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Brody Yarnell, a junior at Colfax High School, will depart this week to participate in the Under Armour Baseball Factory Recruiting and National Tournament which will get underway Sunday in Mesa, Ariz. Yarnell was among 130 boys across the nation selected to compete in the four-day tournament. He learned of his selection Oct. 6 after a tryout at Gonzaga Prep in Spokane. He and his family have since been raising funds to pay for participation in the tournament and travel to and from Arizona. His family, including mom Blaire Daniel, dad Alan...
Going into Christmas break, Colton and Touchet remain unbeaten headed toward their first of two league games Jan. 8 at Colton. Touchet is the only 1B team to give the Wildcats a scare late in a fourth quarter in more than a year. Colton beat the Indians 58-54 in the district championship game last February. Colton 74, Garfield-Palouse 23 Colton made it 78-straight wins Tuesday night as Zoe Moser and MaryAnn Jacobs both scored 17 points and Dakota Patchen had 15. Rachel Meyer added six points and eight rebounds. Payson Griner led Gar-Pal with...
Keith Gfeller of Colfax loses the handle at impact with Jonathon Meyer of Lakeside in the Saturday non-league battle at Colfax. Colfax boys Tuesday night defeated SE guests Dayton 61-36 to wrap up the pre-Christmas part of the hoop season. The non-league win broke a string of four straight losses, including a 0-3 run in the early part of the NE league campaign. Keith Gfeller led the attack with 17 points and sophomore guard Jaydon Soncarty finished with nine. The Dayton guests kept pace with...
By a point, Garfield-Palouse remains undefeated going into Christmas break after a narrow escape at Colton Tuesday night. The Vikings (9-0, 4-0 in league) will play next at Potlatch Dec. 29 in a non-league game. Garfield-Palouse 55, Colton 54 Gar-Pal-Colton went to the wall Tuesday, when Matt Holbrook's three-pointer with 31 seconds left proved just enough to keep the Vikings unbeaten. After the shot, two Gar-Pal defensive stops in the full-court press held off Colton's last response. The...
Olivia Mellor goes up for a shot in the paint against McKensie Brittos of Lakeside in Saturday’s non-league game at Colfax. After dropping two close losses over the weekend, the Colfax girls Tuesday night crunched the Dayton Bulldogs 43-24 on the home court to get back in a win mode before the Christmas break. The Colfax defense, which earned strong credits over the weekend, allowed Dayton just a single point in the first quarter, and Dayton's total after three quarters was 13. Sophomore P...
Stating he concluded Erik Luden was very dangerous for whatever reason, Judge David Frazier Friday sentenced the former WSU student to the maximum term he could receive under state law. Luden was sentenced to 220 months, the top of the sentencing range for the second degree murder of his father May 30, plus 24 months for use of a dangerous weapon. Luden was convicted by a jury of the murder Dec. 16 at the end of a two-day trial. The jury also ruled that the cooking pot which Luden used to bludgeon his father was a dangerous weapon. The...
The 2015 county operating budget received its third and final amendment at the Board of County Commissioners meeting Monday, adjusting the budget by about $449,000 in what county administrator Gary Petrovich called “tidying things up.” Petrovich said the changes involved in this amendment mostly amounted to “technical corrections that didn't require the use of any additional funds.” The first change came in the homeless housing plan fund, which was originally slated at $75,000. Petrovich said the balance of this fund was not originally correct...
Jennings students gathered in the gym Friday for a “can race” in which students competed head-to-head to see whose can could cross the line the quickest. The can race followed the week-long Jennings food drive. Students donated 2,464 food items totaling 2,144 pounds for the Colfax Pantry. Earlier in the week, individual classes held their own can races to determine which student would represent each class at the assembly. Here, special education teacher Jason Cooper directs students in the can...
Washington State Parks' planning process for the John Wayne Trail is coming together for the new year. The Parks Department has yet to announce dates for the four stages of public meetings to be conducted with a 12-member advisory group to decide the future of the trail. The almost cross-state, non-motorized John Wayne Trail has come into question this fall after a proposal put forth in the state legislature to close a 135-mile section from the Columbia River at Beverly to Malden. Parks Planner...
Aubrey Bondurant sits on Santa's knee at the Farmington Fire Station Dec. 18. The appearance was part of a revival of a tradition in Farmington, which once featured school buses making a Santa stop at the fire station after picking up children on the last day before Christmas break. The bus stopped at the station where kids visited Santa and then got back on the bus to go home. “That's not done anymore because of liability,” said Adelle Hurley Bondurant, mother of Aubrey. “We're just tryin...
The St. Ignatius Hospital building once again played host to visitors over the weekend. LiveSciFi.tv, a paranormal investigation group based in Los Angeles, traveled to Colfax Friday, Dec. 18, to tour the inside of the St. Ignatius Hospital building at Colfax. The group had planned to spend one night – Saturday – in the vacant hospital building to conduct a paranormal investigation. What they found did not disappoint, according to Valoree Gregory, Colfax unified executive director. Gregory has previously organized tours in the days leading up t...
In a correction to last week’s Gazette, the town of Rosalia was reported to have not passed a resolution in support of the John Wayne Trail after efforts in the state legislature to close a section of it in Eastern Washington. Rosalia Mayor Nanette Konishi this week explained after the Rosalia council voted on the resolution there was some uncertainty about whether it passed. The resolution vote was 2-1 in favor. One member opposed in order to first seek more information. The confusion derived from whether the vote was valid because some c...
Whitman County Commissioners at their regular meeting Monday conducted a hearing regarding the county’s indigent defense code and later at their meeting adopted the Indigent Defense Services ordinance. Prosecutor Denis Tracy in presenting the ordinance said that it was now mandatory under the state law. “The state passed a statute which requires counties to have an indigent defense ordinance,” he said. “The gist of the ordinance is to follow the rules of the state supreme court.” The ordinance outlines the standards for the delivery of indige...
A public hearing has been set for rezoning a satellite property for Uniontown Co-operative Association. The 2.9-acre site on Leon Road is currently zoned as agricultural and would change to limited heavy industrial. The co-op’s plan for the site includes moving a scale and truck loading spout away from the road to the backside of the property. The location includes a crib elevator and two free-standing grain bins. If the new zoning is approved, work is expected to take place next spring. “It’s going to operate the way it always has,” said Ne...
A consultant has been chosen for Whitman County’s participation in the Voluntary Stewardship Program. The state-funded effort aims to find ways to conserve land and waterways without over-regulating farming. To facilitate the process, each county chooses a consultant, for which Whitman County Commissioners approved Anchor QEA of Kennewick on Monday. Interviews were conducted Dec. 15-17, led by County Planner Alan Thomson, Commissioner Dean Kinzer and Public Works Director Mark Storey. Other appl...
When the calendar flips to 2016, the Perkins House will have some new occupants. The Colfax Chamber of Commerce Dec. 30 will move into the house to run their day-to-day business, enabling the Perkins House to be more open to the public. “Our first official day will be January 1st,” said Colfax’s Unified Executive Director Valoree Gregory. Gregory said she will stage her office right off the front entryway and be available to give tours of the house for interested parties. “It is a place for me to sit and so we can have the Perkins House o...
The Passport to Colfax campaign wrapped up Dec. 18, with Sandy Passmore claiming the Chamber tree full of more than $200 worth of gift cards. The Chamber of Commerce sponsored the program, which was to encourage consumers to shop locally, especially around the holidays. Colfax’s Unified Executive Director Valoree Gregory told the Gazette Saturday that many people reported to her that they completed all of their Christmas shopping in Colfax in order to earn stamps on the passports. “I had a number of people say that to me,” said Gregory. Grego...
NOTICE OF DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS) Whitman County Planning issued a Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project: The cleaning out of Wilbur Creek at the WSU Knott Dairy Farm SW of Pullman to prevent flooding of adjacent agricultural fields. This drainage is designated as a farmed wetland and is also a regulated floodplain. Ditching in a floodplain requires a floodplain development permit from Whitman County which triggers a SEPA. Approximately...
Shoveling snow on Main Street. With the 2015-16 snow season underway following a previous year of little, Whitman County Public Works is back on the roads with plows and graders. After last year, are they flush with money? Public Works budgets $640,000 for snow and ice removal with an average of $250,000 used each year. The rest goes into reserves. “Last year certainly was a low number,” said Mark Storey, Whitman County Public Works Director. “But frost, de-icing, it still costs money even when...
A young Endicotter whispers her Christmas wish to Santa at the town Christmas celebration....
