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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
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The 46 precincts in Lincoln County contain 7,090 registered voters. A total of 5,930 ballots were counted for a voter turnout of 83.64 percent. The final ballot count will take place November 29 at 3:30 p.m., and the election will also be certified on that date. As of the most recent vote count on Tuesday, November 15, the 2016 general election offered no additional surprises. Eastern Washington lived up to its staunch Republican reputation. In the Odessa rural precinct, Trump led Clinton by 108-11 votes, and the Town of...
Sheriff's Report 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. Monday, Nov. 7: A county jail inmate was disciplined for drawing on his cell door with a pencil and refusing to clean up after being told to do so three times. A Davenport man became a victim of compu...
Last Friday in another home game in Odessa, the Titans played Entiat, winning 72-16. Titan quarterback Colton Hunt was still sidelined with a sprained ankle. Freshman backup QB Camden Weber stepped up and led the Titans to another lopsided victory. Gaven Elder paced the Titan offense in this game from the very beginning, picking off an Entiat pass on their first offensive play of the game. The Titans then scored first as G. Elder ran 30 yards for the touchdown and then also...
In the state volleyball tournament in Yakima's Sundome on November 11 and 12. A fire truck and two police cars accompanied the school bus through town that was taking the team to Yakima. Quilcene The Titan girls volleyball team lost their first-found match to Quilcene by a score of 3-1. O-H 9 25 9 17 1 Quil 25 17 25 25 3 Leading the team in service aces with 2 and assists with 18 was Shelbey Watkins. Ty Evers led the team with 8 kills. Maleah Davison had 2 blocks and Zoe...
Jeff Wehr, a science teacher at the Advanced STEM Research Laboratory at Odessa High School was awarded a $500 Classroom Grant from Northwest Professional Educators, the state's only non-union professional teacher association. The organization's regional director Brenda Miller presented the award at a staff and student reception on November 9. Wehr's grant will help fund equipment with Vernier computer-based interfaces which can sample, record, graph and create statistical...
The Veterans Day dinner served up by a group of volunteers was enjoyed by a good crowd in the social hall of Heritage Church last Friday evening. The cooks prepared roasted turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, while the guests provided potluck salads, side dishes and desserts. American Legion Post #105 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #7395 sponsored the dinner and carried out the program. Legion member Bob Kissler was the master of ceremonies. Veterans were awarded...
Academic honors for the first quarter of classes and Odessa Junior-Senior High School have been released for publication. Senior class members John DeWulf and Elizabeth Larson had a 4.0 grade point average. Chance Messer, Cole Kissler, Keisha McNeil, Wyatt Haase, Tyler Rollins, Rebecca Fortner, Colby Sooy, Bradley Johnston, Lukas Marshall and Zoe Clark were all also named to the honor roll. Honorable mention went to Molly Schafer, Aaron Gies, Sage Elder and Shelbey Watkins. In the junior class, Noah Anderson, Colton Hunt,...
Monday evening, Nov 7, The Harrington Opera House Society met in the Art Room of the Opera House at 7 p.m. on November 7. Present were Gordon and Billie Herron, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Bunny Haugan, Linda Wagner, Carol, Marge Womach and Karen Robertson. Recent correspondence regarding a potential agreement for access to the opera house was addressed. The request was for four hours of access per week and the use of the opera house for one performance per year. The group’s consensus was to reject the request, as the Society a...
The P.C. Jantz Elementary School will again be hosting a family holiday reading and math event for students in Pre-K through fifth grade. Students and parents are invited to enjoy the many festive activities. The event will take place in the school cafeteria on Monday, December 5 starting at 6:30 p.m. New and popular activities will be offered in the game and craft centers. Upon signing in, each families will receive a ticket that tells them the order in which to go to different centers. In the craft center children can make...
Thank you to the voters for helping us to better serve the public safety needs of Lincoln County! The modest public safety sales tax increase was approved by 58 percent of the voters and will greatly help us to serve you better. We are very appreciative of your vote of confidence in us and will continue to do our best to manage the money that we have. Speaking of voters, Lincoln County had the second highest percentage of voter turnout of all 39 counties in the state at 83.64 percent. Great job Lincoln County. That is just...
Dreamers: Some are called dreamers or lazy. But dreamers are seldom lazy. Their minds are always working, looking for answers to this, that or the other thing. Dreamers are explorers, constantly investigating things. They take things apart to see how they work or how they are made. For dreamers, [the word] “can’t” is not an option. They look at life with a half-full attitude. But where would the world be without them? They turn night into day, revolutionize how the world works, teach and inspire the world. They have a fresh...
With the passing of Edwin C. Kern, I remember him as being the last member of the Odessa Eagles Aerie 3069, which formed on October 1, 1950 and lasted until it consolidated with the Spokane Eagles Aerie 2 on March 15, 1960. He was the Secretary for the Aerie. Many years back, Joanne and I went over to his home and he was really proud to show us his gold card and a state convention book he had saved. He wanted to know all about what the Eagles were doing at the present time. I called him on his 100th birthday to wish him a...
Our recently elected federal and state officials now have two numbers to focus on: $135,000 and 19%. First, the $135,000 is the amount of money it will take for a middle-class family to pay its bills with a little leftover for emergencies, some savings, and the occasional incidental. This is not luxury living or even an extravagant life style. It’s merely a comfortable living. A few years ago it took $100,000, and it will take about $150,000 in a few more years. Given that the average income of a middle-class family is $...
In the wee hours of last Thursday morning, roughly between 4:10 and 4:16 a.m., a male prowler was seen on surveillance video tape walking west on Second Avenue before turning south onto Division Street. The owners of two cars on Division Street have reported that persons unknown had rummaged through the contents of their cars during that same night, with items reported missing from one of the cars. Surveillance video has provided police with a description of the prowler. If anyone on south Division Street or in the general...
