Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!

Articles written by Paul Delaney


Sorted by date  Results 1 - 8 of 8

  • Southwest adds Chicago, Orange County flights

    Paul Delaney, Contributor|Updated May 13, 2021

    SPOKANE — It continues to get easier and easier to get to all kinds of places outside of Spokane with the ease of new non-stop airline travel. Once the butt of a joke that “you can’t get there from here,” Spokane International Airport announced April 30 that Southwest Airlines will offer new seasonal direct flights to both Chicago and Orange County, Calif. beginning June 6. In addition. direct service to San Jose, Calif. resumes on the same date. The once-daily flights to Chicago will fly into Midway Airport, connect...

  • Southwest adds Chicago, Orange County flights

    Paul Delaney, Contributor|Updated May 13, 2021

    SPOKANE — It continues to get easier and easier to get to all kinds of places outside of Spokane with the ease of new non-stop airline travel. Once the butt of a joke that “you can’t get there from here,” Spokane International Airport announced April 30 that Southwest Airlines will offer new seasonal direct flights to both Chicago and Orange County, Calif. beginning June 6. In addition. direct service to San Jose, Calif. resumes on the same date. The once-daily flights to Chicago will fly into Midway Airport, connect...

  • EWU takes on North Dakota State in football playoffs

    Paul Delaney, Contributor|Updated Apr 22, 2021

    CHENEY — EWU will play a road playoff game in the Fargodome on Saturday, April 24 against the North Dakota State Bison. Not including championship games in 2010 and 2018, Eastern’s last 17 games in the playoffs have come in Cheney. The Eagles have won 13 of them. Eastern’s last road game in the playoffs was Nov. 28, 2009, in Nacogdoches, Texas, in a 44-33 loss to Stephen F. Austin, back when head coach Aaron Best was an offensive line coach. The first-round game features a pair of runners-up in their leagues. No. 9 Easte...

  • Riley named EWU men's basketball coach

    Paul Delaney, Contributor|Updated Apr 1, 2021

    CHENEY – Eastern Washington promoted associate head coach David Riley to fill the vacancy left when Shantay Legans was hired away by the University of Portland on March 22. The 2021-22 season will be Riley's 11th in Eastern's program and his eighth as a coach. "I am honored and excited about being named the next head coach of Eastern Washington University," Riley in a news release. "The past 10 years at EWU have been an incredible journey and I am grateful to all the c...

  • Kansas' second-half rally dispatches Eastern Washington

    Paul Delaney, Contributor|Updated Mar 25, 2021

    INDIANAPOLIS – A 25-7 stretch of the second half by the Kansas Jayhawks drowned out Eastern Washington's chances in the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament March 20. The No. 13 seeded Eagles, who led right from the tip 9-0 and by 10 points 52-42 on a Tanner Groves bucket with 17:58 left - fell to No. 4 Kansas 93-84. The Eagles led for the most time, 20:47 to 18:07, but the No. 4 seeded Jayhawks did so when it counted most. Tanner Groves had a career-high 35 p...

  • Spokane County Raceway operator steps aside

    PAUL DELANEY, Contributor|Updated Feb 24, 2021

    AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Citing the inability to come to an agreement to negotiate a different lease term, Spokane County Raceway operator Craig Smith will step away from the facility leaving both the 2021 season, and the track’s future up in the air. Neither Spokane County Commissioners, nor officials with Spokane County Parks who oversee the facility returned requests for comments by deadline time Tuesday evening, Feb. 23. They were asked on Monday to address the rampant social media chatter that the track would close — or if it...

  • Former EWU President Frederickson passes away

    PAUL DELANEY, Contributor, Cheney Free Press|Updated Jul 30, 2020

    LAWRENCE, Kan. - Dr. H. George Frederickson, the lightning rod president who oversaw the transformation of Eastern Washington State College to Eastern Washington University, passed away July 24 at his home in Lawrence, Kan. having just recently turned 86. Frederickson, a 1961 graduate of Brigham Young University, and who earned his master's in public administration from UCLA and a doctorate down the road at USC, was chosen to replace Emerson Shuck who had served Eastern...

  • Dump the time change, Ringo and I need some sleep

    Paul Delaney|Updated Mar 16, 2020

    While this plea may not carry much weight I’m going to present it anyway. Ringo my beagle has an eating disorder, meaning that if an entire bag of food were somehow left within reach of his snout, he just might eat until he burst. But that’s not the point. Somehow when we got him as a pup nearly 14 years ago on Father’s Day we were told that he was typical of many beagles. They eat, eat, eat and slowly become big and round. Through careful exercise, Ringo has remained a constant 35 or so pounds. He became my wife’s regular...