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HARRINGTON - Longtime residents Crayton and Beth Oestreich have enjoyed a married life of getting involved with organizations around their small city and offering their skills and services to volunteer work. Now, they're being recognized for it. The couple was named Citizens of the Year by the local Lions Club and will be recognized in the Fall Festival Parade Saturday, Sept. 23. Crayton, 71, grew up on the family wheat farm between Harrington and Sprague. He graduated from...
DAVENPORT - After a post-pandemic period of most local schools steadily or drastically increasing in enrollment numbers, that trend appears to have shifted for most area districts. In fact, Davenport is the only area district to increase in enrollment from the 2022-23 school year to the 2023-24 school year. The district set in the county seat has steadily grown by about 30 students each year since 2020. It currently has a headcount of 640, up from 609 last year. "If you take o...
HARRINGTON—Attendees at the 76th Annual Fall Festival Saturday, Sept. 23 will likely be eager to enjoy a Lions Club BBQ lunch that begins serving at noon. But what those attendees may not know is that the same family has overseen smoking the rounds used for that lunch since Fall Festival began. Wes Bly took over the project that his son Dennis now operates in 1946, one year after the Lions Club was chartered. “They knew my dad had taken animal science and meats down at Wazzu,” Dennis Bly said. “I came back to the farm in 1975...
DAVENPORT — For many Lincoln County hunters, the turn to chilly and windy weather means one thing: Deer and elk season is approaching. And many hunters like to do their tagging right here in Lincoln County. There are three Fish and Wildlife Game Management Units either fully or partially in Lincoln County. Unit 130, known as the Cheney unit, is land east of state Highway 231 and extends on the east border to U.S. Highway 195. The Spokane River is the north boundary before curving south along Spokane city limits and i...
DAVENPORT — Increasing wildfire risks year-by-year throughout Eastern Washington have heightened local concern about dangers to property, livestock and livelihoods…particularly following the 2020 Whitney Road Fire in Lincoln County and this year’s Gray Fire in Medical Lake. Melanie Rose and Jan Hoogstad with Avista paid the Lincoln County Commissioners a visit Monday, Sept. 18 to discuss wildfire concerns and potential steps the company is taking to try and mitigate wildfire starts caused by company power lines. Rose discusse...
1 years ago Senator Charles E. Myers, a local man running for Congress, addressed a “good sized crowd” while standing in an automobile in the street alongside Lincoln County State bank. County school superintendent Carl Morgan spoke to the commercial club about financial concerns. Estelle Ripke asked for a divorce from Richard Ripke after alleging her husband would not go to places of amusement with her. 75 years ago Harry Heid and Dwight Pease sought to unseat Mayor C.W. Richards, while Norman C. Nelson filed to opp...
SPRAGUE — A local man is facing six serious criminal charges after police allegedly discovered over 100 files depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct on a laptop in the man’s residence. Jonathan Ray Stocker, 42, was arraigned in Lincoln County Superior Court and entered a not-guilty plea on five counts of first-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and one count of second-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct Tuesday, Sept. 12....
DAVENPORT — Two weeks after filing a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Social Services, Lincoln County isn’t done suing the state. The county joined Pacific and Yakima Counties, along with the Washington State Association of Counties, in asserting through a filing in Thurston County Superior Court on Friday, Sept. 8, that the state’s trial court indigent defense system is unconstitutional. The lawsuit asks the court to order the state to provide adequate funding for indigent defense services. Lawsuit docum...
1 years ago The Lincoln County Medical Society met in Harrington to endorse a goitre prevention plan that would give small iodine tablets to children each week. Smoked glass, old photographic films and colored glasses were in great demand as locals clamored to view a solar eclipse. Jesse Logsdon pleaded guilty to counterfeiting money and was sentenced to one day in jail. 75 years ago 4,000 people attended the 9th annual Lincoln County Fair. Community Grange’s float took first prize, while Bluestem Grange’s float was second....
DAVENPORT-A day after spending Friday in Yakima at the Sundome Tournament, the Gorilla volleyball team hosted two matches with mixed results Saturday, Sept. 9. The Gorillas swept rival Reardan 25-22, 25-22, 25-19 in the first match, then fell to Northport in four sets 28-30, 21-25, 25-19, 22-25. Davenport and Reardan's match was a battle, despite what the three-set result might indicate. The squads were tied 17-17 in the first set before Reardan took a 22-21 lead, but...
SPOKANE — The 2023 cross country regular season got under way last weekend, as Davenport and Reardan competed at the Highlander Invitational hosted by Shadle Park High School Saturday, Sept. 9. At the high school level, Davenport had three runners finish in the Top 10. Here are all the Davenport and Reardan high and middle school results from the Invitational. Middle school boys 1-mile (all Reardan) 21. Atticus Handley, 6:23.14 26. Carmelo Green, 6:37.70 27. Cody Bretz, 6:40.67 29. Simon Sobotta, 6:42.38 38. Dylan Stiles, 7...
DEER PARK - The Reardan football team got off to a strong start, but soon learned why the Northwest Christian Crusaders are one of the Northeast 2B's best teams in the Screaming Eagles' first league game this season. NWC felled Reardan 34-13 Friday, Sept. 8. The loss was Reardan's first this season after the Screaming Eagles topped Lake Roosevelt 14-12 in Week 1. The Screaming Eagles got off to a strong start as NWC adjusted to a different quarterback. Usual starter Titus Spul...
DAVENPORT - It was a barrage of Soliday goals in Davenport Tuesday night as sisters Glenna and Charlotte combined for all five goals in the Gorillas' 5-0 win over the rival Reardan Screaming Eagles Sept. 12. The win came in Davenport's season-opener, while Reardan dropped to 1-2 after a 2-1 loss to Upper Columbia Academy and a dominant 8-1 victory over Medical Lake last week. It took eighth-grader Charlotte Soliday 14 minutes to check into high school sports with her first...
DAVENPORT - A longtime Lincoln County Sheriff's Office deputy died at his Creston home last weekend. 40-year-old Luke Mallon passed away Saturday, Sept. 2. Mallon had been with the Sheriff's Office since Nov. 2014, and previously spent four years as a Law Enforcement Ranger at Yellowstone National Park. Officials ruled Mallon's death was self-inflicted. "We are all heartbroken at the passing of Luke Mallon. Luke was a humble servant who loved people, friends, family and...
ODESSA—A local man died after reportedly touching a live wire following a one-vehicle crash in rural Grant County Monday, Sept. 4. 37-year-old Ryan Frick was killed around 11 p.m. Monday shortly after his vehicle crashed into a telephone pole while driving north around the 5300 block of Road W Northeast near the tiny community of Ruff, according to Grant County Sheriff’s Office collision investigator Stormy Baughman. But it wasn’t the car crash that resulted in Frick’s death. According to Baughman, the telephone pole broke a...
DAVENPORT - The Davenport Motel at 1205 Morgan Street is under new ownership. Gurleen Kaur, Abhey Virk and Ravinder Virk purchased the motel from Elaine Suder Friday, Sept. 1. Property listings show the building was sold for $675,000. Kaur, 23, said she moved here from Spokane Valley to own and run daily operations at the motel. She will also maintain her job as a dental assistant in Spokane. "We've been looking to get into the motel business," Kaur said. Kaur said the sale...
DAVENPORT — The Lincoln County Commissioners considered two bids presented by Fair Office Manager Dawn Canfield to move the steel covered structure at the Fairgrounds currently next to Widmer Arena to near the outdoor stage area Tuesday, Sept. 5. The move will include placing a concrete slab under the current structure where swine, goats and sheep are shown at the Fair and creating a sort of pavilion park area. It comes after funding was secured in this year’s legislative budget for a new covered arena at the Fairgrounds anno...
DAVENPORT - Old-timey harvesters, combines and tractors will once again be on display in this year's Vintage Harvest at the Guhlke farm 1.5 miles east of the city Saturday, Sept. 9 and Sunday Sept. 10. Visitors should arrive at 40801 U.S. Highway 2 East by 9:30 a.m. both days to view cutting as it was done "in the old days." Organizer Todd Guhlke said internationals, 1936 John Deeres and 1932 Cases are among but not the only vintage farming equipment that will be displayed...
1 years ago Lincoln County Clerk Fred B. Squire died from illness at age 54. Miss Edna Graham was hired by Davenport High School to teach bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting and senior English, while Miss Margaret Clancy was hired to teach freehand drawing. Work on the concrete foundation for the additional electric generating unit of the Long Lake power plant of the Washington Water Power company was completed. 75 years ago Over 5,000 people attended the Lincoln County Fair, which included two parades, a crowning of Fair...
COLBERT — The Davenport cross country team got its first taste of competition against other school’s runners at the Josh Wright Memorial 2-Mile Jamboree at Northwest Christian School Tuesday, Sept. 5. Individually, Davenport had several top-10 finishers. In fact, on the girls side, four of Davenport’s five competitors were in the top 10 of the 17 competitors that also included runners from host NWC, Liberty, Newport and Colfax. Charlotte Soliday finished second to NWC’s Allie Robertson with a time of 15:50, while Josie W...
WATERVILLE—It was a new head coach, but a familiar result for the Odessa football team in the Tigers’ season opener in Douglas County. The Tigers traveled to Waterville and pulled away from the Shockers 68-22 on a hot afternoon Saturday, Sept. 2. The win was the first for rookie head coach Joe Schlomer, who took over the job after Jeff Nelson retired from the gig after last season. “It went well, but it was so hot,” Schlomer said. “I played everybody on the sidelines because of the heat, which if you ask me, is a great thi...
DAVENPORT — Lincoln County is one of 22 counties statewide that filed a lawsuit against the Washington Dept. of Social and Health Services the plaintiffs say aims to hold the state accountable for “fulfilling its obligation to evaluate and treat patients with behavioral health concerns and would reduce further strain on a crumbling behavioral health system that the state legislature and local governments are actively working to restore.” The case, known legally as Pierce County vs. Washington State Department of Social and H...
SILVER LAKE - A couple with Lincoln County school and farming ties lost their Lakehurst Drive home in the Gray Fire in and near Medical Lake Friday, Aug. 18. Ashton and Ashley Klein were among the many who saw their homes and structures burn in the 10,000-plus acre fire that ravaged the south part of Medical Lake that fateful weekend. Ashley Klein, a school psychologist with the Davenport School District, was in the couple's house with their 2-year-old son Kolter when she...
HARRINGTON - A secondary English teacher here was one of just 70 teachers nationwide to receive the Fulbright Scholarship as part of the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program. Maria Preston, who just began her eighth year teaching seventh through 12th graders English/Language Arts here and lives in Spokane, learned she received the award in early July. "I feel very honored," Preston said. "It took a while to hear back, so by the end of June I thought I wasn't going...
Educational posters • Open junior Best of Show: Karsen Llewellyn of Almira • Open teen Best of Show: Addison Benner of Medical Lake • 4-H junior Best of Show: Parker Clouse of Davenport • 4-H intermediate Best of Show: Conner Clouse of Davenport • 4-H cloverbud Best of Show: Tripp Florenzen of Almira • 4-H intermediate Special Award: Conner Clouse of Davenport Beef Fitting and Showing • 4-H junior Grand Champion: Ava McKay of Sprague • 4-H junior Reserve Champion: Austy...
