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ODESSA – The members of the Odessa Lions Club have again sponsored the residential Christmas lighting contest. The judges have made their selections and provided photos of the top three homes judged Monday evening, Dec. 20. The home of Keith and Becky Kolterman on south Alder took first place, winning them a $150 gift to spend on next year's decorations. Joel and Danielle Hardung on Fairway came in second in the judging and were awarded $100, while Brad and Jamie Hawley, n...
COEUR D’ALENE—Davenport and Reardan were two of 71 schools that participated in the annual Tri-State Tournament wrestling meet at North Idaho College Friday, Dec. 17 and Saturday, Dec. 18. Schools from Washington, Idaho and Montana gathered to compete against each other. Here are the local results from those competitions. Davenport 160—Matthew Wines fell to Emerson McCollough of Deer Park by decision 9-5, defeated Liam Lucas of Hanford by decision 4-2 and fell to Clayton Janneret of Chewelah by major decision 16-5. 182—S...
REARDAN – The boys basketball team had an up-and-down week, falling convincingly at home to Almira-Coulee-Hartline Saturday before getting an even more convincing win at home against Odessa Tuesday. Reardan lost to the Warriors 72-55 Dec. 18 and topped Odessa with ease 78-50 Dec. 21. ACH gave Reardan fits all game with its transition points and offensive rebounds. The Warriors took a 19-13 lead in the first quarter and created better shot opportunities than the home team a...
DAVENPORT-The Gorillas' varsity girls team has mostly seen success this year on the defensive side of the floor, but Davenport has struggled to turn its stops into points. That reared its head Friday, Dec. 17 as Davenport fell to the visiting Northwest Christian Crusaders 39-32 in another low scoring, sloppy affair. The loss dropped Davenport to 2-5 this season. The first quarter was particularly sloppy, as both teams struggled with turnovers. NWC led just 6-4 after the...
DAVENPORT – The high and middle school winter concert was held in front of a full house in the school auditorium here Wednesday evening, Dec. 15. Performances by both choirs and bands entertained the audiences. Choir director Helen Adams first led the middle school chamber choir in performances of "Amani Utupe," which is Swahili for "Grant Us Peace, Give Us Courage." The choir also performed "Medieval Gloria," a Latin praise and "Music in the Air." Band director Rob Harper t...
Rev. John D. Senter 1930 – 2021 Rev. John D. Senter recently passed away in Illinois. He was a very wise man. He studied for the Lutheran ministry in Missouri, starting in Jr. High school, though Graduation. His first church was in Butte, Montana. His brother was Robert Senter, Reardon, Wash....
DAVENPORT – Presiding judge Dan B. Johnson denied a motion Tuesday to suppress in a 3.6 hearing concerning a search warrant conducted at 1311 Logan Street prior to the arrests of Michelle L. Hopkins and Scotty Duane Maiden on charges of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in the first and second degree in late December 2020. Hopkins is now facing 25 counts regarding the above charges. Johnson had ruled that a thumb drive containing body c...
Wow! What a year. 2021 might not have been topsy-turvey and tumultuous as 2020 for many people, but it was still full of thrills, scares, joy and in some cases, heartbreak and hardship. It only seems appropriate that the forecast calls for single-digit, potentially record-low temperatures in the last week of the year, doesn’t it? Many went into 2021 with a positive outlook, and for many, it was a vast improvement to 2020. Students stayed in school nearly the whole year. Sports...
DAVENPORT – Basin Pacific, a Moses Lake-based insurance and benefits company with 19 locations around Washington, Oregon and Idaho, has purchased the old Inland Power and Light building currently occupied by The Times and formerly occupied by Horizon Credit Union. Basin Pacific currently has an office on Morgan Street next to City Hall, but is moving into Horizon’s old space in the building on the corner on 12th and Morgan Streets due to a need to upgrade sizes, company pre...
REARDAN – A quorum of three town councilmembers unanimously approved the 2022 budget at its Dec. 16 meeting. The approved budget has $1,194,811 in its projected revenue and $1,123,513 in its expenditures, leaving a difference of $71,298. The adopted budget ordinance closed the Stimulating Summers fund, with all residual revenue going into the library fund. The criminal justice fund was merged into the current expense fund. That current expense fund’s 2022 budget is projecting $370,241 in revenues and $364,276 in expenditures....
DAVENPORT – Jessica Smith was sworn in as the next city councilmember at council's Dec. 22 meeting, becoming the only new councilmember entering 2022. She was sworn in along with re-elected members Cory Hollis, Lance Strite and Patrick Katz. Smith is replacing Theresa Telford on council. Telford didn't file for re-election in 2021. "When you live in a community, you have to give back at some point," Smith said on her desire to run for city council. Smith has lived in D...
The Christmas spirit abounded at the Reardan basketball games Tuesday, Dec. 21. Some fans and staff dressed for the occasion, while cheerleaders provided Christmas cheer and handed out candy to spectators. Turn to page 9 for more coverage of the games....
ODESSA – With Daeton Deife, Collin Martin and Jacob Scrupps still on the injured list, the varsity boys have struggled so far this basketball season. They took a 69-27 drubbing from Davenport on Dec. 14 in Odessa's home gym. Senior forward Nathan Carstensen led the scoring with 12 points. Fellow senior Landen Brooks contributed 5 points. Davenport - - - - 69 Odessa - - - - 27 Carstensen and Dakota Steward led the team in rebounds with five each. Turnovers were a serious p...
DAVENPORT – The Lincoln County Commissioners tabled a motion to adopt the final 2022 budget until next week after Christmas at their Dec. 20 meeting, saying that budget isn’t ready for approval yet. “A lot of items are still in flux,” commissioner Scott Hutsell said at the meeting. “But we’re 95% done.” Hutsell said some insurance items and budgeting with the Washington State University Extension have yet to be completed. The meeting was recessed to Dec. 28 for final budget ap...
ODESSA – The Tigers upped their season win streak to four by defeating both Davenport and Harrington on Dec. 14 and 16. Ashlyn Neilsen was again the leading scorer in both contests and was named Odessa Player of the Game for both. Neilsen scored 26 points in the non-conference game against 2B school Davenport. With the score tied at halftime, the Tigers came out and posted a five-point lead by the end of the third quarter. Davenport kept the game close, but the Tigers p...
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. Dec. 13 Traffic stops: 10 A disabled vehicle was reported at the intersection of Badger Road and Sunset Highway. A suspicious 911 call came in with no noise on the other line until the end, where there was a scr...
Our family is greatly saddened by the passing of Kathryn Jo Thompson on Dec. 17, 2021 in Puyallup, Wash. with her family by her side. She was born on March 9, 1948 in Spokane, to Victor and Patricia (Bair) Meyer. She joined 18-month-old Victoria Carol and eleven months later Jennifer Anne was born. She spent the next 18 years living in Harrington, a town she so loved. It was a great time to grow up in the 1950’s in a small town with all its freedom. She was a member of St. Fra...
Library program HARRINGTON – About a dozen students aged 5 to 12 attended the Harrington Public Library's after-school program on Dec. 16. Instructor Kris Moritz expressed appreciation of parents and other volunteers who caused the project session for making Christmas decorations to function smoothly. One project was a clear ball partially filled with Styrofoam beads. The students then painted and swirled the balls in glitter paint. The next group of decorations involved making balsa wood Santa and snowmen. The children w...
ODESSA – The Odessa school board met for a workshop in the district office on Dec. 16 to discuss the superintendent and staffing considerations, then adjourned to the high school library for its regular monthly meeting. Present were Ed Deife, board chair; board members Janie Steward, Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Carmen Weishaar; Superintendent Dan Read; Principal Jamie Nelson; Asst. Business Mgr. Staci Claassen and Operations Supervisor Justin Parr. Richard Rohlman was also present via ZOOM. Board assignments for t...
Joanne Elaine (Walter) Keller, 92, peacefully slipped away from this earth on Dec. 17, 2021 at the Franke Tobey Jones retirement community in Tacoma, Wash. She died surrounded by her family and friends in her last days. Joanne is survived by her children David (Shelly Parsons) Keller, Nuh (Besa) Keller, Nancy (Rick) Keller-Scholz and Will Keller; 10 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren and extended family. She was preceded in death in 2010 by...
Merry Christmas! There. I said it. Not happy holidays, but Merry Christmas. It’s Christmas time here and around the world. Throughout our region, families are shopping for festive meals and gifts, decorating, and anxiously awaiting the moment they see “long-lost” family and friends. It’s a time where children and adults express wishes, not just for gifts from Santa Claus, but also for happiness and prosperity for friends, family, and sometimes even mankind. And while Christm...
Earlier this year, state legislative leaders said they wanted to reduce institutional racism in the public schools by enacting Senate Bill 5044 and similar bills to require that school and university employees attend mandatory Critical Race Theory sessions. This flawed political ideology teaches that white people in all situations are oppressors and other groups are automatically oppressed. These leading lawmakers, who ironically control the very power structure they condemn,...
ODESSA – Business educator and FBLA advisor Terri King reports that the toy drive by the Odessa High School chapter of FBLA is still in full swing. Toys are available for pickup at the Old Town Hall on Wednesday and Thursday of this week from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. She says the community has been very generous and encourages any Odessa area residents who need toys for their children to help themselves. The chapter also hosted a Christmas party for Odessa senior citizens at the O...
ODESSA – Odessa Chamber of Commerce met December 14 to elect officers for 2022, hear year end reports and plan 2022 events. While those gathered enjoyed a soup and bread lunch, President Norman Ott opened the meeting. By unanimous ballot, elections set Norman Ott, president, Ed Deife, vice-president, Paige Smith, secretary, Larissa Zeiler, treasurer, Matt Roberson, Phyllis Sebesta and Chuck Watkins, board members. The hospitality tent at the Stumpjumpers Desert 100 weekend, s...
ODESSA – Paul Katovich of HighLine Grain Growers, Inc. met with firefighters Jon Fink and Roger Sebesta in Odessa Tuesday, Dec. 21, to officially announce the donation to Lincoln/Adams Fire District #3 of a flathouse and the property on which it sits in the Town of Odessa. The building lost its roof to fire a few years ago and has stood empty ever since. It came to his attention while visiting his Odessa friends Bill and Carol Bell that the local firefighters were having a d...
