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DAVENPORT – The sewer lagoons owned by the city on the northeast side of town north of the baseball fields off McInnis Roads will be farmed by Matt Schneider on a 2/3-1/3 profit agreement. Council approved a final, five-year contract between the city and Schneider at its March 24 meeting. Schneider will receive two-thirds of the crop, while the city will receive one-third, with an equivalent cost-covering process. The parcels that need various cropping procedures are the north irrigated circle of 38 acres, the south irrigated...
DAVENPORT – The school board accepted six more resignations at its March 29 regular meeting, bringing the number of accepted resignations in 2021 to nine. Altogether, the district is losing over 100 years of experience to retirement. While district leadership doesn’t yet know exactly how it will fill all the vacant positions without breaking the bank, the board did give approval to at least begin advertising the positions so leadership can get a feel for who might be int...
DAVENPORT – As the Lincoln County Health Department and local school administrations grapple with the COVID-19 outbreak in the last week, the positive news of more vaccine disbursement rang true as well. 3,859 vaccine doses had been given in Lincoln County as of March 30, according to the state Department of Health’s website. For the last two weeks, the vaccine allotment has been expanded to include those in congregate settings. This may include grocery store workers, agriculture workers and food processors. On March 31, the...
DAVENPORT – Per Economic Development Council (EDC) director Margie Hall’s request, the Lincoln County Commissioners approved an updated list of strategic investments for the county and its municipalities at the commissioners’ March 15 meeting. The plan includes investments in business, workforce, transportation and community development. Some plans are for the whole county, while many are centric to the county’s eight municipalities. The plan includes a description of projects for investment, the project’s location,...
COULEE DAM – Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area may implement the following prescribed fires during the spring of 2021. Ferry County: • Whispering Pines, 54 acres north of the intersection of Northport Flat Creek Road and Highway 395. • Haag Cove, 21 acres adjacent to the Haag Cove Campground The goals of these prescribed burns include promoting forest health and decreasing forest fuel loads adjacent to campgrounds, residences and structures. Benefits will include: • Increased understory plant diversity and natural...
DAVENPORT – Easter weekend is approaching, with Easter Sunday celebrated April 4. Several community organizations and churches have Davenport, Reardan and Harrington locals covered with services and Easter egg hunts Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Here is a rundown of many of the local services and hunts occurring this weekend. Davenport Lions Club Easter Egg Hunt The annual Lions Club Easter egg hunt is a go this year and is on Saturday, April 3 at 9 a.m. at City Park. Masks w...
Marian Coriell-Sterett 1927 – 2021 Marian (Horn) Coriell-Sterett passed away on March 10, 2021 in Davenport, Wash. She was born on Oct. 16, 1927 in Kelso, Wash. to Raymond and Edrie Horn. Marian attended High school in Ft. Vancouver, Wash. until 1945. She attended college at EWU in Cheney until 1970. She taught kindergarten in Anchorage, AK until she retired. Marian was a devout Christian and loved Jesus Christ with all her heart and soul. She was a mentor to countless p...
KELLER – Powerful gusts of wind and blowing dust forced the temporary closure of Keller Ferry across Lake Roosevelt on Highway 21 Sunday, March 28. Troopers closed the Columbia River crossing around 6 p.m. and re-opened it around 9:20 p.m. Part of Interstate 90 was also closed due to the winds and dust, which created dangerous driving situations across the Columbia Basin from George to Othello to Richland. Visibility as low as ¼ mile was reported. The highway was closed in both directions between Moses Lake and Ritzville fr...
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. Only reports for March 22-24 were made available this week. The rest of last week’s reports will be included in next week’s incident log. March 22 Traffic stops: 8 The manager of Cottonwood Apartments in Davenpo...
DAVENPORT – Several games, matches, meets and practices were cancelled here and in Reardan this week after COVID-19 outbreaks within both districts. Two of Davenport’s eight positive student tests were within the cross country and soccer teams. Cross country’s two qualifiers for the District 7 title meet at Asotin won’t be able to race. Football seeding games, including Reardan at Colfax and Davenport vs. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, were off. A junior high football game in Davenport was also cancelled. A volleyball match between...
CHENEY – Eastern Washington promoted associate head coach David Riley to fill the vacancy left when Shantay Legans was hired away by the University of Portland on March 22. The 2021-22 season will be Riley's 11th in Eastern's program and his eighth as a coach. "I am honored and excited about being named the next head coach of Eastern Washington University," Riley in a news release. "The past 10 years at EWU have been an incredible journey and I am grateful to all the c...
INDIANAPOLIS – The Bulldogs are in the Final Four, and they don't have a blemish on their resume yet. The Gonzaga men's basketball team easily dusted off Creighton in the Sweet 16 and USC in the Elite Eight March 28 and 30 to improve to 30-0 this season. Gonzaga is two wins away from its first national championship in program history and the first perfect season in Division I men's basketball since 1976. Against Creighton, a balanced offensive attack aided the Bulldogs to a...
KETTLE FALLS – Two Davenport cross country runners qualified for the NE2B league championship race at the qualifying meet March 27, but a positive test within the team this week ended the team's season. Junior Jake Coffman and freshman Jarrett Jacobsen were among the top seven finishers in the boys 5,000 meters, but won't participate in the title meet in Asotin April 3. Head coach Brian Telford said the team is disappointed it can't send anyone to Asotin, but the team plans t...
SPOKANE – Davenport's quest to finish off the season with a league championship came up short against the St. George's Dragons in the NE2B title match Saturday, March 27. St. George's topped the Gorillas 3-1. "(I) hate to complain about officiating, but it was lopsided and inconsistent," Davenport coach Monty Soliday said. "Early bad calls (took) the momentum away and (we) never recovered. Tough way to end a season!" Davenport's lone goal came from senior Darby Soliday, who s...
KETTLE FALLS – While the Gorillas will finish the season with a losing record (2-3), Davenport ended its shortened campaign on a high note with a 44-22 victory over the Kettle Falls Bulldogs (0-5) in a Friday matinee contest March 26. Senior Mathew Orvis scored two touchdowns for the Gorillas; one passing, and one receiving late in the third quarter. Junior Jarrett Jacobsen helped put the Bulldogs away for good with an interception for a touchdown as Davenport improved to 2...
ODESSA – The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the library and the meeting was also available via ZOOM March 24, preceded by a workshop held in the district office to discuss the budget, ESSER fund planning and the school calendar/schedule. Present were board chair Ed Deife; board members Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Carmen Weishaar; Superintendent Dan Read; Principal Jamie Nelson; Assistant Business Manager Staci Claassen; Operations Supervisor Justin Parr and Athletic Director Bruce Todd. Boar...
ODESSA – During their brief five-game season in 2021, the Odessa Tiger football team maintained its unbroken winning record. Now, several individual team members have been singled out for recognition on the all-league offensive and defensive teams. All-League Offense Selected as the Offensive Player of the Year was Pilot Weishaar, Odessa senior running back with 918 total yards for the abbreviated season, an average of 183.6 yards per game. He scored a total of 16 touchdowns. He added another 40 yards receiving for a grand t...
HARRINGTON – Recently the Harrington Library had an inquiry from Jack Dunsmoor who is in transition from California to Spokane and looking for some very specific information: Which of the Harrington veterans flew in B-17s or B-24s, besides Eugene Kramer, and what history does Harrington have pertaining to Eugene Kramer? He spent several hours reading from notebooks, which were given to the Harrington Museum by Adelia Bassett Scott. These notebooks contain the best of the a...
ODESSA – The Odessa Lions Club will hold its annual (except for the Covid year of 2020) Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday, Apr. 3, at three different areas of Reiman Park. The youngest children, up to the age of three, will hunt for candy-filled plastic eggs in the fenced playground area. Children aged 4 to 6 will search the grassy area just west of the playground that is sometimes used for pickup volleyball games, and those aged 7 to 9 will search the picnic and pool section of the park filled with trees. The youngsters in e...
Kissler, Robert Edgar passed away on March 25, 2021 in Moses Lake, Wash. His home was Odessa, Wash. Robert was born on Sept. 29, 1941 in Odessa, Wash. He was a member of the Heritage Church, Adjutant of the Rudolph M. Stumph Post #105 of the American Legion, and honorably discharged after serving in the 161st Infantry Battalion of the Army Reserve National Guard from 1965 to 1973, earning the rank of Platoon Sergeant First Class (E-7) with expert rifleman award. Robert is...
Rita Dudley passed away March 22, 2021, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was born in Irby, Wash., U.S.A. on Aug. 17, 1934. She was the youngest daughter of Victoria and Jacob Ott of Irby, Wash. Rita completed her secondary studies at Odessa High School and then received a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education from Washington State University. She married John Granville Dudley in June 1957 with whom she raised five children. They lived their married life in Pullman Wash., B...
The poor are oppressed by the incompetent. It is a phrase that increasingly rings in my ears as I watch government bureaucracies and politicians provide false hope instead of tangible assistance. The people who pay for these failures are often those who can least afford it. The examples in my home state of Washington are numerous, but are not unique. My friend Kim Ngan came to the United States from Vietnam, and although she didn’t speak much English, she knew there was o...
This will sound funny anywhere outside Olympia, but there is a question that for years has stumped half the Legislature. If an income tax is so good for the people of the state of Washington, why do they say no every time they are asked? Advocates of higher taxes and spending have tried just about everything. Big income taxes, little income taxes, income taxes dedicated to noble purposes and income taxes that are only supposed to hurt millionaires. Yet the people keep voting n...
1 years ago Apr. 1, 1921 The Odessa High School debate team won first place in the state’s northeast district championships for the second year running. The team members are Tolbert Schimke, Florence Schoonover, LaFay Finstad, Verna Holmes, Charles Cone and Christoph Horn. The speed cop from Davenport was in town looking for violators of the automobile laws. He reported that he found everything mostly in order except for one man who had a broken muffler which he was ordered to have repaired. After March 31, it will be u...
ODESSA – Joshua Valverde took first place in the Open C class of the Frostbite short course race on Saturday, Mar. 27 and again in the Open C class of the White Knuckle short course on Sunday, Mar. 28. On Saturday, fellow Odessa participants Holden Iverson, Corbyn Neilsen and Tucker Walter also raced. Joshua Valverde's father Donald also raced, in the Senior C class, and placed 12th. On Sunday, Valverde, Walter and Iverson all raced again, with Valverde first, Walter f...
