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REARDAN - Tenaska and Cordelio Power, the companies looking to build two wind farms in Lincoln County, held community meetings in Reardan and Harrington this week to answer questions about the projects titled Hawk Creek and Lincoln County SW. Both projects have rather broad potential locations and are almost entirely dependent on which landowners sign on to the lease to have wind turbines built on their property, Tenaska project manager Monte Ten Kley said at the Reardan...
ODESSA — Memorial Healthcare Center staff received some good news last week: No mold or spores were found in Quail Court, the local assisted living facility that was damaged by a burst pipe and subsequent flooding Jan. 14. However, residents won’t still be able to move back in for several months. Center CEO Brett Antczak said there are still multiple procedures to go through before that is a reality, despite insurance inspections having been completed. “The biggest thing we have to wait for is the Department of Health,” Antcz...
1 years ago Judgement totaling $8,841 was granted to Minnie Whitmore Reiger of Pomeroy from C.E. Moore and J.J. Tierney of Harrington after Reiger alleged she purchased a number of shares of stock in Moore and Tierney’s Blazeout company that were worthless. Lincoln County Pioneer Josephine Ditmar and her son Frank Ditmar were found guilty by a jury of manufacturing liquor with intent to sell after deputies found a gallon of liquor at the Ditmar farm near Reardan. 75 years ago Virgil Johnson of Davenport was presented a P...
SPOKANE VALLEY-Like many sports, basketball is often a game of inches. And a few inches are what separated the Davenport girls from what would've been a shocking District 7 2B Championship win over defending state champion Colfax last Saturday. Instead, it was the Bulldogs who managed to hold off the stampeding Gorillas 59-55 in overtime to defend their District 7 crown Feb. 10. Three days removed from knocking off rival Reardan in the District semifinals, Davenport came out f...
SPOKANE VALLEY-After an ugly 38-33 win over Northwest Christian and a convincing 59-48 win over Liberty, the Reardan girls finished third in the District 7 2B Tournament and will play for a chance to advance to state this weekend. The Screaming Eagles played the first and fourth quarters on fire against Northwest Christian Friday, Feb. 9. It was the clunkers in between that nearly cost them the game. Tenice Waters scored seven points and grabbed four rebounds before the...
SPANGLE - Three Gorillas are headed to Mat Classic XXXV. Senior Brody Schillinger, sophomore Brock Gustaveson and eighth-grader Wayland Holmberg qualified for the state meet at the Tacoma Dome with top-3 finishes at the Regional meet at Liberty High School Saturday, Feb. 10. Gustaveson was the top Davenport finisher of the day. He won the 190-pound class by defeating Conner Kline of Reardan 20-5 and pinning Pomeroy's Curtis Winona in 1:32. The sophomore earned a bye in the...
DAVENPORT-Proposed replacement levies aimed at raising funds for local schools were passing after the first ballot returns in Davenport, Odessa, Reardan and Harrington Tuesday, Feb. 13. Some levies were passing comfortably, while others remained too close to call Tuesday night. The tightest margin is a proposed 3-year replacement Educational Programs and Operations levy in the Reardan-Edwall School District, valued at approximately $2 per $1,000 assessed property value. Between Lincoln and Spokane Counties, the levy was...
DAVENPORT - Jobs, extra-curricular activities and school happenings not funded by the state could be on the line in next week's special election. Citizens around the county, including in Davenport, Odessa, Reardan, Edwall and Harrington, will vote on whether to replace expiring levies with new levies by Tuesday, Feb. 13. Two levies are on the ballot in the Davenport and Odessa School Districts, while one levy is running in the Reardan-Edwall and Harrington School Districts....
DAVENPORT - The Washington State University Wheat Academy gave an "on the Road" presentation at Memorial Hall to area wheat farmers and stakeholders Thursday, Feb. 1. Two locally based talks began the morning, with Ritzville-based Extension agronomist Aaron Esser providing a Wilke Farm update and Davenport-based WOCS program specialist Jesse Ford discussing regional canola production. Wilke Farm is located about one mile east of Davenport and is owned by the university for cro...
DAVENPORT — Two non-local companies are in the process of trying to lease private land to construct two wind farms in Lincoln County. Omaha-based Tenaska and Toronto-based Cordelio Power are partnering on the Hawk Creek and Lincoln Southwest projects, which aim to construct farms in the northeast and southeast portions of Lincoln County. The Hawk Creek project would run north to Lake Roosevelt, east to Reardan, west to just west of Davenport and south to about Bluestem, while the Lincoln Southwest project would run north t...
DAVENPORT — Colville-based Rural Resources, which provides many services to those in need or down on their luck in Lincoln County, has moved into a physical office space where the old Drug and Alcohol Center was at 511 First Street. There, two full-time employees are stationed with various areas of expertise, with more employees expected to fill that office in coming months. Running the office, for now, is housing case manager Amanda Gavin. Gavin also helps run the Willow Ridge homeless shelter that Rural Resources has o...
SPOKANE - The Davenport wrestlers had a solid showing at the Northeast B Sub-Regional Tournament at the Spokane Convention Center. Six Gorillas finished in the top four of their weight classes to advance to regionals this weekend, while one wrestler will be an alternate as a fifth-place finisher following sub-regional competition Saturday, Feb. 3. At 190 pounds, sophomore Brock Gustaveson won his class and advanced to regionals. Gustaveson pinned Lind-Ritzville/Sprague's...
1 years ago • President Woodrow Wilson died at his D.C. home from illness and was succeeded by Calvin Coolidge. • Former Lincoln County Commissioner and Edwall pioneer Hugh McNeilly died at his home after attending an Edwall Odd Fellows meeting where he was presented with a medal in honor of his 41-year membership with the Fellows. • Westbound passenger trains were delayed in Wilbur after tracks were washed out by flooding. 75 years ago • Lincoln County crews prioritized their snowplowing schedule by where emergen...
SPOKANE - Two of the three wrestlers from Harrington competing with the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague athletic co-op advanced to regionals with top four finishes at the Northeast B Sub-Regional Meet at the Spokane Convention Center Saturday, Feb. 3. At 132 pounds, senior Alex Bonner advanced to regionals by winning his class. Bonner received a bye into the championship round, where he pinned Colfax's Dillon Gassenberg in 46 seconds for the class victory. At 144 pounds, sophomore Turn...
WILBUR - The Odessa girls team will be playing for their season in every District 7 1B Tournament game going forward. The Tigers dominated Selkirk 43-18 in a first-round loser-out matchup Friday, Feb. 2, then dropped a quarterfinal matchup to top-seeded Curlew 47-41 Tuesday, Feb. 6. The results mean Odessa will be playing a loser-out matchup against Republic at Deer Park High School Saturday, Feb. 10. Odessa used a 2-2-1 zone press to shut down the Selkirk Rangers at Wilbur...
SPOKANE VALLEY-Davenport and Reardan basketball games are rarely unexciting. And that was certainly the case with a berth in the District 7 2B Championship game on the line Wednesday night, and it was the Gorillas finding a way to beat the Screaming Eagles 49-38 for Davenport's first over its rival in three tries this season Feb. 7. The first quarter showed the intensity one might expect from a playoff game between two rivals. Davenport took a 12-9 lead as Jensyn Jacobsen...
SPOKANE VALLEY - The Davenport boys basketball team will be playing at least through next weekend. The Gorillas have won two of their three games at the District 7 2B Tournament and enter this weekend with a chance to finish as high as third. Davenport started postseason play with a comfortable 61-34 win over Upper Columbia Academy in a loser-out matchup Thursday, Feb. 1. Jaeger Jacobsen led the way with 20 points and five rebounds, while Caige Colbert added 14 points and six...
LOS CABO, MEXICO - A Davenport High School graduate and Seven Bays native is hoping to see a children's hospital and pediatric medical center in Cabo after learning there is no such care for children in the city. Shayna (Damschen) Vedadi, a member of the Class of 2002 who now lives in Austin, is working with the Chileno Bay Foundation on the "Cabo Kid's Project" to raise money for the cause in memory of her father, Warren Damschen, the former pastor of Deer Meadows-based Lake...
SPRAGUE — The trial of a local man accused of possessing over 100 images and videos displaying child pornography was continued again this week, this time to April 10. Jonathan Ray Stocker, 42, is charged with five counts of first-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and one count of second-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct after police allegedly discovered over 100 child pornography-related files on a laptop at his Sprague Highway Road r...
DAVENPORT — With the special election 12 days away as of Thursday’s press day, the School Board heard updates from superintendent Chad Prewitt regarding the last year and what the two replacement levies the District hopes to pass Feb. 13 will fund. Like other levies being posed to voters in Reardan, Edwall, Harrington and Odessa, educational programs and operations levies help fund safety officer positions, some curriculum, materials, extra and co-curricular activities like sports, choir and FBLA, bus travel and some sta...
DAVENPORT - After a disappointing loss to St. George's the night prior, the Gorilla girls made sure a similar result to an on-paper inferior opponent wouldn't occur on Senior Night. Davenport stepped on the gas pedal early and didn't let up in a 59-26 win over Jenkins (Chewelah) Saturday, Jan. 27. Davenport then topped Northwest Christian 70-66 Tuesday, Jan. 30 to finish the regular season 12-8 overall. The Gorillas fully dominated the first quarter against Chewelah, taking a...
It’s the cold of winter. Temperatures hover, apparently, anywhere between -10 and 55 degrees Fahrenheit. On a Tuesday, Friday or Saturday night, where do Lincoln County citizens like to spend their time? At a local high school, taking in a high-level basketball game or wrestling meet. What funds those events? Levies. High school students have worked hard on researching agricultural issues, familiarizing themselves with ag-related skills and studying their knowledge of the a...
1 years ago • The Davenport School District held an election to determine whether the district would validate $6,900 in outstanding warrants. • Lincoln County highways closed by order of state engineer Fred Doolittle and county engineer J.L. Thayer. Heavy traffic and frozen roads melting into flood-like conditions were cited in reasoning. • Lambert McGee lost his leg when he fell off a freight train near Harrington and the train ran over said leg. 75 years ago • Davenport city council rejected a plea for putting pinball...
DAVENPORT - It was a Senior Night to remember for the Gorilla boys basketball team, which dominated Jenkins (Chewelah) 62-39 on a night when seniors Jaeger Jacobsen, Nick Kruger and Maddox Schumacher were recognized Saturday, Jan. 27. The win was sandwiched between a 55-41 loss to St. George's Friday, Jan. 26 and a 63-42 fall at Northwest Christian Tuesday, Jan. 30 to conclude the regular season. Davenport jumped on the Cougars early, taking a 14-6 lead behind eight points...
DAVENPORT - Most proposed replacement levies aimed at raising funds for local schools appear to have passed after ballot returns in Davenport, Odessa, Reardan and Harrington updated Thursday, Feb. 15. Most levies are passing comfortably, while one is still slightly too close to call. The tightest margin is a proposed 2-year replacement Educational Programs and Operations levy in the Reardan-Edwall School District, valued at approximately $2 per $1,000 assessed property value....
