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DAVENPORT-Lincoln County Public Works director Rick Becker considered pushing for 40 years employed with the county, but decided 39 years was enough. Becker will head for retirement effective June 30. He's leaving the director position that he's held since August of 2007 and a county he's worked for since 1983. "I'm just ready to retire...maybe do some more golfing," Becker, a member of the board at Harrington Golf and Country Club, said. "I don't plan to work, except for...
DAVENPORT—The school board heard about and discussed the district’s finances at a budget meeting Monday, May 9 that included projects for enrollment figures of 540 and 565. Business manager Dana Telecky shared an initial draft budget for 540 students that projects a 3.11% revenue increase and 3.10% expenditure increase for the capital budget. Under the projected budget, the district would receive $10,139,089 and spend $1,313,958, which would be a negative net of $174,869. Telecky said, however, that the proposed revenue fig...
DAVENPORT-The local Sporting Goods store will be transitioning to a mostly-online model by the end of the month, store ownership announced on the business Facebook page last week. The store will be closing its in-person business and will sell firearms online, the post said. "We have to adapt, so we're adapting," co-owner Kevin Hupp told The Record-Times this week. Hupp bought the store, located at 712 Morgan Street, with Johnathan Chapman seven years ago. He said in-person...
CHEWELAH-Like their Reardan neighbors to the east, Davenport track and field will be abundantly attending the District 7 Championships at Ridgeline High School in Liberty Lake May 20-21 after another successful meet at the North Division Championships Tuesday, May 10. The Davenport boys won yet another team meet while qualifying a good chunk of their athletes, while the girls finished in second place behind St. George's. The top four athletes in laned events and the top six...
RITZVILLE-Reardan was well-represented at the NE2B South Division track and field championships. Both the boys and girls teams finished in first place in the meet that included competitors from Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, Asotin, Liberty and Colfax. The girls had 138 points, while second-place Colfax had 123 points. The boys had 160 points to second-place Colfax's 137. Individually, the top four competitors in all laned events and the top six competitors in field and mile-plus...
DAVENPORT—If either NE2B softball team from Lincoln County is going to make a state tournament run, it will take a string of upsets and players across the board to step up. Reardan enters the NE2B district tournament as the No. 7 seed, while Davenport will have to win a pigtail game for an opportunity at the league’s top seed. Davenport finished last in the league with a league record of 2-12 and an overall record of 3-13 after splitting a pair of games with Lind-Ritzville/Sprague on Senior Night Tuesday, May 10. The Gor...
HARRINGTON—Will the Panthers stay put for sports? Or is a merger with Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, Davenport or Odessa on the horizon? Those were some of the questions the school board faced at its special meeting Monday, May 2 in response to an offer from LRS for Harrington to join the Broncos for middle and high school athletics on a one-year trial basis next year. Harrington administration began to explore the idea of a merger with LRS about three weeks ago after a couple Panthers joined the Broncos softball team. LRS then o...
REARDAN-Two more senior high school students from here will play basketball in college. Mady Dewey signed with the Community Colleges of Spokane this week, while Ella Curry signed with Everett Community College last Thursday. Both signings followed Ayden Krupke signing with Bushnell College, making it three girls' basketball players from the 2021-22 roster heading to the next level. Both CCS and ECC are in the Northwest Athletic Conference and usually play each other once or...
DAVENPORT-Local baseball and softball teams have about one week left in their respective regular seasons before heading to districts. Baseball districts begin this weekend, while softball regular seasons run through next Tuesday. Several local teams were in action this week and over the weekend as the regular season winds down. Tigers overpower Wellpinit, fall to ACH The Tiger baseball team had little trouble overcoming Wellpinit on Apr. 26, winning both games of the...
COLFAX-The Davenport boys track and field team got another win Tuesday. The Gorillas took care of their league opponents with a convincing victory at the NE2B League Championships with a score of 144 points, clearing second-place Chewelah (109 points). The Davenport girls finished a distant second with 86 points. St. George's won for the girls with 138 points. The Reardan boys finished in fourth place with 70.5 points, while the Reardan girls were also fourth with 70 points....
DAVENPORT – The Willow Ridge apartment complex and safe house for victims of abuse or violence may officially be transferred from Family Resource Center to Rural Resources in the next 30 days, Cruze Thompson and Ryan Berendsen of Rural Resources told the Lincoln County Commissioners Monday, May 2. However, the 30-day timeline has been floated for months, commissioner Mark Stedman noted. “We’ve been hearing 30 days since back in January,” he said. Berendsen told the commissioners that the transfer, which is being overseen by t...
CLARKSTON—Another league meet meant another team win for the Davenport boys track team Tuesday, April 26. The Gorillas were coming off a win at the MacDougall Invite in Colfax three days prior. The girls’ team finished in second place, besting all nine opponents except for first place St. George’s. Clarkston results Boys 100 meters 10. Nick Kruger, 12.8 24. Wyatt Telecky, 13.7 29. Owen Telford, 14.4 29. Chase Zellmer, 14.4 32. Justin Jacoby, 15.2 33. Lane Sewall, 15.9 Boys 200 meters 7. Nick Kruger, 26.1 Boys 400 meters 2. Tr...
DAVENPORT-Wade Magers' last day as Lincoln County Sheriff will be June 30, he told the county commissioners in an email and confirmed to The Record-Times in a phone call this week. His retirement will end a 15 ½-year career as Sheriff and 32-year career in law enforcement six months before the conclusion of his fourth elected term. Magers announced two weeks ago he wouldn't be running for re-election this fall. Magers' retirement comes one day after his scheduled...
REARDAN-The scent of smoked sausage and sense of Reardan spirit packed Gene Smith Gym as hundreds of current and former football players and community members gathered for a once-in-a-generation "50 Years of Football" banquet Saturday, April 23. The event served several purposes: Celebrate Eric Nikkola's retirement, honor former coaches Dan Graham and Gene Smith and introduce new head coach Matt Clouse to the Reardan faithful filling the building named after Smith. Who better...
REARDAN-The school district's nine-month period of being mascot-less, or "just Reardan," as many locals refer to it, is over. The school board approved a motion to make the "Screaming Eagles" the new mascot by a 3-1 vote at the board's meeting Wednesday, April 27. The district was forced to change its mascot from the "Indians" following the passage of House Bill 1356 in 2021, which banned the use of Native American mascots or logos by public schools in Washington. The moniker...
DAVENPORT—The search for a new principal remains ongoing, but a candidate may be selected by next Wednesday, according to discussion at the school board’s regular meeting Monday, April 25. Superintendent Jim Kowalkowski’s looming retirement has created a ripple effect down to a principal opening after current high school principal Chad Prewitt was named Kowalkowski’s successor. The district may move current elementary principal Noelle Carstens to middle/high school principal, or hire a secondary school principal dependi...
REARDAN-Ayden Krupke's basketball career isn't ending in high school. The local senior who led the girls' varsity team to a fourth-place finish in the NE2B this season signed to play for Bushnell University in Eugene Tuesday, April 26. Krupke will play for the Beacons of the Cascade Collegiate Conference, which is an NAIA conference. She was recruited by several NAIA schools, but she said she decided to sign the weekend after visiting Bushnell. "That was the place I felt most...
DAVENPORT-The Gorillas' home doubleheader on Senior Night against the Kettle Falls Bulldogs turned in an unusual win and a lopsided loss Saturday, April 23. In the first game, Davenport senior ace Denton Deal had the pitching juice, allowing just one run through six innings. The offense managed three runs to hold a 3-1 lead into the last frame. The Bulldogs then scored twice on a pair of unearned runs, forcing a bottom half of the inning with the game now tied 3-3. River...
REARDAN-A full week of home games for the local baseball and softball teams against Colfax and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague led to mixed results. When the Bulldogs came to town Friday, April 22, the top-10 ranked softball team wasn't messing around. Colfax beat Reardan 16-0 in three innings in the first game of a doubleheader, aided by 11 runs in the top of the second inning. Reardan didn't have much better luck in the second game, but did get on the scoreboard. Colfax won the latte...
DAVENPORT-Don't get too confused: The track meet was here, but it was hosted by Reardan. In any case, the Gorillas had a fine day in the windy conditions, with both boys and girls teams getting first place finishes in the District 7 2B North League Meet Tuesday, April 19. The Reardan boys finished in second place and the girls finished third. Five schools participated in the meet, including Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, Northwest Christian (Colbert) and St. George's. The Davenport...
DAVENPORT—Either Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers will stand trial on his criminal charges or a resolution will be reached between the state and his defense, the parties said at a court date Wednesday, April 20. Magers, who entered a not-guilty plea on charges of obstructing a law enforcement officer, making a false or misleading statement to a public servant and rendering criminal assistance in the third degree last July, was not present for the Zoom-only court date. Presiding judge Thomas W. Cox of Garfield County g...
REARDAN—The town and Lincoln County have reached an agreement on a contract for district court, prosecutor, defense, dispatch and jail services. The two-year contract will run through the end of 2023 after town council OK’d the deal at its April 7 regular meeting. According to meeting documentation, the town will be charged $63 per inmate day, a rate that will increase to $66 per day in 2023. That rate will increase 2% per inmate day each year beginning Jan. 1 of every calendar year thereafter if the agreement isn’t terminate...
DAVENPORT—The Chamber of Commerce’s new president, possible future events and attempts to generate more community involvement were amongst the topics of discussion at the Chamber’s monthly meeting in the Avista meeting room on a nippy Thursday morning April 14. The Chamber is currently president-less as some locals seek to revive the group that has been largely inactive for the past two years before meetings in the last couple months. Kathy Hedgcock reported that Dan Verhuel of Strate Funeral Home was interested in being...
DAVENPORT-It was an up-and-down week for local baseball and softball teams, which fought through the strangely cold elements to work in contests around the Inland Northwest this week. Davenport baseball picked up a couple wins over Liberty (Spangle) before a setback against a strong Northwest Christian (Colbert) squad. Odessa baseball easily blazed by Republic, while Reardan baseball and Davenport softball weren't able to get wins in their combined six games. Gorilla baseball...
MEDICAL LAKE-A six-run fourth inning by the Reardan softball team started to raise indications of a potential upset for the team over the 1A host Cardinals, but the home team went on a 10-run spurt over a three-inning span to erase any questions of a Medical Lake setback in a 17-8 result Tuesday, April 12. Reardan, competing against its former skipper in first-year Medical Lake head coach John Higgins, plated two runs in the top of the first inning but surrendered four...
