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Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, Jan. 4: After a Wilbur woman told dispatchers that her husband had not returned home the previous night, she found him sleeping in a chair in their garage. No injuries were reported after a v...
Northwest Farm Credit Services is proud to award the Harrington Opera House Society in Harrington a $2,000 Northwest FCS Rural Community Grant to install plumbing to make the facility ADA compliant. "Since 1992, the Society has worked to restore and rehabilitate the historic 1904 Opera House in Harrington with the mission to provide and promote cultural, art and educational opportunities to Lincoln County and surrounding areas," said Billie Herron. "Currently volunteers must...
Janet P. Heimbigner, age 91, passed away January 4, 2016 in Odessa. Her home is in Odessa. She was born January 2, 1925 in Odessa to Karl and Pauline (Paulsen) Rodeck. Janet grew up on the Rodeck family farm west of Odessa and attended school in Odessa, graduating from Odessa High School in 1944. She then went to Eastern Washington College of Education (now EWU) and received her B.A. in Education in 1948. Janet married Ralph Heimbigner December 31, 1947, and they made their...
Titan Pride winners for December....
The Lady Titans won their conference game against Cusick Friday, January 8, in Harrington and lost a non-conference away game against Republic Saturday, January 9. O-H 10 11 13 22 56 Cusick 8 10 9 15 42 On Friday, Katie DeWulf helped lead her team to victory over Cusick, scoring almost a third of Odessa-Harrington's 56 points with 18. She also had four rebounds, six assists, two steals and a block, followed closely by Lanessa Simon who had a double-double with 15 points and 10...
The O-H Titan boys basketball team lost both of their conference games on Friday, January 8, and Saturday, January 9. The first loss of the weekend was to the Cusick Panthers who shut out the Titans in the third quarter while scoring 22 points of their own. Colton Hunt led the Titans with 13 points, 10 rebounds and five steals, followed by Colt Sanford with 10 points, seven rebounds, one steal and three blocks. Jayd Jennings had two points, two rebounds, one assist and one ste...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday night for the first time in 2016. The first order of business was to swear in Lois Hubbard, re-elected to position #1, and Bill Crossley, newly elected to position #2. The council then had a quorum and could proceed with its business. The first order of business was to appoint a mayor. No candidate had filed for the position and former mayor Doug Plinski declined to run for a third term. With no candidates running and no volunteers coming...
Opera House Society The Society held their first meeting of the new year January 4, with new president Billie Herron at the helm. Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Gordon Herron, Carol, Linda Wagner, Karen Robertson and Marge Womach also were present. The final payment for the grand piano for the opera house was made December 16, although donations continue to come in for that project. Wagner said she is working on the newsletter and Robertson will provide photos. Gordon Herron, head of the building committee,...
What are fingernails made of? Asked by Amy, 8, of Seattle. Dear Amy, My claws can come in quite handy when I need to scratch my ears or climb trees. I bet you’ve found that your own fingernails can be useful tools, too. Perhaps you’ve used them to pick up a penny or peel an orange. It turns out that while my claws and your fingernails look a little different, they are actually made out of the same thing: keratin. That’s what I discovered when I went to visit my friend Professor Lisa Carloye, who teaches biology here at Washi...
Dissatisfaction with government has a long history in this country. Henry David Thoreau noted this in his 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience,” where he claimed that to achieve “at once a better government,” individuals first have to become more just themselves before the government will follow suit. He further suggested that people needed to live their faith, not give lip service to it. Then the State would be just to all and “treat each individual with respect as a neighbor.” However, being just with one another and treating ea...
March Will Keller, formerly of Odessa and now residing in Okanogan, was presented with an Outstanding Award for Stewardship at the annual meeting of the Society for Range Management. Keller, employed by the Natural Resource Conservation Service, has been a member of the Society for 33 years. An active-shooter drill involving Odessa Police, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office personnel, Town of Odessa personnel, Odessa volunteer firefighters and EMTs, hospital personnel and school district students and staff was held to help p...
Significant challenges are on the horizon for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in 2016 with the reduction of two road deputies due to budget cuts, says Sheriff Wade Magers. The Sheriff’s Office was busy in 2015 investigating and arresting suspects involved in property crime, felony cases and crimes against persons. In 2015, there were 5,417 calls for service throughout Lincoln County. Sheriff’s Deputies handled 4,663 of those calls, with the balance occurring within town jurisdictions. The month of January had the fewes...
