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DAVENPORT — It’s official: a majority of city residents would prefer that J.J. Kowalkowski be the Mayor of Davenport over 8-year incumbent Brad Sweet. The challenger, a former city employee who works grounds at the School District, had an insurmountable 218 votes to Sweet’s 189 after a mostly final count Tuesday, Nov. 14. Just roughly 30 ballots left to be possibly cured countywide after Tuesday’s count, elections deputy Norm Caley said. Now, the only question that remains is whether Kowalkowski wants to accept the role of...
DAVENPORT — After a few months of legal back-and-forth, the city and Lincoln County have reached a franchise agreement for broadband internet in the city. City council approved the franchise agreement at a regular meeting Wednesday, Nov. 8, and county commissioner Scott Hutsell signed the agreement a day later. The agreement grants the county permission to “locate, construct, operate and maintain poles, wires, fiber optic lines, underground cables and appurtenances over, under, along and across all of (the city’s) right...
DAVENPORT - Students of all grade school ages joined teachers, administrators, several community members and military veterans for an annual Veteran's Day Assembly in the high school gym Thursday, Nov. 9. Two veterans with school district connections spoke at the assembly after music teacher Rob Harper led the high school band in the National Anthem. First up was Cpl. Walt Sweetser, husband of district food services director Sarah Sweetser and Marine Corps veteran. Sweetser,...
DAVENPORT — After 239 more ballots were counted Tuesday, Nov. 14, contested 2023 election results were, in essence, decided. And the count brought the total ballots counted to 3,420, a 40.52% turnout for Lincoln County. Around our coverage area, 13 contested races had clear winners after Tuesday’s count. Gavin Wagner secured a spot on Harrington city council with 98 votes to Kelly Foreman’s 58. Jeffrey Smith barely held off RonDel Krauter for a Sprague city council seat with 73 votes to Krauter’s 68. In Odessa, Marlene...
HARRINGTON-Keeping in trend with the primary election, Gavin Wagner had a lead over Kelly Foreman in the race for City Councilmember No. 5 after first ballot returns Tuesday, Nov. 7. Wagner, a local farmer and artist, had 70 votes, while Foreman, a process improvement associate, had 40 votes. The leader in the general election also carried the primary election 58 votes to 31, while Steven Wright collected 21 votes in August. If that result holds, Wagner will take a seat on...
ODESSA-Bill Crossley appears to have been re-elected for another term as Town Mayor. He held a massive lead over challenger Jeremy Smith 196 votes to 48 after first election returns Tuesday, Nov. 7. Crossley has been mayor since 2018, and it seems he'll be carrying that role for four more years. The same was leaning true for incumbent councilwoman Marlene Kramer, who led challenger Laura Caler, an ELA teacher at Odessa High School, 149 votes to 90 in the race for Councilmember...
REARDAN-Lane Collier had a comfortable lead over Brian Benham in a race for the Reardan-Edwall School Board Seat No. 4 after the first election count Tuesday, Nov. 7. Collier leads 392 votes to 280. Both men are running for their first appointment to the Board. Collier, a locomotive engineer, had just a slim 126-114 lead in Lincoln County over Benham, an IT service desk manager in Spokane Valley. But the margin was wider in Spokane County, where both candidates live. There, Co...
DAVENPORT—Incumbent mayor Brad Sweet was losing his bid for re-election to a local School District employee who said in May he didn’t want the job after first election returns Tuesday, Nov. 7. J.J. Kowalkowski narrowly led the 8-year incumbent 142 votes to 126 Tuesday night. Kowalkowski, who works grounds and maintenance with Brian Telford at the School District, said after filing week in May he intended to withdraw from the race. But he appeared on the ballot regardless due to withdrawal rules, and had the advantage to be...
ODESSA-Two incumbents appeared to have secured comfortable victories, but one challenger was the favorite to unseat another incumbent in three contested School Board races after first returns Tuesday, Nov. 7. Longtime Board member Ed Deife trailed Zach Schafer 230 votes to 153 in the race for Director No. 2. Schafer, a relationship manager and loan officer for AgWest Farm Credit, had 211 votes to Deife's 142 in Lincoln County. Schafer led 13-7 in Adams County and 6-4 in Grant...
HARRINGTON-Two challengers are leading incumbents in contested races for the Harrington School Board, though one race was more lopsided than the other after first returns were announced Tuesday, Nov. 7. Challenger Britney Wagner leads incumbent Darren Mattozzi 170 votes to 64 in the race for Director No. 1. Wagner, a stay-at-home mother and substitute teacher with the school district, had a comfortable lead over Mattozzi, a School Board veteran. The incumbent Mattozzi, the...
DAVENPORT--More voting results from the 2023 General Election were announced today, Thursday, Nov. 9. Below are the updated totals. There are an estimated 253 ballots left to tally countywide, with the next count coming Tuesday, Nov. 14. Below are the results as of Thursday. Mayor of Davenport J.J. Kowalkowski: 207 Brad Sweet: 181 Harrington Councilmember No. 5 Gavin Wagner: 93 Kelly Foreman: 58 Sprague Councilmember No. 5 Jeffrey Smith: 59 RonDel Krauter: 56 Odessa Councilmember No. 5 Marlene Kramer: 175 Laura Caler: 115...
SPRAGUE—Voters here had three local races or measures on their ballots this general election and made their voices heard Tuesday, Nov. 7. In a contested race for City Councilmember No. 5, Jeffrey Smith held a semi-narrow lead over RonDel Krauter 56 votes to 44. City residents were slimly voting to pass an EMS levy after first count, with 60 voters favoring the levy and 43 voters against the levy. In a contested Cemetery District No. 7 Commissioner No. 3 race, Larae Rodriguez had a lopsided 123-36 lead over Thomas Pelley. T...
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...
ODESSA - One week ago, the Tigers volleyball team was a .500 team hoping to pull off a couple upsets in the District 7 1B Tournament. And today, Thursday, Nov. 9, Odessa is at the Yakima SunDome trying to take home a fifth-place state trophy. The mini-Cinderella run began Thursday, Nov. 2 when Odessa topped Inchelium 3-2 (25-10, 18-25, 25-17, 21-25, 15-9) in the first round of Districts. The Tigers were stuffed by Almira/Coulee-Hartline later that day 1-3 (18-25, 25-27,...
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...
DAVENPORT — If you hate finances, you didn’t want to be in the Lincoln County Commissioners’ chamber Monday, Nov. 6. But those interested in county budgets and the allotments disbursed to various county departments got a treat at the annual all-day budget meeting. The initial 2024 budget presented, which is not final, projects the following revenue sources for the current expense budget in 2024 that total over $100,000. Revenue sources totaling less than $100,000 weren’t included in the article for spatial reasons. • $2,51...
TELFORD — A chase involving a stolen car, false report of a mass shooting and abducted pigs ended near the Rest Area in a spooky turn of events for the alleged victims Tuesday, Oct. 31. According to police records, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputy Kurt Cuzzetto saw a gold 2001 Chevrolet Silverado followed closely by another vehicle in Creston. The driver of the second car said the Silverado belonged to his friend and had been stolen in Chelan, according to records. The Silverado was eastbound on U.S. Highway 2 with Cuz...
PASCO - The Davenport girls cross country team finished fifth, while the boys team finished seventh in their respective 1B/2B State meets at the WIAA State XC Championships at Sun Willows Golf Course Saturday, Nov. 4. The girls team accumulated 119 points, finishing behind state champion Pope John Paul II (45), Garfield-Palouse (51), Liberty Bell (75) and Rainier (101). The boys had 239 points, behind state champion Valley Christian (77), Pope John Paul II (100), Chewelah...
SPOKANE - A District 6/7 crossover game between each league's champion turned out to be a key factor toward deciding which school would get a first-round bye in the state playoffs. Fortunately for Davenport, the Gorillas managed the only legal goal in said crossover to hold off Tonasket 1-0 in a game played at Gonzaga Prep High School Friday, Nov. 3. Two days later, Davenport was named the No. 3 seed in the state playoffs, while Tonasket dropped to the No. 8 seed. The...
ODESSA - It's been somewhat of an up-and-down season for the Tigers' volleyball team, but the squad was able to wrap up the regular season with a straight sets victory over Wellpinit to finish with an 8-8 record Saturday, Oct. 28. Odessa topped its visitors convincingly 25-10, 25-13, 25-16. The Tigers started strong and stayed strong, quickly leading 6-1 in the first set before a 25-10 victory. Odessa then scored the first 12 points of the second set before playing back and...
SPOKANE - This season, the Reardan soccer team has rarely had available substitutes and has often had less than 11 players, forcing the Screaming Eagles to play shorthanded in most of their games. Reardan battled through the adversity to qualify for the District 7 tournament, but its run ended with a pair of losses to Davenport and St. George's. The Screaming Eagles fell to the eventual District champion Gorillas 5-0 Thursday, Oct. 26, playing at a two-player disadvantage...
ODESSA - The Tigers came into last Friday's District 7 1B division crossover game looking like a team angry at the uncharacteristic three regular season losses Odessa had suffered. And the victim of Odessa's wrath was the Columbia (Hunters) Lions, who were convincingly tamed 82-0 in an Oct. 27 matchup. The win advanced Odessa to a loser-out, winner-to-state matchup with Wellpinit this weekend. The Tigers scored early and often against the Lions. Chad Strebeck ran into the...
DAVENPORT-For the second straight year, the Gorilla soccer team is headed to state. This year, it's by virtue of a District 7 championship clinched with a 2-1 victory over Northwest Christian (Colbert) in a Halloween game that was eerily like the regular season finale played between the two rivals a week prior. With the win, Davenport clinched a spot in the 1B/2B state playoffs, while Northwest Christian will have to win its way in during District 6/7 crossovers. Like last wee...
SPRAGUE — Voters within city limits will be seeing an EMS levy for approval or denial on their ballots in this year’s general election. City clerk/treasurer Heather Krauter said the regular six-year levy is identical to that which was passed six years ago but is expiring at the end of 2023. Residents would be taxed 50 cents per $1,000 in assessed property valuation for six years, beginning in 2024. That’s the same rate as the levy passed in 2017. “They didn’t want anything to change,” Krauter said. Elections deputy Norm...
CHEWELAH - The Davenport boys and girls cross country teams each qualified for the WIAA state championship with their respective performances at 1B/2B Regionals on Friday, Oct. 27. The Gorillas also had an individual regional champion, with Josie Wynecoop winning the girls race with a time of 20:16.15. Sisters Charlotte and Glenna Soliday finished fourth and 13th respectively and would have qualified for state individually if the team had not advanced. As a team, the...
