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BLUESTEM – Entering the missile site owned by Peter Davenport just north of Bluestem Road between the city of Davenport and Harrington requires unlocking two gates and wandering down old roads largely overgrown by sage brush. To the untrained eye, the site, which is one of six in Lincoln County, appears to be a bizarrely oversized storage site for a farmer or person looking to get off the grid, but the history of the sites goes much deeper than that. Site stores many UFO f...
DAVENPORT—A lawsuit by Greg’s Crop-Care Company against the city has been settled after the city agreed to pay the ag spraying business based in Wilbur $65,000 if the company removes its hangar at the Municipal Airport. Mediation took place in Lincoln County Superior Court Tuesday, Aug. 23, and the agreement was reached after nine hours of discussion, city administrator Steve Goemmel said. City council signed off on a resolution approving the settlement at the regular meeting Wednesday, Aug. 24. “It took nine hours to get the...
REARDAN-A longtime farmer living in the Mondovi area was chosen to join the Reardan-Edwall school board. Tessa Wicks was selected by the board members Wednesday, Aug. 24 to fill the vacant seat created when Roger Peterson suddenly passed away in June. "There are big shoes to fill with Roger's passing, and I knew that going in," Wicks said. Wicks joins a board that includes chair Jeff Anderson, Jennifer Cox, Simon Butterfield and Ryan Clouse. All seats in the district are...
Since the Davenport Times and Odessa Record merged to create the Lincoln County Record-Times, our two-person news staff has worked together to report on news, community and sports items in Davenport, Odessa, Reardan, Harrington and the surrounding areas in Lincoln County. Leveraging that staff to turn in a small-town weekly paper that goes up against any small paper in Eastern Washington quality-wise has been hard, but rewarding work. Now, we’re looking to expand that even f...
DAVENPORT—It’ll be a quick turnaround from Friday night’s rivalry football game to an all-day volleyball tournament for district athletic staff. The Gorillas will host their annual tournament beginning at 9 a.m. and running until 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3. 10 schools were signed up to participate by press time: Davenport, Wilbur-Creston, Mary Walker, Republic, Medical Lake, Cusick, Chewelah, Odessa, Lake Roosevelt and Northport. Each varsity and junior varsity team will play four hour-long matches throughout the day. Varsi...
DAVENPORT-The high school football season starts off with a bang this year. The Reardan Screaming Eagles will take the football field for the first time under their new moniker Friday against the hometown Davenport Gorillas, who are looking to make a return trip to the 2B state playoffs. Davenport went 9-2 last year and lost to Toledo in the first round of the state playoffs, while Reardan struggled to a 2-7 record. The Gorillas will see some shifting in personnel due to...
DEEP CREEK--20 acres and two structures have burned in a fire north of Highway 2 between Wood Road and Brooks Road as of 7:15 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28, according to staff reports. Level 3 evacuation notices are in place from Christensen Road to the east, Ritchey Road to the west, Highway 2 to the south and Sprague Road to the north. Crews from Spokane County Fire District No. 10, Lincoln County Fire District No. 4, Fire District No. 3, Airway Heights Fire, Department of Natural...
DAVENPORT-Former Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of third-degree criminal assistance and was ordered to complete 40 hours of community service by Garfield County District Court Judge Thomas W. Cox Wednesday, Aug. 24, concluding an 18-month saga stemming from a Feb. 2021 incident involving Magers and his son, Colton W. Magers. Wade Magers' official sentence was 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine, all of which was suspended by the presid...
DAVENPORT-A 37-year-old Carlton man was apprehended by deputies the morning after escaping from Lincoln County Jail. Cody James Magruder escaped Monday night, Aug. 22 and was captured just west of Highway 28 Tuesday morning, Aug. 23. Magruder, who was booked on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle, second-degree possession of stolen property and third-degree possession of stolen property, allegedly teamed up with fellow inmate Damion Pegram to attack jail/dispatch deputy...
DAVENPORT—A second group is blaming Inland Power for damages caused in the Whitney Road Fire in Sept. 2020. David and Kristine Hubbard filed a complaint in Lincoln County Superior Court Aug. 12 accusing the company of negligence in maintaining a downed powerline blamed for the fire’s start. The Hubbards, who operate a cattle breeding and selling business called KD Piedmontese, lost miles of fencing, a barn, outhouses, 33 cows and grass pastures for cattle feeding in the fire. The family had to sell nearly 80% of their cat...
DAVENPORT-The Lincoln County Fair and Rodeo isn't the only event in the area this weekend. For the first time since 2019, Vintage Harvest returns to the Red Barn owned by Crayton Guhlke just west of Oehlwein Road for a showcase of old harvesters and combines. The event, which includes a harvesting of the wheat fields with old-time combines that historically have come from around the world, starts around 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27 and runs all day. Co-organizer Taunya Scharff...
DAVENPORT-Former Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of third-degree criminal assistance and was ordered to complete 40 hours of community service by Garfield County District Court Judge Thomas W. Cox Wednesday, Aug. 24, concluding an 18-month saga stemming from a Feb. 2021 incident involving Magers and his son, Colton W. Magers. Wade Magers' official sentence was 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine, all of which was suspended by the presid...
DAVENPORT--An inmate has escaped Lincoln County Jail, and authorities are encouraging the public to call 911 if spotted. Cody James Magruder, 37, was booked on July 5 on a failure to comply with a Kittitas County felony warrant and a restricting-contact order violation. As of 9:14 p.m. Monday, the Sheriff's Office believed Magruder could be in the downtown Davenport corridor. Magruder stands 6'5" and was last seen wearing a brown shirt and orange striped pants. Lincoln...
Wheat harvest continued this week. Some farmers have finished already, but many are still working hard, long days to retrieve the 2022 crop. This harvester was cutting wheat Wednesday across from the WSU Extension just east of Davenport off Highway 2....
DAVENPORT—A defendant’s answer, affirmative defenses and counterclaims filed in Lincoln County Superior Court Wednesday, Aug. 10 by the city denied most claims levied against the city and airport in a lawsuit filed in July by Wilbur-based Greg’s Crop-Care Company while launching counterclaims asking the court to order the removal of the company from the city airport. The 21-page filing begins by responding to the accusations brought by the company and its owner, Kevin Leyva. The city denied that the airport ever enter...
DAVENPORT—10 defendants were listed in a suit filed by Jim and Sherri Keyes of Reardan against several county entities and employees Monday, Aug. 8 accusing the Assessor’s Office and Board of Equalization of various malpractices. Named as defendants are assessor J Scott Liebing, appraiser Christine Tareski, Board of Equalization members Anne Filion, Dale Vaughan, Ralph Nachtigal and Jim Knapp, prosecuting attorney Adam Walser, Lincoln County, the Lincoln County Assessor’s Office and the Board of Equalization. The suit alleg...
DAVENPORT-Freshly mowed, albeit slightly bumpy, grass. Getting run formations down pat. 20% of the roster absent because of wheat harvest. It's all a staple of the beginning of football season in Lincoln County as teams held their first practice in the morning heat Wednesday, Aug. 17. Davenport is looking to build off a state playoff appearance in 2021. First practices don't often indicate much, but senior Sam Schneider, traditionally a fullback, took the majority of reps as...
DAVENPORT—Over half of eligible Lincoln County voters turned out for the Aug. 2 primary election and chose six candidates to send to the November general election. Gabe Gants and Brian Telford are running for Sheriff, Emily Lybbert Hansen and Brad Sweet are running for Treasurer and Rob Coffman and Jason Debord are running for County Commissioner. Gants gathered over 50% of the votes in a five-man primary race for Sheriff with 2,259, while Telford had 990 votes. Almost every municipality favored Gants. Davenport gave him 3...
DAVENPORT—School safety has risen to the forefront of many minds in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas in May. New superintendent Chad Prewitt has wanted some type of safety officer in the district, and the various options the district can take to that end were discussed at a special school board meeting Monday, Aug. 8. The district could hire two types of officers. One is a school safety officer, who would be employed and compensated by the district and have the full-time job of being o...
DAVENPORT—It took a week of vote-counting, but Brian Telford will be Gabe Gants’ opponent in the race for Lincoln County Sheriff in the November general election. Telford, a retired lawman who was most recently Chief Criminal Deputy in Lincoln County, secured his spot by slightly extending his slim second-place lead over Reardan Police Chief Andy Manke in each of the three counts that occurred in the past 10 days. As of the last major count on Tuesday, Aug. 9, Telford led Manke 990 votes to 849 votes with less than 50 bal...
DAVENPORT—Sports schedules are still a work in progress, but the calendar for football, volleyball and girl’s soccer in Davenport, Odessa and Reardan is starting to shape up. Tentative schedules show that Davenport will host Reardan in Week 1 of the football season. The Gorillas will be trying to build off last season’s playoff berth, while the Screaming Eagles will look for a rivalry win in Matt Clouse’s head coaching debut. If the tentative schedule holds, Davenport football will have home games against Liberty Sept. 3...
DAVENPORT—The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is facing critical staffing levels within its jail/dispatch staff, interim Sheriff Gabe Gants told the Lincoln County Commissioners Monday, Aug. 1. Deputy Matt Chalmers resigned his post, which wasn’t a shock to the office, but does leave the already short-staffed group even more spread thin. “We haven’t even had any applicants,” Gants told the commissioners. Gants said the office has been running status quo otherwise since former Sheriff Wade Magers retired, minus an undersherif...
DAVENPORT—The city’s financial standing for the second fiscal quarter of 2022, including its spending habits and money taken in, was presented to the finance committee prior to council’s regular meeting Wednesday, July 29. Just 60% of the city’s budgeted revenue came in for the second quarter, with $1,848,339 received out of $3,089,080 budgeted. The city received 61% of its expected revenue for property tax ($165,294), 73% of its expected sales and use tax ($220,054,) 50% of its expected motor vehicle fuel tax ($15,42...
DAVENPORT-New redistricting documents discussed at the school board's meeting Wednesday, July 27 will attract more candidates to fill District 1's vacant seat, the district hopes. The position, which was vacated after Heather Panke resigned at the end of 2021, has yet to be filled. The school district has three positional spots and two at-large positions. District 2 is filled by chair Deanna Fitzpatrick, District 3 is filled by Tami Odenrider and Garrett Husky and Janie Schrec...
YAKIMA-The Reardan softball team's ace pitcher of the last two years is most comfortable in the outfield. And that's what Alyssa Sosky will be playing for the Yakima Valley College Yaks this school year after signing Wednesday, July 27. Sosky chose the school due to its relative proximity to home, a local connection with a good friend and a budding relationship that began growing with Yaks head coach Renae Koppenhafer last summer. "She's one of those people that's very active...
