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"Cruize On In" says the brand new sign that went up last week on the former Odessa Drive-In. This week it opened for business, and all of a sudden Odessa once again had four different eateries to choose from. Photo by Terrie Schmidt-Crosby....
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, photography and digital processing. Staff members placing first, second or third in the categories listed are Davenport editor Drew Lawson, Cheney Free Press contributor Paul Delaney, advertising manager DeeAnn Gibb, publisher/photographer Roger Harnack and graphic artists Walter Willand, Garth...
Supply List Preschool 1 reg. backpack, labeled with student’s name 1 box 24 Crayola crayons 2 boxes washable markers 4 large glue sticks 2 large boxes facial tissues Kindergarten 1 regular backpack, labeled with student’s name 2 small glue sticks 1 pink pearl eraser 1 box 24 Crayola crayons 1 box 12-24 colored pencils 1 box washable markers 1 pair headphones 1 pair metal safety scissors 2 large boxes facial tissues (do not label) Grade 1 1 reg. backpack, labeled with student’s name 1 box 24 Crayola crayons 2 pink pearl erase...
Lois Marie (Tiffany) Harp passed away on July 31st, 2021, looking out at one of her favorite places - Lake Roosevelt – from the house of her dreams in Lincoln, Wash. Friends and family will forever remember the countless afternoons on the beach and water - soaking up sun, deep belly laughs, and making beautiful memories. Lois loved those afternoons and the people she spent them with. Lake Roosevelt was an extension of “home” for Lois, and she got to spend her final days “at h...
Dale Loren Ramm, 65, passed away on Aug. 3rd, 2021 at the Odessa Memorial Hospital after a progressive battle with brain cancer. Dale was born on Sept. 1, 1955, to Adolph and Esther (Jasman) Ramm in Odessa, Wash. After graduating from Odessa High School, he attended Spokane Community College where he met his wife Kim (Bucher) Ramm. They moved back to Odessa, where they owned Ramm Hardware for 35 years. Dale was passionate about his community and was an avid volunteer for the...
Parents of public school students in the 9th Legislative district have had enough of coronavirus-related mandates from Olympia. Shutter schools, curtail sports, wear masks, limit field trips and restrict access to graduation. Those actions have not been embraced here. And neither has Gov. Jay Inslee’s renewed call for all public school students to remain masked for the upcoming 2021-22 school year. Area parents are pushing back. This week, led by a group from Fairfield, many p...
Massive forest fires in western parts of our country are not only choking us with layers of thick smoke but are leaving behind millions of acres of scorched hillsides, ridges, and valleys. According to the Arbor Day Foundation, record wildfire seasons in recent years have destroyed millions of trees. Many forests have burned so severely that natural regeneration isn’t possible, making replanting necessary. Unfortunately, much of the U.S. Forest Service budget is diverted to f...
ODESSA – The Odessa Town Council met Monday evening in the public library. Mayor Bill Crossley first convened the scheduled public hearing regarding the purchase of a truck by the Public Works Dept. to replace a current vehicle with more than 100,000 miles on it and a police car by the Town Marshal’s office to replace the Ford Explorer currently in service, which continues to have costly mechanical problems. Its latest issue is failure of the vehicle’s air conditioning system. Given this summer’s excessive heat, Crossle...
The latest vote count in the Aug. 3 primary election took place Aug. 9 and saw voter turnout climb to 27% of Lincoln County’s registered voters. Adam Walser, running unopposed for the unexpired term of Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney, received 2,045 votes or 97.01% of the total. There were 63 write-in votes cast (2.99%). Total votes cast were 2,108. The only other race on Odessa ballots was for the Town of Odessa’s Councilman No. 4 position, where Alberto Reyes led the race with 162 votes (64.03%), followed by Amanda Wal...
ODESSA – The $68,000 grant from Lowe's, won recently through a joint effort by Odessa non-profit groups and volunteers in the Lowe's 100 Hometowns project (see July 29, 2021 issue of The Odessa Record at www.odessarecord.com for the full story), is being put to good use. This past weekend, members of the Odessa Lion's Club and a group of volunteer students worked to remove the false ceiling in the south room of the Old Town Hall. The volunteers are helping to restore the r...