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DAVENPORT--Power has been restored city-wide as of 6:40 p.m. The power went out here and along Highway 2 east toward Mondovi this morning after a substation regulator caught fire around 8 a.m. A crew from Avista was sent from Spokane to address the outage, which affected over 1,200 users and lasted over 10 hours during a cold Sunday in the city. The fire required a response from Fire District No. 5 and Avista crews. Local district crews were sent home by 9:30 a.m. The outages were restored throughout the city intermittently...
DAVENPORT--A substation regulator at the transforming station on Third Street here caught fire this morning, causing power to go out in the city. Crews from Fire District No. 5 and Avista Utilities were dispatched around 8 a.m. and were on scene for about 90 minutes. A crew from Avista in Spokane is on its way to work on repairs, which is expected to take the rest of the day. "We tried to put it out with a couple fire extinguishers, but it kept re-igniting," District No. 5...
DAVENPORT—The city’s newest restaurant is closing its doors after just six months in business. 6th Street Café and Pizza announced it would be closing its doors “for the time being” in a Facebook post Monday, Dec. 27. The restaurant, owned by Ian Riley and Jessica Friedland of Davenport, made its grand opening June 25 after buying the building on Sixth and Morgan Streets in early 2020. 6th Street Café initially served pizza, coffee, breakfast items and drinks, but consisten...
DAVENPORT—A busy end to 2021 for city council included the reinstitution of water late fees, approval of the 2022 city budget and swearing in of four councilmembers Dec. 22. The first resolution passed by council reinstated the late fee for customers overdue on water payments and allows water shut offs effective immediately, with a catch. The resolution, which took effect immediately after passage, also created a new city program that allows customers to make payment arrangements for past due balances, city clerk Dave L...
DAVENPORT – The high and middle school winter concert was held in front of a full house in the school auditorium here Wednesday evening, Dec. 15. Performances by both choirs and bands entertained the audiences. Choir director Helen Adams first led the middle school chamber choir in performances of "Amani Utupe," which is Swahili for "Grant Us Peace, Give Us Courage." The choir also performed "Medieval Gloria," a Latin praise and "Music in the Air." Band director Rob Harper t...
DAVENPORT – Presiding judge Dan B. Johnson denied a motion Tuesday to suppress in a 3.6 hearing concerning a search warrant conducted at 1311 Logan Street prior to the arrests of Michelle L. Hopkins and Scotty Duane Maiden on charges of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in the first and second degree in late December 2020. Hopkins is now facing 25 counts regarding the above charges. Johnson had ruled that a thumb drive containing body c...
Wow! What a year. 2021 might not have been topsy-turvey and tumultuous as 2020 for many people, but it was still full of thrills, scares, joy and in some cases, heartbreak and hardship. It only seems appropriate that the forecast calls for single-digit, potentially record-low temperatures in the last week of the year, doesn’t it? Many went into 2021 with a positive outlook, and for many, it was a vast improvement to 2020. Students stayed in school nearly the whole year. Sports...
DAVENPORT – Basin Pacific, a Moses Lake-based insurance and benefits company with 19 locations around Washington, Oregon and Idaho, has purchased the old Inland Power and Light building currently occupied by The Times and formerly occupied by Horizon Credit Union. Basin Pacific currently has an office on Morgan Street next to City Hall, but is moving into Horizon’s old space in the building on the corner on 12th and Morgan Streets due to a need to upgrade sizes, company pre...
DAVENPORT – Jessica Smith was sworn in as the next city councilmember at council's Dec. 22 meeting, becoming the only new councilmember entering 2022. She was sworn in along with re-elected members Cory Hollis, Lance Strite and Patrick Katz. Smith is replacing Theresa Telford on council. Telford didn't file for re-election in 2021. "When you live in a community, you have to give back at some point," Smith said on her desire to run for city council. Smith has lived in D...
DAVENPORT – The Lincoln County Commissioners tabled a motion to adopt the final 2022 budget until next week after Christmas at their Dec. 20 meeting, saying that budget isn’t ready for approval yet. “A lot of items are still in flux,” commissioner Scott Hutsell said at the meeting. “But we’re 95% done.” Hutsell said some insurance items and budgeting with the Washington State University Extension have yet to be completed. The meeting was recessed to Dec. 28 for final budget ap...
DAVENPORT—The county commissioners went through the formality of approving the final preliminary budget before they approve the final 2022 budget and attempt to close a budget gap that’s grown to $1.3 million. The preliminary budget was approved Monday, Dec. 6. Typically, the commissioners balance the gap with a cash reserve and try to stay conservative with revenues to not oversell the potential for revenue, commissioner Rob Coffman said. A budget gap is typical for a small county. The current expense fund approved in the...
DAVENPORT—Michelle L. Hopkins, 47, who is charged with 10 counts of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in the first degree and 15 counts of the same charge, but in the second degree, entered a not-guilty plea on all counts at an arraignment Monday, Dec. 6. The court appearance also included a 3.5 suppression hearing and a 3.6 hearing. These hearings occur when police officers are questioned under oath by the prosecutor and defense attorney in regards to police evidence before a judge r...
DAVENPORT — Winterfest between Davenport and Reardan was back this year, and the "Golden Plunger" prize's recipient came down to a rock-paper-scissors game during halftime of the boys basketball game Saturday, Dec. 11 before the host Gorillas were declared the winner. The Winterfest competition between the two local high schools was to be decided through a points system based on five competitions: A food drive donation throughout the week, dress-up days at school, fan and s...
DAVENPORT — A local teenager from here was arrested over the weekend and held in jail until an appearance in District Court Monday. Ethan Robert Mellick, 18, was booked into Lincoln County Jail on Saturday, Dec. 11 on charges of second-degree assault and third-degree assault of a child. According to police records, deputies were dispatched to a residence on Mule Ranch Road North, 15 miles north of Davenport, when Mellick’s step-father, Louis Reinbold, said he and Mellick got into a fist fight. Deputy Brian Hudspeth sme...
SPRAGUE — A Tyler man is being held in the Lincoln County Jail on $15,000 bail in connection to a burglary at a Sprague address. Bruce Paul Havens, 48, who resides on the 25400 block of South Columbia Basin Highway south of Tyler, is charged with second-degree burglary following his Dec. 10 arrest. He was apprehended by Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputies and two Washington State Patrol troopers in connection with stolen scrap metal from 9243 Wollweber Road, records show. Corey Stolp of Edwall called the Sheriff’s Offic...
DAVENPORT—The school board approved three new hires, finalized its meeting calendar for 2022 and agreed to transfer funds to buy a new bus at its final meeting of 2021 Monday, Dec. 13. The board approved Gerly Bouchard as food service assistant, Brandan Rainwater as assistant high school boys basketball coach and Jennifer Doyle as registrar/district office assistant. The board also agreed to transfer $21,078.11 from the general fund to purchase a new school bus. John Doyle resigned his paraprofessional position, so new b...
The Inland Northwest Rail Museum hosted a "Trains and Trees event" last weekend Dec. 10-12 before closing down for the season. Children and adults alike arrived to enjoy model trains, Christmas trees, lights, candy canes and hot chocolate. The museum's usual attractions of indoor and outdoor train cars and rides on the narrow gauge engine were also available for visitors....
DAVENPORT-The "Golden Plunger" was won by Davenport over Reardan in last week's Winterfest competition, and that Gorilla success translated onto the basketball court. Davenport's girls basketball team surprised Reardan with a gritty, oft-ugly 38-33 comeback victory Saturday, Dec. 11. Davenport didn't score for the first half of the first quarter as Reardan built a slim 5-0 lead. Reardan senior Ella Curry then banked in a jump shot at the quarter horn to give the visitors an...
DAVENPORT-Reardan came out ready to play, but Davenport outlasted its visitors and pulled away for a 76-60 victory in the annual rivalry boys basketball game Saturday, Dec. 11. Reardan came out guns blazing against the more talented Gorillas. Owee Handley hit several shots to the roar of the visiting crowd, while Davenport kept pace as Reardan led 21-20 after a quarter. "Owee Handley gave us a big spark in the first quarter," Reardan head coach Brian Graham said. "It helped...
DAVENPORT—Kathryn Wilcox, the former chief civil deputy for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), allegedly misappropriated, or stole, over $20,000 and caused over $10,000 in “questionable losses” within the Sheriff’s Office between 2017 and 2019, documents released by the Washington State Auditor today confirmed. Wilcox, who passed away of cancer in Oct. 2020, allegedly misappropriated $20,173 between Jan. 3, 2017 and Dec. 5, 2019, a Sheriff’s Office internal investigation discovered. According to records, LCSO inform...
LINCOLN COUNTY—The total population of the United States grew by 22.7 million, or 7.4%, between 2010 and 2020, according to census data. However, that growth rate didn’t hold in Lincoln County. Census comparisons between 2010 and 2020 indicate the county had a slim amount of growth from 10,570 to 10,876. Some areas of the county grew a significant percentage compared to that 307 population growth number, while others had striking decreases. Still others have nearly the same number of residents as 2010. For the purpose of thi...
DAVENPORT—Some of the road projects the Lincoln County Public Works Department wants to complete have the necessary funding, but most are just proposed ideas. Citizens have other concerns about roads, but the county doesn’t have the funding to immediately repair those roads either. All of these topics were discussed at a public hearing for the county’s six-year transportation plan, which public works director Rick Becker clarified is largely ideas outside of the few items that have secured funds. The plan included 20 proje...
DAVENPORT-The statewide process of redistricting has been confusing, bizarre and unconventional. Not so at the county level, where the proposed commissioner redistricting maps that occur every 10 years with the advent of new census data indicates just one change. West Larene and its 100 citizens would shift from Commissioner District No. 3, which is Rob Coffman's district, to Scott Hutsell's Commissioner District No. 2. The change was brought before a public hearing at the...
DAVENPORT-It appears whether the sport is football or basketball, Davenport and Liberty are destined for heart-pounding games this school year. Unlike the football game in October, however, it was Liberty coming out on top of the nonleague contest in overtime 89-86 Tuesday, Dec. 7. A combined 47 points from junior leaders Tennessee Rainwater and Brenick Soliday in the second half and overtime weren't enough for Davenport Tuesday, which faced Liberty's own dynamic duo of Ethan...
DAVENPORT-The Liberty Lancer girls are the No. 5 ranked 2B team in the state, and sophomore point guard Teagan Colvin has a "90" rating out of 100 on ESPN.com. Both of those facts were plainly obvious Tuesday, as Liberty came into Davenport and had no trouble with the Gorillas while earning a 55-25 victory. The Lancers jumped out to a quick 16-4 lead after a quarter, and built that lead to 31-10 at halftime. Davenport scored first in the second half, but Liberty led 51-19 afte...
