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KELLER--The Keller Ferry had re-opened as of 11 a.m. this morning. The ferry, located 15 miles north of Wilbur, links Lincoln County across Lake Roosevelt to Ferry County and the Colville Reservation via Highway 21. The ferry, also known as M/V Sanpoil, had been shut down since July 9 for repairs. The ferry had previously shut down this year due to high winds and dust concerns. WSDOT estimates that 60,000 vehicles per year rely on the service to cross Lake Roosevelt from the reservation to Lincoln County and...
DAVENPORT – A pickup truck towing a trailer with five cattle crashed on Highway 2 just east of Bennett Road about six miles east of here after a tire in poor condition blew out on the trailer and caused the truck, carrying two passengers, to tip over and end up facing east. The crash occurred around 10:45 a.m. Sunday, July 25. One cow was killed in the crash, but the two people in the truck were uninjured. The driver and passenger were a husband and wife whose names were not explicitly disclosed in reports from the Lincoln C...
Students and staff in local schools will continue to be masked in schools this year. Gov. Jay Inslee announced the state would be following CDC recommendations and requiring masks among all staff and students in K-12 schools this year, regardless of vaccination status. The announcement came as Inslee also recommended, but didn't mandate, mask-wearing indoors in areas where COVID-19 is once again surging. Since June 30, school staff members hadn't been required to wear masks in settings such as school board meetings if they...
DAVENPORT – 12 new laws changing the way law enforcement conducts its job that passed state legislature in May and went into effect Sunday, July 25 are causing concern and an adjustment period for local officers, sergeants, deputies, chiefs and sheriffs. The laws, which vary from restrictions on pursuing vehicles to banning chokeholds to requiring mental health calls to be responded to by mental health professionals or EMS workers instead of law enforcement will change the way many emergency calls and situations are h...
DAVENPORT – Since the COVID-19 vaccine became available to all adults in the United States in mid-April, debate and confusion has raged regarding vaccine requirements, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) violations and rights and how that impacts employers, customers, businesses, schools and other regular walks of life folks have become accustomed to. The Times reached out to Lincoln County public health administrator Ed Dzedzy to separate fact from fic...
MOHLER – A horse stuck in the mud in a creek near here had the good fortune of receiving help from Sergeant Jerad McLagan, a cowboy with horse expertise. Deputy Jon Evans received the initial call about a horse, “TJ,” just keeping its head above water at Sandygren Ranch on Coal Coulee Road and requested McLagan’s help in the evening of July 22. John and Lisa Sandygren were working with their daughter Jessica to free TJ, but were having no luck. McLagan removed his law enforcement gear and hopped in the creek before submerg...
DAVENPORT – A special 3-day filing period is coming up Tuesday, Aug. 10-Thursday, Aug. 12 for candidates wishing to file for positions that weren’t filed for in May’s regular filing period. The filing period is exclusive to those positions…any positions that had candidates file in May aren’t part of this filing period. Eight positions need filing in the Davenport/Reardan/Harrington area. Harrington treasurer, currently filled by Michael Cronrath, didn’t have anyone file in May. Reardan town council seat No. 3, currently occup...
DAVENPORT – After a survey of students indicated a majority preferred the idea, the high and middle school are leaning toward a new schedule style for the 2021-22 school year. A return to five days in person is on the horizon, with parents holding the option to have their children participate in online school instead. While still in draft mode with details needing to be ironed out in August, the schedule would feature eight 35-minute periods on Mondays with students attending all their allotted classes, while T...
DAVENPORT – The school board approved the hire of a new full-time custodian at its regular meeting July 26. Aaron Kelp has been the custodial lead for the Mead School District since 2010 and is moving to Lincoln County, where he’ll take the custodial position here. He was a custodial substitute here during the 2020-21 school year while keeping his job in Mead. Kelp graduated from Rogers High School in 1991 and was an alignment manager at Les Schwab and a shop manager at Midas and R & R Oil, all in Spokane, during the 199...
DAVENPORT – The school board approved two finance-related resolutions at its July 26 meeting. One was petitioning OSPI for a 2020-21 budget extension due to increased expenditures caused by the pandemic, and the other was approving the 2021-22 budget. The budget extension will raise general fund expenditures from $8,608,710 to $9,062,976, a rise of $454,266. The district must petition OSPI as a state requirement. “We’re required by the state to ask to spend more money than we originally thought,” business manager Leslie...
Karen Lynn Alexander July 15, 2021 Karen Lynn Alexander, 77, passed away July 15, 2021 at 8:30 p.m. in Juneau Alaska. Karen was survived by her brother Paul Charlton her daughter's Alisha Alexander, Maura Ray, and Kiara Alexander along with her grandchildren Ashley Fruik, Makayla Alexander, SaVeon Ray, Zakia McCorkle, and David Crosser. Karen dedicated her life to creating changes big and small in every community she lived in. She loved to listen to music and dance, being a...
Lillian K. Stone Aug. 28, 1930 - July 18, 2021 Lillian K. Stone, 90, passed away July 18, 2021 at Pacifica Senior Memory Living, Coeur d" Alene, Idaho. After several years struggling with Alzheimers, the disease finally took her life. She very peacefully moved to her new home in heaven where she was welcomed by her husband of 57 years Dick Stone, her parents Leon and Martha Kozielski, her brothers Anton and Larry Kozielski, her sisters, Carrie Dreyer and Pauline Hillsmeier....
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. July 18 Traffic stops: 16 A Hunters woman reported a possible domestic violence situation. A woman reported her vehicle was hit by a car. A Colbert woman reported a disabled boat on Lake Roosevelt. A Davenport wom...
REARDAN – The school board officially dropped the "Indians" mascot from the district following the passage of House Bill 1356, which outlaws the use of Native American mascots or logos amongst public schools in Washington unless the nearest tribe grants permission for an exception. The decision was made at the board's July 28 meeting. A new mascot, however, wasn't yet chosen due to funding concerns. Superintendent Eric Sobotta informed present board members Jeff Anderson, R...
Kelsey Vejraska, Omak, left, and Matt Rosman, Creston, right, represented Washington at the 2021 National Junior Angus Showmanship Contest, held in conjunction with the National Junior Angus Show July 15 -17 in Grand Island, Neb. 52 youth from across the country competed for top honors in the 55th annual event....
ODESSA – The Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society is thrilled to be one of the 100 impact projects that are the cornerstone of 100 Hometowns, an initiative to celebrate Lowe's centennial. Lowe's received more than 2,200 submissions to the 100 Hometowns program, which invited people across the country to nominate their hometown projects in need. The 100 Hometowns program will complete 100 projects across 37 states that rebuild areas reeling from natural disasters, repair c...
Front: Gavin Scrupps, Cannon Roberson, Rhett Watson, Cash Watson. Middle row: Chaelyn Clark, Hartlee Steward, Haddy Starkel, Harvin Ryan, Henry Starkel, Kjerstin Scrupps, Wylan Watson, Katherine Roberson, Harley Ryan, Grant Wagner, Alex McClure, Peter Campbell, Shaye Dirks, Lullen Dechand, Angela Douglas. Back row: Coaches Hayden Schuh and Travis Schuh. Not pictured: McCoy Smith, Jackson Smith and coach Chloe Winkler....
GRANT COUNTY, WA – The Grant County Health District has issued an air advisory as a result of wildfire smoke effecting the air quality in Grant County and across Washington State. The smoke is not expected to clear in the short-term, keeping the air quality between unhealthy for sensitive groups and unhealthy for all groups. Poor air quality and inhaling wildfire smoke is unhealthy for all people but can significantly impact people with asthma and other lung diseases, as well as infants, children, pregnant women, and older a...
HARRINGTON – A significant number of organizations and people are watching over the development of the city. The most prominent are the Harrington Public Development Authority (HPDA), the Harrington Historic Preservation Commission (HHPC) and the Harrington Area Chamber of Commerce. The HPDA was formed in 2003 "to undertake, assist with and otherwise facilitate the acquisition, construction, development, equipping, leasing, operation and maintenance of public benefit projects within or without the City of Harrington in L...
1 years ago July 29, 1921 Harvest is well underway all over the Odessa country and the yields are turning out even better than anticipated during the critical time about three weeks ago. In some localities the yield is no better than last year, but the general average is much better, and conservative men like W.L. Smith now predict a general average of about 15 bushels an acre. Wheat hauling has begun, and Sol Reiman, manager of the Odessa Union Warehouse company, reports that wheat is rolling into all of his company’s s...
Milton James (Jim/Zimpy) Zimprich, 84, passed away July 11, 2021 at the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center after a long battle with cancer. Jim was born on May 13, 1937 in Spokane, Wash. to Milton and Betty Zimprich. Jim is survived by his wife Lora, four children Denise (Benny), Jim (Sue), Tammi and Tony; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren that brought him such joy and his sister Pat. Graveside Inurnment was held on Fri., July 23, 2021 at...
The Battle Ground City Council this week unanimously adopted Resolution No. 21-07 opposing a local income tax. That brings the number of cities officially going on record against a local income tax to four with Battle Ground joining Spokane, Granger and Spokane Valley. The Mayor of Yakima also recently indicated she plans to ask her city council to forward a local income tax ban charter amendment to the ballot for voters to consider like occurred in Spokane in 2019. Here is...
After a long five-year hiatus, the world’s greatest athletes have converged for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. When I haven’t been busy putting together this week’s paper, I’ve been watching these athletes compete in a bevy of sports while feeling insecure about my athletic shortcomings compared with the unbelievable feats achieved by the competitors. It’s an American tradition to sit on our couches and watch TV for six hours while wondering why we aren’t as athletic as...
ODESSA – Harvest in Odessa is progressing rapidly this year. The lack of rain and the higher than normal temperatures have reduced yields across the board by about 40 to 50% according to Mark Cronrath of the Odessa Trading Company. Quality is also just so-so, he says. Odessa area farmers were blessed with several back-to-back years of very good crops leading up to what Cronrath calls this "insurance year" in which low yields will lead many farmers to file insurance claims o...
ODESSA – After months of only ZOOM meetings via computer, followed by more months of social distancing in the community center, the Odessa Town Council met at its ‘normal’ venue, the public library, on Monday evening, with access also available via ZOOM and Wi-Fi. A few community members also attended. Council members had their first look at a proposed 10-year contract with Consolidated Disposal Services, Inc. that is due for renewal in March of 2022. No action was taken, as council opted to take more time to study the propos...
