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DAVENPORT--Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers' pre-trial date concerning the three criminal charges he is facing has been pushed to Feb. 9, 2022 at 1:30 p.m., according to Lincoln County District Court. The pre-trial had originally been scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 3. Magers, who 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, entered a not-guilty plea on all three counts at his arraignment July 7. The...
DAVENPORT—Local fire chiefs and commissioners aren’t requiring their volunteer firefighters receive a COVID-19 vaccination, leaving the choice up to the individual whether to get an inoculation or not. However, state mandates do apply to some of the volunteers for EMS services. The state mandate issued that requires state employees to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18 does apply to volunteers that are licensed by the state as an Emergency Medical Technician or paramedic, which impacts some districts more than others. These vol...
Myk Crawford captured this image of a colorful aurora borealis west of Davenport at about 9:47 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11. In the foreground sits Rocklyn Zion United Methodist Church, 31136 Church Road East....
ALMIRA—Flames engulfed the elementary/middle school here in a fire that began Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 12 and burned into the early morning Wednesday, Oct. 13. The school building was ruled a total loss, and the local community has lost its school. A cause of the fire hasn’t been made official, but authorities believe it may have been caused by an electrical issue, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers. The call of a fire came at 4:12 p.m. Tuesday after someone ins...
DAVENPORT—The school board approved two new positions for hire in a move tabled at the end of September at the board’s quarterly meeting Oct. 11. However, the approval came with adjustments requested by the board. The board had previously waited to approve a request from school administration to create and advertise for two new positions, a lunchroom assistant and health room aide, seeking more financial information at the board’s Sept. 27 meeting. Administration described both positions as part-time positions. The lunch...
The Washington State Democratic Central Committee filed a motion to intervene on a lawsuit filed last week by the Washington Election Integrity Coalition United and Jerry Schulz of Reardan against the Lincoln County Auditor’s Office alleging election misconduct by the office and former auditor Shelly Johnston during the 2020 election. “Nearly a year after the 2020 election…the plaintiffs have filed a complaint filled with entirely fabricated claims of election fraud,” the motion reads. “The plantiff’s effort to delegitimize t...
The public meetings held last week by the administration of Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center presented an opportunity for new CEO John Serle and new CFO Kimberly Dalrymple to inform the community about recent expenditures approved by the OMHC board, the recent departure of two well-liked "permanent" nurse practitioners and a chance to counter some of the wilder rumors circulating in town about conflicts between the administration and the staff. The meetings were held on...
SEVEN BAYS—A former local man was booked and released in Lincoln County Jail after an arraignment in Superior Court on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender with a prior felony conviction Tuesday, Oct. 5. Caden Marcus Maxwell, 18, was charged by the county prosecutor after failing to notify the Sheriff’s Office of his move from Lincoln County into Spokane County within 10 days of moving to a new fixed residence in a new county, according to court records. Maxwell told a Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deput...
Government and community meetings in Davenport, Reardan, Harrington, Edwall and Sprague during Oct. 15-21. If you’d like your community organization included in this tab, email dteditor@centurytel.net. Monday, Oct. 18 Lincoln County Commissioners meeting at 8 a.m. in the county courthouse Wednesday, Oct. 20 Sprague city council at 6 p.m. in the public library Thursday, Oct. 21 Lincoln Hospital Board of Commissioners meeting at 3:30 p.m. in the conference room Reardan town council at 6 p.m. in the United Methodist C...
DAVENPORT-Mike and Virginia Fries remember buying Edna's Drive-In in May 1992 not knowing when they'd re-open its doors after it was closed for 18 months following Edna Jackson's passing. They decided the highest customer demand would be during Pioneer Days, so they opened July 16, 1992. That was a decision Virginia Fries remembers regretting, but now looks back at with a laugh. "We were so swamped, and we hadn't practiced how we would work together," she said. "That was the...
CHEWELAH-Friday's matchup between the Reardan football team and the Chewelah Cougars featured one team fighting for a state playoff berth and the other fighting to avoid the cellar of the NE2B. That showed on the field, as the visitors fell to Chewelah 47-7 Oct. 8. Reardan fell to 1-4 in league play and 2-4 overall with the loss. The team's only league win came in a homecoming romp over Kettle Falls Oct. 1. Chewelah's offense rolled up and down the field Friday, while Reardan'...
ODESSA – The Odessa Tiger football team lost its first game since the beginning of the 2018 season to the Almira-Coulee-Hartline team this past Friday night. The game saw another Tiger injury, as Gage Starkel was tackling a Warrior runner and took a knee to the kidney in the tumble that followed. Reports from the family say he is doing well and does not require surgery, but he will be out of action for at least four weeks while his wound heals. Meanwhile, Jacob Scrupps is a...
ODESSA – The Odessa Athletic Booster Club holds its fourth annual dinner and auction next week on Saturday, October 23, at the Odessa Community Center. A social hour beginning at 5:30 p.m. is followed by a prime rib dinner. In the auction, there are many interesting items up for grabs. Attendees will have an opportunity to bid on the many silent and live-on-the-side auction items, including hand-crafted items and décor, cakes and baked goods, photo sessions, outdoor items an...
ODESSA – Last Thursday's non-league volleyball match against Lind-Ritzville-Sprague was cancelled because Odessa did not have enough healthy players to compete. By Saturday, however, the team was able to face Oaksdale, a perennial powerhouse that overcame the Tigers in three straight sets. Odessa vs. Oakesdale On Oct. 9, Odessa lost to Oaksdale in a non-conference game by a score of 3-0. Odessa 19 19 12 0 Oakesd. 25 25 25 3 Emily Scrupps led the team in kills with five, w...
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. Oct. 4 Traffic stops: 4 A Harrington woman reported a Volkswagen bug that reportedly overshot Highway 2 into a field and was left abandoned. A 76-year-old Sprague man was reported having a heart attack. A porcupine ne...
Kenneth Paul Scherr of Odessa passed away Oct. 2, 2021. He was born on July 22, 1945 to Anton and Helen (Vetter) Scherr. Ken was raised in Butte, MT and graduated from Western Montana College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education. He pursued a long career in teaching and coaching. He was inducted into the WA Coaches Hall of Fame. Ken married the love of his life, Beverly Heinemann on June 13, 1970. During their 50 years of marriage, they lived in Odessa, where they...
HARRINGTON – The Harrington Opera House Society met Monday, Oct. 4, with President Ellen Evans at the helm. Also present were Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Gordon and Billy Herron, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Becky Moeller, Linda Wagner and Karen Robertson. Financial reporting noted that year-to-date rummage donations amount to more than $8,000 to be used for various building projects. Jill Barth requests the use of the opera house on May 21 and 22, 2022 for a quilt show being held during the annual car show. The vote is 10-0 in favor o...
Roland Vincent (Jim) Winfrey of Quincy passed away on May 25, 2021. He was born to John and Hester Winfrey on Aug. 14, 1929 in Nantahala, NC. Jim was stationed at Fairchild AFB in 1951 when he met Jackie Grening at a USO dance. They married in Odessa in 1953 at the Christ Lutheran Church and raised a family of 5 boys. Jim and Jackie moved to the Quincy area in 1982. Jim worked for the Bureau of Reclamation Water District, raised a few cows, and became well known in the area...
ODESSA – The Odessa Town Council met Monday, Oct. 11, in the public library. With no old business to revisit, the council moved right on to new business. New Odessa homeowner Jason Shipman and his wife attended the meeting to request an adjustment to their water bill rate due to a complicated issue involving a tenant in a converted garage on their property. Following discussion in which council members mostly appeared agreeable to the rate request, the council opted to table the issue until the next meeting, while certain q...
The last week has not been good for small businesses in our part of the state. The U.S. Postal Service began slowing “snail mail” services. Stores were ordered to stop using plastic bags and required to make their paying customers pay for a paper bag. And the state announced the minimum wage would jump to $14.49 per hour Jan. 1. If you don’t own or manage a business, this may seem overly dramatic. Who cares if it takes an extra day for your mail to arrive, right? It’s only 8...
Food security is often thought of as a national topic, but food security starts locally. Washington state is part of what the U.S. Department of Agriculture has dubbed the “Fruitful Rim.” Yet, we are also home to numerous “food deserts” where food is hard to come by. The USDA defines a food desert as a “low-income tract where a substantial number or substantial share of residents does not have easy access to a supermarket or grocery store.” More specifically, food deserts are...
