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DAVENPORT—The long-awaited and somewhat controversial Family Dollar store that’s been in the works here since Fall 2020 has finally broken ground. Construction crews began turning up ground at the former Lyons Park site Monday, Feb. 7. Property owner Brian Anderson said the Family Dollar, a retail chain store similar to the Dollar Tree, is expected to be open for business late this summer. The permitting was completed in City Hall last week. Family Dollar is responsible for constructing the building’s interior and handl...
DAVENPORT – A Yakima truck driver accused of running a red Jeep off Highway 2 a few miles east of Davenport in May 2021 has a hearing to change his plea on a charge of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon. Ernest Vern Windisch, age 62, has an appearance scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 15 after originally entering a not-guilty plea Oct. 5, 2021. Windisch received the second-degree assault charge July 21, 2021 after a prosecutor’s review of a report filed by Lincoln County Chief Criminal Deputy Kody Becker on May 28, 2021. Ac...
Spokane Valley--The basketball postseason has arrived in the Northeast 2B League, with all 11 boys and girls teams earning their spots in the double-elimination tournament beginning Monday, Feb. 7 and running 12 days until the final round Saturday, Feb. 19. Locally, the Davenport boys finished third in the regular season and earned a first-round bye, while the Reardan girls finished fifth and also received a de facto bye after Chesterton Academy forfeited the tournament. The...
DAVENPORT—Test scores, daily class schedules and a new secondary school principal were chief among the discussion topics at a busy school board meeting Monday, Jan. 31. The meeting also included approval of three action items and the announcement of two educational resignations and hires apiece. High school principal Chad Prewitt led a discussion regarding English/language arts and math test scores. Students were tested in these subjects in a standardized test this fall for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, a...
REARDAN—A local woman that was found guilty by a jury on four counts of fourth-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault and one count of harassment with the threat to kill Jan. 18 is claiming the jury was influenced by her arresting officer. Brandy Hood, who was orginally arrested Jan. 21, 2020 by Reardan police chief Andy Manke after several incidents involving her two daughters, filed a motion for a re-trial in Superior Court Tuesday, Jan. 28, according to court records. The jury found Hood guilty of p...
HARRINGTON—The school district here is seeking passage of a two-year replacement levy for collection in 2023 and 2024 to help fund several school expenses. The assessed value is less than in previous years, but the amount remains the same as the most recent levy. Voters will decide the levy’s fate in a special election Tuesday, Feb. 8. The two-year levy seeks $375,000 for collection in 2023 and 2024. The assessed impact on school district taxpayers is estimated at $2.25 per $1,000 in property value, which is a decline from th...
DAVENPORT—Brian and Stacy Graham purchased six acres of farmland in 2017 with the goal of turning the largely run-down structures on the property into usable buildings for family and livestock use. That goal took another step toward reality when the Heritage Barn Register awarded the Grahams a $20,000 grant to fix the roof of the main barn on the property, which has been damaged over the years due to age and weather deterioration. Brian Graham said the barn was constructed in...
DAVENPORT—The Gorillas’ full-court, three-man pressure was far too much to handle for the Upper Columbia Academy Lions in the second quarter of Tuesday’s Senior Night contest. Davenport outscored UCA 31-2 in the period, taking a 54-16 lead into halftime and forcing a running clock in the second half en route to an easy 83-35 win. “I’d like to be able to run it (going forward),” Davenport head coach Matt Henry said of his team’s full-court press. “We have too much length and sp...
DAVENPORT-After a five-week long stretch in which the Gorilla varsity girls didn't win a game, things began to click. Davenport has now won four of its last five games in an eight-day span and could finish as high as fourth in the NE2B ahead of the district playoffs Monday. The most recent victory was a 43-25 handling of Upper Columbia Academy on Senior Night Tuesday, Feb. 1. That was preceded by a 47-20 win over Chewelah last Saturday and a comeback, gritty 38-35 win at...
REARDAN—Students in the school district here are studying from home this week as surging COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant forced district leadership to elect for a remote learning model this week. Reardan had 188 of its roughly 690 students miss school last Friday due to either being positive for coronavirus or being in close contact with a positive case. The school leadership team elected to be remote for the 3.5 days of scheduled school this week on Monday m...
REARDAN-This fall, Reardan's head football coach won't be Eric Nikkola, Dan Graham or Gene Smith. It'll be the first time that's happened since 1968. In light of Nikkola's retirement and the fact that the school has had just three head men running the football program for the past 53 seasons, the school district is planning to host a "50 Years of Football" banquet recognizing Nikkola, Graham and Smith Saturday, April 23 in the school gym. The idea for the event came from...
HARRINGTON—The search for a new superintendent at the school district here is on after Wayne Massie announced he’ll be retiring at the end of the school year. Massie has been with the district on a part-time basis for four years while commuting to Harrington from Spokane Valley. He first retired from a full-time educational career seven years ago and has been working part-time since, but this time, he said he’s hanging up his educational cleats for good. “I’ve just had enough of everything to do with the job, like all the m...
SPRAGUE—The annual Chamber of Commerce banquet and silent/live auction will be held at the school here Monday, Jan. 17. New Chamber officers will be sworn in, and four nonprofits will earn proceeds from the auction. Additionally, the city’s Citizen of the Year will be awarded. Last year’s winner was teacher Loi Lutes. “Our annual chamber meeting has been going easily over 50 years,” banquet chair Joy Wilken said. “We started doing the auction about 15 years ago.” The four nonprofits benefiting from the auction will be the c...
Editor’s note: This article discusses sensitive and potentially triggering subjects, including sexual assault, drunk driving and involvement of minors in assault cases. Continue reading at your own discretion. DAVENPORT—A local man was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol last week. Austin Anderson, 21, Davenport was booked into Lincoln County Jail Jan. 3. Anderson is already facing a third-degree child molestation charge in Lincoln County Superior Court for allegedly making sexual advances tow...
DAVENPORT—The dawn of the New Year means many hunting seasons, such as deer and elk, are long gone. As winter persists, some hunts remain, while fishing begins to gain steam…both of the ice and standard varieties. Local Fish and Wildlife officer Curt Wood said fishermen are seeing success on Lake Roosevelt for trout and kokanee, both in bank and boat fishing. “I’ve heard of guys finding a lot of kokanee on the west end of the river toward Spring Canyon,” Wood said. Ice fishermen would do well to head to Fourth of July Lake...
REARDAN-The varsity boys basketball team suffered a bad loss to Northwest Christian (Colbert) at home by a count of 77-53 Friday, Jan. 7. Cody Sprecher wasn't about to let that happen twice in a row, as the senior poured 33 points on the heads of the Upper Columbia Academy Lions in a convincing 71-52 victory Tuesday, Jan. 11. Reardan came out strong and got six first quarter points from freshman Jakari Singleton, but allowed 13 UCA points to lead just 17-13 after one. Sprecher...
REARDAN-The varsity girls team was down two starters and one main rotation player in its matchup against Upper Columbia Academy. Though that fact caused some hiccups throughout the game, it wasn't enough to prevent Reardan from winning its ninth straight game by holding off the Lions 48-43 Tuesday, Jan. 11. Reardan was down seniors Madi Dewey and Brooklyn Edwards and junior Liberty Anderson due to COVID-19 protocols. Ella Curry and Emma Flaa started in Dewey and Anderson's...
DEEP CREEK--An adult woman was killed this morning in a two-car crash near the 6500 block of North Wood Road in Spokane County northeast of Reardan. The crash occurred around 7 a.m., according to a press release from the Spokane County Sheriff's Office. The woman, whose name has not been released, was driving a 2003 Saturn Ion northbound on Wood Road when the car crossed the center line and crashed into a 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck, the release said. The deceased was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the...
It was an eventful year in east Lincoln County. Here’s a look back at the news that dominated the headlines in the second half of 2021. A recap of the news from the first half of 2021 was in last week’s issue. July Fireworks were discouraged for the Fourth of July weekend by authorities countywide amidst a heavy heat wave, high winds and drought. Lincoln County dealt with its hottest temperatures on record. The hottest temperature was actually in June, where a temperature of 111 degrees Fahrenheit was reported on the 29t...
DAVENPORT—The Lincoln County Commissioners completed the 2022 budget in the nick of time last Thursday, Dec. 30 ahead of a New Year’s deadline. The commissioners dealt with the budget gap through unestimated unreserved beginning cash and allotted expenditures for various departments. The county is budgeting for $2,372,570 in property tax revenue, $1,090,000 in retail, sales and criminal justice tax revenue, $510, 264 from the Department of Interior, over $800,000 in state revenues, $747,376 in various fees and $829,419 in...
DAVENPORT-The city has maintained the status quo after approving a budget in the black while looking ahead to a couple key projects in 2022, mayor Brad Sweet said in a yearly outlook interview with The Times. High on the priority list here is finishing construction at the municipal airport and beginning construction on the somewhat controversial Family Dollar store going into the old Lyon's Park site between First, Second, Morgan and Logan Streets. Sweet said the city is...
REARDAN-It was a relatively quiet end to 2021 for the town, which as mayor Gail Daniels has learned, isn't always a bad thing. It's allowed her to look ahead to 2022 with an eye on several new projects for the town. The first she described in a conversation with The Times is the potential for a joint project with the Reardan-Edwall School District that would include a replacement track and tennis courts at the school, new bathrooms and playground equipment at the city park and...
HARRINGTON-Jess Silhan is only in his fourth year living in the city, but the new mayor already has his eyes set on improving local issues. Silhan, a former West Side and Tri-Cities resident, moved here in 2018 with his wife, Cynthia and now takes office after running for mayor unopposed in the 2020 election. Silhan said addressing issues with the city's wastewater treatment facility is his first priority upon assuming office, which he did Dec. 29. "I have to make sure I...
DAVENPORT-An offensive showcase, Tuesday's game was not. But the Gorilla boys managed to score a couple more baskets than the visiting St. George's Dragons en route to a gritty, sloppy 45-39 win Jan. 4. St. George's put an early emphasis on double-teaming Davenport star Tennessee Rainwater and using 6'7" forward John Nowland inside to disrupt his driving attempts. In this first quarter, this allowed Davenport junior Brenick Soliday to convert three three-pointers, helping the...
DAVENPORT-The Gorilla girls have had trouble scoring points this season, and that trend continued Tuesday in a 52-24 loss to St. George's. St. George's came out strong, scoring the first nine points of the game and nabbing a pair of transition baskets as Davenport's bigs couldn't score around the rim while the guards turned the ball over in the half court. It didn't get much better, as Davenport's only score of the quarter was a Kiersten Kemmerer three-pointer and the Dragons...
