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SUNNYSLOPE — Chelan County has requested help battling a new fire burning in dry grass and sage brush in this rural community between Wenatchee and Cashmere. The Red Apple Fire is reported about 6:55 p.m. Tuesday, July 13. At the time, Chelan County Fire District No. 1 Chief Brian Brett and Chelan County Fire District No. 6e CHief Phil Mosher estimated it was about 1,000 acres in size and growing. The blaze is threatening 234 homes, orchards and a power substation on the north side of U.S. Highway 2. Evacuation notices h...
DAVENPORT--Another heat advisory was issued by the National Weather Service through Wednesday, July 14 at 8 p.m. as hot temperatures nearing triple digits are expected over the next three days. The heat advisory is the NWS's third thus far this year and extends across most of Eastern Washington and North Idaho, including the Spokane, Cheney, Odessa, Ritzville and Colfax areas. It extends as far north as Omak and Kettle Falls, as far east as Post Falls and Plummer, as far south as Pomeroy and Clarkston and as far west as...
DAVENPORT--Stop us if you've heard this one before. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for tomorrow, Saturday July 10 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. for Lincoln County and much of Eastern Washington including the Upper Columbia Basin and Spokane area. Hot temperatures with highs between 95-105 degrees are expected. The NWS says high humidity may cause heat-induced illnesses if precautions aren't taken. The NWS recommends drinking plenty of fluids, staying in air-conditioned rooms, staying out of the sun and...
DAVENPORT–Scott and Deb Hutsell have sold Scott's Tire, the Les Schwab tire store they independently owned, to the Bend-based chain with 478 locations in the western United States. The Hutsell's owned Scott's Tire for 32 years after purchasing it in 1989. The store will offer similar tire services under corporate ownership as it has under the Hutsell name. Scott Hutsell will continue his position as Lincoln County Commissioner. Lincoln County Treasurer records indicate the b...
LINCOLN COUNTY – A trio of sudden deaths hit Lincoln County last week, with all deceased being female. A 35-year-old woman in Reardan, an 80-year-old woman in Davenport and a woman in Odessa whose age was not disclosed all died last week. 35-year-old Melissa Gable was found dead just east of Reardan at a home on South Green Street at 1:15 p.m. June 29, according to Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office records. Deputy Chad Cunningham and Reardan Police chief Andy Manke responded to the death after Gable’s uncle reported his niece...
DAVENPORT – The burn and fireworks bans instituted by fire districts across Lincoln County over the Fourth of July holiday weekend appear to have done the trick in preventing catastrophic fires, as no firework-related fires were reported or required response in the greater Davenport/Harrington/Reardan area. Fire District No. 5, which covers the Davenport area, had no fires to respond to last weekend in city limits or district wide. “My phone was quiet,” District No. 5 chief Craig Sweet said. “Compared to what it could’v...
DAVENPORT – Lincoln County representatives and members of Teamsters Local 690 continued negotiations to update the Sheriff’s Office’s contracts for commissioned and non-commissioned officers for about 90 minutes at the county commissioner’s meeting Tuesday, July 6. No final agreement was reached in the session. The two sides had used two previous meetings to discuss potential amendments to each contract. Tuesday, the sides talked about the commissioned officer contract for an hour, and non-commissioned officer contract for ha...
REARDAN – Two motions and approval from council occurred, and the town is getting a $38,850 loan from the Department of Ecology to help finance a general sewer plan at Audubon Lake and the wastewater treatment facility here. The loan has a 1.2% interest rate with a 20-year term. It has an early payoff option. The total project costs $77,700, according to council documentation. It will evaluate the current wastewater collection system at the Reardan Wastewater Treatment Facility and identify what the town needs to do to s...
REARDAN – Byrne Bennett has made it his life's mission for the last several years to immortalize the story of his uncle, Medal of Honor recipient and Reardan native Joe E. Mann. Now, that mission is one step to completion. Bennett's historical fiction book telling the story of Mann, titled "A Greater Destiny," has been published and is available for sale. Mann posthumously received the Medal of Honor, the highest recognition a military member can receive, after jumping on a g...
DAVENPORT–208 flag poles lined the walkways at Mountain View Cemetery just outside town in recognition of those who fell while serving America in the military over Memorial Day Weekend due to the efforts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Tim Zeiler's eighth-grade class at Davenport Middle School. However, that weekend, a windstorm swept the region, and 10 of those flag poles were damaged beyond repair, leaving 10 memorials to fallen veterans destroyed. Each pole has the n...
Davenport Times editor Drew Lawson announced his engagement to Maggie Rees of Selah over Independence Day weekend. The couple is planning a wedding in Spring 2022. – Engagement announcements can be made in The Times by contacting davenporttimes@centurytel.net....
DAVENPORT – The Davenport Lions Club had its annual election of officers and board members on June 15 to be effective July 1, which is the start of the Lions Club International year. New Lion President Scott Hopkins received the gavel from past President Jeff Barkdull. Officers and board members including several new members joining the board were installed at the regular meeting. The members are treasurer Jared King, third vice president Keith Bailey, board member Bob M...
DAVENPORT – The high school has released its tentative fall sports schedule, with a full docket of games returning for athletes competing in football, volleyball, soccer and cross country. Football practice starts Aug. 18, while other sports start practice Aug. 23. Here is the Davenport varsity schedule as it stands as of press time. Stay tuned next week for coverage of available Reardan sports schedules. FOOTBALL Aug. 27 – Jamboree at Ritzville Sept. 3 – at Colfax Sept. 10 ...
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. June 27 Traffic stops: 17 A welfare check was requested in the Grand Coulee area. A custody issue was reported. A stolen vehicle was reported at Two Rivers Resort by the Fort Spokane boat launch. A Davenport wom...
SPRAGUE – Travelers using Interstate 90 who use the Sprague Lake Rest Area in both directions will need to use an alternate rest area during travel. A scheduled power outage will close the rest area in both directions of I-90 from 9 p.m., Thursday, July 8, until 6 a.m., Friday, July 9. During this time the rest area will be closed to travelers and drivers will need to find an alternate location. Before heading out the door, travelers can find highway conditions on the WSDOT Travel Alerts page,...
DAVENPORT-Sheriff Wade Magers entered a not-guilty plea on all three criminal counts he's charged with at his arraignment Wednesday, July 7. Magers is charged with obstructing a law enforcement officer, making a false or misleading statement to a public servant and rendering criminal assistance in the third degree. The charges stem from a car crash involving Sheriff Magers' son back in February and the sheriff's alleged attempts to prevent authorities from learning that his...
A friend of mine, let’s call her Mary, began college at the University of Washington in 1967 and graduated with an undergraduate degree in 1971. According to the university’s records, she paid $3,160 (in 2020 dollars) for her final year of in-state tuition. Mary’s granddaughter, Emma, graduated after four years from the University of Washington in 2020 and paid $10,630 for her final year of in-state tuition. Essentially, school administrators more than tripled tuition at the s...
ODESSA – July 4 fell on a Sunday this year, and although Sunday is normally a quiet day in Odessa most of the time, it was also the day for two events downtown. The Firemen's BBQ at the community center served up lunches to all comers from the side door (not the window, as was decided after we had gone to press with last week's issue). The kitchen crew had a well-organized setup, with cooking performed in the commercial kitchen and an assembly line set up right outside the k...
RITZVILLE – Gov. Jay Inslee is refusing requests to declare a drought emergency in the state. Two wheat industry officials — Washington Association of Wheat Growers President Ryan Poe and Washington Grain Commission Chairman Mike Carstensen — requested the emergency drought declaration June 15 in a letter to the governor. A drought emergency declaration would give affected farmers access to additional governmental resources. "As the extremely hot temperatures have reminded us, much of Eastern Washington — including our whe...
HARRINGTON – With temperatures seemingly surpassing all previous June records for heat and lack of moisture, the human brain slows down to use commonplace sayings, thus conserving energy for other essential tasks. We all know that is was "hotter than blazes," and we wonder at the origin of another of our one-liners, "It's so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk." We found a willing science-minded family to test the validity of the latter phrase in Katie Steward and her t...
[Continued from last week] Fourth, this Gospel teaches that the sign of a man from the dead, like Jesus, the virgin-born, eternal Son of God, will not bring to repentance those who do not listen to Moses and the Prophets. It reads, "And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house—for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.' But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear the...
ODESSA – The Odessa Town Council met June 28 with a full complement present, including Mayor Bill Crossley and council members Vickie Iverson, Landon Lobe, Kelly Watkins, Amy Gimmestad and Marlene Kramer. Prior to the meeting, a public hearing was held to allow citizen input on the latest Transportation Improvement Plan after projects already underway were removed and others needing attention had been added. There were no questions or comments from the public, and the hearing was adjourned. The plan was approved later in t...
One regional utility alone – Avista – had brownouts that affected 15,307 ratepayers last Monday, 6,793 last Tuesday and another 602 last Wednesday. Other utilities, too, had brownouts. I know we’ve had a day or two of record-setting high temperatures. But that’s not an excuse to shut down power to residents and businesses here in Eastern Washington. Columbia River basin dams generate roughly 44% of electricity in the entire United States. Our dams provide power to much of...
STARBUCK–Columbia Pulp has begun the re-start process of its wheat straw pulp mill in Lyons Ferry, Wash., June 1. The facility began to introduce wheat straw into the system June 1, 2021 after the prolonged COVID-19 shutdown in April 2020. The Mill will begin processing with running 20 ton of wheat straw per day slowly increasing tonnage to 50, then 75 finally up to full capacity of 100 ton per day over the next year with planned shutdowns for maintenance and cleaning. C...
