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DAVENPORT - Major crimes across Lincoln County remained nearly flat from 2024 to 2025, according to the latest Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs report. According to the organization's annual Crime in Washington report, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, which provides most of the county's law enforcement, reported 350 Group A (major) offenses in 2025 compared with 351 the previous year, a drop of 0.3%. The agency cleared 165 cases for a clearance rate of...
ODESSA — The Town Council approved a new service-charge schedule Monday, Aug 10., aimed at residents who ignore yard-waste and nuisance notices. The first certified letter will remain free. Any subsequent letters sent within the same calendar year will carry escalating fees beginning at $50. The change takes effect Jan. 1. The council also approved updated language so the compliance clock starts 13 days after the letter is mailed, rather than when it is received. Officials said some residents have avoided action simply by n...
Here are the lowest regular gasoline prices per gallon reported in the region by GasBuddy.com as of Noon Wednesday, August 12: Airway Heights $4.79 at Chevron. Cheney $4.85 at Maverik. Colfax $5.08 at Busch Distributors, Cenex, Chevron and 76. Davenport $4.99 at Exxon. Ephrata $4.71 at Short Stop. Grand Coulee $5.59 at Chevron. Moses Lake $4.59 at Chevron and Sunval. Post Falls, Idaho $4.05 at Walmart. Ritzville $4.89 at Texaco. Spokane $4.48 at Costco. Sprague $4.89 at Big B Truck Stop....
HARRINGTON - Several fire crews responded to combine fire that started from the machine's emissions filter Tuesday, Aug. 11. Nick Layton Colbert, 50, of Harrington, was harvesting for himself when the fire began. "It was a combine fire," Colbert said. "I was in the combine and it came off the exhaust - the diesel exhaust on the emissions side of the combine started the fire." Colbert said it was a small fire at first, and he nearly extinguished it with a combine-mounted water...
REARDAN — A resident questioned the ongoing cost and value of automated license plate reading cameras during the Aug. 6 Town Council meeting. Chantel Nilles said the cameras cost the town about $540 a month even though the town doesn’t have a police department of its own using them. The local cameras are leased from Flock Safety, which also currently reports having two cameras each in Reardan, Davenport and Wilbur, and one in Harrington. She cited research on other cities that have ended contracts over privacy and dat...
DISPATCH LOG DAVENPORT — The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls for service from Aug. 3-9: Aug. 3 Traffic stops: 8 2:46 a.m. — Suspicious circumstance; water shut-off issue, location not reported. 6:54 a.m. — Death investigation (fully redacted). 8:07 a.m. — Sheep on roadway near Milepost 220 of U.S. Highway 2. 8:39 a.m. — Civil situation involving a truck, location not reported. 10:09 a.m. — Vehicle over embankment on Cottonwood, just before Horwege. 1:10 p.m. — Welfare check; location not repor...
REARDAN - A 2022 agreement in which the town paid engineering costs for a private land-development project came under public questioning at the Aug. 6 council meeting. Resident Richelle Poitra presented a "Payment Guaranty" signed March 16, 2022, by Gail Daniels and then-Mayor Pro Tempore Clay Soliday. Under the document, the town agreed to "initially pay costs incurred for Debtor's prospective land development in Reardan," with Daniels promising to reimburse the town in...
DAVENPORT — A Harrington woman was arrested early Friday, Aug. 7, for driving while intoxicated. Amanda Lynn Dinwiddie, 34, of Harrington, was booked into the Lincoln County Jail on charges of driving under the influence and driving while license suspended According to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office deputies stopped her vehicle following a 911 call about a fight with her boyfriend shortly after midnight, according to Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office records. She reported arguing with her boyfriend, Ryan Christopher Gru...
REARDAN — Mayor Kathy Eastman presented a lengthy list of accounting and budget corrections at the Aug. 6 council meeting, covering issues from 2024 through early 2026. The report included unpaid or misapplied reimbursements, incorrect BARS coding, missing public-records logs, unposted expenses from 2025 now being paid in 2026, and several grant-related errors. Among the larger items was a $29,929 retainage payment to a street-improvement contractor that had not been made and more than $25,000 in unprocessed Lincoln County D...
ODESSA - A fire hydrant struck by a vehicle nearly 10 months ago remains out of service. The hydrant was hit Oct. 6, 2025. Damage was not fully reported to the Fire Department at the time, and the unit has been unusable since. Fire Chief Brian Schorzman told the City Council during a Monday, Aug. 10, meeting that the older, smaller hydrant needs to be replaced; its location forces longer hose lays for structure fires in the surrounding area. Police said they cannot...
DAVENPORT — A resident reported a truck lingering at a nearby construction site late Saturday night, Aug. 8. Donovan Allen Hoeye, of 705 11th St. called deputies about 9:44 p.m. and said a truck spent about five minutes at a construction site close to his home before leaving, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office. Deputy Chris Stein determined the location was a new house under construction near 12th and Marshall streets and checked the site, according to sheriff’s office records....
