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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, March 25: Washington State Patrol was advised of a boulder in the roadway on SR 231. A caller asked that a van that has been parked for more than two years on municipal right-of-way at Foster...
The O-H golf team hosted a nine-hole league match Tuesday, March 27, at the Harrington Golf Course. “It was our first real nice day for golf, with temperatures in the mid-50s, no wind, and sunshine,” said coach Sam Read. The Titan boys team came out on top in scoring: 1st O-H 248 2nd Inchelium 271 3rd Wilbur/Creston 275 Almira/Coulee-Hartline also competed but did not have enough players for a team score. O-H individual scores: Madison Charlton 43 Ricky Hedreen 48 Nick Nelson 51 William Mann 51 Griffey Powell 55 Bo Gun...
There was optimism in the spring of 1961 about the possibility of big oil strikes in the Odessa area. An exploration drilling firm had just released its geology report on a test well it had drilled several months earlier in the area west of Odessa. Here is The Odessa Record’s story in the issue of April 27, 1961: The geology report on findings of Basalt Explorer #1, drilled west of Odessa last fall in quest of oils and gas, was made public in a geological report issued by the drilling company. C&D Minerals, Inc. and A...
Born in 1632 in the Netherlands, Antony van Leeuwenhoek was a self-taught man who made microscopes – ultimately producing some 500 of them. Microscopes consist of lenses of carefully ground class. Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes could magnify objects up to two hundred times. That opened up a range of investigations to him and he took advantage of the new devices he was creating to look at almost anything and everything, including bacteria he obtained from between his teeth. Van...
Dorothy Grening March 26, 2013, in Odessa at the age of 92. She was born in Odessa December 3, 1920, the daughter of Alfred and Trella Wagner. She had one brother, Roscoe (Ross) Wagner. She graduated from Odessa High School in 1939. After graduation she attended beauty school in Spokane, then returned to Odessa, where she remained for the rest of her life. She married Art Grening and the two were active in trapshooting and enjoyed traveling. She was a member of Heritage Church and a long-time member of the Women’s VFW A...
Thank you for printing the list of new U.S. citizens from March 24, 1938 in a recent "75 Years Ago" column. The first name in the list was that of my mother, Emma Jean Napier. Although she was born at Reardan and had lived her entire life in the state of Washington, she lost her U.S. citizenship in 1922 whe she married my father, John (Jack) Napier. They knew he was still a citizen of Scotland, but did not know of the law still in force which nullified citizenship when a U.S. citizen married a non-citizen. The law was...
Washington Governor Jay Inslee has proposed creating more than 3,000 new spots for children in the state’s preschool program, the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP), taking an important step towards creating a high-quality early education system that will improve the entire public education system. The governor’s proposal comes only two days after Seattle-area superintendents, teachers and parents called on the state legislature to invest in ECEAP and other early learning systems. The plan would rai...
The Military Writer’s Society of America has selected "The Trail Cook Chronicles" by David Michaelson to be on their Spring 2013 recommended reading list. "Trail Cook Chronicles" is the second book of the Trail Cook trilogy, a series of stories set in the late 1800s about a young Englishman traveling to the wild West to witness it before it’s all gone. His name is Able Piddington, and his adventures continue in the third book titled "The Piddingtons." All of Michaelson’s books are available through major online books...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 3/28/13: Well, that was a surprise! The USDA managed to find an additional 400 million bushels of corn in the bin than what was being expected, and that pulled the rug out from under the grain market. Chicago wheat futures closed down 49 cents, corn futures were locked limit down shortly after the report and will open with limits expanded to 60 cents on Sunday afternoon (happy Easter!). The acreage projections came in as expected, but it was the higher...
