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COLFAX - After a fall sports season where the girls volleyball team finished third in state and the boys football team said goodbye to head coach Mike Morgan, the winter sports season is getting underway. The girls basketball team will look to defend their state title from last season as they open up their 2023-24 season. Their first game will be Thursday, Nov. 30. The Bulldogs will host Freeman with tip off set for 6 p.m. The girls team will then play Monday, Dec. 4, against Warden. The game wi...
WHITMAN COUNTY — The winter sports season is officially underway in Whitman County. Tekoa-Rosalia, Oakesdale, Garfield-Palouse, Colton, and St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse all will have boys basketball teams this season. The only school to not have girls basketball in 2023-24 is the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles. They had four girls show up on the first day and will not have a team. For boys basketball, Oakesdale opens their season on Thursday, Nov. 30. They will host Moses Lake Christian Academy with tip off set for 6:30 p.m. The G...
COLFAX — The Washington Supreme Court has stayed the ruling from the Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax, which granted Washington State University (WSU) and Oregon State University (OSU) control of the Pac-12 conference. A temporary restraining order will remain in place, requiring the conference to act as a whole. The accelerated schedule of determining how the case will proceed is set to conclude no later than December 12. In short, the decision made Tuesday, Nov. 28, currently ensures that all members of the current Pac-12 have equal v...
OAKESDALE — The Oakesdale Nighthawks volleyball team will have a new outside hitter next season, replacing Payton Davis, who has been a starter on the team since her eighth grade season. Davis will be attending Central Washington University next season to play for their volleyball team, but left Oakesdale with one final gift. Davis was awarded with an athlete of the week honor during week 10 of the season, when the Nighthawks and Davis won their third-straight state championship. Davis earned the award for her 43 kill performance in the s...
COLFAX - After 32 years of being on football sidelines, including 26 years as a head coach, Colfax football coach Mike Morgan is letting go of the Bulldog's leash. Morgan spent the last 26 years as the head football coach for the Bulldogs, with a record of 172-95 in his head coaching career, including a state championship title in 2001. "When you coach 26 years they're all memorable," said Morgan. Doug Curtis was the head coach of the Colfax football team before Morgan. Morgan started at Colfax...
COLFAX - Perkins House Volunteer Jill Gfeller was fighting a bad case of COVID-19 when she came across a rare set of historical dolls on eBay. Gfeller explained that the dolls were created by four sisters from Independence, Missouri, who had an uncle named William Webbe, the first illustrator for the author Charles Dickens, inspiring "The Original Dickens Dolls," handmade in the 1940s and 1950s. Gfeller said the dolls were hard to come by, but she pulled up eBay and found as many as possible....
COLFAX – The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory. The advisory is in effect from 4 a.m. Friday until 4 p.m. Saturday for all of Whitman County. A snow accumulation of 2-6 inches is expected across much of the area, the weather service said. Light snow is expected to start tonight, which will make for slick driving conditions early Friday. Wind gusts may reach as high as 40 mph Saturday in some locations, creating whiteout conditions....
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden and Inslee administrations have been colluding secretly with extremist environmental groups and four tribal governments on plans to breach dams on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. A “confidential mediation document — not for distribution” on their dam-breaching efforts was leaked to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and then to the media Wednesday, Nov. 29. The document outlines a proposed agreement between representatives of the six agencies in their efforts expected to be presented in federal court Dec. 15 in connect...
STEPTOE — There will be a Wreaths Across America (WAA) wreath-laying ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 16, in observance of National WWA Day at noon at Steptoe Bethel Cemetery, Scholz Road, Box 76. Organizer Cherry Alice Van Tine said this year’s event honors 122 veterans, two more than last year’s event. The event will have a special ceremony to recognize each Armed Forces branch, and Emergency Responders will be recognized. Van Tine said that volunteer veterans present honorees, and this year, the Steptoe School sixth, seventh, and eighth graders wi...
COLFAX — The Thrifty Grandmothers shop is awarding at least ten $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors in Whitman County this year. Students eligible for the scholarships must be planning to attend accredited colleges, universities and vocational/technical schools. Applicants have no restrictions on their course of study or career path, and those pursuing vocational or technical education are encouraged to apply. Grandmothers will consider students who have been active in their communities and plan to influence those around them wherever t...
COLFAX — The Colfax Volunteer Firemen are hosting their annual Firefighters’ Christmas Toy Box Drive and collecting donations. Colfax local Sherry Brackett has donated 150 hats to the yearly cause to provide for children in the area. Brackett said she uses a round loom she learned to make hats on 20 years ago. “I’m not a crafty person, but this has been really fun to do, and so I’ve been making hats ever since, and I donate them to different organizations,” Brackett said, noting that it’s just something she enjoys doing. Brackett said that whil...
Dear Editor, (writer is from a Colfax family) Former President Trump’s agenda for 2024 is becoming increasingly clear. Mr. Trump established a long time ago an absolute power to hire and fire. (The Apprentice) Our sitting President then went on late in his term of office and after January 6th to argue an absolute immunity from prosecution. (Impeachment trials, fraud trial and criminal indictment filings) Candidate Trump now argues a right to absolute freedom of speech. (Gag order filings) This picture suggests a man devoted to an absolutist s...
The Building Integrated Grids With Inter-Regional Energy Supply (BIG WIRES) Act is a promising bipartisan bill in Congress that offers a wide range of benefits: reducing the risk of electrical power outages, lowering carbon emissions and energy costs, and increasing national security. The recent gas pipeline rupture in our region gave many of us a taste of how a blackout in winter would feel. Extreme weather events damaging power stations and overloading the grid are on the rise. The bill will require each U.S. transmission-planning region to...
Over the last decade, salmon populations across Washington state have stagnated, making virtually no progress toward recovery. That news has not reached Governor Inslee’s spokesman Mike Faulk, who recently pointed to salmon recovery as an area of success. Responding to questions about Governor Inslee’s record from KING 5 TV reporter Susannah Frame, the governor’s spokesman Mike Faulk offered several excuses. He complained that Frame’s “focus is on a small piece of the policy pie, not the governor’s whole strategy.” Instead, one of the things Fa...
We had a great crop of apples this year and more pumpkins than we could give away. Blackberries from the Westside and home canned cherries from early summer and have we got our pies! America is a land of plenty and we love to eat at ball games, movie theaters and other community gatherings. For some, this lifestyle is catching up to us and we’re dealing with extra pounds, which is leading to health problems. We have to find a way to help people stay healthy and avoid terrible chronic diseases associated with obesity. It’s not just about wha...
COLFAX — The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a weapons offense on Wednesday, Nov. 22, at approximately 7:15 a.m. in the 4000 block of Nelson Road, five miles north of Palouse. According to a press release from Thursday, Nov. 23, the incident was reported to deputies by the homeowner, who saw a small, dark, colored four-door passenger vehicle arrive at his residence and four individuals entered the property, prowling his vehicles. Reports say the homeowner then followed the suspect vehicle for approximately a mile bef...
COLFAX — The Port of Whitman County recently completed a feasibility study funded by the Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) to study a proposed technology transfer and commercialization scaling center at Pullman Industrial Park (PIP). During the regular Port Commission meeting on Monday, Nov. 27, the consultant hired to complete the feasibility study shared the results with the commission. The study assessed similar cases in Washington state and the nation, sources of demand, potential sites and other factors t...
PULLMAN — The Pullman Police Department applied for and obtained, a surplus MaxxPro MRAP, an armored vehicle built to withstand ballistic arms fire and emerging threats. The urban rescue vehicle (URV) will be used primarily by the Whitman County SWAT for transport, cover, and concealment in missions such as high-risk warrant service, hostage rescue, barricaded subjects, drone operations, and active shooter incidents. The vehicle was free of cost to the department through the government program Law Enforcement Support Office (LEOSA). ...
COLFAX — The Whitman County Assessor’s Office reported the following land transactions from Nov. 7 – Nov. 20: Nov. 7 Marsha L. Ginther, Morgantown, W.Va., sold MARO 1998 to Mark Alcorn, Pullman, Wash., parcel 3-5238-00-04-60-0009, selling price $40,000, Tax Affadavit. Nov. 9 Max Hathaway and Nancy Hathaway, Garfield, Wash., sold 507 West Union Street, Garfield, Wash., to Sonja Hall, Garfield Wash., parcel 1-0385-0013-04-0000, selling price $165,000, Statutory Warranty Deed. Joseph Craig Curtis, Personal Representative, Colfax, Wash., sold...
COLFAX –– The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls from Nov. 20 – Nov. 27: Nov. 20 7:59 a.m.- North Mill Street, Colfax. Agency assist. 8:10 a.m.- SR 195 Hume Road, Colfax. Suspicious circumstance. 9:17 a.m.- West River Drive, Colfax. Theft report from a storage unit. 10:21 a.m.- West 9th Street, Rosalia. Suspicious circumstance. 1:28 p.m.- Endicott St. John Road, Endicott. Civil calls. 1:29 p.m.- Miller Home Place Road, St. John. Traffic violation. 1:49 p.m.- North Mill Street, Colfax. Sex offender registr...
COLFAX—The Whitman County Jail reported the following individuals booked from Nov. 20 – Nov. 27: Nov. 20 Ali Zaki Al, 52. Driving with license suspended 3rd degree. $250 bond or $250 cash bail through Whitman County District Court. Thomas Able Hendershott, 40. Department of Corrections hold. Held without bail through other court. Good time release Nov. 23, 2023 at 7 p.m. Renee Nichole Ford, 25. Theft of motor vehicle, DUI. Held without bail through Whitman County Superior Court. Nov. 21 Angel Miguel Sanchez, 32. Federal violation, USMS hol...
COLFAX — The Downtown Association is progessing with their small business incubators that received funding in November 2022. “It’s going well,” Downtown Association Director Whitney Bond said to the Gazette, Tuesday, Nov. 21 noting they’ve filled their downstairs of the first properties they purchased. Bond said they are almost done with the design and prospects for the second property purchased for an incubator, the former Washington Federal Bank (WaFd) building located at 102 North Main Street. “The Cocoa Bee is in the first property,...
COLFAX — The annual Colfax Winterfest is this weekend, starting with events on Friday, Dec. 1, through Saturday, Dec. 2. Downtown Association Director Whitney Bond said that this year’s event is a co-collaboration between the Downtown Association, the Colfax Chamber of Commerce, and the City. Bond said most of the events will happen on Friday, with activities starting at 4 p.m. Interim executive Director for the Chamber of Commerce Alexis Pettit said the Parade starts at 6:30 p.m. with the line-up starting at 6 p.m. “There is going to be a fir...
COLFAX — The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) released its third round of Farm to School purchasing grants, awarding four Whitman County School Districts $20,000 each. Garfield School District, Palouse School District, Tekoa School District and Pullman are all on this round of funding for the Farm to School Purchasing grant, allowing the schools to purchase foods grown, raised, caught or foraged by producers in Washington state. The WSDA received 132 applications this round, with requests totaling over $8.5 million, which they...
