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Two-year-old Joy Bishop drops an egg in her basket at the Edwall Easter egg hunt at Christian Heritage School Saturday, April 1....
HARRINGTON — A School Board work session became heated after the topic of sexual education came up Wednesday, March 29. The debate came when school nurse Lindsay Sanford gave her yearly Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Implementation overview. Parents and School Board members alike became heated when Sanford brought up teaching anal, oral and vaginal sex to fifth-graders, whose average age is 10. School Board Vice-Chairman Jon Evans disagreed with the graphic nature of the presentation. “None of us knew what to exp...
IRBY -Two Davenport dirt bikers were among the racers to complete the grueling Desert 100 on Sunday, April 2. Codi Williams and Curtis Tanner each took more than four hours to complete the 100-mile course through sagebrush, basalt ridges and grass. The race was the culminating event for several days of poker runs and races that started just off Irby road, about 10 miles west of Odessa. Williams placed 65th overall and 21st in Open Class racing with a time of 4:26:15.548....
Record-Times to continue as paper of record DAVENPORT — Free Press Publishing will once again be Lincoln County’s legal advertisement publisher. The Lincoln County Commissioners referred a bid from Free Press Publishing to the Lincoln County Auditor’s Office at a regular meeting Monday, April 3. The Cheney-based publishing company, which owns newspapers in Lincoln County, Adams County, Spokane Valley and Whitman County, was the only business to bid on county legals this year. More rain in forecast this weekend DAVEN...
DAVENPORT — A 14-year-old boy that made comments about becoming a school shooter at the high school here was deemed to be playing into a joke that other students were making about him, authorities ruled after student interviews Thursday, March 30. According to police reports, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputy Jon Evans was told by school safety officer Mike Jacoby that the latter received a report of a student with a “hit list” that was planning a school shooting. Upon being interviewed, the 14-year-old boy told Evans t...
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. March 27 Traffic stops: 4 A fire alarm going off was reported. A caller requested a welfare check on a local woman. A Davenport woman said a bicycle had been left in front of her house for a week. A Davenport man sai...
DAVENPORT - While a sudden blizzard of snow in parts of eastern Lincoln County Sunday and Monday forced most citizens to take cover indoors, area ranchers were forced to take the opposite approach: heading outside to make sure their calves and cattle were safe. After all, it is calving season for many, and making sure newborn calves without survival skills stayed alive was top of mind for ranchers. Washington State University Livestock Extension Specialist Don Llewellyn said...
DAVENPORT — The Lincoln County Commissioners awarded Spokane-based Zero dB Communications the construction build for the first of three countywide broadband projects bringing high-speed fiber connection to the county. Zero dB Communications will construct the connection for a project through Almira, Creston and Harrington with middle mile up to one gigabyte through Wilbur. The company bid $1,232,501.17, the lowest of five companies that bid. Bids were unsealed at the commissioners’ March 20 meeting and referred to the Eco...
