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REARDAN--The Reardan-Edwall School District will be choosing a new mascot by next school year, the district announced today. The “Indians” mascot was among the Native American monikers banned in House Bill 1356, which was just signed into state law. The bill offered an exception for schools to use a Native-related mascot if the district is in or borders a county with some or all of a tribal reservation, if said tribe gives permission. However, superintendent Eric Sobotta announced in a Facebook post on the district's pag...
DAVENPORT – "BOOM!" What sounded like a bomb going off to Sami Guhlke hit the sky's soundwaves as the Reardan resident walked with her dog to pick up eggs from her family farm's chicken coop three miles south of town after the sun set March 25. 45 seconds later... "BOOM!" A second clap...then 45 seconds after that, a third... "BOOM!" "At first I thought something went wrong at Fairchild (Air Force Base)," Guhlke said. As it turned out, Guhlke wasn't the only person, locally or...
DAVENPORT – The Miss Davenport program will have a representative for the 2021-2022 reigning year. Adria Crandall, a senior at Davenport High School, will be the elected representative for the reigning year. Adria is an excelling student, with a bright optimistic attitude and a passion to positively represent the town of Davenport. She was the only contestant to participate in her present year of the Miss Davenport program (2020-2021) until the program had to come to a halt d...
DAVENPORT – The COVID-19 virus is still present in Lincoln County, but according to Gov. Jay Inslee’s current metrics, there isn’t currently a huge risk of moving back to Phase 2 when counties are next evaluated Monday, May 3. For a “small” county with less than 50,000 people, like Lincoln County, there must be more than 100 new cases of the virus and three or more new hospitalizations in the last 14 days for a move back to Phase 2. As of April 28, there were 38 new cases in the last 14 days and zero new hospitali...
DAVENPORT – To adjust for strange schedules caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the middle and high school here have been utilizing a quarter system, as opposed to a regular, seven-period day. A recent survey conducted among students indicated that a majority prefer a possible future quarter system where there are just three to four classes taken at a time split throughout the year, principal Chad Prewitt shared with the school board at the board’s April 26 meeting. Only seventh-graders favored a normal, seven-period return to...
SPOKANE VALLEY – Underserved or beginning farmers and ranchers who cannot obtain commercial credit from a bank have a resource to turn to — the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). FSA is offering two types of direct and guaranteed loans: farm ownership loans and farm operating loans. Repayment terms for the latter are scheduled from 1 – 7 years while financing for the former cannot exceed 40 years, with interest rates for direct loans set by the government’s cost of borrowing and rates for guarantee...
