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DAVENPORT-A new helicopter base operated by Airlift Northwest will be constructed at the Municipal Airport here this summer. The nonprofit air medical transport owned by UW Medicine will begin providing services around Central and Eastern Washington based in Davenport. Airlift Northwest provides helicopter and fixed-wing plane transports. Locally, they will mostly transport patients to hospitals in Spokane, according to city manager Steve Goemmel. Air transport crews will be...
DAVENPORT-The school board went over the process for finding a new principal and whether a redistricting process needs to happen at its meeting Monday, Feb. 28. The secondary school will have the principal vacancy when Chad Prewitt replaces the retiring Jim Kowalkowski this summer. A sample schedule for selecting a top candidate was shared at the board meeting by Prewitt and elementary school principal Noelle Carstens. The proposed schedule would be an all-day affair that...
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. Feb. 21 Traffic stops: 10 A suspicious death was reported in Davenport. An Almira man reported a dozen cattle standing in the roadway just east of Elliot Road North. A Spokane man reported a golden lab running l...
Government and community meetings and organizations in Davenport, Odessa, Harrington, Reardan, Sprague and Edwall during the week of March 4-10. If you’d like your organization included in this tab, email dteditor@centurytel.net. Monday, March 7 Lincoln County Commissioners’ meeting at 8 a.m. in the County Courthouse Wednesday, March 9 Reardan-Edwall school board workshop at 6 p.m. in the Commons Davenport city council at 7 p.m. in City Hall Harrington city council at 7 p.m. in City Hall Sprague-Lamont school board mee...
DAVENPORT—The trial of Michelle L. Hopkins, who is charged with 25 counts of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in the first and second degree, won’t begin until June 22. Presiding judge Dan B. Johnson agreed to continue Hopkins’ case at a readiness hearing Tuesday, March 1. The trial was originally scheduled to begin March 16. At a Feb. 22 appearance, Hopkins’ defense attorney Victoria Iverson said a report from a psychiatrist evaluating Hopkins hadn’t been completed yet, nor had infor...
DAVENPORT—City council passed three resolutions, reviewed the 2021 fourth quarter city budget, heard a request for a sign ordinance change and learned about the city’s updated six-year street plan at a busy council meeting Wednesday, Feb. 23. The state requires that the city update its six-year street plan annually. The approved plan for 2022-2027 includes one awarded project for 2022, which is phase 2 of creating community trails and links. The city has applied for funding for three more projects: Airport PAP...
Davenport Elementary held a Kindness Week during Feb. 14-18. Each day of the week there was a kindness theme: You Matter Mondaym Thankful Tuesday, There for you Wednesday, Thoughtful Thursday and Gorillas are Crazy for Kindness Friday. Friday included a red & white/gorilla gear dress up day. Throughout the week students had the opportunity to participate in their own version of "The Great Kindness Challenge" where students tracked completing kindness actions on a task card...
REARDAN-Eric Nikkola's assistant coach of 18 years and Reardan's head baseball coach will be the fourth coach in the last 50 years to helm the high school football program. Matt Clouse was selected as Nikkola's successor by the school board at the board's Feb. 23 meeting and will be Reardan's newest head football coach. Clouse was chosen from a pool of three candidates by district administration after interviews in early February and was brought to the board for approval. "I...
DAVENPORT—Vacancies for two high school spring sports were officially filled the same day spring practices began after approval by the school board Monday, Feb. 28. Monty Soliday will be Brian Telford’s replacement as head high school track and field coach. Soliday was previously coaching middle school track, but resigned that position with his move to high school. He’s also the head girls soccer coach and an assistant boys basketball coach. The tennis team also needed a new head coach after Eric Timm’s resignation. The dis...
Davenport and Reardan returned to spring sports practices Monday, Feb. 28. Teams are preparing for a full spring schedule for the first time since 2019 after 2020’s season was cancelled and 2021’s season was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Davenport will trot out baseball, softball, track and field, golf and tennis teams, while Reardan will field baseball, softball, tennis and track and field squads. Here are the local schedules that were available by press time. These schedules are subject to change based on inclemen...
DAVENPORT--School will be delayed two hours and start at 10 a.m. today due to an overnight power outage affecting the city. According to reports from Avista Utilities, an outage affecting roughly 1,100 customers was reported in the city around 2 a.m. early Thursday morning. Power was restored by 7 a.m., but school remains delayed to 10 a.m. Avista said the outage was caused by a substation issue. This is the second city-wide outage this year after a fire at a Third Street substation regulator knocked out the city's power for...
Donita Penelope “Penny” Marshall passed away Jan. 20, 2022 at Lincoln County Hospital, Davenport, Wash. Penny was born July 30, 1937 in Clayton, Wash. to Elwood and Opal Marshall. She joined her sister, Shirley Largent-Bly and they were later joined by brother Dick Pooler and sister Jackie Ross. Penny & Shirley’s father traveled a lot to find work and his family moved with him. Penny attended several Washington public schools, including Republic, Keller, & Wilbur. Throughout h...
Robert passed away Feb. 23, 2022 at the age of 91. He was born July 27, 1930 in Marlin, WA to Gus and Emma Zimbelman. He graduated from Marlin High School in 1948. Robert served in the US Army during the Korean War from 1951- 1953. He was very proud to be a veteran. He was a life member of the VFW Post #7395 and the Honor Guard. He was also a member of the American Legion, the Canniwai Grange #837 and Ducks Unlimited. Robert was a fan of many sports. He followed his nieces and nephews and then his great-nieces and nephews...
Elaine Cronrath was born Sept. 25, 1933 to Frances and Walter Zellmer. Elaine died peacefully with family at her side early Saturday morning on Feb 19, 2022. She grew up on their farm in Davenport. Elaine went to school in Davenport but finished her high school credits at Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, ID. She married to the love of her life, Eugene Cronrath on Sept. 20, 1952. They met as kids. They raised their four children Jared (Gina), Mark (Kathi), Joel (Wendy),...
Aileen Linda Fink-Ambrose, confident in her resurrection and eternal life in Christ Jesus, died on Dec. 4, 2021 surrounded by her loving family. Aileen Linda Fink was born April 23, 1954 in Baltimore Maryland to Alvin and Janet (Miller) Fink while Al was serving in the military. They returned to the Odessa family farm where she grew up, attended P.C. Jantz Elementary, graduated from Odessa High School in 1972, and attended Washington State University. She received a...
Ruthie Jean Massie, 21, passed away on Feb. 21, 2022 in Davenport, Wash. She was born on July 10, 2000 in Vancouver, Wash. to Todd and Molly Massie. The family moved to Davenport, Wash. in 2002 and Ruthie attended school in Davenport and graduated in 2018. Ruthie is a member of the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church. She liked to have fun with family and friends. Ruthie is survived by her parents Todd and Molly Massie and nine siblings, Olivia (Loren) Hendrickson, Max (Christine)...
Rodney Schlimmer, 80, McMinnville, TN. resident and Wilbur, Wash. native died Feb. 20, 2022 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital in McMinnville, TN following a sudden illness. Rodney was born May 10, 1941 and was the son of the late Roger and Florence Zimbelman Schlimmer. Veteran of the United States Air Force and retired Network Operations Manager for Ben Lomand Telephone. He was married to Linda Rowland Schlimmer on Feb. 25, 1967 who preceded him in death on June 16, 2021. In addition to his parents and wife, he was preceded...
GRAND COULEE, Wash. — The Bureau of Reclamation began operating the Potholes Reservoir/O’Sullivan Dam outlet works Feb. 28 and Banks Lake/Dry Falls Dam outlet works on Mar. 3, 2022, in preparation for the 2022 irrigation season. To prepare Banks Lake for the March 3 operation startup, Reclamation began pumping water from the John W. Keys III Pump-Generating Plant into the north end of Banks Lake on Feb. 27, 2022. Water is pumped from Lake Roosevelt by the John Keys Pumping Plant to maintain Banks Lake elevations for Col...
The final week of the Spokesman-Review’s Inland Empire Trapshoot was held Sunday, Feb. 27, as reported below by Markus Smith for Odessa and Doug Starkel for Marlin. Odessa results At the Odessa Gun Club, no shooters shot all 25 targets. Cody Stanford and Ryan Lewis shot 24, while Jared Praetorious, Tyler Smith, Brian Wraspir, Danny Richardson and Tucker Walter all shot 23. Shooting 22 were Nick Tebow, Garret Braun, Colley Walter and Jared King. Anthony Paszkeicz shot 21. Those with 20 and under were Jon Fink, Trevor Smith, B...
The Odessa School District will see some new faces among its staff in the fall of 2022 as it looks to hire a new part-time superintendent and a new business teacher/FBLA advisor following the announced retirements of Dan Read and Terri King, respectively. The Odessa School Board held its regular monthly meeting Feb. 23 in the high school library, preceded by a workshop in the district office to discuss the superintendent search and hires for the 2022-2023 school year. Present were board members Ed Deife, Chris Crossley and...
Odessa High School advisor for the Future Business Leaders of America, Terri King, reports that the members of the Odessa chapter have chosen home-based businesses as the focus of their American Enterprise Project with the Odessa School District’s eighth-grade students. According to Nerdwallet, a website that provides comparisons of financial products, expert information and helpful tools for managing money, roughly 50 percent of all small businesses in the United States are considered home-based businesses. Many opportunitie...
Mason R. Lewis of Odessa is a new junior member of the American Angus Association®, reports Mark McCully, CEO of the national organization with headquarters in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Junior members of the Association are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association, participate in programs conducted by the National Junior Angus Association and take part in association-sponsored shows and other national and regional events. Lewis is a second-grader at the Odessa schools and is the son of Tim and Jennifer...
SPOKANE, WA – Completing its search for a new superintendent, the NorthEast Washington Educational Service District (NEWESD) 101 Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Robert W. Roettger has been selected as the district's next superintendent effective on July 1, 2022. Current Superintendent Dr. Michael Dunn will complete his term on June 30, 2022. Roettger has served as superintendent of Cheney Public Schools since 2016, a district enrolling more than 5,000 students in Airway Heights, Cheney and the West Plains. His...
The monthly board meeting of Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center was called to order Feb. 24 in the hospital Guild Room by board chair Brian Schorzman. Clinic Manager Jace Angelly reported on the increase of Covid cases in January due to the highly contagious Omicron variant. Many cases, he said, were young people aged 11 to 19, who handled the illness very well for the most part. By the latter part of February the Omicron surge had begun to fade rapidly. In the most recent week, he added, there were only two new cases. He...
