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While several thousands of dollars were spent at the county level for the elections, and tens of thousands were spent at the district and state levels, millions were spent at the national level. Now that the elections are over, comparisons can be made between candidates on how much they collected in contributions and how much each spent on their campaign rounded to the nearest dollar. U.S. Representatives The Center for Responsive Politics website, opensecrets.org, reported Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Lisa Brown had last reported Oct. 17....
St. John St. John Heritage Museum will celebrate its fifth anniversary during St. John’s Winterfest. The anniversary celebration is to show appreciation for the museum’s donors, and anyone is welcome to attend. The museum will feature live piano music as well as refreshments which include ice cream from Ferdinand’s Ice Cream Shoppe. St. John’s Heritage Museum debuted during the 2013 Winterfest in St. John. St. John’s 26th annual Winterfest will be a two-day event, Dec. 1 and 2. Events for Winter...
In 1918, Palouse resident Irma Leusing invited six women to meet at her home, asking them to bring their sewing. They met again, and another time. "They just got together to be together," said current Xenodican Club member Diana Cochran. In two years, they joined the Washington State General Federation of Women's Clubs. The federation required that each group had a stated purpose. The Palouse ladies chose to start a library, taking on the name Xenodican Club, after the Greek word for...
For the 15th year, the singing group 'His Song' will open the Christmas season at Pine City with a public performance in the historic stone church Sunday, Dec. 2, beginning at 2 p.m. with refreshments and fellowship following at the Kenova Grange. It was a tradition at Pine City in the early 1900's to celebrate Christmas as a community. The gathering was generally held on Christmas eve at the community hall, originally the first school building, or at the IOOF hall. After the gym and auditorium...
Aaron Carter, WSU winter wheat breeder, will give a presentation at the next meeting of the Whitman County Association of Wheat Growers. The meeting will be at Eddy’s Restaurant in Colfax Monday, Dec. 3, at noon....
The Gilchrist fishing pond spot south of Colfax has been reinforced by a Whitman Conservation District project after decades of erosion. The pond, created by the Gilchrist family which owns the land, was built in 1947 by the late Demoine Gilchrist and is stocked with fish each year. Union Flat Creek runs along the south side. In 2016, a four-foot hole in the pond bank gave way and the water level dropped by three feet. The Gilchrists then called the conservation district in Colfax. "Landowners...
By unanimous vote Nov. 19, the Tekoa City Council appointed Troy Wilson as its new mayor, to serve the remainder of John Jaeger’s term, who resigned in October. Wilson, mayor pro-tem for Jaeger and an eight-year city councilman, will serve at least until January 2020, before which he may run for a full term in November of next year. “I feel like I can do a good job, as I’ve thought about it a few times that I might throw my hat in,” said Wilson. “I wasn’t planning on it in the near future, but...
A petition urging the town council to place capital expenditures in the town’s 2019 budget missed town council’s vote approving the budget last Tuesday, Nov, 20. Colleen Cross, who headed the petition drive, reported to petition signees that she arrived at the Malden town council session after members of the council had approved the 2019 budget. Cross reported to petition-backers she arrived at the session late because a time mixup and learned the council had already conducted a public hearing on the budget. The petition was signed by 51 Mal...
SNOW SLIDEOFFS ON SHERIFF’S LOG Vehicle slide-offs were logged by the sheriff’s office Friday when the first snow storm hit the area. One slide-off was reported on Highway 26 just west of Colfax at 9:28 p.m., and another at 10:03 p.m. on Highway 27 near the Grinnell Road intersection north of Palouse. Deputy Michael Jordan responded to a report of a motorist driving under the speed limit at 5 p.m. Friday on Highway 195 at mile 28 south of Colfax. Deputy James Pelissier responded at 9:45 a.m. Nov. 22 on a report of a wounded deer on Almota Roa...
Colfax volleyball players capped their season Tuesday night with a potluck dinner. First-year Coach Molly McNeil and assistant Shawna Kneale started the banquet by thanking supporters of the program in the fall campaign. A young crew which picked up steam at the season advanced, the Bulldogs this year made it to the second round of district playoffs at St. George's before being stopped on the road to another state tournament performance. Coach McNeil noted the Bulldogs faced a lot of challenges...
Colfax wrestlers started a new season Saturday with a trip to the Walla Walla tournament. Riane Jones won her weight class at Walla Walla, and Augie Allenbach, now a senior, placed second in the heavyweight class. Starting his ninth year as head coach, Coach Denis Gransbery has 17 wrestlers in the lineup with several veterans back from last year when the Bulldogs finished fifth in the B division of state at the Mat Classic. Grads off last year’s team were state medalists Chris Jones and Dane Hall, and Ben Ahmann and German exchange student, L...
Colfax First Baptist Church Brazil Mission teams will host a 4K and 8K fun runs Saturday, Dec. 1, starting at 9:30 a.m. The race will begin at the entrance to Schmuck Park with registration the day of the race starting at 8:45 a.m. Cost to participate is $20 for ages 15 and older, and $10 for youths ages 6 to 14. T-shirts are included while the supply lasts. Participants can choose between the 4K and an 8K route. All proceeds will support a mission team traveling to Camp Victoria, Brazil, in January to help build a ministry family camp and...
Basketball season officially launched here Monday night when Colfax hosted Lakeside and Oakesdale teams for a hoop jamboree. At left, Kierstyn York of Colfax launches a shot over Lakeside's Rylee Thomas in the matchup of Bulldog and Eagle varsity teams....
The core returns for another basketball season for the Colton girls. The 2018 state 1B champions, and 2016 state champions on which many of the core played as freshmen, are now seniors. Jordyn Moerhle, Dakota Patchen, Emily Schultheis and Abby Kelly led last year’s team that went 26-1 and beat Pomeroy for the state championship. Joining them are two returning starters at guard; sophomores Josie Schultheis and Rylee Vining. The team graduated post player Georgia Meyer. Coach Clark Vining is in h...
All five Oakesdale starters are back to finish something. As juniors, with one sophomore, they went 17-3 in the regular season and tied for first-place in the Southeast 1B league basketball standings with Pomeroy. A week later, their season was over, the Nighthawks upset by Touchet in the district tournament at Walla Walla under the igloo dome. “Last year ended prematurely,” said fifth-year coach Carl Crider. “We didn’t play particularly well at playoff time. We’ll try not to let that duplicate...
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. CANVASS BOARD OKAYS 253 Another 253 votes were added to the election return following a review by the elections canvass board Monday. Final tally for the election is 17,565 votes, which will be submitted for state certification. Turnout for the election finished at 69.9 percent of the 25,130...
Something is going to happen about climate change. Just what and when is unknown. This week, a bipartisan bill was introduced in Congress. The prospects that it will be passed are not good, but this is the first bipartisan carbon tax bill in ten years to be considered. The bill will probably be introduced again next year in the House of Representatives. This comes on the heels of the defeat of I-1631 in Washington. That, too, was a carbon tax proposal. Much was wrong with it. In many important regards it was just too vague and too open to...
I'm always amazed that the Washington types I consider to be such jerks are completely different when I run into them at a dog park. They're actually pleasant to be around. Our canine kids certainly are a good influence. I find it interesting that President Donald Trump and his family don't have any puppies, not even the ones that most politicians trot out for warm and fuzzy photo ops or campaign ads. But not Trump, maybe because he doesn't do warm and fuzzy. Or perhaps it's because he's a major-league germaphobe and is worried about rabies....
Joe Biden is a gaffe-prone 75-year-old Washington veteran -- who is exactly what Democrats need. The suburbs have turned against Republicans, but Donald Trump's working-class base is still with him in a geographic and demographic stand-off that will -- absent a game-changer -- define the 2020 election. The play for Democrats should be obvious: Make a serious appeal to Trump's voters, take back the Blue Wall states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and win the presidency. In other words, go with Joe Biden or someone like him with a...
Pet Peeves Colfax gas prices not dropping. People who judge and gossip about other people’s children when their parents are doing their best. People who throw their cigarettes out the window. Quit smoking! If you can’t quit, don’t throw your cigarettes out the window!!! Okeydokes To the kind gentlemen who paid for two great-grandmothers' meals at Fonk’s on Friday....
While massive wildfires are historic, they are more dangerous today. As our population grows they are a greater threat to communities adjacent to wild lands This year, with nearly 4.8 million acres already burned in the U.S. and wildfires finally contained in California, is shaping up to continue a trend that has seen the 10 worst fire seasons since 1960 in terms of acres burned, U.S. News reports. AccuWeather predicts the total economic loss to California when everything is tabulated in 2018 wi...
Dear CNN, I watched your broadcasts protesting the revocation of Jim Acosta’s White House press pass. You have now turned to the courts in order to bolster your continued feud with President Trump. I will agree that the President is pompous, rude and undiplomatic. He certainly carries much of the blame for your conflict. You should, however, acknowledge that you are at least partly responsible. In the case of; Jim Acosta, you are just plain wrong. Your network, and to a degree the national press in general, have come to believe their First A...
MARRIAGE LICENSES David Joseph Mayer, 41, Uniontown, and Laurel Ann Meacham, 38, Colfax, Nov. 14. Michael James Jenkins, 69, and Patricia Ann Ballard, 68, both St. John, Nov. 14. Michael Patrick Higgins, 44, Pullman, and Tawny Starr Szumlas, 39, Moscow, Nov. 14. Matthew Randall Floyd, 25, and Sara Kay Henning, 35, both Rosalia, Nov. 15. Dylan Emery Lambert, 22, Spokane, to Rebecca Grace Teague, 19, Pullman, Nov. 21. REAL ESTATE Richard Daugherty, Spokane, to Richard and Randalyn Vanklaveren, Hayden, Idaho, house on SW Wadleigh Drive, Pullman, $...
