The Odessa Record -

Laela Hardung of Odessa has earned a place on the Spokane Falls Community College honor roll for fall quarter 2021. Students must earn a GPA of 3.0 or higher to be on the honor roll. SFCC offered its congratulations on this... — Updated 1/19/2022

ODESSA – The Odessa school board met for a workshop in the district office on Dec. 16 to discuss the superintendent and staffing considerations, then adjourned to the high school library for its regular monthly meeting. Present... — Updated 12/22/2021

Spokane – The Washington Rural Initiative, a partnership between the Washington State University Extension and the AWB Institute with support from Avista and STCU, is a specialized training program designed to help rural... — Updated 12/16/2021

SPOKANE – The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern Dist. of Washington has reported that Esther Rae Tuller, age 40, of Moses Lake, has pleaded guilty to tampering with morphine medication while working as a registered nurse.... — Updated 12/10/2021

WENATCHEE – Sen. Brad Hawkins would like to see fewer small districts in the state. On Monday, Dec. 6, the Wenatchee Republican pre-filed Senate Bill 5487 to entice small school districts to consolidate or merge with larger neigh... — Updated 12/8/2021

DAVENPORT – Washington State’s Public Works Board awarded Lincoln County a broadband construction grant in the amount of $4,162,072. Lincoln County's goal is to build off continued momentum to provide open access rural... — Updated 12/8/2021

ODESSA – The Odessa School Board met Nov. 23 in the district office at 5:30 p.m. for a workshop to discuss the search for a new superintendent to replace retiring Dan Read and other staffing issues, then at 6 p.m. moved to the... — Updated 12/2/2021

ODESSA – Beginning with mimeographed pages that were hand-stapled, the Odessa Memorial Hospital Auxiliary published their first cookbook called “Over the Party Line.” Through the years, the Auxiliary continued to put together... — Updated 11/24/2021

ODESSA – Fronen Steppdecker, The Odessa Quilt Club, held their annual meeting November 1. Officers elected for the coming year are: President Deb Keeley, Vice-President Dana Matthews, Co-Secretaries Lise Ott and JoEllen Wollman a... — Updated 11/17/2021

ODESSA – Laura Estes reports that the Odessa Chamber of Commerce met Nov. 9 after members relocated to the Fellowship Hall at Christ Lutheran Church (after discovering that the floor at the Old Town Hall was still in the curing p... — Updated 11/17/2021

Local named athlete of the week Melloney Deife, daughter of Dalles and Suzie Deife of Odessa, is the Athlete of the Week selected by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association for 1B volleyball a week ago. Football wins... — Updated 11/17/2021

ODESSA – Aging is associated with physical, psychological and social changes that impact functionality and independence, and predispose human beings to diseases and conditions that make them susceptible to death. One of these... — Updated 11/11/2021

Superior Court Judge Barkdull recuses self from auditor case DAVENPORT – Lincoln County Superior Court Judge Jeff Barkdull recused himself from presiding over a case against the Lincoln County Auditor’s Office and auditor... — Updated 10/28/2021

100 years ago Oct. 28, 1921 Catholics buy cemetery site. The Odessa Catholic church has purchased from Joss. Reitner, two acres and a half of land just west of the Odessa cemetery, of which F.L. Kucera is now drafting a plat for a... — Updated 10/28/2021

DAVENPORT – Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers' pre-trial date concerning the three criminal charges he is facing has been pushed to Feb. 9, 2022 at 1:30 p.m., according to Lincoln County District Court. The pre-trial had origina... — Updated 10/25/2021

A couple of errors appeared in our Deutschesfest supplement this year. In the Schwarzenbeeren Kuchen recipe, 1 cup heavy whipping cream was left out of the list of ingredients. In the Mennonite Country Auction story, two days were... — Updated 9/23/2021

OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington State Department of Commerce today announced 20 rural cities, towns and counties will receive a total of more than $11.4 million in Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) for 2021. The 22... — Updated 9/23/2021

Grant County, WA – Grant County Health District is reporting a multi-county COVID-19 outbreak associated with the three-day Watershed Music Festival, held in George, Wash. on July 30, 2021 – August 1, 2021. Cases have been... — Updated 8/19/2021

ODESSA – On July 21, 2021, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies Dain Harden and Jon Evans were dispatched to a vehicle theft in progress at Govan Road North and Obrien Road East. Upon arrival, Harden and Evans found that the... — Updated 8/19/2021

Members of the Free Press Publishing family of newspaper writers, photographers and graphic artists have won one or more awards in the following divisions of the 2021 Better Newspapers Contest: advertising, special sections, news,... — Updated 8/12/2021