zinzer put up a block in front of Odessa's Caitlyn Schuh in the trophy game....
Logan Reed unloads a hit against Pomeroy. Above: Aliya Rutledge digs one out at the baseline in the championship game against Pomeroy. Lizzy Perry and Logan Reed are at right. At right: Oakesdale Coach Brandy Brown encourages the Nighthawks. Above: Brooklyn Henley raps one at the Pirates in the title match. Upper right:Lizzy Perry digs one out for the Nighthawks. Lower right: Nighthawks settle down for a championship photo after defeating Pomeroy for the title....
Above: Bulldogs and tournament officials take time for a team picture after Colfax wins its 14th volleyball title. At right: Rachel Brown, Greta Geier, Carmen Gfeller (13) and Kylie Kackman hoist the state trophy for the fans. Coach Sue Doering keeps the intensity going during the championship game, her last court appearance for Colfax over 29 years at the Bulldogs’ helm. Taylre Sakamoto-Howell and Piper Cai go up for a block in the title game. Gfeller hits for a kill against Mossyrock in the c...
Returning to the state finals after an absence of four years, Colton’s Wildcats pegged a 3-1 record in the SunDome at Yakima to finish third in the state 1B volleyball playoff Friday. The Wildcats defeated the Odessa Tigers in a trophy round which matched up the losers of the semi-final rounds. Odessa was stopped short of the title by Oakesdale in the semi-round, and Colton was stopped by league foe Pomeroy Colton took out Odessa in three sets, 25-15 25-22 and 25-15 to bring home the number-three trophy. The Wildcats improved their passing g...
With a dominant win over Republic to open the 1B football playoffs Nov. 10, Garfield/Palouse advanced to the state quarterfinals, to play unbeaten Odessa Friday in Royal City. The same matchup happened three years ago in the playoffs, Garfield/Palouse winning at Odessa, against a team that was then Odessa/Harrington. They have since returned to being just the Odessa Tigers and played in last year’s state championship game, losing to Neah Bay at the Tacoma Dome. Gar/Pal has made the playoffs t...
Oakesdale Nighthawks rolled to the Sundome for the 1B tourney with one goal in mind: a threepeat. The ‘hawks kept the big trophy with three tidy sweeps in their first three matches and a win over Pomeroy, their SE foe, in a four-gamer in the championship round. Coach Brandy Brown and crew went to state with senior veterans Madison Shrope and Emma Perry on the roster and junior veterans Logan Reed, Brooklyn Henley, Desiree Brown, Amber Jones, Aliya Rutledge and Dani Larson. The team qualified as the number-one state entry out of the district f...
Colfax Bulldogs took the state 2B volleyball championship Friday at the SunDome in Yakima by sweeping their first three foes and out-lasing a tough Mossyrock team in a five-game battle which went down to the final points in a fifth game. “Mossyrock was a very good team, they made it tough on us,” Colfax Coach Sue Doering commented. The five game battle was also Doering’s last match as coach on the Colfax sidelines. Doering said she thought the key play for the title win came when Abbie Miller tip-toed along the end line to dig a Mossy...
The annual Memorial Trees of Light and Remembrance Ceremony, sponsored by Friends of Hospice, is set for early December. The event is an opportunity for people to honor the name and memory of loved ones who have died, whether in the past year or decades ago. The deceased did not have to be on hospice care. “It’s about coming together in community to honor those who have died,” said Annie Pillers, director of Friends of Hospice. Friends of Hospice has been providing services and support to peopl...
Colfax High advisor Tina Scholz and yearbook co-editors Zoe Burt, middle, and Jullene Sager head a group of five students producing the school’s annual. The Colfax High School yearbook staff faces its first deadline just after Thanksgiving for the 2017-18 edition, looking to follow last year’s book which was named a first-place recipient in the American Scholastic Press Association’s annual competition. Co-editors Jullene Sager and Zoe Burt are back for their senior year, advised by Tina Schol...
The 16th Haunted Palouse is now in the books with a total of 3,547 tickets sold for the four-night event, Oct. 20-21 and 27-28. The total was more than last year, and above the 10-year average of 3,321. Total money raised, when all costs are covered, is expected to be between $50,000 and $60,000. The record for Haunted Palouse ticket sales is 4,321 sold in 2013....
Shoppers take advantage of Endicott’s Shop Local event at the Endicott Food Center on Saturday. Other communities will host their own similar events to encourage holiday shoppers to patronize small, local businesses. This Saturday, Nov. 25, is national Shop Small day. With holiday shopping in the air and the mayhem of Black Friday shopping after Thanksgiving just around the corner, area businesses are banding together to remind consumers to shop local first. “In rural America, it’s so, so impor...
Jarrod Pfaff will return as mayor of Garfield in January, winning last week’s election over incumbent Ray McCown. The challenger totaled 129 votes to McCown’s 84. The results are not yet certified. “I never concede,” said McCown. “On December 31st, I’ll concede.” Does that mean he expects to? “I assume, when it’s official,” he said. Pfaff’s election grants him a third term as Garfield mayor, previously serving from 2006-13, when McCown beat Larry Hunt for the seat. McCown, 84, will now conclude...
The article in the Oct. 26 Gazette about the Colfax building which was sold by Bruce and Charli Hochsprung to Austin and Laura Storm, who moved from Moscow to Colfax in May, at one time housed Gretencort’s Clothing. The article incorrectly listed the former Perry & Lee’s, a clothing store, operated in the building....
Whitman County Library has announced its “Everybody Writes” winners, for the contest in conjunction with the regional “Everybody Reads” program and this year’s book, “Black River” by S.M. Hulse. First place winner was Gretchen Van Lith of St. John with a story called “The Storm.” Second-place went to Lois Malby Olmstead of LaCrosse with “Inner Child” and third was Janet Richards of Pullman with “Open Mic”. Participants entered works of fiction, non-fiction or poetry with a maximum of 800 words. The theme choices, tied to “Black River,” were “R...
--Paige Collins photo Renovations to turn part of the Colfax Pantry into a community kitchen have been started by contractor KACI of Pullman with a goal to complete the project by the end of the year. Above, excavation progresses for the plumbing and a grease trap. “I was so excited to see this get started,” said Paige Collins, executive director of the Council on Aging, which is directing the work. She noted the plumbing and grease trap are the most expensive parts of the remodel. Once the wor...
The business that spurred new investment into Uniontown over the past 15 years is no longer. New Sage Bakery closed in late September, after four years in operation. Previously known as Sage Baking, it opened in 2002 in the Uniontown Community Development (UCDA)-owned former brick saloon building on Main Street/Highway 195. Supplying various wholesale bakery accounts across the Palouse – from Colfax to Moscow — the company also ran a café 3-4 days a week. Del and Amy Stillwaugh of Unio...
The Board of County Commissioners lifted the moratorium on intergovernmental loans Oct. 16, allowing junior taxing districts to once again borrow from the county. The moratorium was imposed Jan.17, 2017. In 2016 the county had a lot of requests to borrow money from the county to cover short-term, lower dollar spending. It was usually small loans. Bank loans had so many added expenses and fees it was considered “prohibitively expensive and uneconomical” to request small loans from a bank. Whi...
ublic Notice is hereby given that pursuant to real property tax judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Whitman, in the State of Washington, and an order of sale issued by the court, entered the 14th day of November, 2017 in proceedings for foreclosure of tax liens upon real property, as per provisions of law, I shall on the 8th day of December, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., in the Commissioners Chambers, located in the Whitman County Courthouse, 400 North Main Street, in the County of Whitman, State of Washington, sell the real property to the...
Whitman County was chosen last week to receive a $620,000 grant for local roads from the federal Highway Safety Improvement Program. The money will be used to re-stripe county roads, install rumblestrips and add guardrails. Roads to be re-striped will be those which have not been painted for at least three years. Segments of five roads will get rumblestrips cut into centerlines. “I hate rumblestrips. But they simply save lives,” said Mark Storey, county public works director. He noted how the cuts in asphalt collect water and ice in the win...
Whitman County Elections staff added 3,032 ballots to the previous Election Day, Nov. 7, count for 8,078 total, bringing the voter turnout for the county to 36.22 percent. Farmington council races are still holding with Lavon Erickson and Mark Hellinger maintaining their leads, but the town’s $12,000 streets proposition is now failing. It now needs two yes votes to pass. Pullman’s propositions are passing, but are short 442 and 465 votes to validate. Election staffers estimate they have 500 mor...
Colfax, top, and Oakesdale volleyball teams celebrate Friday after winning the 2B and 1B championships. Bulldog girls hit the deck in a dog pile with big dog Sue Doering jumping into the heap while the Nighthawk girls went vertical, flying up with exuberance at the SunDome in Yakima. Colfax beat Mossyrock in five sets. Oakesdale shut down Pomeroy in four sets....
