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DAVENPORT--All five levies on the Lincoln County ballot for the Feb. 9 special election, including four school and one hospital levies, were passing as of press time, according to the Lincoln County Auditor’s website. Proposition No. 1 in the Sprague School District had received 145 "yes" votes to just 60 "no" votes for a 70.73% to 29.27% margin. The replacement levy would be an estimated $1.68 per $1,000 of assessed property value for two years. Total collection in 2022 would be $195,000, and the same number in 2023. The l...
LINCOLN COUNTY – School levies in Reardan, Sprague and Odessa are on the ballot for the Feb. 9 special election here, as is a levy for Lincoln County Hospital District No. 1. Ballots were mailed in the entirely vote-by-mail Lincoln County Jan. 20, and must be postmarked by Feb. 9. Reardan-Edwall School District seeks three-year replacement levy By Drew Lawson The Times REARDAN – The school district is looking to pass a three-year replacement levy for collection in 2022, 2023 and 2024 of $2.00 per $1,000 of assessed pro...
DAVENPORT – As state leadership in Olympia touts the success of four mass vaccination clinics inoculating thousands in Spokane, Wenatchee, Clark County and Kennewick with shots aimed at preventing COVID-19, the Lincoln County Health Department continues to wonder how many-or few-doses it will receive to give those eligible here. This week, it received zero. Health department public administrator Ed Dzedzy shared that fact with the Lincoln County Commissioners Feb. 1, noting that Lincoln Hospital was expected to receive 100 d...
By Drew Lawson The Times DAVENPORT – Farmers and ranchers can now officially bid to enter into a contract with the city for the land at the sewer lagoons on the northeast side of town just above the baseball fields. Council approved the contract, where farmers and ranchers will bid a lump-sum for consideration, at its Jan. 27 meeting. Contractors can prepare bids to farm four areas utilizing reclaimed water from city lagoons. The areas include an irrigated, 38-acre north circle, an irrigated, 21-acre south circle, 14-acre i...
Dark clouds swiftly blow over Audubon Lake north of Reardan Feb. 2. High winds and graupel, or soft hail or snow pellets, briefly passed over the Davenport and Reardan area on Tuesday....
DAVENPORT – After several winter storms created higher than average snowfall totals in October, November and December, the “white stuff” held off for the majority of January during what was forecasted as a “La Nina” winter. Just 2.0 inches of snow fell in the first month of 2021, according to the National Weather Service data center in Spokane, which tallies weather results for Davenport. Normally, 8.1 inches of snow fall in January here. Snow was recorded on only four days of January, and all but one day, it snowed le...
