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DAVENPORT — After originally tabling a motion to approve the 2024 Lincoln County budget Monday, Dec. 18, the County Commissioners approved said budget Thursday, Dec. 28. After using reserve funds to close a roughly $1.4 million budget gap that usually besets small counties like Lincoln, the current expense fund balanced at $22,004,444. That large sum is almost double what it normally is because $11,820,601 in broadband grants were allocated to the non-departmental fund within the current expense budget. Commissioner Scott H...
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...
HARRINGTON — City council adopted a final budget for the 2024 fiscal year at a meeting Friday, Dec. 29. Some funds have more expected expenditures than revenues, but the final budget balances with about $15,800 to spare. Projected revenues are $1,035,705.65 and projected expenditures are $1,019,828.17. The ratified budget came in the final meeting for now-former Mayor Jesse Silhan, who retired from the position. Joe Armand took office Jan. 1. The city’s 15 funds are projected to have the following revenues and expenditures in...
DAVENPORT — The city won’t have a mayor for at least the first 10 days of 2024. City council unanimously voted Wednesday, Dec. 27 to table a second tally for its mayoral selection until the first meeting of the New Year. Two weeks ago, city council was split three votes apiece between incumbent Brad Sweet and current councilman Jonathan Chapman. That split vote pushed further discussion to the final meaning of 2023, which was Wednesday night. After a roughly 40-minute executive session, councilman Lance Strite motioned to...
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...
1 years ago • Reardan residents petitioned Northern Pacific to improve passenger and freight service on the Central Washington railroad branch, with a specific request for a gasoline car service from Almira or Wilbur to Spokane. • Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputies fired shots at a fleeing car containing two Reardan women who thought the officers were actually road bandits. The Sheriff’s Office had to settle the damages done to the car. • Davenport city council voted to pave Morgan Street from about Fourth Street to...
DAVENPORT —The Lincoln County Commissioners have until the end of the year to ratify the 2024 county budget, and plan to do so with three days to spare. The commissioners recessed their regular meeting Monday, Dec. 18 to Thursday, Dec. 28 in order to approve a finalized budget. The county usually faces a budget gap between its revenues and expenses. This year is no different, with the gap being about $1.4 million. Commissioner Rob Coffman said that gap may fluctuate a bit between now and Dec. 28 and will be closed with r...
DAVENPORT - In their lone home tournament aside from the A.S.B. Rumble on the calendar for this school year, the Gorilla boys grapplers took fourth place out of 10 schools participating in the Gorilla Invitational here Saturday, Dec. 16. Davenport scored 97 team points, behind Northwest Christian's 137, Kittitas's 127 and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington's 110.5 points. Individual results for the Davenport boys were as follows: In the 165-pound class, Brody...
DAVENPORT — Christmastime is here, with Christmas Eve being Sunday, Dec. 24 and Christmas Day falling Monday, Dec. 25. Local churches are hosting services on both days for those interested in attending. Here are the plans for churches who returned attempts for contact from The Record-Times. Davenport Harvest Celebration Church will hold a Christmas-themed service at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, titled “Tell it Again.” Trinity Bible Fellowship meets at 10:30 a.m. Christmas Eve and at 10 a.m. Christmas Day. United Methodist Church meets...
DAVENPORT — The School District joined 11 other school districts in making an appeal to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) last week, and it will be making a separate, independent appeal this Friday. Davenport is appealing Friday, Dec. 22 to move down to the 1B level for athletics, either for football or all sports. The Gorillas are currently a 2B program in District 7’s NE2B league. The school is joint appealing to either move down for all sports, or to just move down to 8-man football at a 1B lev...
1 years ago Robert Cress, who was charged by Lincoln Co. officers with breaking into the Sheriff’s Office and stealing 26 cases of bonded whiskey, was apprehended in British Columbia for stealing liquor from a whiskey runner. Evan Wyatt of Tyler was fined $200 and given two months in jail for selling moonshine at a dance in Tyler, even though he claimed he was just making a little Christmas money with the sale. The Davenport High School debate team of Phyllis Wilson and Clifford Halfhill defeated the Reardan team of Iris L...
REARDAN - Last weekend, the Screaming Eagles' boys basketball team got two big wins over Chewelah and Northwest Christian. Tuesday night, the fun was interrupted with an 85-50 shellacking at the hands of Brewster. The 2-1 week brought Reardan's season record to 3-4 as the non-conference season draws nearer to an end. Reardan started off with a 19-14 lead against Chewelah before building that lead to 32-21 behind 17 points from Rysen Soliday Friday, Dec. 15. Soliday would finis...
REARDAN - The Screaming Eagles' girls basketball team had a 4-game winning streak snapped with a pair of losses to league foe Northwest Christian and non-conference opponent Brewster this week. Reardan topped Chewelah 41-21 Friday, Dec. 15 behind 14 points from Tenice Waters and 12 points from MacKenzie Bjornberg, then fell to the Crusaders 58-54 in a nail biter Saturday, Dec. 16. The Screaming Eagles started off guns ablazin' against NWC. Reardan went up 18-2 behind...
DAVENPORT — Four city residents interested in being Mayor faced six members of City Council in public interviews Wednesday night. And after an executive session that was followed by a vote, Council didn’t reach a majority opinion on who it would nominate to be the city’s next Mayor at its regular meeting Dec. 13. Instead, the six voting members were split between incumbent Mayor Brad Sweet and current councilman Jonathan Chapman, with three councilmen voting for the prior and three for the latter. The lack of a major...
DAVENPORT — A Sultan man facing several thievery-related charges had his arraignment continued a week in Lincoln County Superior Court Tuesday, Dec. 12. Tulsa Edger Allen Hill, 32, is charged with first-degree malicious mischief, second-degree malicious mischief, second-degree burglary, possession of burglary tools and second-degree theft. Hill is accused of robbing the Davenport Car Wash Wednesday, Nov. 29, according to police records. Ironically, it was Hill who originally called the police that Wednesday, according to r...
SPRAGUE — One man was killed and two women were injured in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 90 about four miles east of the city Thursday, Dec. 7. Angel A. Cuevas, 22, George was pronounced deceased after being transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center, according to a release from Washington State Patrol. Litzy J. Arvivo, 22, Merced, California and Maira A. Guillen Baeza, 26, Moses Lake, were injured in the crash and also transported to Sacred Heart, the release said. According to the release, a gold 2002 Saturn Vue d...
LIBERTY LAKE -The Odessa girls basketball team had enough firepower to top Chesterton Academy despite missing senior Melloney Deife last weekend, but the Tigers didn't have the firepower to overcome the attack of the rival Wilbur-Creston-Keller Wildcats a day later. Odessa pulled away from the Knights 55-35 Friday, Dec. 8 and fell to WCK 48-33 Saturday, Dec. 9. The Tigers entered their game in the HUB Sports Center 1-1 and were met with a challenge from the typically last-plac...
DAVENPORT — The Lincoln County Commissioners approved the 2024 update to the county’s 6-year capital facilities plan at their regular meeting Monday, Dec. 4, as is typical practice during the annual budget cycle at the end of each calendar year due a requirement from the Growth Management Act. All proposed projects are funded through real estate excise taxes, unless otherwise indicated. Planned projects in 2024 include: • $20,000 in state and local funds for a waste oil furnace at the Transfer Station. • $25,000 in state a...
DAVENPORT - A rivalry game is rarely pretty, no matter how much better one team may be than the other on paper. Take, for instance, this year's Apple Cup, where Washington State forced undefeated Washington to have to put together a game winning drive just to hold off the bowl-less Cougars. Or the Los Angeles Rams always seeming to give the Seattle Seahawks fits despite the Seahawks often sporting the superior roster. And the cliché certainly applied to Tuesday night's...
1 years ago Davenport Times-Tribune publisher Nathan Russell Hill died of liver cirrhosis at age 35. Davenport City Council approved a resolution to pave Morgan Street from 15 feet east of Fourth Street to 50 feet east of Eighth Street. A Creston man, William Miller, was arrested after fighting four cops, including Sheriff F.J. Gilpatric, after being accused of being “crazed from drinking moonshine. 75 years ago Incumbent Mayor Cleo Richards narrowly defeated challenger Harry Heid by 11 votes in his bid for re-election. A...
LIBERTY LAKE - The Odessa boys basketball team got a 2-point win against Chesterton Academy last Friday, Dec. 8, but the 69-67 eek didn't leave a good taste in new head coach Mike Carlquist's mouth. "We didn't play very well," Carlquist said. "They shot really well." Carlquist surely preferred the play of Odessa against the rival Wilbur-Creston-Keller Wildcats Saturday, Dec. 9. The Tigers traveled for the second straight night to get a 62-56 overtime victory and improve to...
DAVENPORT - The Reardan boys basketball team was keen on snapping a two-game losing streak and ensuring that the rival Davenport boys would remain winless this season. Jaeger Jacobsen had other ideas. The senior poured in 31 points and snared 12 rebounds to boot as the Gorillas got their first win of the season in a WinterFest dub over the Screaming Eagles 53-50 Tuesday, Dec. 12. Jacobsen had somewhat struggled from the field in early season losses to Northwest Christian and...
SPANGLE - Davenport's boys wrestlers were among a host of schools that visited Liberty High School for the Brice Williams Invitational Saturday, Dec. 9. And the girls team competed in a league meet at East Valley High School Thursday, Dec. 7. Here are all the Davenport results from the week of competition. Girls at East Valley • In the 125-130 pound class, Emma Cash fell to Heather Wyborney of Wilbur-Creston by fall 2:20 before defeating Anastasyia Halme of Mary Walker by f...
REARDAN-If one came into the Screaming Eagles' season opener against the Deer Park with no knowledge of WIAA alignments, they might have thought that the Reardan boys were the 1A school and the visiting Stags a 2B underdog. But it was the 2B Screaming Eagles routing 1A Deer Park in a non-conference game 70-41 Thursday, Nov. 30. Reardan found the ultimate balance in its dominant victory, the first of head coach Jake Green's Screaming Eagle career. Green played 11 players...
REARDAN-A very young Screaming Eagles girls basketball team started strong, but struggled to find consistent shot making in a 52-37 defeat to the 1A Deer Park Stags in the season opener Thursday, Nov. 30. Reardan played lockdown defense in the first quarter and found just enough offense between turnovers forced by the Stags' 2-3 zone press to take an 8-7 lead after eight minutes behind four points and four rebounds from Tenice Waters. Both teams had better shot making in the...
