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  • Track & Field

    Linda Goodman|Updated May 25, 2016

    It was a busy week for the Titan track team as they competed in the Riverside Twilight meet and the NE 1B District meet. The Riverside meet in Chattaroy May 6 hosted 20 different schools from as far away as Stillwater Christian in Kalispell, Mont. The boys competed against 15 teams and took 12th place overall with Deer Park, Rogers and Riverside in the top three spots. Individually, the team of Cole Kissler, Aaron Gies, Colby Sooy and Gaven Elder placed 6th in the 4x100-meter...

  • OMHC salutes employees, EMTs

    Updated May 25, 2016

    May 15-21, 2016 is the 42nd annual National EMS Week. In 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized EMS Week to celebrate Emergency Medical Services practitioners and the important work they do in our nation's communities. Back then, EMS was a new profession, and EMS practitioners had only just started to be recognized as a critical component of emergency medicine and the public health safety net. A lot has changed since then. EMS is now firmly established as an essential public...

  • Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society

    Updated May 25, 2016

    Reporting to the Odessa Town Council on May 9, Lise Ott, chair of the Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society said that after struggling for a year or so to keep the group together, a group of knowledgeable and energetic people has come together to assist with the project. Faye King serves as the secretary/treasurer, and the other members are Marlene Kramer, Nancy Smith, Paul Scheller, Kathy Ratkowski, Terria Smith and Lynn Allen. Ott says the group is still hoping to find a member who has grant-writing experience. The project...

  • Kissler earns aerospace scholar residency

    Jeffery Wehr, Odessa High School science teacher|Updated May 25, 2016

    Over the past five months, Advanced STEM Researcher and Odessa High School junior Cole Kissler has been taking a rigorous online course developed by NASA and the University of Washington, considered Phase One of the Washington State Aerospace Scholars Program. Washington Aerospace Scholars is an educational program for public and private high school juniors across Washington state. The program emphasizes science, technology, engineering and math, and encourages students to...

  • Dorothy Frederick

    Updated May 25, 2016

    Dorothy Francis Frederick was born in Chicago, Ill. on October 4, 1913 to Matt and Katherine Mandernach. She passed away in Odessa on May 12, 2016. Dorothy is survived by a son, Bill (Cindy) Giles, a daughter, Loretta (Tony) Weber; two granddaughters, Toni Weber and Robin (Charles) King and two great grandsons, CJ and Zachary. Dorothy is preceded in death by her husband, William Frederick in 1989, along with several brothers and sisters. Dorothy and William farmed in the...

  • Baseball

    Linda Goodman|Updated May 25, 2016

    28 R H E PMY 0 0 0 2 1 2 X 5 5 4 O-H 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 3 5 The OH Titans baseball team finished the 2016 season May 10, when they lost a district playoff game to Pomeroy by a final score of 5-3. Chance Messer was starting pitcher for the Titans, throwing 76 pitches in four innings, allowing four hits on two runs. He walked three batters and struck out one. Brad Johnston came on in relief, throwing 41 pitches in his two innings. He allowed one hit and three runs,...

  • Court Report

    Updated May 25, 2016

    Sheriff's Report 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. Monday, May 9: Reardan emergency personnel assisted Spokane County authorities who discovered a vehicle off the roadway on Coulee Hite Road with the driver at the wheel. A collision involving a veh...

  • Harrington news

    Marjorie Womach|Updated May 25, 2016

    Here chick, chick, chick. Monday, May 9, a group of 13 persons interested in having the city council change its ordinance prohibiting chickens in the residential and business districts held a meeting. Some were under the impression that the council had no ordinance regarding chickens, which one of the council members present was able to clarify. Much of the discussion was about actual care of the chickens, were they to be allowed in town. Levi Schenk of the chicken committee has not yet written a proposal for a new...

  • K/Pre-K registration

    Updated May 25, 2016

    Kindergarten registration for new students and preschool pre-registration for the 2016-17 school year begins Wednesday, May 18. Packets are available in the elementary office between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. All registration forms must be filled out and turned in by June 3. Pre-kindergarten students must be five years of age as of midnight, August 31, 2016. All immunizations must be completed before the first day of school. Required immunizations for entry into Kindergarten: * 5 doses of DTaP or DT vaccine, with the last dose on or...

  • Alumni banquet 6/18

    Updated May 25, 2016

    It is that time of the year again. The 80th annual alumni banquet is approaching fast and will be held Saturday, June 18. Invitation letters to alumni for whom we have addresses have been mailed. If you are an Odessa High School graduate and would like to be included in the alumni database, please get your information to Leffel, Otis & Warwick as soon as possible. If you have moved, had a name change or know of someone who has passed away, please contact us with any changes. You can contact the office by phone at...

  • Schuh shines at Bloomsday

    Updated May 25, 2016

    Odessa’s Travis Schuh turned in the fastest time among Odessa and Lincoln County runners in Spokane’s Bloomsday race May 1. He finished his race in 48:55, narrowly outpacing Davenport’s 18-year-old Nathan Hopkins who had a time of 50:07. Almira’s Darren McCall finished in 1:05:34, Creston’s Alicia Rosman in 1:21:21, Edwall’s Mariah Wollweber in 1:31:42, Harrington’s Jaeger Jacobson in 1:09:45, Reardan’s Carson Torkelson in 1:17:40, Sprague’s Tracey Korthuis in 1:12:36 and Wilbur’s Eric Wyborney in 1:00:12. Schuh plac...

  • Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame

    Terrie Schmidt-Crosby|Updated May 25, 2016

    The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame, approximately a year in the making, is about to induct its inaugural class of athletes, coaches, teams and contributors at the annual alumni banquet to be held June 18 in the Odessa Community Center. A committee headed by chairman Bruce Todd, athletic director at Odessa High School, has been meeting about once each month since March of 2015 to lay the groundwork for the hall of fame. Vice chairman Jon Heimbigner, an OHS alumnus, has contributed his expertise in establishing sports halls of...