Colfax News

On November 3, 1992, I strode into the United Methodist Church in Colfax, Washington to cast my first ballot in a U.S. presidential election.

A 68 year-old man from Colfax, Wash. was injured in a hunting accident Saturday morning, according to a news release from the Yakima County Sheriff's Office.

The Cougar Highway Organization is collecting petitions and letters to expand support for renaming state Route 26 as WSU 'Cougar Highway.' The organization was founded by WSU alumni Tyler and Amy Morgan.

Susan Fagan and Pat Hailey were friends long before they became political rivals.

Pictures of banners from last year can be found on there website http://www.colfaxarts.com/ Jaclyn Nicholson The Daily Evergreen Colfax Arts Council is presenting its third annual banner competition, H'Art of the Palouse, which brings art created by local painters to Colfax's Main Street.

But because the town is the seat of Whitman Country, it bears the brunt of crime punishment in the area.

Colville, Clarkston at Riverside; Curlew, Republic, Springdale, St. Michael's at Wellpinit; St.

The Colfax Library is holding a blood drive this Wednesday. For more than a year, the library has organized these blood drives with the Inland Northwest Blood Center, said Sheri Miller, the youth services librarian.

After a public hearing Wednesday in Colfax, Whitman County officials postponed the vote on a wind energy ordinance proposal.

For the past year and a half, people within Whitman County have been disputing the use of wind farms on the Palouse.

The WSU Van Pool has three open spots for faculty members, staff and students who commute from Palouse to campus.

The Palouse Empire Fair has come to Colfax. In addition to a series of live entertainment acts, the fair will offer carnival rides, FFA livestock shows and rodeos, said Terry Jeffries, the fair's program coordinator.

'Good Riddance'. As long as bystanders don't get killed it saves plenty of money for gangbanger and criminals to kill each other.

Whitman County residents will be able to participate in a public comment and review period for the state Department of Ecology's water quality improvement plan for the South Fork of the Palouse River starting Monday.

The Washington Department of Ecology hopes to get to the bottom of a contamination source on the Palouse River this month.

A broken water main is flooding part of Hwy. 195 through Colfax, Washington. Both directions of the highway are closed, with traffic being re-routed to Mill St.

The Washington Department of Ecology is warning of higher than normal levels of fecal coliform bacteria in the South Fork of the Palouse River.

Wheat farmers on the Palouse are delighted by some unexpected rain. Weather experts had predicted a dry spring and summer, but the opposite has occurred, said Washington State University Extension agent Steve Van Vleet.

Whitman Medical Group PS, which operates a clinic adjoining Whitman Hospital & Medical Center, in Colfax, Wash., says it expects to select Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, to start work this month on a 3,000-square-foot addition to the clinic.

State Route 195 south of Colfax was shut down for at least an hour Sunday night after a power line fell across the road.