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Joy Puglisi, 73, passed away Jan. 10, 2021, after a hard battle against idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Joy was born Aug. 10, 1946, to Leland and Velma (Henderson) Jorsch of Tacoma, Wash. She has been a resident of Odessa for over 14 years and had made numerous friends. Joy loved to paint and sold several paintings while she was a member of the Kent Valley Art Club. Joy leaves behind her husband of 55 years, Charles Puglisi Jr.; two children, Danell (Mark Moore)...
Linda Howe, 61, of Odessa, died Dec. 30, 2020, following a battle with cancer. She is survived by her life partner, David Elkins; two daughters, Darci Elkins Wood and Kori Elkins; and grandson, Seth Wood. The family thanks the Odessa Community for their condolences, donations and prayers....
Douglas William Roller, 67, of Odessa, Wash., passed away Saturday January 2, 2021, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Wash. He was born Dec. 10, 1953, in Wenatchee, Wash., to William and Esther Roller. He attended Odessa High School, graduating in 1972. Doug is survived by his wife, Sue; three children, Dustin (Terri) Roller, T.J. (Deidre) Roller and Nicole Roller; one sister, Lynnae (Dan) Sowers; nine grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. He is also survived by Marie Gettman, a longtime family friend. Following...
Now that we know a new year doesn’t exactly mean a clean slate, it’s time to get down to business. Most of you already know that rejuvenation of Old Town Hall is one of my favorite obsessions. The Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society has managed to make quite a bit of progress in the past few years, with some amazing assistance from the Odessa Chapter of FBLA. The front steps have been repaired, the dining room has been painted, the kitchen got a facelift, there is a new weather resistant coating on the roof, and the windows ha...
HARRINGTON – The Harrington Opera House Society met for their 2020 annual meeting wrap-up on Jan 4, 2021 in the Art Room with the following present: Ellen Evans, Becky Moeller, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Gordon and Billie Herron and Linda Wagner. The group approved payment of membership dues to the Harrington Chamber of Commerce for the 2021 year. Billie Herron had met with a representative of Leffel, Otis & Warwick regarding continued auditing and filing of tax returns, when Herron’s computer is removed fr...
Calling four verticals against a two-deep safety look when the opposing defense has a strong pass rush tends to be a terrible play call. Unfortunately for those thousands in the state who root for the Seattle Seahawks, that sentiment didn't appear to affect Pete Carroll, Brian Schottenheimer, Russell Wilson and the rest of the offensive personnel on Saturday. It contributed to the Seahawks' season ending early with a Wild Card round loss at home to the rival Los Angeles Rams...
DAVENPORT--Many high school sports leagues around the state are making their own decisions about how to proceed with fall sports, which the WIAA had tentatively planned for Feb. 1. Today, the Northeast 2B League decided to aim to start all fall sports that day, with the possibility of another delay coming. Reardan co-athletic director Eric Nikkola, who took part in a league-wide athletic director's meeting, said that a final decision on whether to start Feb. 1 will come Jan. 2...
DAVENPORT-The Lincoln County Health Department received 200 more doses of the Moderna vaccine aimed at preventing infection of COVID-19 Jan. 11. It is a beginning-of-the-week trend the department hopes will continue, and grow, on a weekly basis as the fight to curb the virus continues. "We hope to receive even more than that each week eventually," Health Department Public Administrator Ed Dzedzy said. 700 vaccine doses have arrived in the county so far. 100 of those doses are...
OLYMPIA--Davenport native and Christian Heritage graduate Josh Regan (above) was one of the Washington State Patrol troopers standing guard late Sunday night at the state Capitol in advance of the opening of the legislative session....
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 lea...
DAVENPORT—A country glued to the news sat in stunned silence on Jan. 6, as a pro-President Donald Trump far-right extremist mob rushed the Capitol building as Congress and Vice President Mike Pence convened to read the results the electoral vote of Dec. 14 that certified the 2020 general election results confirming Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as president-elect and vice president-elect. Rioters broke into the Senate rotunda, with one man famously dressed like a buffalo sitting in Pence’s seat. (The vice pre...
DAVENPORT-- The Lincoln County Economic Development Council has closed the books on 2020, ending a year that did not go as planned. Due to the pandemic, the EDC set aside previously scheduled projects and focused their attention on obtaining and utilizing Coronavirus Relief Funds. Since Governor Inslee’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order took effect in March, the EDC has facilitated over $700,000 in grant awards. The federal CARES Act provided for Coronavirus Relief Fund payments to state and local governments to combat the e...
LINCOLN--The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is looking for information on the theft of an enclosed trailer that was stolen in late December from a job site in Deer Heights in northern Lincoln County. The trailer had a significant amount of equipment inside, like hand tools, power tools, table saws, chop saws, jig saws, step ladders, compressors and other equipment totaling over $15,000 in loss. It has been entered as stolen in the state system, and had a plate 9518ZU that h...
TELFORD--The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office was notified that a 16-year-old male escaped at the Telford Rest Area as he was being transported to Spokane from Omak by a Child Protective Service Jan. 10. The juvenile had mental health issues, was high on methamphetamine, and had a warrant for his arrest. He previously fled a Spokane County foster home and was facing several pending charges in Spokane. The Omak CPS and Spokane CPS were meeting at the rest area at a half way point when he escaped. Sheriff Deputies responded t...
Jeff Barkdull was sworn in as Lincoln County Superior Court Judge on Friday, Jan. 8. He replaces retiring judge John Strohmaier. Barkdull, who was previously county prosecutor, was elected to the judge's position by vote of the county in the November general election. He defeated his challenger, District Court Judge Dan Johnson, pulling in 68.92% of the vote to Johnson's 30.79% vote count....
DAVENPORT-Kody Becker was promoted to the role of chief criminal deputy for the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department's command staff team effective New Year's Day, Sheriff Wade Magers announced via a social media post Jan. 7. Kody has many years of experience and is extremely knowledgeable with quality leadership and investigative skills," Magers wrote. "I am proud to promote Kody and know he will do an outstanding job serving you and representing our office with class and...
REARDAN—Police chief Andy Manke shared a police activity report for December at council’s Jan. 7 meeting. If one got pulled over in town for a traffic infraction, statistically there was about a 1 in 3 chance they wouldn’t get off without a ticket in the town with a restaurant titled “Speed Trap.” 73 traffic stops occurred, with 46 verbal warnings given and 27 traffic infraction tickets disbursed. Manke gave 10 tickets, as did reserve officer Chris Stein. Reserve officer Bryan Gordon handed out six tickets, while new reser...
Long time Medical Lake resident, Rosalie C. Williamsen, 91, passed away peacefully in her sleep Jan. 2, 2021 and joined her husband, Rev. Stanley Williamsen in heaven. Rosalie was born in August of 1929 in Edinburg, ND to parents Amund and Helen Nygard. At age 16, Rosalie graduated high school from Hillcrest Academy in Fergus Falls, MN. Following graduation, she moved to Seattle to attend the Lutheran Bible Institute and be near her sister Arlett. She met and married Stanley...
LUITEN, M. Robert (Age 93), passed away January 8, 2021 in Davenport, WA his home Davenport, WA. Bob was born on December 3, 1927 in Rathdrum, ID to Jacob and Martha Luiten. The family moved to the Davenport area where Bob attended school and graduated from Davenport High School. Bob married Irene Reinbold on April 2, 1948 in Davenport, WA and they raised their four children until Irene passed away in 1994. Bob later married Phyllis Reed Stuckle on March 16, 1996 in Davenport...
Protests are nothing new in Olympia. Each year, thousands of protesters converge on legislative sessions to rally for special causes, object to government activities and generally just remind lawmakers who they work for. I cannot recall a time that the Capitol Building, other legislative office buildings and the state library weren’t available for public access. Indeed, each year I wander the Capitol campus during session to personally deliver a newspaper to those who r...
Key findings include: 1. Farmers and ranchers have been negatively affected by the lockdowns, despite being deemed essential services. Median farm households in Washington lost $821 in 2019. 2. Washington farms generate $10.2 billion for our economy. 3. To earn a 20 percent profit margin, farms must earn more than $5 million annually. Only 324 farms in Washington did that in 2017. 4. When lawmakers increase taxes on farmers and ranchers, the immediate effect is a reduction in...
Now that vaccines are available, we hope our lives will return to the way they were before the coronavirus pandemic blanketed the globe. That is not likely to occur. Last March our booming economy was clobbered by COVID-19. A worldwide pandemic ensued. There was no vaccine to counter it and even though vaccines were developed at “warp speed” lots of things changed and have become imbedded in our daily lives. Futurist Bernard Marr, columnist in Forbes, believes employers qui...
Compiled by Georgia Smith of The Times In the Past January 11th, 1951 70 years ago Army Decorates Sgt. Carl Olsen Was Killed in Action In Korean Battle Sgt. 2/C Carl C. Olsen son of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Olsen of Creston, has been awarded posthumously the army’s Silver Star Metal for bravery. Sgt. Olsen was killed September 19 while serving with the United States Second infantry division on the Persan perimeter front in Korea. Only Two weeks before his death, Sgt. Olsen was awarded the Bronze Star medal. He was a veteran o...
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. January 3 Traffic stops: 3 A Reardan man reported that a black Ford F-150 hit a power pole. The driver was out of the vehicle and awaiting a response. A male subject wearing flannel was reported to be walking aro...
