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DAVENPORT—This week, May 17-21, is early filing week for candidates interested in running for office in open positions on the Lincoln County ballot for the August primary and November general elections. As of May 18, 38 total candidates had filed and been approved by the Lincoln County Auditor. A complete list of open positions can be found in the May 6 issue of The Times. Here are all the candidates that have filed for positions in Davenport, Harrington, Sprague, Reardan and Edwall thus far. Only one race is contested to t...
DAVENPORT – A Lincoln County Jail inmate has been found dead for the second time in the last month. Mark W. Robinson, 45, was being held in jail and awaiting transfer to the state Department of Corrections when he was found dead during a routine cell check around 11:30 p.m. May 6. Officials believe Robinson committed suicide. Family members have been notified. Two days earlier, Robinson was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to five felony no-contact order violations. He was found mentally competent b...
DAVENPORT – A Creston man convicted of first-degree child molestation was sentenced to 12 months confinement in Lincoln County Jail. Mathew Scott Chafin, 31, will also serve lifetime probation and five years of treatment after he was found guilty of the charge in Superior Court May 4. Chafin originally pleaded guilty Dec. 15. A jury trial date had been for March 20 and readiness status set for Feb. 16, according to Lincoln County Superior Court records. At that Feb. 16 court appearance, a 40-day mental evaluation was a...
REARDAN – Council approved a request of police chief Andy Manke to begin the hiring process of two new reserve officers at its May 6 regular meeting. Manke is eligible to retire near the end of 2022. Candidates are not set in stone yet, but council’s motion allows the police department to begin the process of hiring new law enforcement reserve officers for when Manke steps away. The unanimously approved motion was council’s only official action taken. During the public comment section, a roughly 20-minute discussion betwe...
HARRINGTON - Caroline Slack, a junior at the high school here, has enjoyed the FBLA experience she's been a part of all three years thus far, but she never expected to qualify for national competitions by her junior year. But she didn't just qualify for nationals in one event at the state competition. She qualified for three. "I did not expect to place that high at state as a junior," Slack said. "That's crazy." Due to FBLA rules, she must choose one to compete in. She chose h...
SPOKANE — It continues to get easier and easier to get to all kinds of places outside of Spokane with the ease of new non-stop airline travel. Once the butt of a joke that “you can’t get there from here,” Spokane International Airport announced April 30 that Southwest Airlines will offer new seasonal direct flights to both Chicago and Orange County, Calif. beginning June 6. In addition. direct service to San Jose, Calif. resumes on the same date. The once-daily flights to Chicago will fly into Midway Airport, connect...
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. May 2 Traffic stops: 7 A Reardan man requested help with a lockout. A woman called 911 in a panic and didn’t want the dispatcher to talk to her husband. May 3 Traffic stops: 8 A Davenport woman reported suspicious cir...
HARRINGTON –Harrington's Ninth Annual Car Show will be held Saturday, May 15, 2021, in honor of its founder, Allen Barth, who passed away in 2017. This car show has continued to grow yearly due to the generous donations from its sponsors. Sponsors for this year's event include: The Studebaker Garage, CONAGSCO, Wild Hair Salon, Leonardson's Engineering, Wilcox5555, Harrington Lions Club, The Post and Office, Circle H Ranch, Ott Insurance, Duck Lake Farms, Wagner Financial Strategies, Scott and Celeste Miller, Harrington T...
Raymond Mattox 1932-2021 Raymond Mattox passed away May 1, 2021 at his home in Reardan, Wash. He was born Oct. 15, 1932 in Ronan, Mont. to Leland and Gertrude Mattox. Raymond married Linnea Anderson on Feb. 20, 1953 in Seattle, Wash. Raymond was a plumber and he owned and operated Ray's Plumbing in Everett for several years before moving to eastern Washington where he developed Rocky Top Estates. Raymond loved the outdoors with family and friends camping, hunting and fishing,...
May 4 vs. St. George’s Girls Singles: #1 Singles – Annie Sawyer from SG defeated Mackenzie Bramer from Dav, 6-2, 6-3 #2 Singles – No Match | #3 Singles – No Match Boys Singles: #1 Singles – Robert Deforest from SG defeated Kale Smith from Dav, 6-0, 6-1 #2 Singles – Ian Reichel from SG, defeated Brendan Wilson from Dav, 6-0, 6-2 #3 Singles – No Match Girls Doubles: #1 Doubles – No Match | #2 Doubles – No Match Boys Doubles: #1 Doubles – No Match | #2 Doubles – No Match Pro Set – Mixed Singles May 6 vs. Reardan (all pro sets) O...
DAVENPORT – 12 athletes from Davenport and Reardan high schools have made the all-NE2B teams for football and volleyball, which this year ran from February to early April due to previous COVID-19 cancellations. The Gorillas had four football players and two volleyball players represented, while the Indians had five football players and one volleyball players on the all-league teams. Davenport junior Willie Waters headlined the group, making the first team for both offensive and defensive lines. Senior linebacker Skyler Henry,...
GRAND COULEE – A harvest fishery for white sturgeon in Lake Roosevelt will open 7 days per week beginning June 12, 2021, until further notice. The fishery extends from Grand Coulee Dam to China Bend Boat Ramp (including the Spokane River from Highway 25 Bridge upstream to 400’ below Little Falls Dam, Colville River upstream to Meyers Falls Dam and the Kettle River upstream to Barstow Bridge). The daily limit is one sturgeon and the annual limit is two sturgeon. It is legal to retain sturgeon between 50 inches and 63 inc...
REARDAN – Three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning was enough to dig the Indians out of a deep hole in their district playoff game against the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos Tuesday, May 11. Reardan ended its season with a 15-6 loss at home and finished the truncated campaign 5-8. LRS jumped on Reardan early, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning. The Indians held the Broncos scoreless for the following three innings, but three runs in the fifth, five runs i...
CHEWELAH – Split between events and individuals, the Davenport track and field team will have 42 representatives at the District 7 2B championships in Ritzville May 13 after the North qualifying meet May 7. Reardan, meanwhile, totaled 13 qualifications after the South qualifying meet in Colfax. The top eight finishers in each event qualified for districts. If an event featured fewer than eight participants, all finishing participants qualified. Any athletes that scratched d...
ODESSA – The Odessa High School baseball team finished up their 2021 season with only a single loss in a non-conference away game against Brewster that followed a recent win against the same team at home. The Tigers had a fine season, for the most part dominating their opponents with very lopsided wins. Besides the loss to Brewster, they met a serious challenge only against Wilbur/Creston/Keller when Odessa came out on top 2-1 in extra innings. When asked for a comment on the season, head coach Larry Weber said, “Just a hug...
ODESSA – Saturday's District 7/9 track and field championships for eastern Washington 1B schools was cool, blustery day for the athletes. Schools participating were Columbia (Hunters), Curlew, DeSales, Garfield-Palouse, Harrington, Inchelium, Mary Walker (Springdale), Oakesdale, Odessa, Pomeroy, Prescott, Republic, Selkirk (Ione), St. John-Endicott-Lacrosse, Tekoa-Rosalia, Valley Christian (Spokane), Wellpinit, Wilbur-Creston and Yakama Nation Tribal. Harrington High School s...
ODESSA – The weather in Ritzville was certainly a factor at Saturday's District 7 & 9 track and field championships for eastern Washington 1B schools. Schools participating were Columbia (Hunters), Curlew, DeSales, Garfield-Palouse, Harrington, Inchelium, Mary Walker (Springdale), Oakesdale, Odessa, Pomeroy, Prescott, Republic, Selkirk (Ione), St. John-Endicott-Lacrosse, Tekoa-Rosalia, Valley Christian (Spokane), Wellpinit, Wilbur-Creston and Yakama Nation Tribal. "Even t...
The Record HARRINGTON –Harrington's Ninth Annual Car Show will be held Saturday, May 15, 2021, in honor of its founder, Allen Barth, who passed away in 2017. This car show has continued to grow yearly due to the generous donations from its sponsors. Sponsors for this year's event include: The Studebaker Garage, CONAGSCO, Wild Hair Salon, Leonardson's Engineering, Wilcox5555, Harrington Lions Club, The Post and Office, Circle H Ranch, Ott Insurance, Duck Lake Farms, Wagner Financial Strategies, Scott and Celeste Miller, H...
Burial Service for Jacquelyn June (Jackie) Winfrey of Quincy will be May 22nd, 2021 at the Odessa Cemetery at 1:30 pm. Jackie passed away on Nov. 5th, 2020. Following the burial a meal is being provided at 2:30 pm at the Christ Lutheran Church located at 602 Amende Street in Odessa. Social distancing will be appreciated....
Susan Ann (Coombs) Els, 79, passed away at Lincoln Hospital in Davenport on Fri. May 7, 2021. She was born in Spokane on Nov. 23, 1941, the daughter of Donald and Evelyn (Talkington) Coombs. She graduated from Harrington High School in 1960, where she was active in band, the school newspaper, and tennis. She attended Washington State University, graduating in 1964. On June 20, 1964, she married James H. “Jim” Els, also of Harrington, at the Harrington Community Church. The...
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. May 2 Traffic stops: 7 A Reardan man requested help with a lockout. A woman called 911 in a panic and didn’t want the dispatcher to talk to her husband. May 3 Traffic stops: 8 A Davenport woman reported suspicious cir...
When Congress established the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) in 1935, it was intended to provide temporary and partial income replacement for workers who lost their jobs through no fault of their own. It was supposed to be a “bridge” to a new job and not “in lieu of compensation” to remain jobless. The coronavirus pandemic produced massive layoffs. The resulting economic downturn swelled the ranks of unemployed Americans by more than 14 million — from 6.2 million i...
When COVID-19 came ashore, glaring gaps in the government's pandemic preparedness became painfully obvious. Everything from inadequate stockpiles of personal protective equipment to confusing and uncoordinated guidance regarding closures hampered our early response. But, while the government floundered, America's research scientists sprang into action. Moderna actually invented its vaccine mere weeks after the virus was genetically sequenced in January — though of course, it took months of clinical trials to prove the v...
SPOKANE — It continues to get easier and easier to get to all kinds of places outside of Spokane with the ease of new non-stop airline travel. Once the butt of a joke that “you can’t get there from here,” Spokane International Airport announced April 30 that Southwest Airlines will offer new seasonal direct flights to both Chicago and Orange County, Calif. beginning June 6. In addition. direct service to San Jose, Calif. resumes on the same date. The once-daily flights to Chicago will fly into Midway Airport, connect...
Members of the championship Odessa boys golf team awarded the Northeast District 1B/2B championship trophy. From left Austin Iverson, Joshua Valverde, Landen Brooks, Daeton Deife, Gage Starkel, Jacob Scrupps, Jared Valverde, Chad Strebeck....
