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DAVENPORT - Gusts of promised money? Gales of ability to pass farmland onto the next generation? Breezes of desire to progress Lincoln County's farmland into the future? These are just some of the reasons why some landowners and farmers are making the controversial decision to sign portions of their land over to companies looking to develop wind turbines in Lincoln County. Two companies are looking to develop here. Portland-based Triple Oak Power hopes to construct turbines...
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. May 5 Traffic stops: 2 A one-vehicle noninjury crash was reported near Highway 28 and Nemo Road outside Odessa. A caller said a shady-looking pickup was parked near the Fishtrap exit on Old Sprague Highway Road. A o...
DAVENPORT — Over 120 candidates relevant to the citizens of Lincoln County filed for public office in anticipation of the Aug. 6 primary election during filing week Monday, May 6 to Friday, May 10. County voters will see federal, congressional, statewide, legislative, countywide and judicial candidates on their ballots this summer. Locally, incumbent County Commissioners Jo Gilchrist and Scott Hutsell filed for re-election and won’t be challenged. Victoria Iverson and Adam Walser will both advance to the general election as t...
SPOKANE - The Reardan FFA Chapter is no stranger to winning awards, and this year's Livestock Judging team was no different. The team won a state championship by defeating 37 other teams at the Junior Livestock Show of Spokane Wednesday, May 1. The win qualifies the team for the National competition in Indianapolis in October. Members Emersen Sprecher, Kashley Brown, Paige Cushman, Amelia Ray, Rysen Soliday and Olivia Wicks were tested individually in sorting livestock and...
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. April 28 Traffic stops: 20 A broken-down Mazda was reported on Highway 2 at milepost 229. A caller said someone dropped a lot of garbage on the side of the road on Old Sprague Highway Road just before Brown Road. A v...
1 years ago Directors of the Washington Wheat Growers association voted to suspended 1924 crop operations to reorganize the association so the next year’s crop could be handled. Davenport High School won the 18th annual Lincoln County track and field meet. Individually, Fred Livasy of Almira and Lyle Bailey of Harrington tied for individual high point scorers. J.H. Landers of Sprague was jailed on a charge of getting married to one woman in the city while already having a wife and two children in Montana. 75 years ago G...
DAVENPORT - The Philanthropic Educational Organization Chapter N announced that Emma Cormier of Davenport and Kassidy Koch of Reardan are this year's scholarship recipients Wednesday, May 1. Each of these young women will receive a $500 scholarship while attending their chosen institution of higher knowledge. Cormier, the daughter of Matthew and Lisa Cormier, is attending Boise State University where she will pursue a degree in Business Marketing. Koch, the daughter of Kevin...
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. April 21 Traffic stops: 10 A Harrington woman said a man was trespassing at the missile silo site around the 7400 block of Carlson Road in the Lamona area. A disabled vehicle was reported on Highway 2 at milepost 225....
1 years ago Former Davenport High School principal H.P. Aldrich was named Reardan superintendent. The Bluestem grade school won the class B spelling contest. Mohler took second. Crab Creek pioneers George Flanders and Oscar White were slapped with a $50 fine for possession of liquor. 75 years ago A four-man committee was appointed to reclassify and adjust assessed values of real estate in Lincoln County. The committee included H.G. Heimbigner and F.W. Heimbigner of Odessa, Ray Schroeder of Wilbur and August Reinbold of...
REARDAN - The Spokane Hutterian Brethren east of town across the Spokane County line near Deep Creek figured most of their seed potatoes were going to go to waste after their main customers in the Columbia Basin cut their contracts by 40%, forcing the Hutterians to dump the spuds in a West Sprague Road field. Instead, a video posted online by Denise Bennett of Reardan alerting locals to the free spuds has brought thousands to pick up their share of potatoes from the hundreds...
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. April 14 Traffic stops: 9 A Davenport man reported two people burning sage around a disabled vehicle on Highway 2 at milepost 260. A caller reported a person sleeping outside the fence of the westbound rest area on...
1 years ago Walter Morgan shot a rabid coyote on Zoe Wilkie’s farm after it chased Wilke and killed a number of her chickens. 11-year-old Herman Reinbold fell off a horse and broke his arm, which in 1924, was worthy of front-page news. Former Lincoln County traffic officer C.H. Bliss was convicted of battery after assaulting a woman in Coeur d’Alene. 75 years ago State Senator John H. Robertson of Creston told the Davenport Commercial Club that the state legislature found themselves cutting funds due to budgetary iss...
DAVENPORT - The Lincoln County Planning Commission placed a 3-month moratorium on updating the county zoning code to include provisions for wind and solar development at the Commission's regular meeting Monday, April 8. Commission members expressed a desire to further study health-related concerns and reasonable turbine setbacks from residences before recommending code updates to the Lincoln County Commissioners for approval. A draft code update has been written, based...
1 years ago • Oscar Luchs of Odessa won the Lincoln-Adams County oratorical contest. Elsie Gibson of Davenport took second, while Violet Stolph of Sprague was third. • The Harrington Manufacturing Company sued W.L. Talkington while seeking to recover $1,575 for a note executed by the defendants in return for a harvester sold to the company. • A delegation of Egypt farmers asked the County Commissioners to construct a road from State Road No. 22 near Inkster Lake to the Jim Bell Corner. 75 years ago • Judge Robert P. Hunt...
REARDAN — The Reardan-Edwall area won’t have a Miss representative this year. Miss Reardan-Edwall 2024 was canceled after no one applied, according to program organizers. Organizer Gretchen Neal, who has overseen the program since 1999, said a flyer was placed at Reardan High School with anyone interested asked to meet organizers at the downtown fire station one Sunday in February. No one showed up, Neal said. A lack of funds after no fundraising since the COVID-19 pandemic is another factor in the program’s way, Neal said....
DAVENPORT - Triple Oak Power, a Portland-based company that is one of multiple companies attempting to construct wind turbines in Lincoln County, made a public appearance by presenting to the Lincoln County Commissioners at a regular meeting Monday, April 1. CEO Jesse Gronner said the 200-to-300-megawatt project, titled Great Bend Wind, remains in early stages. About 17,000 acres have been leased north to northeast of Davenport, which Gronner later said is around 75% of what...
1-year-old Colter Tanke of Harrington finds the Golden Egg at the Harrington Lions Club Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, March 30. Turn to Page 6 for more Egg Hunt photos around Lincoln County....
DAVENPORT - Company representatives, landowners, pro-turbine speakers and anti-turbine speakers all made public comments at the Lincoln County Planning Commission's regular meeting at the Fairgrounds Thursday, March 28. The comments were intended to be made in response to the county updating its zoning code to include chapters related to wind and solar development. The Commission, which consists of Sue Lani Madsen, James Johnson, Margie Hall and Keith Nelson, is currently...
1 years ago The Davenport commercial club endorsed a proposed road from state road No. 22 at the head of Inkster Canyon through the Egypt country for 6.25 miles. George Ekins was nearly electrocuted to death in an accident at the Washington Water Power station outside Reardan. 75 years ago Frank Reinbold was re-elected president of the Parent-Teacher Association of Davenport. Odessa hosted 4-H Club Day, which featured six clubs from around Lincoln County. 50 years ago Davenport city councilmembers approved purchase of an...
HARRINGTON - Approximately 165 people packed the Opera House here Tuesday, March 26 for a community meeting concerning wind turbine projects that featured three speakers with axes to grind against the state and federal governments, wind and solar energy pushes and windmills. The meeting, sponsored by the Lincoln County Cattlemen's Association and moderated by Edwall-based columnist and County Planning Commission Chair Sue Lani Madsen, was intended by Madsen to be an...
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. March 17 Traffic stops: 55 A vehicle with a blown tire was reported. A disabled vehicle blocking traffic was reported on Highway 25 at milepost 12. A caller said he saw four men jump out of a boat and into a pic...
Zion Lutheran Church, 1007 Washington Street, Davenport: Good Friday service at 7 p.m. Easter Sunday service at 11 a.m. Easter egg hunt to follow. Christ Lutheran Church, 41697 State Highway 25, Davenport: Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m. preceded by soup supper at 6 p.m. Easter Sunday service at 8:30 a.m. Trinity Bible Fellowship, 1101 First Street, Davenport: Good Friday Satyr service at 6 p.m. Easter Sunday Sunrise service at Swedish cemetery by Deer Meadows at 7 a.m. Regular Easter Sunday service at 10:30 a.m. First...
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. March 10 Traffic stops: 31 A Reardan woman said she thought there was a large bobcat outside her house on the 100 block of Maple Street. A car crash was reported at 12th and Morgan Streets in Davenport. A disturbance...
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. March 4 Traffic stops: 22 A 911 hangup call came from a woman in the Davenport area. On a callback, the woman was revealed to have dementia and made the call in error. A Lincoln County Jail inmate was transported to...
1 years ago • Two Odessa schoolboys were lodged in the county jail on charges of breaking into the A.W. Birge garage and taking a Ford car. • Revere district farmer John Potts sued Robert MacDonald of Sprague for $25,000, saying MacDonald made slanderous remarks about Potts. 75 years ago • A once denied petition for formation of a cemetery district including 97 sections of land around Edwall hit another snag when a few farmers opposed the district. • New school board members were elected around Lincoln County, includi...
