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REARDAN - A sizable crowd converged on the town to enjoy the 119th annual Reardan Mule Days Saturday, June 3. At 10 a.m. on a warm and cloudless day, the Fairchild Air Force Base Honor Guard opened the event by leading the Mule Days parade down Spokane Avenue. They were followed by a procession of 60 entrants that included horses, fire trucks, reunited school chums, royalty floats, the high school pep band, llamas and mini donkeys. The parade also featured special honorees...
ODESSA — The “final stretch” of a complete Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center remodel and 3,500 square foot addition is here, hospital CEO Brett Antczak told the Lincoln County Commissioners Monday, June 5. “We have a new ambulance bay that’s heated, a new purchasing area,” Antczak said. “We’re reallocating some of our office spaces, adding a hazardous waste room, getting a new CT scanner and replacing all X-ray equipment.” The addition is on the east side of the hospital toward Quail Court. The entire facility is being...
Paige to change plea next week DAVENPORT — A Spokane boy charged with first-degree criminal assistance stemming from circumstances surrounding the death of 15-year-old Shadrach Hall-Turner in Reardan Feb. 22 is expected to change his plea next week. 14-year-old Izaiah Paige entered a not-guilty plea on his charges Tuesday, May 30, but has a change-of-plea hearing scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 13. Paige is charged with rendering criminal assistance to 17-year-old Koedi White by lying to 911 dispatchers about the s...
INCIDENT LOG May 28 Traffic stops: 10 A Davenport woman reported a Chevy parked next to a compact roller on Hawk Creek Road. A Davenport man reported drivers cutting through the Exxon parking lot instead of turning onto Morgan Street using the stop sign on 12th Street. A caller reported a black SUV doing donuts in the CFN parking lot in Sprague. A trooper from Pennsylvania asked a deputy to contact a person on the 800 block of West First Street in Davenport. A Davenport man requested help getting his keys locked inside his...
MEDICAL LAKE — Brooks Road closed for repairs Thursday, June 8 and it will remain closed through September, Project Manager Eric Jenkin said. Brooks Road will have a hard closure at the railroad tracks just north of city limits to replace the drainage structure on the north side of the tracks. This means that no through-traffic of any kind will be allowed on the road for the duration of the project, impacting all local traffic or anyone traveling to Lincoln County. According to Jenkin, Espanola Road will the only paved route...
REARDAN -At its meeting Wednesday, May 31, the Reardan-Edwall school board approved the transfer of six acres of land to Reardan Heroes, a non-profit organization that will create a memorial to honor World War II Medal of Honor recipient Joe E. Mann and all the veterans from the Reardan area. The land is located east of town between the high school's softball field and U.S. Highway 2. The project will include an amphitheater, a walkway listing the names of area veterans, a...
ODESSA — A Ritzville man is being held in the Lincoln County Jail on $45,000 bail after allegedly kidnapping his son. Nicholas Dale Kuest, 26, has been charged with first-degree kidnapping-domestic violence and theft of a firearm in a custodial interference case. He is accused of allegedly taking his 1-year-old son from the Tri-Cities to his father’s house on East Weber Road southeast of town and south of Lamont and stealing a gun stored in the home. Kuest entered a not-guilty plea during a June 6 arraignment in Lincoln Cou...
When Oregon enacted the nation’s first bottle bill in 1971, it was intended to reduce litter on the state’s beaches, along roads, and in parks. It was a cleanup, not a recycling program. Today, the focus is recycling empty beer, pop, juice, and water containers and it is working very well in large part because it pays people to recycle. Collect the “empties” and earn a dime for each plastic bottle or aluminum can. It adds up and often is enough money to supplement purchas...
Relying on increased wind and solar is likely to increase electricity costs for residents in Washington and Idaho, and make electricity less reliable. Advocates of wind and solar frequently point to is the claim that the fuel is “free.” That claim ignores the extremely high up-front cost of those energy sources. To account for that, energy analysts create a “levelized cost of energy” to compare between energy that has low costs up-front but has ongoing costs for the fuel ...
Davenport birthdays June 9: Virginia Morrison, Keaton Hupp June 10: Loren Rux, Bennett Wagner, Roberta Telecky June 11: Jamie Chappell, Cheyne Odenrider June 12: Gary Guhlke, Scott Hutsell, Sydney Geissler, Tyler Furman June 13: Richard Singer, Jen Rief, Tessa Semprimoznik June 14: Jerry Newcomb, Karen Lyle, Jerry Warner, Raylee Murdock June 15: Chris Jannett, Kyler Hopkins, Scott Hardin, Ronnie Wilkie, Harper Morcom, Oliver Fisk, Alex Davis Davenport anniversaries June 9: Gary and Sharon Buck, Jeff and Peggy Semprimoznik...
Warm days and cool nights keep local rhubarb plants producing abundant stalks. Pinterest, Facebook and other social media have been flush with many rhubarb recipes and area Record-Times readers have sent in recipes or pointed out selections. One recipe was sent in by Becky Moeller of Harrington. Rhubarb Mallow Cobbler is her go to recipe when rhubarb is in abundant supply. The inclusion of a layer of marshmallows between the rhubarb filling and the cobbler topping adds extra...
DAVENPORT - Family, friends and community members filled in seats in the High School Auditorium as the Davenport Drama Club performed its inaugural play, "The Enchanted Bookshop," in two showings Saturday, June 3. The play followed book shop owner Margie (Alyssa Breedlove), who is in danger of having to close the shop due to a lack of sales as interest in books declines worldwide. As Margie deals with low sales and a strange incident with sleazy burglars Fingers (Alyssa...
REARDAN–Two high school head coaches submitted resignations accepted by the school board Wednesday, May 31. Baseball coach Matt Clouse and wrestling coach Justin Neufeld resigned from their respective positions. Clouse will remain head football coach, but stepped back from his baseball job after four seasons, citing a desire to put time into watching his daughter play softball and focus on coaching one sport. He recommended that the district hire Bobby Green as his successor. Neufeld, meanwhile, leaves the wrestling job a...
REARDAN - Thirteen players, mostly eighth- and ninth-graders, have joined an American Legion baseball team that will represent the town in a 20-game schedule this summer. Brian Kozee, a career member of the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base, coaches the team. Kozee said the purpose of the American Legion program is for players to learn the fundamentals of baseball, develop their skills and to prepare them to compete at the high school level. "I am pleased...
REARDAN - Former Wellpinit athlete Jake Green was hired as the Screaming Eagles' new head boys basketball coach Thursday, June 1. He replaces Brian Graham, who resigned March 28. Green was a two-time all-conference basketball player at Wellpinit High School, graduating in 2007. The following two years, he played at Peninsula College in Port Angeles. "I am proud to be a member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians and to be one of the first athletes from Wellpinit to play sports at...
Lincoln County's top track and field athletes competed at the State Track and Field Championships at Eisenhower High School in Yakima May 25-27. Here are more unpublished photos from the meet. Full results, pictures and medal winners were in last week's paper....
SPRAGUE — Want to go fishing at Sprague Lake or on the Snake River but don’t have a license? Well, this weekend you’re in luck as “Free Fishing Weekend” opens state waters for anglers who don’t have a license. But if you don’t have a license, be careful what you catch this Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11. Game wardens will be on the lookout for fishermen catching salmon, sturgeon and steelhead in Eastern Washington waters without a license. That’s because state bureaucrats in Olympia have changed the rules relating to Fre...
MEDICAL LAKE – State-planted trout are competing with goldfish for food in the four West Medical Lake ponds. As a result, state officials want use Rotenone in the ponds to eradicate the goldfish population. Although goldfish are the “target species” of the “naturally occurring” poison, Rotenone is highly toxic to all “gill-breathing organisms, state documents on its use show. Before poisoning the ponds – formed with the water level in West Medical Lake declines in warmer months – the state Department of Fish and Wildlife wa...
LIND – The city roars to life Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10, as the 34th annual Combine Demolition Derby Days brings thousands of residents and visitors out for a weekend of smashing fun. The highlight of the event is the Lions Club Combine Demolition Derby, in which area farmers, fans and others put their fortified combines to the test in a demolition contest, with the last combine running crowned the victor. But the weekend also includes a car show, barbecue, car and pickup truck racing, grain truck racing, camping, m...
TRUSTEE SALE TS No WA07000145-22-1 TO No 220505061-WA-MSO NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER 61.24 ET. SEQ. Grantor: JEREMIAH C KOELLER AND MARISSA L KOELLER HUSBAND AND WIFE Current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust: Idaho Housing and Finance Association (which also dba HomeLoanServ) Original Trustee of the Deed of Trust: FRONTIER TITLE & ESCROW CO LINCOLN COUNTY BRANCH Current Trustee of the Deed of Trust: MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps Current Mortgage Servicer of the Deed o...
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF DAVENPORT CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Davenport Planning Commission that a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, June 21,2023 at 7:05 p.m. The hearing will be held in the Davenport City Hall located at 411 Morgan Street. The hearing is to consider an application for a conditional use permit for a food truck located on Daniel Yarbrough’s property. The property involved is described as: Lots 1-4 & Pt Vacated Alley: Block 72, Columbia Addition to the City of D...
PUBLIC NOTICE INVITATION TO BID LINCOLN COUNTY Construction/Provisioning of Colocation Facilities in Almira, Creston, Harrington, and Wilbur NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Board of County Commissioners of Lincoln County, Washington that bids will be received until 12:00 p.m., Thursday June 29, 2023 at one of the following locations: Electronically: lcbroadband@ co.lincoln.wa.us Or Regular Mail: Board of Lincoln County Commissioners P.O. Box 28 Davenport, WA 99122-0028 Or In Person/FedEx: Office of the Board of County...
PUBLIC NOTICE OPEN PUBLIC HEARINGS June 14, 2023 Purpose: The City of Harrington, WA will conduct two Open Public Meetings for the purpose of providing information concerning two projects. Public dialog will be welcome regarding each project. #1: 7:00-7:20 P.M. South addition to Harrington Block 78: Gavin Wagner has requested a variance on a sidewall height from 10’ to 17’ on an unfinished pole building kit. #2: 7:20-7:40 P.M. SW side of Harrington Blocks 4 & 5: Mike Fries has requested a variance for a 4th mobile home to...
PUBLIC NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE AUCTION First Price Sealed Bid. June 13, 2023 at Johnson Family Towing, 33435 SR 28 E, Harrington, WA. Viewing 9am, Bids Due 10am, Results 10:30am, Vehicles must be removed by 4pm. Available vehicles subject to change. Visit www.johnsonfamilytowing.com for additional details. Published June 8, 2023...
NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SPOKANE CASE NO. 23-4-01028-32 In the Matter of the Estate of: RAMONA R. MATHER, Deceased. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE The Administrator named below has been appointed as Administrator of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent that arose before the decedent’s death must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or...
