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Breanna K. Garwood, 20, Pullman, was unhurt when the 2000 Honda Accord she was driving struck a deer Sunday at 6:13 p.m. on Highway 195 just north of Colfax. According to the Washington State Patrol, she was driving northbound when the deer ran onto the highway a half mile north of mile marker 39.... Full story
Motions by Michael Assenberg, Colfax, and Steve Martonick, his court-appointed defense attorney, were denied in superior court Friday. Assenberg told the court he was scheduled for a meeting this week with a Spokane Valley attorney about representing him in a civil case. He said the same attorney could handle the defense in the criminal charges filed against him after drug agents raided his Colfax home last May and confiscated marijuana plants. Friday Assenberg listed what he said were points he wanted his defense attorney to bring up in his...
Engineer Munir Daud in his 12th progress report on the Mill Street project Saturday recommended the city council declare the project suspended until spring because of the weather conditions. Daud noted the streetlights, which are slated to be shipped Nov. 29, will be installed as soon as they arrive. The mounts for the lights are ready to go once the light standards arrive. Daud also noted the landscape sub-contractor, Living Waters of Lewiston, has about 10 trees yet to plant and will do so when they arrive from Portland. They have completed...
Colfax Chamber of Commerce planned to place bows on streetlight standards for the holiday decorations this year. A volunteer work party was scheduled to put the bows in place on Tuesday. Also, a wooden Santa and reindeer display was placed at the Codger Pole Park along Main Street. McGregor Co. has volunteered to take over the job of placing a Christmas tree with lights and other decorations in the lot next to US Bank. Also, decorations will be placed at the Firemen’s Park on South Main and at the Maggie Cain Park at the 195 and Sixth Street i... Full story
All-league selections for the SE volleyball team were announced at the first round of the league tournament in Colfax. In front, from the left, are Haley Moser of Colton, honorable mention; Gretchen Van Lith, St. John-Endicott, first team; Myrannda Neill, T-O, honorable mention; Alexa Lindgren, T-O, honorable mention; Holly Leendertsen, Gar-Pal, first team. In back, from the left, are Makenzie Monahan, Pomeroy, honorable mention; Katie Renstrom, T-O, first team; Delaney Monahan, Pomeroy, first team; Cassandra Mendoza, T-O, first team; Haylee...
Colfax and Waitsburg/Prescott, two teams that generated a lot of heat in the cold confines of a snowy Martin Stadium last year, will collide again Saturday at the same juncture this year, the semi-final round of the 2B playoffs. Both clubs go into the game for the state ticket with undefeated records. Waitsburg/Prescott made an undefeated run through the SE league this year, and Colfax conducted a similar campaign in the NE league. “We’re in for a real barn burner,” Colfax Coach Mike Morgan predicted. Last year’s semi-final at Martin Stadium...
Pomeroy’s Pirates, one of three leaders out of the SE Eights, will face the Almira/Coulee/ Hartline power team in the 1B semi-final game at Edgar Brown Stadium Saturday at noon. The 1B semi-final will be before the Colfax-WP semi-final game. Pomeroy goes into the last semi-final after a 68-24 win last Saturday over the rugged Wellpinit team which stopped Garfield/Palouse on the Redskins’ filed last week. Almira/Coulee/ Hartline continued their power run through the 1B ranks on this side of the state with a 52-8 crunch over Touchet last wee...
Roger W. Flock, Jr., 30, Pullman, has been summoned to appear in court Dec. 2 after seven charges involving credit card violations were filed against him Nov. 17 in Whitman County Superior court. The Pullman police report said investigation of the credit card cases started last May 26 when they received a report from the Pullman Safeway that a man had attempted to purchase $4,000 in gift cards with a credit card. The man left the store after telling the clerk he needed to go to his car to get photo identification for the credit card and did... Full story
Among factors in Colfax budget compilations for next year will be an increase in the city’s payments for upkeep and improvements of the Whitman County Library. Colfax pays the library a fee for building maintenance and upgrades because the library district owns the building in Colfax. Other towns around the county provide the library facilities at their expense. The annual Colfax library fee payments will increase from $8,737 for this year to $11,675 for each of the next two years. The increase derives mostly from the costs the library now p... Full story
Garfield and Palouse school boards will each replace two members after a series of resignations and elections. Palouse has appointed one new member already while Garfield will replace longtime members Craig Cochran and Kenny Restrom, who did not run for re-election Nov. 8. Cochran and Restrom marked their last meeting in a joint session with Palouse Nov. 17. Cochran served 10 years on the board and Restrom eight. “I said I’d serve until my kids graduated two years ago,” said Cochran. “Then... Full story
In three sessions Nov. 17, one in combination with Garfield, the Palouse school board addressed a range of topics, including software for Little Sprouts, an update on class size and configuration discussions, fifth-grade co-op with Garfield and the addition of a new board member. The meeting opened with a change to the agenda. Board candidate Chris Cook’s interview would be waived, since he was the only candidate to replace seven-year member Darin Watkins, who moved to Pullman. Jens Hegg, p... Full story
Pirates face Colfax senior Morgan Willson Sunday placed 16th among a field of 78 runners in the 13th edition of the Border Clash race at the Nike World Headquarters Campus in Beaverton, Ore. Willson qualified for the race with her win two weeks ago of the all-B cross country race at Sun Willows Golf course in Pasco. She clocked 16:46 in the race with is a 25-second improvement over her clocking two years ago when she qualified after winning the state B race in Pasco as a sophomore. The race features top finishers from cross country state... Full story
In a wide-ranging meeting of the Colfax school levy committee Monday night, Superintendent Michael Morgan and business manager Reece Jenkin provided information for volunteers aiming for a 2012 levy proposal which will go before the voters. The committee conducted a public session in the high school library to seek informattion for a levy number to recommend the school board ask voters to approve next February. The levy approach this year comes after a first version of school levy proposal two...
Barnes Cut-off Road will be renamed to honor the late Sen. Eugene Prince, who represented Whitman County in Olympia for 19 years. Whitman County commissioners approved the name change Monday. Commissioner Greg Partch said the move was a fitting tribute for a man who focused so much on roads and bridges while in Olympia. “Transportation was something near and dear to Gene’s heart,” said Partch. Sen. Prince died in October, 2007, at the age of 77. The road runs west toward Prince’s home near Sunset from Highway 195, intersecting at the north e...
Operation budgets hang in the balance as officials at Farmington hold out hope that three levy proposals will somehow get over the 60 percent approval mark in the final count of general election ballots Nov. 28-29. The last ballots to be counted are ones which were deemed problematic by the county elections staff. Late postmarks, signature matchup with registration, and other problems put the ballots in front of the canvass board for their ruling. Right now the county has 166 ballots in the...
Commissioners of the Port of Whitman County unanimously approved the agency’s $11.4 million 2012 budget at their regular meeting last Thursday, Nov. 17. The agency’s 2012 budget proposal shows income of $1,177,000 from its industrial parks and fiber optic network, while the 37 cent property tax levy is projected to bring in $1,081,000. The port’s $14 million federally-funded fiber optic network expansion skews the 2012 spending plan upward. The port is expected to spend $7,691,000 to complete the 170-mile broadband project next year. Grant...
For the first time in 37 years, the only title in front of Steve Appel’s name will be farmer. Appel, 59, retired last week as President of the Washington State Farm Bureau, capping a 17-year stint in the organization’s top seat and 37 years of holding an office in the organization. “When I first started this ride, I never could have imagined it would have lasted this long,” said Appel. Appel, who farms in the Dusty area, joined the Farm Bureau in October of 1974 and quickly took the position of chair of the young farmers and ranchers committ...
WEEKEND Lucky Friday Mine of Mullan, Idaho, lost its second miner this year Nov. 17 when Brandon Lloyd Gray, 26, was critically injured while working at the mine. He died early Saturday morning. In April, Larry “Pete” Marek was killed in another accident, when his work area caved in, causing him to be buried by a large pile of rocks. Riot police in Egypt fired tear gas and rubber bullets into Cairo’s Tahir Square Saturday to take down a camp of protesters. The incident set off clashes that killed two protesters and injured hundreds more just da...
Moving step by step toward the clean-up stage, the Palouse Brownsfield project will be the subject of a public meeting next Thursday, Dec. 1. On Main Street in Palouse, next to Bagott Motors, the half-acre Brownsfield site is a former fertilizer producer’s location which was contaminated with lead, arsenic, manganese and other pollutants. In 2009 the city received a $200,000 integrated planning grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology (DOE) to create a plan for the site’s future. Or...
Using expected revenues from property taxes at the Palouse Wind project, Whitman County commissioners hope to make needed improvements to county buildings and balance the 2012 budget. Commissioners discussed options during a workshop session Monday afternoon. On the list of improvements is a $572,000 chiller on the jail, new roofs on the courthouse and public service building, a renovation to make the courthouse compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and $203,000 worth of information technology infrastructure. “We need long-term f...
