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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
DAVENPORT—High winds swept across Eastern Washington the night of Jan. 12 and throughout Jan. 13, creating power outages and felled trees across several counties.
Lincoln County hadn’t been blustered as hard as Spokane County by press time, but effects were still felt.
The school district here closed to in-person learning Jan. 13. The district asked students on its Facebook page to check in with teachers by 10 a.m. to get work done, if possible.
Meanwhile, the Reardan-Edwall School District has gone remote through at least Friday, Jan. 15 after multiple staff and students tested positive for COVID-19, according to the district office. An in-person closure would have likely occurred Jan. 13 due to wind and resulting road conditions, as well. District staff will re-evaluate a return to in-person learning Sunday night ahead of Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
Inland Power was reporting 29 power outages in Lincoln County as of press time, all in rural areas around Davenport, Wilbur, and near the Spokane River on the north part of the county. That number was fluctuating as the paper went to press.
Avista, meanwhile, had reported eight outages near Highway 231 about halfway between Reardan and Long Lake, and four outages in Odessa as of press time.
The wind caused a momentary closure of the Keller ferry, but the ferry was back up and running by late Wednesday morning, per the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff Wade Magers reported several downed trees and power lines down around the county. The wind also caused a car fire in Almira and a one vehicle collision around Miles Creston and Hawk Creek Roads in Davenport. The vehicle was in a ditch because of a tree over the road, he said.
Drew Lawson is the former managing editor of the Davenport Times and a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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