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  • Harrington news

    Marjorie Womach|Updated Apr 6, 2017

    PDA brochure At the monthly meeting March 21, Heather Slack presented the draft of a brochure she has been working on to the group, hoping to obtain suggestions or notification of omissions to be included and presented again at the informal meeting on March 27. The focus of the brochure is tourism, local activities and amenities. It was noted that we need to highlight the golf course, Fall Festival, Cruizin' Day, the availability of downtown high-speed Internet, the city libra...

  • Track & Field

    Updated Apr 6, 2017

    Columbia (Hunters) On March 28, the O-H Titans played Columbia (Hunters), defeating that team in both games of a double header. The battery consisted of Chance Messer pitching to catcher Marcus King. Messer was credited with the win in game 1, facing 22 batters and striking out 11 of them. The Titans won, 13-1. O-H 5 6 2 0 x 13 14 3 Col 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 10 Theron Schlomer led the Titan offense by pounding out two doubles in the game. Messer and Jayd Jennings also each had a...

  • All OHS research projects take first place at state science/engineering fair

    Jeff and Julie Wehr|Updated Apr 6, 2017

    Bremerton, WA – Seven inspiring students from the Odessa Science Department presented their independent science and engineering research on April 1, 2017 at the 60th Annual Washington State Science and Engineering Fair. For the first time in Odessa Science history, and among the hundreds of students attending, these student scientists earned first place in their respective categories, along with the following other top Washington state awards: Elizabeth Larson: "Integrating C...

  • Larson gets computing award March 28 at WSU

    Updated Apr 6, 2017

    Pullman, WA – Four years ago, Elizabeth Larson entered the ASR Laboratory with a curiosity in the computer science field. She is interested in becoming a computer programmer or engineer and centered her research on coding-related projects. In 2013-2014, Elizabeth created some very innovative and independent research, where three-dimensional digitally animated frames were played with different numbers of revolutions on each frame, affecting the final length of the video in time...

  • The largest D-100 yet?

    Terrie Schmidt-Crosby|Updated Apr 6, 2017

    The Desert 100 off-road motorcycle endurance race may have been the largest ever judging from the size of the campsite at the corner of Irby Road and SR 28. Configured like a giant "L" the site certainly covered more ground than we had seen before at prior races. The official results are still being tabulated and finalized and will be posted on the website of the Stumpjumpers Motorcycle Club as soon as possible. As for how the Odessa vendors did, information is still being...

  • Meet your neighbors

    Vivianne Poe|Updated Apr 6, 2017

    Winter has finally passed. Spring has sprung with daffodils in bloom and tulips not far behind, with many other lovely treasures pushing their way up through the soil. And now it’s time to meet some new neighbors. John and Faye Hill and their two adorable sons, Raymond and Rawlins, arrived in Odessa in November 2016. Before leaving the Seattle area, they did some research on the school districts in this area and found Odessa to be the best. Based on the information they found, they made the move and are happy about their d...

  • Obituary

    Updated Apr 6, 2017

    Edna Janke-Jorgenson passed away peacefully on March 30, 2017, three days before her 105th birthday, at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center. She was born April 2, 1912, in Chester, Mont., the first child of David and Mary (Heimbigner) Heimbigner. The family homesteaded in the Chester area for several years. When Edna was three, they moved to the Ritzville area where her father farmed. They then lived in the Odessa, Lamona and Batum areas, and Puyallup, for various lengths of...

  • Court Report

    Updated Apr 6, 2017

    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, March 27: Responding to the 500 block of NW Armstrong, Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted an 80-year-old woman who fell and hit her head. Burlington Northern Santa Fe personnel were not...

  • Baseball

    Terrie Schmidt-Crosby|Updated Apr 6, 2017

    March 31 was the date of the Deer Park Invitational track and field meet, where both the girls’ and boys’ team competed against teams from Almira/Coulee-Hartline, Colfax, Deer Park, Kettle Falls, L.V. Rogers, Lake Roosevelt, Liberty (Spangle), Lind-Ritzville-Sprague, Mary Walker, Northport, NW Christian (Colbert), Oroville, Priest River Lamanna, Reardan, Selkirk, St. John-Endicott, Stillwater Christian (a Montana school), Valley Christian, Waitsburg and Wellpinit. The O-H boys tied for third place with Priest River Lam...

  • Golf

    Updated Apr 6, 2017

    The O-H Titan golf team has had a slow start to its season due to weather conditions. The first match at Odessa was cancelled due to poor course conditions. The team played Inchelium at Harrington March 21, with John Tanke leading the team as the low scorer. Ritzville won the next match on March 28, where Colt Sanford was the best scorer for the Titans. Asotin was the winner of the match. Friday, the team traveled to St. John for an invitational match on the first day of good weather. Coach Mike Greenwood said all of the O-H...

  • Death notice

    Updated Apr 6, 2017

    Patricia A. Kissler passed away on April 2, 2017 in Spokane. A funeral service will be held Friday, April 7, 2017 at 1 p.m. at the Heritage Church in Odessa, with burial at the Odessa Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Odessa Healthcare Foundation, Heritage Church or Hospice of Spokane. Full obit to follow in next week’s paper. Strate Funeral Home, Davenport, is caring for the Kissler family....

  • Town council

    Terrie Schmidt-Crosby|Updated Apr 6, 2017

    The issue of parking next to the community center was discussed by the council with input from police chief Tom Clark. The decision was made to utilize perpendicular parking with spaces marked by white stripes on the east side of the building, beginning just north of the door to the town clerk’s office. The area adjacent to the fire hydrant at the corner of First Avenue and First Street would become a no-parking zone. The question of whether perpendicular parking of large pickup trucks would allow enough space on the street f...

  • Correction

    Updated Apr 6, 2017

    Due to incorrect information supplied to the newspaper, last week's issue of The Record reported that H.P. Carstensen had been hired as the junior-high head basketball coach, when he has been hired as the head baseball coach for the junior-high boys. Our apologies also to our readers for the confusing state of the back page of our March 30 issue. Several pieces of text were placed out of their correct order. Please see our website at www.odessarecord.com for correct version of the Harrington News and the last portion of the...