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DAVENPORT--The hometown Gorillas marched the ball up and down the field in Friday night's contest against the No. 9 ranked Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos, being stopped from scoring on just two drives. Despite this fact, an 80-yard kickoff return touchdown by LRS freshman running back Brody Boness gave the visitors the lead with 2:11 left and, ultimately, the win. Davenport fell to 1-1 with a 25-24 loss at the hands of the Broncos, while LRS improved to 2-0 to start the 2021...
REARDAN--It wasn't always pretty, but the home team was able to notch a victory for the first time this season. Senior Abe Nelson was key as Reardan knocked off the Oroville Hornets 21-13 in a non league matchup Saturday, Sept. 11 to improve to 1-1. The first quarter indicated Saturday's matchup might be a blowout. Oroville received the opening kickoff before muffing a punt and handing Reardan the ball on the visitors' 32-yard line. Reardan took advantage, marching down the...
DAVENPORT – Lincoln Hospital’s shiny new building has been up and at-em for almost three weeks now, leaving many to wonder what would happen with the old building. Mike Stormo and Garry Rosman had the same question when they saw a “For Sale” sign where the clinic used to be, but after some discussion, decided to buy the building and plan to turn them into retirement, senior living apartments. The apartments, which will be called Davenport Senior Independent Living, will be for people 55 and older who are looking to downsiz...
SPRAGUE – A local man charged with second-degree assault for allegedly trying to choke his girlfriend now occupies Lincoln County Jail with a second local man charged with seven counts of second-degree theft for allegedly stealing seven debit cards from the first man’s car parked in the city after the first man was taken to jail. Brandon Phillip Searles, 37, of Sprague was booked into jail Aug. 11 after being arrested by Lincoln County Sheriff sergeant Jerad McLagan on a charge of second-degree assault. Searles was arr...
Davenport Elementary kindergartner Natasha Alexander is dropped off at school by her grandfather, Cliff Warwick Wednesday, Sept. 1. Superintendent Jim Kowalkowski said the first day of school was overwhelming, but went well overall as enrollment is higher than the district expected. Davenport and Harrington started school Aug. 31, while Reardan started Sept. 1....
LINCOLN COUNTY—It took 18 months since COVID-19 was first confirmed in the United States for Lincoln County to see its highest surge of the coronavirus to date, but August saw a spike of 180 new cases. However, only eight cases resulted in hospitalizations. Two patients died of the virus, one age 63 and the other age 79. One of the eight hospitalizations was in a person fully vaccinated against COVID-19. “While we have COVID patients being treated in Lincoln and Odessa hos...
COLFAX – Football season...yes, a full, real fall football season...is finally back after a two year, COVID-19-laden hiatus. For the hometown, run-happy Gorillas, this season opens with a challenging matchup at the Colfax Bulldogs Friday night, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. The Gorillas and Bulldogs haven't matched up since 2019, when Colfax eked out Davenport in Lincoln County 28-26. During last year's COVID-shortened season, Davenport finished 2-3, while Colfax went 3-2 with close l...
COLBERT – Reardan’s first venture as a mascot-less football team is coming up. The squad formerly known as the Indians heads to Colbert to take on the Northwest Christian Crusaders in a rare matinee Friday tilt Sept. 3 at 4 p.m. During this winter’s strange, COVID-19 shortened season, Reardan finished 3-1 while Northwest Christian struggled to an 0-5 campaign. After losing several key seniors, head coach Eric Nikkola will turn to a sophomore under center while relying on tw...
DAVENPORT – -Masks will still be a part of sports this year, but face covering rules won’t be as restrictive to start the 2021-22 school year. The state Department of Health released new guidelines that mandate masks in some athletic settings, but not in others. The guidelines come on the heels of the state once again requiring masks in K-12 schools this year, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status. Athletes won’t have to mask up during competition or practice for any outdoor sport. Masks aren’t required for low or mode...
DAVENPORT – School leaders and the board aren’t happy with recent mandates brought down by the state, state superintendent Chris Reykdal and Gov. Jay Inslee. After making some tweaks, the board agreed to sign on to a letter penned by Davenport superintendent Jim Kowalkowski, middle/high school principal Chad Prewitt and elementary principal Noelle Carstens to Inslee with three specific requests at the board’s Aug. 16 meeting. The first request asked Inslee to pivot from Reykdal’s recommendation that all school employe...
SPRAGUE – Paul Belmont Brown, 61 and Lenora Ellen Brown, 65, pleaded not-guilty to a second-degree theft charge in Lincoln County Superior Court before being booked and released Aug. 10. The duo is accused and charged with stealing a bird net from Star West Development in the city in early June. Brown and Brown were originally arrested on charges of theft, trespassing and vandalism outside U.S. Bank on First Street in Sprague June 4, according to police records. Star West Development contacted the Lincoln County S...
DAVENPORT – The most exciting part of council’s Aug. 11 meeting may have been Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputy Jon Evans jokingly threatening to ticket councilmember Cory Hollis for tuning in to the meeting via Zoom while driving a harvester. Otherwise, council quickly passed two action items relating to budgets and grants before adjourning after 25 minutes. The first resolution was to repeal the previously approved Resolution 2021-09 and replace that with a new authorization for mayor Brad Sweet to enter a grant agree...
DAVENPORT – 15 community members consisting mostly of district parents used the public comment section of the school board’s Aug. 16 meeting to voice their concerns and complaints with school mask mandates, a procedure that would allow students to use the bathroom corresponding to the gender they identify with and vaccination requirements that may be looming for K-12 school teachers and staff. The 90-minute public comment period showed large opposition to last week’s announcement from state superintendent Chris Reykdal that...
LINCOLN—Details of a crash involving a personal watercraft (Jet Ski) and boat during the evening of Aug. 14 have been released by Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers. Nicholas Densley, 24, of Spokane suffered serious head injuries and was transported to Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane when his personal watercraft crashed into a boat around 9 p.m. on Lake Roosevelt that smoky Saturday night. “The two collided kind of in the front third of the boat and the starboard side of the personal watercraft,” Magers said. Densley remai...
SPRAGUE – The primary race for Sprague mayor has one candidate holding a solid position to advance to the general election, while the second spot remains contested between three candidates as of press time. M. Shawn Coombs had 53 votes as of press time and is in first place. Sunnie Fortin was barely in second place with 23 votes, but Sprague business owner Dorothy Giddings was right behind with 19 votes with 10 ballots left to count countywide. Timothy Wilkens isn’t far behind Giddings with 16 votes, while fifth can...
DAVENPORT – A busy agenda as approvals were concerned was passed by a short-handed council, with just two members present in-person and two councilmembers attending via Zoom. Council passed three resolutions and two first readings regarding grant funding, ARPA dollars and budget amendments at its July 28 meeting. The first resolution passed established authority to execute distribution of Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and Airport Coronavirus Response Grant programs. The second resolution e...
DAVENPORT – Negotiations between Lincoln County and Teamsters Local 690 to update the Sheriff’s Office’s contracts for commissioned and non-commissioned officers continued for about 90 minutes during the county Board of Commissioners meeting Aug. 2. No final agreement was reached, but the two sides agreed to continue discussing matters Aug. 16 and Aug. 30. The meeting was the fourth negotiation between the county and Teamsters. During previous negotiations July 6, about an hour was spent on the commissioned officer contr...
DAVENPORT – 6th Street Café and Pizza and Romriell Dentistry are temporarily closed due to COVID-19 issues amongst employees. Both closed their doors last week and will be closed through the start of next week. COVID-19 rates had plummeted in Lincoln County by the beginning of July, but the widespread Delta Variant has caused a surge in local cases. The county had seen 25 new cases in a 14-day span as of July 30 and has had nine more cases this week, creating 34 new cases in a 19-day span. The county had almost zero CO...
REARDAN – Nick Landt submitted his resignation from the Reardan-Edwall School District Board of Directors after almost 12 years on the board. The remaining and present board members accepted his resignation at the board's June 28 meeting. Landt said he resigned to avoid a conflict of interest as his wife, Shannon Landt, a longtime substitute teacher in the district, looked to apply for the position being vacated by Larae Peterson. He said his proudest accomplishment he h...
SEVEN BAYS – The life of a local Fish and Wildlife officer can take one from Clark to Seven Bays, or from Seven Bays to Sprague, or all the way into Spokane County by Medical Lake and Airway Heights, as The Times learned Friday, July 30 when invited on a ride-along for the day with Lincoln County Fish and Wildlife officer Curt Wood. The day started with a drive to Seven Bays via Hawk Creek Road and Miles Creston Road to inspect a bear trap that had been planted there for a...
DAVENPORT – 12 new laws changing the way law enforcement conducts its job that passed state legislature in May and went into effect Sunday, July 25 are causing concern and an adjustment period for local officers, sergeants, deputies, chiefs and sheriffs. The laws, which vary from restrictions on pursuing vehicles to banning chokeholds to requiring mental health calls to be responded to by mental health professionals or EMS workers instead of law enforcement will change the way many emergency calls and situations are h...
DAVENPORT – Since the COVID-19 vaccine became available to all adults in the United States in mid-April, debate and confusion has raged regarding vaccine requirements, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) violations and rights and how that impacts employers, customers, businesses, schools and other regular walks of life folks have become accustomed to. The Times reached out to Lincoln County public health administrator Ed Dzedzy to separate fact from fic...
DAVENPORT – The school board approved two finance-related resolutions at its July 26 meeting. One was petitioning OSPI for a 2020-21 budget extension due to increased expenditures caused by the pandemic, and the other was approving the 2021-22 budget. The budget extension will raise general fund expenditures from $8,608,710 to $9,062,976, a rise of $454,266. The district must petition OSPI as a state requirement. “We’re required by the state to ask to spend more money than we originally thought,” business manager Leslie...
REARDAN – The school board officially dropped the "Indians" mascot from the district following the passage of House Bill 1356, which outlaws the use of Native American mascots or logos amongst public schools in Washington unless the nearest tribe grants permission for an exception. The decision was made at the board's July 28 meeting. A new mascot, however, wasn't yet chosen due to funding concerns. Superintendent Eric Sobotta informed present board members Jeff Anderson, R...
After a long five-year hiatus, the world’s greatest athletes have converged for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. When I haven’t been busy putting together this week’s paper, I’ve been watching these athletes compete in a bevy of sports while feeling insecure about my athletic shortcomings compared with the unbelievable feats achieved by the competitors. It’s an American tradition to sit on our couches and watch TV for six hours while wondering why we aren’t as athletic as...
