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James “JJ” Robinson, Colfax High School senior, has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball at Washington State University. Shown here with Colfax Athletic Director Shawna Kneale and Coach Mike Parrish, Robinson signed Nov. 9, the earliest date high school students can sign with a Division I school. WSU’s close-to-home location, its coaching staff and other recruits he met during a recruiting visit to campus were factors in his decision to play for the Cougars, Robinson said. Coach Parrish said during his stint at head coach Robin...
Colton’s girls Saturday opened their hoop season with a runaway win over Grangeville on the Wildcats’ court. The defending state champs posted a 31-9 lead over their guests in the first quarter and led 52-20 at the half. Jenna Moser led Colton with 16 and Erin Weber booked 15. Garfdield/Palouse Vikings Saturday came back from a one-point deficit after the first half to score 15 in the third quarter and take out LaCrosse/Washtucna on the Tigercats’ court. Kaycie Adair and Chandler Pfaff each hit 8 points to lead the Vikings. Rosalia girls Frida...
Eager to reverse its league showing from the last couple of years, LaCrosse/Washtucna ripped open its season with a 53-35 non-league win over visiting Garfield/Palouse Saturday night. The teams were knotted at 8-all after the first quarter, but Tigercat guard Darcy Stamper turned up the juice in the second, dropping in 9 of his game-high 19 points and picking up a pair of steals to lead the ‘cats to a 21-9 frame. Jake Aune added 11 points for LW, and Jed Zimmer put 10 on the board. GP was led by the 14 points from Jesse Lopez. Nathan Cocking c...
Six rounds of team votes for the top awards for this year’s Colfax volleyball season ended in three ties, Coach Sue Doering reported Tuesday night before presenting the awards at the season-end banquet. Becca Hardie and Misty Skelton were named most improved, Rachel Robinson and Hannah Harazin, most inspirational; and Amelie Bruya and Taylor Larsen, most valuable players. Lauren Moore received the senior scholastic award with a 3.807 grade point average. Skelton, Hardie, Moore and Harazin were honored as the departing seniors on the team. M... Full story
In a second special meeting Monday night on the subject of classroom crowding, the Palouse school board voted to hire another half-time teacher for the elementary school. The teacher will work with the combined second and third grade classroom, which has swelled to 31 kids. The added afternoon teacher comes after the school hired a half-time morning teacher for the second-third grade room Sept. 22. With the new teacher, the two grades will now be split all day, except for the enrichment classes... Full story
Waitsburg/Prescott Saturday dominated the 2B football title game in the Tacoma Dome for a 33-7 win over Morton/White Pass. The Cardinals finished their season with a 14-0 record and their first title win. Senior QB Zach Bartlow, who dominated Colfax in last week’s semi-final round at Pasco, finished with a 14-21 passing night for 207 yards. He hit Dalton Estes for two TD scores. Last chapter in the eight-man football season saw the late-charging Neah Bay team out-grind Almira-Coulee-Hartline, the east side dominators, 36-28 in the Friday t...
For the second straight year, a rebuild of Colfax Airport Road tops Whitman County’s list of construction projects. Public Works Director Mark Storey unveiled the $5.3 million 2012 construction plan Monday. The plan for the $3.5 million Colfax Airport Road project is to widen the road, create shoulders, eliminate some of the road’s tight curves and better angle its slopes. “We have great expectations to do that next year,” said Storey. Colfax Airport Road, a major thoroughfare for east-west WSU traffic, was originally slated to be rebuilt...
THURSDAY The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported the nation could soon be a net exporter of refined fuel for the first time in 62 years. President Barack Obama and his family lit a new National Christmas Tree, a 26-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce decorated with white lights and snowflakes. Animal control officers in Plattsmouth, Neb., put out a bait cow to lure in a young heifer that has been wandering loose in town for two months. The wandering bovine is one of two that tumbled off a semi-tractor trailer livestock truck after a... Full story
Two officials from Whitman County Library journeyed to Los Angeles to help answer the question, “What is the future of public libraries in the digital age?” Gathering in Los Angeles, 60 leaders from academic and public libraries, foundations, digitization support organizations and technology firms nationwide were charged with creating a blueprint for a National Digital Public Library. Thanks to grant funding, local staffers Peggy Bryan and James Morasch joined representatives from Boston, Denver, New York and Los Angeles public libraries as wel...
“Cut!” Serena Belsby shouts out directions to her film crew from behind the bar at the Rialto Tavern in St. John. “Let’s do one more take,” she says. “Just for the fun of it.” Belsby and her crew comandeered the tavern and St. John’s annual Winterfest parade Saturday to film her upcoming feature film “The Merry Graingers.” Fortunately, Belsby’s crew got two takes at the parade as it regularly takes one spin up Front Street before turning around to head back. The town did move the annual parade from its regular 5 p.m. start to 1 p.m. to ac...
The rate for the sexually-transmitted disease chlamydia is up slightly for 2011 over last year in Whitman County, while the gonorrhea rate is also expected to be up, according to a report at Tuesday’s Board of Health meeting. In 2010, 131 cases of chlamydia were documented. As of Dec. 6 this year, 137 cases were documented with three weeks remaining. Seventy percent of the patients were females, with 30 percent males. “They know how to prevent it,” said Melissa Elkins, Communicable Disease Nurse for the county. “They’re not afraid of it.” She...
Daniel Lee Camp was allowed pre-trial release in Spokane Monday after pleading not guilty in United States District Court to two child pornography charges. Camp, was arrested at his home in LaCrosse last Tuesday, Nov. 29. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation served the arrest warrant, according to Whitman County Sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Chapman, who assisted in the arrest. Camp appeared in court later that day before Magistrate Judge Cynthia Imbrogno on one count of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of c...
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Roger W. Flock, Jr., 30, former Colfax and Pullman resident, who had been summoned to appear in superior court Dec. 2 on charges of theft, possession of stolen property and identity theft. Deputy Prosecutor Dan Lebeau told the court Friday morning he had been informed that Flock was now living in Australia. He said contact has been made with Flock who expects to return back to the United States from Australia after the summer season there. The court opted to issue the arrest warrant because Flock had...
weather forecast Central County Thursday: Sunny with a high near 36. No wind. Partly cloudy overnight. Low around 21. Friday: Sunny with a high near 37. Light winds pick up from the east. Mostly cloudy overnight. Low around 23. Saturday: Mostly sunny with a high near 37. Clouds overnight. Low around 24. Sunday: Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. High near 36. Clouds linger through the night. Low around 23. Monday thru Wednesday: Dry with light clouds throughout. Highs in mid-30s. Lows in mid-20s....
Over Veteran’s Day weekend, a dog’s head went missing for 24 hours. A dog suspected of rabies bit a person in Whitman County and was later euthanized. Its head was removed by the WSU veterinary department and was to be sent to at state lab in Olympia for rabies testing. The head was packaged and put on a bus just before Veteran’s Day weekend, according to an account from Phil Hagihara, environmental health specialist, at Tuesday’s county Board of Health meeting. The dog’s head was due to arrive that Friday, but it did not. So Whitman County hea...
Property taxes from the Palouse Wind project will generate $1.2 million for Whitman County’s operating fund over the next 20 years, Assessor Joe Reynolds said Monday. “This is a key piece of consideration as it relates to how we are going to finance our capital projects,” said Administrative Director Gary Petrovich. That figure is important to the $57 million 2012 budget because commissioners are planning to delay several capital improvements and pay for them with bonds that would be covered the additional tax revenue from the wind farm. Initi...
Rosalia Judging for the Rosalia Chamber of Commerce annual Christmas lights contest will be the weekend, Dec. 17-18. Since 2000, the contest honors winners in traditional and contemporary residential lighting with prizes. Check with Pittmann Town & Country store in Rosalia for more information. Winners will be announced Dec. 20. Judges for the Christmas lights will be from out of the area and include professionals in artistic productions. This year the Christmas festival introduced Winter...
Youngsters in in grades one through four are invited to Holiday Fun at the Colfax Library next Thursday, Dec. 15, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Come join in the seasonal stories, snacks, games and laughter with friends. Every Third Thursday during the school year youngsters may ride bus #5 with a parent permission note, walk or ride to the Colfax Library....
State cuts could cost Whitman Hospital $1.6 million Officials with Whitman Hospital and Medical Center, along with their colleagues around the state, are concerned a bill floating around the legislature could drastically cut their funding. “If this goes through, almost every - with very, very few exceptions - the budget of almost every hospital in Washington would go negative, and severely negative, very quickly,” said Tom Corley, acting administrator for Whitman Hospital. Part of Gov. Chris Gregoire’s plan to balance the current budget, House... Full story
After hearing nothing but support during a pair of public meetings last month, County Planner Alan Thomson recommended county commisisoners “opt in” to the state’s new Ruckelshaus rules. The new rules allow counties to come up with boards that will set local priorities while regulating farming around environmentally-sensitive areas. If the county does not opt in, it must revise its critical areas ordinances to ensure they are protected from agricultural activities. Farming is currently allowed to take place anywhere in Whitman County, with...
Cost pegged at $786,000: Four years and a few decades coming, the Palouse Brownsfield site was the subject of a public meeting last Thursday in the gym at Garfield/Palouse High school. Residents listened to representatives from the Washington state Department of Ecology, engineering firm Maul Foster Alongi and Palouse city officials. The subject was the riverfront cleanup site, which housed pollution beginning in the 1950s when it was a Conoco Station, and through the ‘80s when it was the site o... Full story
Santa negotiates his Christmas delivery with a young fan at Rosalia’s Winterfest Saturday. Santa’s “helper” Mike Day was stationed at Pittman’s Town and Country. Hundreds of holiday-happy residents of Whitman County celebrated at festivals in Rosalia, St. John, Garfield, Endicott, Pullman and Colfax over the past week. More pictures from those celebrations are featured on page 10....
