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  • Season-end trapshoot results

    Updated Mar 8, 2018

    The Inland Northwest Trapshoot competition, sponsored by the Spokesman-Review newspaper of Spokane, completed week seven on Sunday, February 25, and finished up its season with awards on March 4. The combined Odessa-Marlin shooters took third place in Division I of the men's contest with a score of 793 behind Yakima Valley Sportsman with 797 and the Colton Gun Club with 796. In the women's division, the combined clubs finished fifth, and in the youth division, they finished...

  • Harrington news

    Marjorie Womach|Updated Mar 8, 2018

    Opera House Performance Friday, March 2, was the opening of the 2018 opera house season with Kevin Hekmatpanah on cello and Tomoko Kimura, accompanist on piano, performing to an appreciative audience in the Harrington Opera House. Hekmatpanah, a native of Chicago, has performed around the globe and throughout the country in concerts, festivals, recitals, symphonies and competitions. This past summer he performed at St. Stephens Cathedral in Vienna and the Esterhazy Palace in...

  • HS boys basketball

    Updated Mar 8, 2018

    The Odessa Tiger boys basketball team placed fourth in the 1B state tournament played at the Spokane Arena last week. Pomeroy The Tigers faced off against Pomeroy in the first round of games at the Spokane Arena Thursday, February 28. The boys never seemed to get into the rhythm of the game, even though the final score makes the game look more lopsided than it really was. The Tigers came close to tying the score at one point, but were unable to keep up the pace. Foul trouble a...

  • Odessa boys take fourth place at state tournament

    Terrie Schmidt-Crosby|Updated Mar 8, 2018

    The Odessa High School boys basketball team took fourth place at the state 1B tournament in Spokane last week after a grueling post-season of play. Some losses along the way meant that the boys had to claw their way through the losers' bracket, just as they did during the district tournament, but nevertheless earned their way into the trophy round. Two Odessa boys earned medals for sportsmanship along the way, Jayd Jennings and Marcus King. A full account of the games leading...

  • Dylan Jeffrey Boss joins Odessa Boss clan

    Updated Mar 8, 2018

    Dylan Jeffrey Boss was born February 28, 2018 to Cory Boss and Leanna Morland. At birth he weighed eight pounds and measured 21 inches long. His paternal grandmother is Sharon Parr and his maternal grandmother is Christina Morland, both of Odessa....

  • Ezra Neil joins the King family on January 27

    Updated Mar 8, 2018

    Alex and Kaci King are proud to announce the birth and adoption of their son, Ezra Neil King, born and placed in their arms on January 27, 2018, at 2:23 a.m. He weighed seven pounds, seven ounces and measured 19 inches long. He joins older brother Simon, who is five years old. His grandparents are Matt and Laurie Wilson and Wes and Faye King, all of Odessa. Great-grandparents are Jim and June Walter, Henry Wilson and Bud and Gerry King, also all of Odessa....

  • Darrel Dean Tanke

    Updated Mar 8, 2018

    Darrel Dean Tanke, 78, passed away February 15, 2018, at his home in Hillsboro, Ore. Darrel was born in Odessa to Walter and Elsa (Roth) Tanke on July 15, 1939. Along with his older sister and brother, Darrel was raised on the family wheat farm at Mohler, Wash. He attended Harrington schools, graduating from Harrington High School in 1957. After graduation, Darrel enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving three years. He was honorably discharged in 1960. After the service, he...

  • First buttercup of 2018

    Updated Mar 8, 2018

    Fifth-grader Holden Iverson, son of Brenik and Kamie Iverson of Odessa, found the first buttercup of 2018 in the Odessa area. Father and son were on top of the south hill near the large, lit "O" when Holden spotted the single yellow blossom against all of the dried vegetation around it. Congratulations, Holden, on finding the first harbinger of spring and sharing your find with the readers of The Odessa Record....

  • Court Report

    Updated Mar 8, 2018

    Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, Feb. 26: A caller told dispatchers his wife, thinking someone may have been inside her Reardan residence, locked herself in an upstairs bathroom after hearing someone walk around and bang on...

  • This Week in Odessa History

    Updated Mar 8, 2018

    1 years ago The Odessa Record March 8, 1918 Bachelor gets a surprise: A number of neighbors and friends planned a successful surprise party and invaded the bachelor home of Gust Nass south of town Saturday night. Just whether or not the ladies found the conditions at the Nass house bore any relation to the old time bachelor’s hall where “pots, dishes, pans and grazy commodities, ashes and pertatie skins kivered the floor,” has not been made public, but one thing is certain, that is that they all brought well filled baske...

  • Letter to the Editor: Youth need reality check on the finality of death

    Updated Mar 7, 2018

    To the Editor: Today’s youth no longer grow up in multi-generational households where children, parents and grandparents all reside under the same roof from cradle to grave. Few die at home anymore. Most youth have no idea what death is really all about. The closest they get to it is in video games, where death isn’t real – just shoot-em-up and hit restart to start all over again. Life is not a game where you can push a button and start all over again. So instead of life and death being a natural part of life, we keep our c...

  • Go! Odessa Recreation hosts Mad Hatter's Ball

    Updated Mar 7, 2018

    Dads, grab your favorite girls and mark your calendars, because you won’t want to be late, especially for this very important date. It’s time for The Mad Hatter’s Ball, the second annual daddy/daughter dance put on by Go! Odessa Recreation (a non-profit organization to bring activities to Odessa for local and area youth). Dress up in your Wonderland best and climb down the rabbit hole at Any Occasion Banquet Hall at 3 W. First Avenue on Saturday, March 24, from 6-9 p.m. and enjoy an evening of dancing and desserts. The eveni...

  • RDO acquires Evergreen Implement

    Updated Mar 7, 2018

    RDO Equipment Co. announced the acquisition of equipment dealership Evergreen Implement at the end of February. This adds stores in Coulee City, Moses Lake, Othello, Pasco and Ritzville to RDO Equipment Co.’s existing network, which includes Pasco and Sunnyside in the state of Washington. Rich history RDO Equipment Co. began with one man and a single equipment store in a small farming town, and throughout several years of strategic moves and capitalizing on opportunities, grew into the company it is today, serving c...

  • Student-led conferences

    Updated Mar 7, 2018

    Student-led conferences for grades PreK-12 have been set for Wednesday, March 28 through Friday March 30. School will be dismissed at 12:15 p.m. on these days. All PreK-12 students have been scheduled for a specific conference time. Parents should receive a designated date and time slip from their child’s homeroom teacher or the office. Those who have not received a date and time slip by the end of next week are asked to call Linnie Largent at 982-2603 or Chris Luiten at 982-2111....