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DAVENPORT—A local man was killed in a tractor rollover crash about seven miles west of city limits Tuesday, June 27. 62-year-old Lawrence Cash of Davenport died of chest trauma suffered when his tractor loader rolled over while traveling eastbound on Sterett Road about two miles off U.S. Highway 2, officials said. The incident occurred around 2:08 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Cash’s dog was also pinned inside the tractor but will likely survive its injuries, police said. The rolled tractor was found by a passersby fro...
REARDAN—A Lincoln County man was arrested on a second-degree murder charge believed by police to be related to the death of a 5-month-old child Monday, June 26. Jordan Russell Mills-Jay, 29, was arrested by Spokane police on the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office’s probable cause for arrest, according to the Sheriff’s Office. According to authorities, medical staff at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane informed the Sheriff’s Office of suspicious injuries on a 5-month-old child who had been airlifted to the hospital from a home po... Full story
DAVENPORT—A reportedly reversed stance by the state Dept. of Ecology created a discussion on whether Lincoln County should have an ordinance requiring developers outside municipality limits to connect to a public water system instead of drilling private wells at the Lincoln County Commissioners regular meeting Tuesday, June 20. The conversation was started by Public Health Director Ed Dzedzy, who told the commissioners he learned from the Dept. of Ecology (DOE) in a meeting two weeks ago that the DOE’s attorney general rea...
DAVENPORT - One of just three sit-down restaurants remaining in the city is up for sale. Pete and Debra Brickner of Reardan have listed the Tribune Smokehouse, 502 Morgan Street, for sale in anticipation of a looming retirement. Pete Brickner plans to retire from his day job, facilities/groundskeeper supervisor with Lincoln County, in 2025. The couple plans to sell the restaurant ahead of that retirement and listed it now knowing a potential sale could take some time. "We've...
DEER MEADOWS - A new pub-style restaurant and bar has opened at Sunday Bay Resort. The Maverick Pub has been open for three weekends and serves a variety of drinks, artisan pizzas and revolving food options. The pub, which is owned by former University of Washington and NFL defensive lineman and Cheney native Steve Emtman, is in the downstairs of Sunday Bay Resort on Sunday Bay Resort Road North. It's currently open Thursday-Sunday from 11 a.m.- 9 p.m. Monday service will...
Sometimes, to better inform the future, we need to learn from the past. And a newspaper tends to be a rural county’s historical record, so turning to the newspaper for that past is a logical step. Plus, we received many requests to bring back our “Looking Back” section, and the Lincoln County Historical Society recently reached out with several interested writers hoping to contribute historical articles covering our area. So, this summer and starting this issue, we’ll have a...
DAVENPORT — Changes in the Lincoln County Auditor’s Office now allow some business previously required to be in person to be online, Auditor Chandra Schumacher said this week. Documents that can be released via public records can be searched online via the Auditor’s website and sent electronically via phone payment. Online records are currently redacted, Schumacher said, because many old recordings contain social security numbers and other private information. But the public can search for the records, make a request and h...
DAVENPORT — A Spokane boy pleaded guilty to an amended charge of harassment-rendering criminal assistance in the second-degree for his role in the Feb. 22 death of Shadrach Hall-Turner in Reardan. 15-year-old Izaiah T. Paige pleaded guilty in Lincoln County Juvenile Court Tuesday, June 13 and was sentenced to six months community supervision and five days in juvenile detention, which will be served at the direction of the Juvenile Court Administrator based on compliance with a disposition order, according to court records. P...
1 years ago - Harrington's nine members of the Class of 2023 were celebrated, including valedictorian Lexie Hirst and salutatorian Jake Tanke. - The Lincoln County Commissioners appropriated $4,000 through the end of the year for a youth-oriented health education program. 25 years ago - 39 graduates made their commencement march at Davenport High School, including valedictorian Suzanne Schreck and salutatorian Kylene Marriott. - Dawn Mining Company's closure plans on State...
DAVENPORT - A sizable, 45-member Class of 2023 was recognized in front of a similarly packed crowd in the High School Gym at the 2023 Graduation Saturday, June 10. Graduates began the processional out of the hallways entering the locker rooms before curving around the back of the gym and back up the center of the aisle onto the stage, which was situated on the south side of the festivities. "Pomp and Circumstance" accompanied the class as performed by the middle and high...
ODESSA - Tiger white, orange and black filled the High School Gym as the 19-member Class of 2023 was celebrated with a late morning graduation ceremony Saturday, June 10. Graduates entered through the back doors and proceeded down the center aisle in pairs and trios for the opening ceremony before the National Anthem to begin the festivities. Principal Jamie Nelson offered a welcome to the attendees, then announced Citizenship Awards for two students "symbolizing outstanding...
DAVENPORT — The 2B state champion boys basketball team is one of three finalists for Region Boys High School Team of the Year in the 2023 Spokane Youth Sports Awards. Award winners will be announced at a downtown Spokane ceremony Tuesday, May 20. Davenport, the Wellpinit boys basketball team and the Chewelah boys cross country team are the candidates for the Region award. Recently graduated Tennessee Rainwater is up for Region boys Athlete of the Year against Medical Lake’s Reid Headrick and Freeman’s Boen Phelps. The first...
REARDAN — The second annual Reardan Slam Basketball Tournament tips off in the Main Gym and Smith Gym Friday, June 16 and runs through Sunday, June 18. 12 high school girls varsity and junior varsity teams will compete in the round robin tournament organized by girls basketball head coach Bob Swannack. Varsity teams competing include Reardan, Priest River, Medical Lake, Colfax, Freeman, Tonasket, Ridgeline, Kettle Falls, St. George’s, Northport, West Valley, Northwest Christian and Chewelah. Junior varsity teams are Rea...
ODESSA - The high school baseball coach will be coaching the football team this fall. Local Joe Schlomer was given the job as approved by the school board Tuesday, June 6. Schlomer will take over for longtime coach Jeff Nelson, who announced his retirement as football coach in January. The 48-year-old Schlomer is coaching tackle football for the first time. He said he has five years of flag football coaching experience and applied for the high school job after baseball...
ODESSA - A 39-year coaching veteran and a WIAA Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductee has been hired as the high school boys head basketball coach. Mike Carlquist, who was an assistant coach under HP Carstensen last year, accepted the job as approved by the school board Tuesday, June 6. The 64-year-old Carlquist brings a long history of coaching stops to a program looking to climb back into state contention. He started as an assistant coach for two years in his hometown of...
ODESSA - A permanent superintendent has been hired by the school district here. Former Colville superintendent, North Central High School principal and Richland High School principal Steve Fisk was chosen through interviews with the school board and a recommendation from ESD101. Fisk, 57, will begin duties July 1 and will also act as K-5 Principal. "This particular position offers me the ability to be an elementary principal as well," Fisk said. "I was looking for a smaller...
HARRINGTON - One unique element of a small school graduation is that there's enough time in an hour-plus for each graduate to offer a speech. That was the case at Harrington High School's graduation Friday, June 2, which featured six local seniors receiving their diplomas and thanking those who helped get them to that point. This year's graduates included Karter Brown, Allie Crawford, Annika Walters, Alaina Parker, Ethan Gravning and Taleaha Davenport. After the six took the...
DAVENPORT — The Lincoln County Health Department has lined up about $197,000 in funds from the state Department of Health for local Senior Centers, Director Ed Dzedzy confirmed this week. In return for the funds, the Health Department will use the Centers as outreach points for senior citizens to receive information about COVID-19 vaccination booster shots and test kits, Dzedzy said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to reach seniors that weren’t able to get to their doctors or to Spokane or Moses Lake (during the height of the pandem...
ODESSA — The “final stretch” of a complete Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center remodel and 3,500 square foot addition is here, hospital CEO Brett Antczak told the Lincoln County Commissioners Monday, June 5. “We have a new ambulance bay that’s heated, a new purchasing area,” Antczak said. “We’re reallocating some of our office spaces, adding a hazardous waste room, getting a new CT scanner and replacing all X-ray equipment.” The addition is on the east side of the hospital toward Quail Court. The entire facility is being...
ODESSA — A Ritzville man is being held in the Lincoln County Jail on $45,000 bail after allegedly kidnapping his son. Nicholas Dale Kuest, 26, has been charged with first-degree kidnapping-domestic violence and theft of a firearm in a custodial interference case. He is accused of allegedly taking his 1-year-old son from the Tri-Cities to his father’s house on East Weber Road southeast of town and south of Lamont and stealing a gun stored in the home. Kuest entered a not-guilty plea during a June 6 arraignment in Lincoln Cou...
DAVENPORT - Family, friends and community members filled in seats in the High School Auditorium as the Davenport Drama Club performed its inaugural play, "The Enchanted Bookshop," in two showings Saturday, June 3. The play followed book shop owner Margie (Alyssa Breedlove), who is in danger of having to close the shop due to a lack of sales as interest in books declines worldwide. As Margie deals with low sales and a strange incident with sleazy burglars Fingers (Alyssa...
DAVENPORT - A Moses Lake man has been found guilty of murdering his wife about 12 miles northwest of Sprague in Sept. 2022. 55-year-old Charles R. Bergman entered a guilty plea of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Lincoln County Superior Court Tuesday, May 30. Bergman was originally charged with first-degree murder after being extradited from Pennsylvania to Lincoln County by U.S. Marshals last year, but the charge was reduced to a second-degree...
DAVENPORT - A packed Lincoln County Courthouse watched 17-year-old Koedi V. White plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm in Juvenile Court Tuesday, May 30. White was sentenced to 124-130 weeks in juvenile detention on the first charge and an additional 30 days confinement with credit for 30 days served on the second charge by presiding judge Jeffrey S. Barkdull per a plea agreement between both parties after the case was...
YAKIMA - For the first time, Lincoln County's top track and field athletes joined the best 2B and 1B competitors in the state at Zaepfel Stadium on the campus of Eisenhower High School for the Track and Field Championships Thursday, May 25-Saturday, May 27. The sun beat down on the turf and track for 2.5 days before the clouds rolled in and a lightning strike forced a 2-hour delay Saturday. When all the dust settled, local teams had yielded four state champions and 16 medalist...
COLFAX - The Davenport boys track team was challenged by Chewelah but took home a District 7 2B title at the Regional Championships Friday, May 19 and Saturday, May 20. Davenport won the title with 135 team points, holding off the 127-point Cougars. St. George's was a rather distant third with 101 points. The Davenport girls finished second amongst 2B girls with 119.5 points. St. George's dominated the field with 215.5 points. Odessa's girls finished third amongst 1B...
