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ST. JOHN – The Odessa Tigers (3-0) juggernaut hit the century mark for the first time this season as they dominated the St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse Eagles (0-2) on the gridiron Wedneday night, March 3. "We just had a tough game," Eagles Coach Richard Hallenius said on the field after the blowout. "It's obvious why they're the state champs. They have a lot of kids versus our 11." For the Tigers part, every one of their nearly 30 players took the field for several minutes of t...
ODESSA — A woman with an address here was arrested and released from Lincoln County Jail on March 2 on a charge of animal cruelty after appearing in Lincoln County Superior Court. Rebekah Southard, 26, entered a not-guilty plea March 2 on three counts of animal cruelty. She is accused of being criminally negligent toward three dogs to the point of starvation, according to county clerk records. Through charging documents, Prosecuting Attorney Adam Walser is accusing Southard of criminal negligence and starving the three d...
REARDAN – The town’s ordinances will soon be digitally organized after council approved a motion to have Code Publishing Company perform the service for the town at council’s March 4 meeting. The town will pay the Seattle-based company $18,250 in start-up costs and a $480 start-up fee to get all ordinances codified. The exact timeline for project completion isn’t yet known. Code Publishing Co. has done code publishing work for many smaller municipalities around the state, including Davenport, Harrington, Odessa, Wilbur...
REARDAN – Substitute House Bill 1356, which would ban the use of Native American names, symbols or images as public school mascots, logos or team names has passed through the House fairly convincingly and is in committee in the Senate, indicating it may be well on its way to passing legislature and landing on the governor’s desk. However, after advocacy from superintendent Eric Sobotta and an amendment to the bill inserted before passing through the House, the bill wouldn’t apply to the Reardan-Edwall School District, which...
March 8th, 1951 “WEATHER TRUE TO GROUNDHOG SIGN” 6 Inches of Snow fell this week. The weather followed the groundhog’s prediction, winter returned this week to the area as March came in like a very big lion. Some five inches of snow fell Monday and Tuesday, and high winds drifted roads enough so that schools in the eastern part of the country were forced to close. March 11th, 1971 “A DAY WITH OUR LEGISLATORS” With Welfare costs in our state skyrocketing the attitude of Mr. Sidney Smith, head of the department of Social an...
Five-year-old Brody Geissler found the first buttercup of the season in his family's pasture off Geissler Road last week. Geissler attends Growing Gorillas Cooperative Preschool....
Claude Herman Ross 1929 – 2021 Claude H. Ross, 91, passed away at Windriver Assisted Living, Spokane, Wash. on Feb. 25, 2021. A Graveside service will be held on Mon., March 8th at 2:00PM at the Greenwood Memorial Terrace, 211 N Government Way, Spokane, Wash. 99224. Claude was born to Joseph G. and Hazel I. (Hansen) Ross in Spokane, Wash. on Nov. 6, 1929. He married Sally Ann Landreth in Reardan, Wash. on March 3, 1951; they were together for nearly 70 years. Claude and Sally had a dairy and then farmed in the Columbia B...
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. February 28 Traffic stops: 9 A caller reported a vehicle with its flashers on just west of Riffe Road in Reardan. A Davenport man reported a fire on the 3360 block of North Hawk Creek Ranch Road in Davenport. A cal...
Football March 5: Colfax 44, Asotin 0. March 6: Reardan 24, Davenport 7. Chewelah 59, Kettle Falls 0. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague 15, Northwest Christian 13. Soccer March 4: St. George’s 4, Kettle Falls 3. March 6: Davenport 3, St. George’s 1. March 9: Reardan 10, Kettle Falls 5. Davenport 5, Mead J.V. 0. Volleyball March 4: Chewelah 3, Reardan 1 (25-21, 25-21, 21-25, 25-18). Northwest Christian 3, Kettle Falls 0 (25-15, 25-20, 25-22). Liberty 3, Lind-Ritzville/Sprague 0 (25-17, 25-16, 25-16). March 5: Asotin 3, Chewelah 0 (25...
Volleyball March 6: Wellpinit 3, Harrington 2. March 6: Valley Christian 3, Harrington 0. March 9: Wilbur-Creston 3, Harrington 0 (25-5,25-6, 25-12). Cross country Results from 1B meet at Wilbur-Creston High School on March 6. High school boys, 5,000 meters 10. Brayton Zeigler, 21:04. 23. Cameron Christianson, 29:32. Middle school boys, 1.5 miles 4. Turner Slack, 12:09. 7. Colby Kiser, 13:52. 8. Dax Sewall, 15:40. 9. Gavin Rockwell, 15:45. 11. Eli Quesada, 20:53. Middle school girls, 1.5 miles 3. Mia Parker, 13:25. 5. Lidia...
CHEWELAH – The Reardan middle school boys sent seven boys to the 2B cross country meet at Jenkins High School in Chewelah Saturday, March 8. Four finished in the top 10, and the whole team finished in the top 13. The effort helped the Indians win the 1.25 mile middle school boys race with 25 points. St. George’s was the runner-up with 34 points. Seventh-grader Colton Lonning finished in first place by 1.01 seconds (8:06.81) over St. George’s Finn Horsted (8:07.82), while sixth-grader Maveric Sobotta was the fastest in his g...
SPRAGUE – The Sprague Rod and Gun Club Steak Shoot is set for 9 a.m. Sunday, March 14. Trap shooters will compete in 10-bird, 20-yard events; 27-yard Buddy Shoots and the 27-yard Annie Oakley Shoot. Prizes will be awarded at the gun club at 49850 Sprague Highway East, between the towns of Sprague and Lamont....
*All games subject to postponement or cancellation due to inclement weather or COVID-19 concerns. Thursday, March 11 Reardan middle school football vs. Colfax @ 4 p.m. Reardan middle school volleyball vs. Northwest Christian (Colbert) @ 4 p.m. Davenport volleyball vs. Asotin @ 5 p.m. (J.V.) and 6:30 p.m. (varsity) Davenport middle school football vs. Columbia-Inchelium @ 5 p.m. Davenport vs. Reardan soccer at Reardan @ 6 p.m. Reardan volleyball at Liberty (Spangle) @ 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 12 Reardan football at Colfax @ 2 p...
SPOKANE – Senior Darby Soliday had already found the net multiple times in each of Davenport’s first three games. She took the scoring to another level last week, scoring a hat trick at St. George’s in a 3-1 Gorilla victory March 6 and netting five goals against Mead’s junior varsity team March 9. Soliday now has 15 goals in five games. Saturday’s win for Davenport exacted some revenge over a Dragons squad that won at Davenport in the first game of the season Feb. 25 3-2. Soliday’s three goals all came in the first 20 mi...
ODESSA – The Odessa Record was named Business of the Year for 2019 during a Chamber of Commerce program at noon Tuesday, March 9. The Record and Volunteer of the Year Dale Ramm received their honors a year late due to the coronavirus shutdown ordered by Gov. Jay Inslee. That shutdown prompted the cancelation of last year's banquet. Because of the ongoing restrictions, the chamber is not planning a 2021 banquet. The Odessa Record's award came as a big surprise owners and s...
ODESSA – The Odessa High School girl's volleyball team has put up an impressive record in its abbreviated season of play in 2021. The girls lead the 1B NE District League with a 7-0 record and a 9-1 overall record, having lost only to a powerful Oakesdale team. On March 2, the Tigers defeated the Harrington Panthers in three sets at home. Odessa 25 25 25 3 Harrington 13 13 3 0 Aces: Joycelynn Hottell 12 Assists: Melloney Deife 14 Kills: Ashlyn Neilsen 11 Digs: Melloney D...
ODESSA – Despite a pandemic, Odessa FBLA members competed virtually in the Winter Conference with the entire state. All competitions that involved presentations were recorded and submitted for judging. The Northeast Region held its own virtual awards ceremony, where hundreds of students from around the area gathered on Zoom. Odessa members gathered in the multipurpose room and tried to maintain some traditions with doughnuts and games before the awards program began. W...
HARRINGTON – President Ellen Evans, Linda Wagner, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Edwin and Bunny Haugan, Gordon Herron and Becky Moeller of the Harrington Opera House Society met March 1 at the opera house. The east-side hand railing for the main lobby staircase has been completed and is said to look great. Herron reported that Ray Harrington has agreed to build a staircase from behind the rummage room area to the basement. Work on the cushions for the pews can now proceed, as the plywood has been purchased for that project. Added...
Back row: Ryan Melgren, PJ Finch, Kathryn Finch, Alyssa Iverson, Kaedin Schorzman, Nathan Melcher. Front row: Lily Starkel, Bo Walter, Levi Hardung, Casen Watson, Mackenzie Lutz, Katreace Boss, Holden Iverson, Tucker Walter, Corbyn Neilsen, advisor HaLee Walter. Not pictured: Kaylee McKinney....
March and St. Patrick's Day brings corned beef to mind for many folks doing the meal planning. Corning, the old time method of preserving meat before refrigeration came along is done for us and the product is readily available in the markets. The method is not difficult but our modern standards require refrigeration and 10 days of curing time. Most of us don’t want to sacrifice the refrigerator space, but the end result is worth doing at least once in your lifetime. There a...
I was raised in Odessa, and conservative. I manned phone banks in Spokane for Nixon in ‘68. Now, 50 years later, I have a second worldview. I’ve had much more life experience, and am acutely aware of the anger you feel for those who question your long-held beliefs. As children in Odessa, we knew the greatest generation had fought WWII, and we respected the flag in their honor. Unfortunately, we’ve had less popular wars like Vietnam. Coming home, the numbers of American flags waved or hugged didn’t matter much to me. Democra...
At 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 14, daylight saving time for 2021 will begin, clocks will spring forward an hour, and Washingtonians will once again ask themselves how this annual ritual is even still a thing we all must do. The supposed reason for daylight saving time is for us to make better use of natural daylight during the spring and summer. However, the practice of shifting back and forth between daylight saving time and standard time has proved to be a dangerous and...
These days the mere mention of tax incentives for factories touches off a major firestorm in Seattle and you’d better be looking for an expeditious way out of town. Not so in Austin where major international corporations are receiving millions in property tax rebates when they build giant new factories creating thousands of jobs. Similar to Washington, Texas has no income tax. It has a sales tax and relies heavily on property taxes to support city and county governments. P...
ODESSA – As the town council met in person Monday night for the first time since Covid restrictions were enacted, Mayor Bill Crossley reported that the date for Odessa’s community cleanup days has been moved to April 15-16. The move was necessary due to town staffing issues. Advertising of the dates and associated rules and restrictions will be published soon. Crossley also reported that several eastern Washington mayors have joined together in signing a letter to Governor Jay Inslee, requesting that their municipalities be...
