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MALDEN – While the Honeycrisp apples Gov. Jay Inslee brought here last Thursday continue to sit in the bin he presented the mayor with, others he delivered to Bridgeport and Omak contain maggot larvae. Those apples were dispersed and Douglas County officials are now trying to locate them. This morning, Wednesday, Sept. 16, Chelan-Douglas Horticulture Pest and Disease Board Director Will Carpenter called on anyone with information about the contaminated apples to call or e...
Fire 20 percent contained A fast moving fire consumed over 123,000 acres in Lincoln County this week as high winds on Monday made the fire hard for crews to contain. The fire, also being referred to as the Hawk Creek fire, is currently burning in the areas of Hawk Creek Road, Cottonwood Creek, Gunning, South Telford, Whitaker Lake and Seven Springs Dairy. Isabel Hoygaard of the Type 3 Incident team said the fire has burnt at least four homes and numerous outbuildings. “We saw exponential growth of the fire on Monday and e...
MALDEN – The Honeycrisp apples Gov. Jay Inslee brought to Babb Fire victims here were infested with maggot larvae. Whitman County Washington State University Extension Agent Stephen Van Vleet confirmed the infestation this morning, Friday, Sept. 18, following testing. "I picked them up on Wednesday evening," he said. "We photographed and secured them. And yes, they are infested." The governor presented the apples locally Sept. 10 as the state's "first installment" on s...
CHENEY – While education is their preferred first choice of enforcement, Cheney and Eastern Washington University law enforcement are prepared to take sterner measures with students who continue to violation safety protocols spelled out by the state and/or Spokane County Health District to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In a joint statement today, police officials with both agencies said – while not anticipating arrests, issuing citations or taking individual to jail – officers “will intervene with more punitive actions...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS—The two families that lost homes in the Bartholomew and Christensen fires Aug. 27 and Sept. 7, respectively will soon be getting some assistance from the community. Wolffy’s Burgers is hosting a spaghetti feed Saturday, Sept. 19, with 100% of proceeds benefitting those fire victims. “When the fires hit here in town … we had thrown around the idea of doing something for the community,” owner Jessica Davis said. “We ran with the idea and put it into play.” Orig...
Te-Ping Chen's Sept. 1 article in the Wall Street Journal, entitled "UFO spotting has replaced bird watching as pandemic obsession," stated that the "non-profit National UFO Reporting Center reports sightings this year are up 51 percent so far over the same period in 2019. Among 5,000 incidents recorded this year, 20 percent occurred in April, as much of the nation remained in lockdown." An excerpt from her article continues, "At Peter Davenport's home in Harrington, Wash.,...
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. AUG 31 Number of traffic stops: 24 Call requesting the county remove a dead deer. The bank alarm was set off at US Bank in Harrington. A black cow with a yellow tag was reported out on Highway 2. A woman at an uni...
1 years ago Sept. 10, 1920 Odessa public schools opened Monday for the 1920-1921 school year. High school enrollment is 51, the largest in the history of the school. The curriculum will be the same as the previous year, with the only change being the addition of the French language. Debate and athletics will continue to be offered. Last year the debate team won the district championship competing against such schools as Wenatchee and North Central and Lewis & Clark of Spokane. Reports of three mountain lions at the Fred...
Julie Jantz, librarian at the Odessa Public Library, reports that she has a collection of Chromebooks ready for checkout. The Odessa Parent Teacher Organization has provided Chromebooks for students to check out and use at home for their homework assignments. Not every home has a computer available that is dedicated for student use. As long as there is an internet connection at home that the Chromebooks can hook up to, all the student needs is a g-mail address to receive and send in homework assignments. LocalTel has...
Odessa High School has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship from CCI Learning for having the highest percentage of eligible Microsoft Office Specialist certifications per total registered students in Grades 9-12. This scholarship will be divided among those students who passed one or more Microsoft Certifications in Word, PowerPoint, and/or Excel during the 2019-20 school year and added to their FBLA accounts. Because of the pandemic, it was an especially challenging school year, given that many students used distance learning...
