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DAVENPORT—Council passed five resolutions at its regular council meeting May 12 after hearing reports from the finance committee, fire/police committee and mayor Brad Sweet. The first resolution allows the city to surplus unused supplies and equipment. Bids on the following items will be accepted June 1-14: A 1992 Chevy 4X4 pickup, a 1972 GMC 5500 series flat-bed truck, a Whitco pressure washer 4100, steel stamped street signs, a 1999 Wells Cargo trailer, a bookshelf, miscellaneous runway/taxilane lighting fixtures, an A...
DAVENPORT—What the city’s partnership with Lincoln County Fire District No. 5 will look like in the future was a point of discussion at the police/fire committee meeting that took place before city council’s regular meeting May 12. Fire District No. 5 Commissioner Mike Piper and Chief Craig Sweet attended the meeting with committee members Heath Becker, Cory Hollis and Patrick Katz and mayor Brad Sweet. City administrator Steve Goemmel and clerk Dave Leath were also part of the discussion. Three options for city fire servi...
DAVENPORT – The city maintained its revenue and expenditures plan in the first quarter to remain in the black, according to the financial report released and discussed at the finance committee’s May 12 meeting. The committee, which consists of councilmembers Nathan Hansen, Lance Strite and Theresa Telford, was left with only one question. Strite inquired about the property tax revenue, which has been $2,055 so far…just 0.8% of the budgeted $265,000 for the year. City clerk Dave Leath explained that typically property taxes...
DAVENPORT – Seven department heads or representatives gave updates and shared goals/requests at the School Board’s quarterly meeting Monday, May 17. The presentations followed the approval of the consent agenda, which included hiring Morgan Hunt and Kyra Arland as elementary teachers, Tracy Winzer as secondary ELA, Jennifer Hargrave as ALE/Options Program teacher/director and Tim Zeiler as junior high boys basketball head coach. Sarah Sweetser gave a food services presentation and described how food service workers have tra...
DAVENPORT—This week, May 17-21, is early filing week for candidates interested in running for office in open positions on the Lincoln County ballot for the August primary and November general elections. As of May 18, 38 total candidates had filed and been approved by the Lincoln County Auditor. A complete list of open positions can be found in the May 6 issue of The Times. Here are all the candidates that have filed for positions in Davenport, Harrington, Sprague, Reardan and Edwall thus far. Only one race is contested to t...
DAVENPORT – A Lincoln County Jail inmate has been found dead for the second time in the last month. Mark W. Robinson, 45, was being held in jail and awaiting transfer to the state Department of Corrections when he was found dead during a routine cell check around 11:30 p.m. May 6. Officials believe Robinson committed suicide. Family members have been notified. Two days earlier, Robinson was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to five felony no-contact order violations. He was found mentally competent b...
DAVENPORT – A Creston man convicted of first-degree child molestation was sentenced to 12 months confinement in Lincoln County Jail. Mathew Scott Chafin, 31, will also serve lifetime probation and five years of treatment after he was found guilty of the charge in Superior Court May 4. Chafin originally pleaded guilty Dec. 15. A jury trial date had been for March 20 and readiness status set for Feb. 16, according to Lincoln County Superior Court records. At that Feb. 16 court appearance, a 40-day mental evaluation was a...
REARDAN – Council approved a request of police chief Andy Manke to begin the hiring process of two new reserve officers at its May 6 regular meeting. Manke is eligible to retire near the end of 2022. Candidates are not set in stone yet, but council’s motion allows the police department to begin the process of hiring new law enforcement reserve officers for when Manke steps away. The unanimously approved motion was council’s only official action taken. During the public comment section, a roughly 20-minute discussion betwe...
HARRINGTON - Caroline Slack, a junior at the high school here, has enjoyed the FBLA experience she's been a part of all three years thus far, but she never expected to qualify for national competitions by her junior year. But she didn't just qualify for nationals in one event at the state competition. She qualified for three. "I did not expect to place that high at state as a junior," Slack said. "That's crazy." Due to FBLA rules, she must choose one to compete in. She chose h...
REARDAN – Three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning was enough to dig the Indians out of a deep hole in their district playoff game against the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos Tuesday, May 11. Reardan ended its season with a 15-6 loss at home and finished the truncated campaign 5-8. LRS jumped on Reardan early, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning. The Indians held the Broncos scoreless for the following three innings, but three runs in the fifth, five runs i...
CHEWELAH – Split between events and individuals, the Davenport track and field team will have 42 representatives at the District 7 2B championships in Ritzville May 13 after the North qualifying meet May 7. Reardan, meanwhile, totaled 13 qualifications after the South qualifying meet in Colfax. The top eight finishers in each event qualified for districts. If an event featured fewer than eight participants, all finishing participants qualified. Any athletes that scratched d...
REARDAN – The Reardan-Edwall School District will be choosing a new mascot by next school year, the district announced Monday, May 3. The “Indians” mascot was among the Native American monikers banned in House Bill 1356, which was just signed into state law. The bill offered an exception for schools to use a Native-related mascot if the district is in or borders a county with some or all of a tribal reservation, if said tribe gives permission. However, superintendent Eric Sobotta announced in a Facebook post on the distr...
DAVENPORT – What makes a great mother? The question is broad and provokes thoughts, feelings and preferably good memories of the person who is, to many, the closest friend or woman in someone's life. With Mother's Day approaching this weekend and many sons, daughters, husbands and wives beginning to panic while they try not to forget the one day that's all about Mom, these thoughts and feelings are especially brought to the forefront of one's mind. It may prove complicated t...
DAVENPORT – This wasn’t what Bruno Mars meant when he said “I’d catch a grenade for ya” in his hit 2010 song, “Grenade.” A live grenade was discovered by a Chattaroy man while he was preparing for an estate sale at 318 Main Street April 16, Sergeant Gabe Gants of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office told council at council’s April 28 meeting. According to the police report, Kevin Jenkins, a laborer cleaning out the house in preparation for said estate sale, called the sheriff’s office to report that he’d found what appeared t...
DAVENPORT – Council’s regular April 28 meeting kicked off with a public hearing to revise the six-year street plan to include a solar illuminate crosswalk sign on Morgan Street that the city hopes to complete in 2021. The tentative funding source would be a mix between Surface Transportation Block Grants and the city and would cost $65,000. Council later approved the resolution for revising the plan under new business after no one spoke during the public hearing. Sergeant Gabe Gants shared that there are currently three off...
DEER PARK – Davenport's Kristof Panke hasn't been touched in league play yet this season, but he faced his toughest challenge on the biggest stage to date at the district qualifying match May 3 from Wilbur senior Bectett Odengaard. Panke and Odengaard both shot tremendous 18-hole rounds and were two-under 70 through 18 holes. One playoff hole wasn't enough to break the tie, but on the second playoff hole, Panke sunk a 25-putt for eagle to take the win. Odengaard missed a s...
REARDAN – If not for the difference in throwing arms, Kettle Falls hitters might have thought they were facing the same pitcher twice in a row. Southpaw Aiden Kieffer and righty Caden Day both recorded complete games to lead the Indians to a doubleheader sweep over the Bulldogs 6-1 and 1-0 Tuesday, May 4. Reardan improved to 3-7 with the pair of wins, snapping a six-game skid. Kettle Falls fell to 1-9. In the first game, Reardan jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the f...
DAVENPORT – The Gorillas got through their first three meets untouched this season after again winning the boys and girls team competition at the final regular season match in Davenport May 1, setting a school record along the way. Darby Soliday dusted off a poor start (for her standards) off the blocks in the girls 100 meter hurdles and blazed past the competition. The Idaho State bound-senior scored a mark of 15.21 seconds in the event, the best in Davenport history. Soliday...
REARDAN--The Reardan-Edwall School District will be choosing a new mascot by next school year, the district announced today. The “Indians” mascot was among the Native American monikers banned in House Bill 1356, which was just signed into state law. The bill offered an exception for schools to use a Native-related mascot if the district is in or borders a county with some or all of a tribal reservation, if said tribe gives permission. However, superintendent Eric Sobotta announced in a Facebook post on the district's pag...
DAVENPORT--Highway 28 has re-opened in both directions about three miles south of town at milepost 131 and at milepost 118 in Harrington after momentarily closing due to two semitrucks colliding and leaking hazmat chemicals, a press release from Washington State Patrol and a Facebook post by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department said. The second semitruck was carrying 50-60 heads of cattle, Sheriff Wade Magers said, and three cattle are dead. Both semitruck drivers are expected to be okay. This is a developing situation....
DAVENPORT – "BOOM!" What sounded like a bomb going off to Sami Guhlke hit the sky's soundwaves as the Reardan resident walked with her dog to pick up eggs from her family farm's chicken coop three miles south of town after the sun set March 25. 45 seconds later... "BOOM!" A second clap...then 45 seconds after that, a third... "BOOM!" "At first I thought something went wrong at Fairchild (Air Force Base)," Guhlke said. As it turned out, Guhlke wasn't the only person, locally or...
DAVENPORT – To adjust for strange schedules caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the middle and high school here have been utilizing a quarter system, as opposed to a regular, seven-period day. A recent survey conducted among students indicated that a majority prefer a possible future quarter system where there are just three to four classes taken at a time split throughout the year, principal Chad Prewitt shared with the school board at the board’s April 26 meeting. Only seventh-graders favored a normal, seven-period return to...
REARDAN-What do you call a girl who throws a no-hitter, tosses 11 shutout innings, strikes out 17 batters and drives in seven runs in a doubleheader? The Reardan Indians' answer to that question was pitcher A.J. Sosky Tuesday, April 28. The righty dominated the Davenport Gorillas, helping the Indians to a doubleheader sweep by scores of 11-0 and 13-3. Sosky's no-hitter came in the first game, which Reardan took control of early with six first inning runs. Sosky struck out 10...
DAVENPORT – For the first time in two years, track and field athletes have been competing in Davenport, Reardan and Harrington. The Gorillas have enjoyed great success thus far, with both the boys and girls teams winning their first two meets at Lind-Ritzville High School April 24 and Snyder Field in Chewelah April 27. Davenport dusted off the field at Chewelah, with the boys finishing with 114.5 points over second-place Chewelah's 85 points and the girls finishing with 85.5 p...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS--A Seven Bays man was killed in a motorcycle vs. car crash yesterday, April 21. Cataldo A. Condosta, 67, of Seven Bays, died at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane after his involvement in the crash as the motorcycle rider. Around noon, Condosta and Brandy N. Trego 41, of Medical Lake, who was driving a white 2002 Honda CRV, were both heading eastbound in the left lane on Highway 2 one mile west of Airway Heights around milepost 277 at Spoko Fuel. Trego moved to the left turn lane to enter the gas station,...
