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REARDAN — The Earth has orbited around the Sun 120 times since Mule Days began, and unless that rhythm concludes in the next two days, another Mule Days is on tap Saturday, June 1. The festivities start with parade registration on Spokane Avenue in front of Reardan High School between 7-9:45 a.m. Meanwhile, at 9 a.m., car show registration begins at the southwest corner of Town Park. Participants will line up for the Kiddie Parade at the corner of Cedar Street and Spokane Avenue at 9:30 a.m. Then, the main parade marches d...
PULLMAN - Two area FFA teams qualified for the National Convention with first-place, state championship performances at the 94th State FFA Convention and Expo May 9-11. Both the Reardan FFA Ag Issues team and a Davenport Middle School agriscience team will compete at Nationals in Indianapolis in late October. Davenport's pairing of eighth-graders Brooke Bell and Sage Kresser competed in a division of agriscience in April 20 competition in Puyallup. Bell and Kresser competed...
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...
SPOKANE - Lincoln County 4-H and FFA clubs were very well represented at the Junior Livestock show of Spokane sale Saturday, May 4, selling their swine, goats, beef and lambs for well above market prices. Here are the local names, sales and prices per pound. Swine Amelia Ray of Reardan FFA placed purple, selling 244 pounds at $3 a pound for $732 with a $170.80 market value. In a separate sale, she sold 266 pounds at $3.25 a pound for $864.50 with a $186.20 market value....
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...
DAVENPORT -Prospective showmen and showwomen from around the Pacific Northwest were at the Fairgrounds last Saturday, April 13 for the second annual Spring Showcase. Hosted by WSU Extension, the Showcase is meant as a precursor to the Junior Livestock Show of Spokane in May. 146 exhibitors showed off their prize swine, beef, goats and sheep. Here are all the weekend winners, as shared by Fairgrounds manager Dawn Canfield. Market winners Kyle Taylor of Hayden won overall...
1 years ago • Mac Weisner, an escaped inmate of the then-described “eastern Washington hospital for the insane” in Medical Lake, was taken into custody in Odessa by Sheriff F.J. Gilpatric. • A barn on the George E. Davis farm 14 miles northwest of Davenport was destroyed in a fire. • Officers and directors of the Lincoln-Adams County Pioneer and Historical association met at the Crab Creek picnic grounds to plan the annual Picnic Program. 75 years ago • Increasing sociological understanding to keep pace with the shorten...
DAVENPORT — The second annual Lincoln County Spring Showcase is back this weekend. The event intended as something of a precursor to the Junior Livestock Show of Spokane will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds Saturday, April 13. The Showcase, hosted by WSU Extension, will include judging of market hogs and gilts, steer and heifer classes, market and ewe lambs and meat goats and doelings between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Youths ages 8-19 that participate in 4-H or FFA programs will be showing. From 2-4 p.m.,...
DAVENPORT — No action items were presented to the Davenport School Board at a regular meeting that was mostly fiscally focused Monday, Feb. 26. Business manager Dana Telecky presented the Board with a spreadsheet breaking down the current school year budget. The District has a budget of $9,643,177 in state and federal funding. Combined with local property taxes, investment earnings and local receipts, the total cash increases amount to $10,626,383. Once the District pays its employees, bills and other expenses, total cash d...
DAVENPORT - Per annual tradition, the Reardan FFA ag issues team gave a 15-minute presentation on this year's issue of study to the Lincoln County Commissioners Tuesday, Feb. 20. This year, the chapter is studying the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and questioning whether that model can survive with, or despite, the current Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Commission. The team, consisting of Wyatt Stolp, Amelia Ray, Bryson Flaa, Aidan Chilson and Rysen Soli...
SPOKANE - Reardan resident Jennie Wagner received the 2024 Excellence in Agriculture award from Farmland Company at the Spokane Ag Show Tuesday, Feb. 6. The annual award is given to those who have contributed significantly to agriculture in the Inland Northwest. "Jennie was nominated for the award because of her long time commitment to teaching youth about agriculture," Ag Show board member Brian Jeske said. Wagner retired from the Medical Lake School District last May after...
DAVENPORT - Jobs, extra-curricular activities and school happenings not funded by the state could be on the line in next week's special election. Citizens around the county, including in Davenport, Odessa, Reardan, Edwall and Harrington, will vote on whether to replace expiring levies with new levies by Tuesday, Feb. 13. Two levies are on the ballot in the Davenport and Odessa School Districts, while one levy is running in the Reardan-Edwall and Harrington School Districts....
REARDAN - The high school's FFA Agricultural Issues team placed first at the District 5 FFA competition Wednesday, Jan. 24 at Cheney High School. The win gives them a berth in the state competition in May. The team, composed of Bryson Flaa, Rysen Soliday, Aidan Chilson, Wyatt Stolp and Amelia Ray, argued the pros and cons of the North American model of wildlife conservation. Judges deemed their 15 minute presentation superior to their competitors, Liberty High School and...
DAVENPORT — With the special election 12 days away as of Thursday’s press day, the School Board heard updates from superintendent Chad Prewitt regarding the last year and what the two replacement levies the District hopes to pass Feb. 13 will fund. Like other levies being posed to voters in Reardan, Edwall, Harrington and Odessa, educational programs and operations levies help fund safety officer positions, some curriculum, materials, extra and co-curricular activities like sports, choir and FBLA, bus travel and some sta...
It’s the cold of winter. Temperatures hover, apparently, anywhere between -10 and 55 degrees Fahrenheit. On a Tuesday, Friday or Saturday night, where do Lincoln County citizens like to spend their time? At a local high school, taking in a high-level basketball game or wrestling meet. What funds those events? Levies. High school students have worked hard on researching agricultural issues, familiarizing themselves with ag-related skills and studying their knowledge of the a...
Odessa FFA advisor HaLee Walter recently secured a $40,000 Case grant to create small gas engine curriculum through the Washington FFA Foundation. Walter said the grant brings her to just under $200,000 in grant money for the Odessa program. She said she hopes to add an additional semester class, but if that doesn't work out, she plans to add the curriculum to the current Ag Mechanics II course. Pictured here are the high school students that are expected to benefit from the...
DAVENPORT - It may be hard to believe, but another year has come and gone. As usual, there was plenty going on in Lincoln County in 2023. Here's a look back at the top news items from the year, July to December. January to June was covered in last week's newspaper. July Howard King was named superintendent of the Harrington School District. Nate Lathrop opened 410 Burgers in downtown Odessa. Jordan Mills-Jay pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree manslaughter and...
DAVENPORT - It may be hard to believe, but another year has come and gone. As usual, there was plenty going on in Lincoln County in 2023. Here's a look back at the top news items from the year, January to June. July through December will be covered in next week's newspaper. January Odessa was left without a police chief after Leslie Jimerson's quiet resignation. The town didn't "advertise" the vacancy for a short time due to concerns of sparking a rise in crime. Julie Murphy...
Editor's Note: Odessa Junior Livestock 4-H members Jamie Willahan and Angela Douglas, both fourth-graders, contributed the information, interviews and photos for this article. ODESSA - Christmas Fest is an annual event hosted by the Odessa Junior Livestock 4-H Club. This event features local talent performing Christmas music on stage, lots of Christmas shopping with area vendors selling homemade items as well as other goods and products. There is the Tree of Sharing to...
HARRINGTON —Christmastime will be in full swing in the city this weekend. The Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Hometown Christmas runs for most of the day Saturday, Dec. 2. Santa Claus arrives in town at 10 a.m. and will be available for pictures with children (and adults, if so desired) until 12:30 p.m. at the Opera House. Meanwhile, the Harrington FFA Chapter will sell Christmas trees, wreaths and poinsettias while offering a chili and cinnamon roll lunch from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Then, attendees can head to 105 South Third S...
1 years ago Edward Appel of Waukon was fined $50 for killing a doe and Henry Dechenne of Waukon was fined $25 for concealing the evidence. Lincoln County officers searched for three cars that escaped Okanogan County with loads of liquor. Davenport and Mohler grade schools won spelling contests.. 75 years ago Auto traffic was halted by a 4-inch blanket of snow that covered much of Lincoln County. The coincidence of the day came when two Plymouth cars, both the same color and both driven by Schultzes, turned over in a ditch...
1 years ago An unknown thief broke into Robert Garber’s farm home southeast of Reardan. The commercial club protested for Sunday trains to resume running through Central Washington. Clay Chapman of Odessa was arrested on charges of selling liquor to a 15-year-old Bluestem boy. The boy was also booked into jail. 75 years ago 4-H members elected President Glenna Landreth of Espanola, vice president Gerald Sheffels of Govan, secretary-treasurer Kay Childs of Davenport, home economics rep. Carol Hein of Reardan, ag rep. G...
DAVENPORT - The local FFA chapter's nursery landscape team was named a silver emblem finisher at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis on Thursday, Nov. 2. The emblem came with a 17th-place team finish of 43 nursery landscape teams from around the country. Davenport's team of four competitors, one alternate and two other accompanying students consisted of Tanner Zaugg, Chase Zellmer, Jacob Harvey, Ryan Utley, Shelby Hargrave, Kiera Katz and Titus Griffin, who joined...
1 years ago • Patti Ensor concluded her 12 years on the Davenport school board. • Odessa’s homecoming royalty was crowned as king Jacob DeWulf, queen Hannah Schmidt, prince Trevor King and princess Jenna Shaffer. Harrington’s honors went to king Madison Charlton, queen Debra Armstrong, prince Billy Bragg and princess Jordyn Tanke. • The new Emergency Response Center in Sprague was awarded for completion of a project by the Infrastructure Assistance Coordinator Council in Wenatchee. 25 years ago • Ted Hopkins won his re-elec...
DAVENPORT - The high school's first-ever FFA team to qualify for the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis is competing this week. The local FFA nursery landscape team competed Wednesday, Nov. 1 and will learn their outcomes Thursday, Nov. 2. The team qualified with a state championship in Snohomish May 24. Seven students are joining advisor Todd Hargrave in Indianapolis this week, with sightseeing and touring done Tuesday, Oct. 31 prior to Wednesday's competition. The team...
