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Rosalia boys Tuesday night defeated Asotin 57-40 to win their own Spartan Classic. The Spartans, who hammered Coeur d’Alene Charter school in the opening round Monday moved their season strong to 10-0 with the win over the Panthers. Led by 17 from Jim Maley, the Spartans posted a 25-21 lead at the half and then dominated the Panthers in the last two quarte54s. Liberty’s girls, who dropped Asotin in Monday’s action, defeated Rosalia 47-37 Tuesday to take the girls side of the Spartan classic. Kelly Hennessey hit 17 to lead the Lancers. She h...
Colfax lineman Sam Mellor and Colton back Sam Robertson each landed two slots on the state AP football selections announced last week. Mellor was named to both the offensive and defensive lines in the state 2B division, and Robertson was named running back and defensive back in the state 1B division. Both are seniors. Will Hatley of Colfax, also a senior, was named to the 2B all-purpose slot. Hatley was a kick return specialist, receiver and defensive back for the Bulldogs. Alex Teade, a junior, was named am all-state linebacker. Ryan Conrad,...
LaCrosse/Washtucna Tigercats Tuesday nipped Kiona-Benton 39-37 in the first round of the Dayton Christmas tournament. Jeff Zimmer of the Tigercats scored 25 points to lead the T-cats who were tied 37-37 until Chris Wargo hit the decider with a layup in the last eight seconds. That came after the Bears hit a threebie in the last 20 second to go up by a piont. Ki-Be had won more possession after Wargo’s shot, missed and fouled Jeff Zimmer who hit one of two toss shots for the two-point edge. The Tigercats and Bear both had trouble finding the r...
Both Colfax teams met defeat Tuesday in the first round of SunDome Shootout in Yakima. Colfax teams were paired against A division teams in the first round Tuesday. Columbia of Burbank came back in the fourth quarter to edge the Bulldog boys 42-40 in an afternoon session Lakeside of Nine Mile defeated Colfax girls 46-33 to end the Bulldogs early season win streak at four games. Coach Reese Jenkin said the Bulldog boys’ shooting was off the mark inside the spacious dome. The two teams locked up at a scant 15-15 for the first half and picked up a...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Roberto Cruz Romero, 18, Chimahluacan, Mexico City, and Erinn Danielle Argo, 20, Moses Lake, Dec. 17 Yu-Yang Huang, 25, Taiwan, Taiwan, and Michelle Hung Yu, 25, New York, N.Y., Dec. 21. COLFAX BUILDING PERMITS William Schumacher, gas furnace, $4,141, 908 S. Mill, Dec. 17 Steve Trump, plumb bathroom, (also, asphalt patch, $243) 1005 N. Morton, Dec. 18 Dianna Daniel, gas furnace, $12,700, 1613 N. Oak, Dec. 21 REAL ESTATE SALES Eileen Soldwedel, Tekoa, to Harold Green, shop buillding on Henkle with six lots, $50,000, July 8....
A 16-year-old Spokane girl sustained head and knee injuries Dec. 25 when she lost control of a 2006 Saturn Ion on the Walla Walla Highway on the grade out of Central Ferry. According to the Washington State Patrol report, she was driving southbound at about 4 p.m. when she lost control of the Saturn, crossed the roadway and struck a rock embankment on the other side. She was transported by ambulance to Whitman Hospital. Drivers in a van-car collision at the Albion Road intersection north of Pullman were unhurt Sunday afternoon. According to...
Romeo Pellum-Honaker, 20, a former defensive back with the WSU Cougar football team, was sentenced to two months in jail Monday on a conviction of second degree burglary last February. Pellum-Honaker, pleaded guilty Oct. 2 to one charge of second degree burglary under a plea bargain agreement. The burglary involved theft of items from a student’s room at Streit Hall on the WSU campus. Pellum-Honaker originally faced four charges, including burglary of another room at Perham Hall. Pellum-Honaker was one of five defendants arrested in the c...
Brian Elfers of Colfax, left, watches on as son Jackson takes his remote control airplane out for a flight over the Schmuck Park ballfield Tuesday afternoon. The duo made the airplane at home with plans they purchased and printed off from the web site RCPowers.com. The structure of the plane was built out of styrofoam, and it is powered by a tiny battery-operated propeller engine. Jackson said construction of the plane took about six hours....
THURSDAY The Obama administration loosened its restrictions on mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, no longer requiring the two companies to cut the size of their mortgage-related investment portfolios next year. Treasury Department officials said the move will help boost the sagging housing market. State Attorney General Rob McKenna said he will introduce legislation that would create a new Office of Open Records that would use judges to settle public records disputes. The proposal will be sponsored by House Majority Leader...
Colfax fire crews were called out Friday morning by a report of smoke in the halls of an apartment at 1018 S. Mill. The smoke was determined to be caused by smoke coming from burned eggs in one of the apartment units. Eight volunteers responded in fire units and two others arrived with their own vehicles as a response to the alarm which was received at 8:13 a.m. The city’s number-one pumper truck, Brush One response truck, an ambulance and the rescue truck responded to the scene. The fire department also responded to two fire alarms Sunday f...
A new generation in the Nealey family will begin service in the state legislature when the session begins in January. Dayton attorney Terry Nealey was sworn in Nov. 3 as state representative for the 16th legislative district after winning the seat in a special election in November. Nealey is the son of the late Darwin Nealey of LaCrosse who served as a 9th district representative from 1983 to 1993. Darwin Nealey died five years ago. Terry’s Nealey twin brother, Tedd Nealey, ran unsuccessfully for the 9th district representative seat in 2006. T...
Jim Allenbach rolls a tire through Whitman County’s Colfax shop Tuesday afternoon. A relatively snow-free December has given Whitman County road crews a chance to catch up on two years of deferred maintenance. Record snowfall in 2008 and 2009 kept workers in the county’s Public Works department on snow plows for 12 hours a day for weeks at a time. This year, crews have not had to log overtime hours. “I prayed for a brown Christmas, and I got it,” said Mark Storey, director of the public works department. “Santa was a very good man this year.” S... Full story
The Port of Whitman County earlier this month was denied a $500,000 grant from the state Department of Commerce. The port was seeking the grant to fund installation of water and sewer lines at its newest industrial park in Pullman. The state’s Innovation Partnership Zone program made $1.5 million of grant funding available this year, and the port sought a chunk of that cash to pay for the infrastructure. The grant would have paved the way for development next year. Now port officials have to look into other funding options. Port Director Joe P...
The American Welding Society has honored Darryl Main, Stanwood High ag instructor and FFA advisor. Main, who attended high school in Palouse where he graduated in 1984, was awarded the 2009 Howard Adkins Memorial Instructor Membership award. Main is the son of Joyce Main and the late Kenny Main of Palouse. The award provides a two-year membership in the American Welding Society and free registration to attend the annual American Welding Society Show and technical sessions. Main has 21 years of experience at Stanwood and has been credited with...
A charge of vehicular assault against Ben W. Evensen, 20, Rosalia, was filed Dec. 24 in Whitman County Superior Court. The report said Evensen was driving in a reckless manner and under the influence of alcohol when the 2003 pickup truck he was driving went out of control on Highway 194 about 14 miles west of Pullman on Feb. 14. The alleged victim of the assault was Drake English, Fairfield, who allegedly sustained fractures of four thoracic vertebra in the accident. The investigation report said English, who was in the passenger seat during...
Last full scale tourney for the Whitman League all-B tournament at Endicott was in 2008 when the Sprague/Harrington Falcons were also in the lineup. The following year the Nighthawks and Vikings were assigned to the 2B classification. An all-Whitman show could be revived next year with all teams back in the same classification. All B schools in Whitman County will be in the same sports classification, 1B, for a two-year stint beginning next fall under the new state sports classifications announced last week. Garfield/Palouse and...
Whitman County taxpayers will pay one percent more in property taxes next year but will see a reduction in services under the $53 million 2010 budget passed Monday by county commissioners. Sheriff Brett Myers’ budget was the last in the $12,123,360 operating fund to be set after the three commissioners came to a last-minute agreement on the sheriff’s bottom line. Myers said Monday that his 2010 budget, which accounts for nearly one-fourth of the overall general fund spending, will have a direct impact on services, and he predicted he will hav...
Identical southward views of Main Street Colfax show the stark difference a year can make. At left is Main Street at the end of 2009, showing pavement left bare by the thus-far mild winter weather. Contrasting is the picture at right, showing Main Street traffic gnarled as a gigantic snow berm in the middle of the street narrowed traffic to one lane in each direction. Road crews logged weeks of consecutive 12-hour days to keep roads passable across the county last year. This year’s mild weather has kept those crews in the shop, catching up o... Full story
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS BID FOR ONE (1), NEW 2009, FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CAB AND CHASSIS 17900# GVWR MINIMUM WHITMAN COUNTY STATE OF WASHINGTON Sealed bids will be received on the following proposal by the Board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, State of Washington, at its office in the Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax, Washington, until 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time, on January 4, 2010 at which time they will be opened and publicly read. Handicap access may be obtained by the Mill Street entrance to the Courthouse. Each bid is to be...
8 years ago, Jan. 9, 1885 At their session last week the county commissioners transacted very little business besides the approval of the bonds of the new officers and the payment of bills. The sum of $6,386.25 was refunded to the Oregon Improvement Company, being the sum taxed in ’81, when the company had no title to lands in this county. On last Thursday evening- as usual after the Gazette had gone to press- Mr. Hugh Roger’s house on the island caught fire from a defective flue. The fire company were promptly on hand, but a few buckets of... Full story
