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DAVENPORT—A Ritzville man charged with fourth-degree assault, harassment and disorderly conduct stemming from an incident involving state Sen. Mark Schoesler last October was sentenced for one charge last week. Glen Roy Stockwell of Ritzville was convicted of fourth-degree assault in Lincoln County District Court Tuesday, May 24, but had charges of harassment and disorderly conduct dismissed, according to court records. Presiding judge Dan B. Johnson sentenced Stockwell to 12 months supervised probation, 12 months u...
DAVENPORT-A months-long search to fill a vacant principal position came to a conclusion in early May with the hire of Sarita Hopkins as the new elementary principal. The school board approved Hopkins' hire Monday, May 9. The hire moves Noelle Carstens to secondary principal as Chad Prewitt prepares to take over the superintendent role from the retiring Jim Kowalkowski. Hopkins comes to Davenport from Cheney Middle School, where she is wrapping up her third year as the...
DAVENPORT—High school seniors around Lincoln County ready to conclude their grade school ventures are about to see that dream realized. Many local graduations are coming up this weekend, while a couple have either already occurred or are a couple weekends away. Harrington graduation is first on tap this weekend, with a 6 p.m. ceremony at the school scheduled for the four local graduates. Davenport and Odessa’s graduations are both Saturday, June 4. Odessa’s ceremony is at 11 a.m., while Davenport celebrates its gradu...
Last week’s issue of The Record-Times erroneously reported the date of this November’s general election. The correct date of the election is Tuesday, Nov. 8. There were also errors reporting results of the Davenport and Reardan track team’s meet in Liberty Lake May 21. The boys and girls team results were printed inversely. In actuality, the Davenport boys team took the team title, while the girls finished second behind St. George’s. The Reardan boys finished fifth and the Reardan girls finished fourth....
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 23 Traffic stops: 6 A caller said they were passed by a vehicle on Highway 2, and occupants in the vehicle began throwing rocks on their car. A caller said a white Chevy blew through two stop signs in a c...
DAVENPORT—A caller from Lincoln Hospital twice reported seeing a cougar behind the hospital Saturday, May 28, but authorities were unable to track down and vanquish the puma. According to police records, a hospital employee called the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office to say another employee saw a cougar walking around while depositing trash into hospital dumpsters. Two deputies and one sergeant from LCSO and a trooper with National Parks Service responded to the initial call, which came at 9:52 p.m. Saturday. Officer Chr...
DAVENPORT—A resolution to terminate a private lease with a tenant at the airport here was tabled by city council pending further discussion at council’s regular meeting Wednesday, May 25. The airport committee met prior to council’s meeting and discussed a resolution going before council to allow Mayor Brad Sweet to revoke Gary Stuckle’s lease “for non-compliance,” according to council documentation. The committee, chaired by Jonathan Chapman, however, recommended that the resolution should be tabled to allow for further dis...
Government and community meetings and gatherings for the week of June 3-9. If you’d like your organization included in this tab, email dteditor@centurytel.net. Monday, June 6 Lincoln County commissioners meeting at 8 a.m. in the County Courthouse Odessa town council meeting at 7 p.m. in the Library Wednesday, June 8 Harrington Chamber of Commerce meeting at 4 p.m. at the Post and Office Reardan-Edwall school board workshop at 6:30 p.m. in the Commons Davenport city council meeting at 7 p.m. in City Hall Harrington city c...
SPRAGUE – One person was injured in a single car crash on eastbound Interstate 90 in the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 25. According to the Washington State Patrol, Daniel A. Mishler, 33, of Redmond, Wash., was transported to a Spokane Hospital following the crash. Mishler was driving a 2002 Ford Focus when he left the roadway near Milepost 238, at the south end of Sprague Lake. The vehicle went off the left side of the roadway onto the rumble strips, at which time the driver overcorrected to the right, sending the v...
Davenport birthdays June 3: Ryan Buchmann, Joe Coppersmith, Connie Lust, Katie Jo Wagner ♱ June 4: Gavin Boggs, Heath Becker, Maddilynn Collins, Kelly Rosman ♱ June 5: Janaye Wilkie, Corday Umtuch, Bonnie Booth June 6: Addison Smith, Shelby Hargrave, Gary Kersten, Debbie Keller June 7: Kaysa Panke, Ruth Oehlwein June 8: Jeff Semprimoznik, MyKenzie Deverell, Jasper Linstrum June 9: Keaton Hupp, Jamie Mitchel, Virginia Morrison Davenport anniversaries June 3: Steve and Roberta Telecky, Mike and Dawn Hale, Harold and Cla...
REARDAN—For the first time in three days, the local Mule Days celebration is a go this upcoming weekend from Friday June 3 to Sunday June 5. Mule Days, which began in 1904 and has only been interrupted by World War II and the COVID-19 pandemic, was renamed Community Day several decades ago and features many local events. Chief amongst those events is the Mule Days Parade, which this year is on Spokane Street from Cedar Street to Lake Street. Attendees can expect to see community floats, equestrian showcases, rodeo royalty a...
ODESSA- The class of 2012 will be hosting the Alumni Banquet after two years of absence due to the pandemic. Classes of 1972, 1982, 2012 and 2022 will be honored at this year’s banquet. The banquet will be organized by Charli Moffet Kong and Kolby Crossley. The Odessa High School Alumni Association has been housed at Leffel, Otis and Warwick in Odessa for the past decade. They volunteer their services to the Alumni Association from year to year. Services provided are maintaining the database of classes and performing t...
Cool weather may not be ideal for most kitchen garden plantings, but rhubarb loves it. Therefore we have a few more rhubarb based recipes to use up some of the bounty. I found a recipe for Rhubarb Cookies on a site called “Dance around the Kitchen”. The recipe is easy to prepare and doesn’t require chilling before baking. Rhubarb Cookies 1/2 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup shortening 1 1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar 2 eggs 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1 1/2 cups finely diced rhubarb 3/4 cup old f...
HARRINGTON- Below are the Harrington Car Show award winners. The car show had 154 cars entered for various awards on May 22. Best of Show went to John Dilmer of Spokane for their 1966 Fairlane Convertible. People's Choice went to Tone Kubik of Ritzville for their 1964 Chevelle. Favorite Car 1929 and Older 1st place: Jim Colburt - 1830 Durant 2nd place: Mike Stormo - 1927 Model T Favorite Car 1930-1939 1st place: Tom and BJ Carlton - 1939 Ford 2nd place: Martin Burnette - 1932...
CHENEY-A personal record jump of six feet three inches gave Reardan sophomore Richard Alsept Lincoln County's lone individual 2B state champion at the WIAA 2B State Championships held at Roos Field on the campus of Eastern Washington University Thursday-Saturday May 26-28. Alsept's high jump mark was two inches higher than his second place competitor, senior Tre Seydel of Raymond. Senior Jarrett Jacobsen of Davenport finished third in the event. The Davenport boys had the...
LIND–The combined Lind and Ritzville school boards unanimously approved adding the Harrington to the existing Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna athletic combine during a meeting Monday, May 23. Earlier in the month the Harrington School Board voted to accept an offer to join the combine, by a 3-2 vote, during a meeting in Harrington....
REARDAN-Two varsity high school coaches are leaving their posts. Longtime head wrestling coach Rick Perleberg and inaugural girls soccer coach Brian Scott both resigned from their positions in letters accepted by the school board Wednesday, May 25. Perleberg, who said he is just retiring from the position and not from his teaching career, has been the head coach since 2015 and worked with the wrestling program since his arrival with the district in 1999. In that time he's...
GRAND COULEE–Fishermen can begin to fish for white sturgeon on Lake Roosevelt seven days per week beginning Saturday, June 18. The allotted lake area for fishing includes water from Grand Coulee Dam to the China Bend Boat Ramp, including the Spokane River from the 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. A daily limit of one sturgeon and an annual limit of two sturgeon is in place. Annual Limit 2 sturgeon. It is le...
DAVENPORT--The Davenport boys golf team won the WIAA academic state 2B title this year. The team, comprised of six boys, has a cumulative 3.46 grade point average this season....
DEER PARK – Four Odessa golfers did well at the 1B/2B state golf meet last week. Tiger senior Daeton Deife finished in 18th place tied with his first cousin Kallen Maioho of Wilbur-Creston-Keller, each of them scoring 173 over the two-day tournament. Fellow Odessa senior Landen Brooks was not far behind, finishing in 21st place tied with Colton Seymour of Cusick at 175. In team scoring, the Tiger boys took sixth place with a score of 42. Maddox Schumacher of Davenport High (and formerly of Odessa) finished in 15th place tied...
HARRINGTON – Several students, teachers and community members signed up to speak at the Wednesday, May 25 meeting of the school board. All of them expressed disappointment and concern about the decision reached at the previous meeting for the Harrington School District to join the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague sports program during the 2022-23 school year. Many said that the decision was rushed and that the community had too little time to absorb the proposal and all of its ramifications. One person said that a survey filled out by...
Honor Guard Ceremony on Memorial Day in Odessa. Pictured left to right: Ryan Scrupps, Tony Quilici, Jerry Jasman, Bob McKee, Gerald Smith, John Hardt and Steve Siegel....
ODESSA – The Odessa High School girls' team brought home the fourth-place trophy from the state track and field meet held May 26-28 at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. Only a sophomore, Hayden Schuh, daughter of head coach Travis Schuh, had a stellar day in field events and races, placing first in the 100-meter hurdles, second in the 300-meter hurdles, second in the javelin, fifth as part of the 4x200 relay team and sixth as part of the 4x100 relay team. All of the g...
Kaye Marie Timm was born Jan. 12, 1952 in Davenport, Wash. On May 22, 2022 she passed away peacefully in Kirkland, WA after fighting cancer hard, twice. Kaye attended school in Harrington until her High School graduation. She was a proud alumna of Central Washington University. She always loved the city and quickly made the move to Seattle to spend her professional years in corporate accounting, working for many non-profit organizations. However, many summers she continued to...
Ardell Boleneus passed away May 14, 2022 at her home in Spokane, WA. She was born April 27, 1940 in Colville, WA to Jess and Clara Denison and was one of eleven children. Ardell grew up on the West End of the Spokane Indian Reservation and later married Mark Beardslee and they had three daughters Brenda, Glenda and Renda. Mark passed away in 1985. Ardell married Deral Boleneus in June of 1991 at their home north of Reardan, WA and their blended family grew to 5 with Deral’s ch...
