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DAVENPORT - The City Council is reconsidering plans for a four-way stop at the intersection of Washington and Fifth streets. During a Wednesday, Sept. 9, meeting, council members revised the idea for the intersection, where Davenport Elementary School parking lot is located, after the idea faded last year. The also discussed possible stop signs near the sports complex and a speed trailer. Councilman Michael Wilkinson said the city Street Committee talked about extra signs...
Here are the lowest regular gasoline prices per gallon reported in the region by GasBuddy.com as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, September 9: Airway Heights $4.99 at Chevron and 76. Cheney $5.19 at Mitchell's. Colfax $5.37 at Maverik. Davenport $5.49 at Exxon. Ephrata $5.23 at Hawk Fuel. Grand Coulee $5.29 at Coulee Gas. Moses Lake $4.87 at Chevron and Colville Fuels. Post Falls, Idaho $4.43 at Walmart. Ritzville $5.24 at Maverik and Love's Travel Stop. Spokane $4.99 at Chevron and 76....
DAVENPORT — Lincoln County has imposed a six-month emergency moratorium on permit applications for data centers and battery energy storage systems. Ordinance 26-02, signed by Commissioners Rob Coffman, Scott Hutsell and Jo M. Gilchrist, stops county employees from accepting or processing applications for those types of facilities. No building or occupancy permit, other development approval or business license may be issued, under the moratorium. And any permit issued in error would be voided. Commissioners said county code d...
SPRAGUE — Sprague Days is back this weekend with a full schedule of community events, food, and entertainment. The celebration runs Saturday, Sept. 12, and Sunday, Sept. 13, featuring a car and bike show, chalk art contest, parade, live music, and other activities for families and visitors. The town will come to life Saturday morning as classic cars and bikes set up downtown and the Sprague Days Parade lineup begins. Entrants in the car show will start rolling into downtown about 9 a.m. for the show that starts at 10 a.m. M...
REARDAN — Deputies generated 20 incident reports in town during August, Lincoln County Undersheriff Jesse Allen said during a council meeting Thursday, Sept. 3. The incidents included a school alarm, a verbal dispute, a fire, two civil paper services, suspicious-person calls and five traffic offenses. Two reports listed as “information only” on the town log were sheriff’s-office criminal cases: a theft tied to stolen Flock Safety license-plate reading cameras and an assault. Three crashes happened in town, two at the intersec...
DISPATCH LOG DAVENPORT — The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls for service from Aug. 31-Sept. 6 Aug. 31 Traffic stops: 3 12:02 p.m. — Paper service; location not reported. 12:44 p.m. — Paper service; location not reported. 12:46 p.m. — Paper service; location not reported. 4:06 p.m. — Animal cruelty, North C Street, Sprague. 4:40 p.m. — Threat, Lake Roosevelt campground. 5:08 p.m. — Suspicious circumstance, Morgan Street, Davenport. 7:45 p.m. — Animal attack, Adams Street, Davenport Sept. 1...
DAVENPORT — Lincoln County is in line for $802,500 in state historic-preservation money to repair the courthouse exterior, if the 2027-29 capital budget funds the program. The state Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation told Lincoln County Commissioner Rob Coffman in a Sept. 1 letter that the Historic County Courthouse Grant Rehabilitation Program steering committee is recommending the award. The county would have to provide a $267,500 match. The money would go toward portico work, masonry, a new roof and g...
REARDAN — Stolen and vandalized license-plate cameras will be insured and put back up after the Town Council voted Thursday, Sept. 3, to buy Flock Safety’s protection insurance. The insurance costs $500 plus tax per camera per year. Clerk-Treasurer Sam Mathis said two cameras were installed in February 2024 and a third in May 2024. Two were stolen July 6. The first was replaced at no charge. Another camera was later stolen and a third vandalized. Replacement cameras cost $864.80. The company agreed to backdate coverage to...
For years, Seattle's environmental establishment has delivered a remarkably consistent message about fish: No sacrifice is too great. Tear down dams. Replace billions of dollars in infrastructure. Find replacement electricity. Replace barge transportation. Figure out what happens to agriculture and irrigation. Spend billions more doing all of the above. Why? Because salmon are sacred and dramatic action is not only justified but morally necessary. Unless, apparently, the... Full story
DAVENPORT — City Councilman Michael Wilkinson believes the city has too many projects that get talked about, but not finished. “I’m on the verge of being embarrassed to be a city councilman,” Wilkinson said during a Wednesday, Sept. 9, council meeting. Wilkinson said several projects need to be completed, including the gun range that still needs fence, power and a range master after the city paid Lincoln County $22,600 to move dirt. Other unfinished projects on his list include T-hangars dropped when costs jumped and a water...
DAVENPORT — Lincoln County will pay its fiber contractor once a month instead of twice after construction invoices jumped last month, commissioners were told Monday, Sept. 8. Broadband Director Margie Hall said two prime contractors are running at full speed. Hall’s written update said $1.175 million was paid last month. Packet vouchers before the board included Paramount invoices of $499,569.98 for Deer Meadows, $78,302.16 for upper Seven Bays and $55,638.71 for lower Seven Bays. Hall and Auditor Chandra Schumacher met wit...
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It has to be fought for and defended by each generation.” On July 6, 1987, President Ronald Reagan addressed the Kiwanis International Convention and warned that America’s way of life based on freedom is fragile. “It is the mind of man -- free to invent, free to experiment, free to dream -- that will shape the economy and the world of the future,” Reagan added. Our system of government of the people with a co... Full story
DAVENPORT — Lincoln County commissioners discussed a draft coroner agreement with Adams County during a meeting Monday, Sept. 8. Under the proposed agreement, the counties’ coroners would be allowed to cover short absences for each other. Adams County will send the written agreement for review....
DAVENPORT —Fiber-optic internet services went live Aug. 25 in town, with two providers already signing customers. “Odessa is live,” Broadband Director Margie Hall told Lincoln County commissioners Monday, Sept. 8. Intermax and LocalTel are installing and adding accounts daily, Hall said, noting she expects about 200 live connections by the end of September. Inland Cellular reserved rack and power space, but has not asked to get into the colocation facility. “I kept them updated all the way up to Day 1,” Hall said. “They kno...
REARDAN — Residents voiced concern over town legal bills during a council meeting Thursday, Sept. 3. Janine Burke said spending has risen sharply in recent years. “I see and hear you as a hostile council, and I’d really like to see you working better with the mayor,” Burke said. Former Mayor Gail Daniels said some of the dates and figures being circulated are wrong. “This is incorrect information,” Daniels said. “I would appreciate if people would ask a specific question and not be passing out false information....
REARDAN — Repairing a washout under a city sidewalk will likely take more pipe replacement than first thought, the Town Council heard Thursday, Sept. 3. Public Works Director Tony DeSautel said a patch failed after water settled and washed out the area. “Just looking at that pipe … we’re in trouble,” DeSautel said. “I thought we were going to have to go all the way down to the highway....
DAVENPORT — A county rumble-strip job should wrap up next week if the weather holds, Public Works staff told commissioners Monday, Sept. 8. The remaining rumble-strip paving is set for Tuesday and Wednesday. Paint — 17 five-gallon buckets — is already bought for about 4,000 linear feet of intersection work. The rumble-strip machine will follow....
REARDAN — A Wood Road family asked the Town Council on Thursday, Sept. 3, to purchase a one-acre parcel they say was supposed to return after a long county gravel-pit lease. Nick Colvin said his family has lived there about 40 years and believed a 90-year agreement with a prior owner would bring the acre back when the lease ended. He said the county sold a neighboring acre online for $10,000 and that his driveway uses a 60-foot easement across ground that is largely a pit. “I’m still willing to pay something for it,” Colvin...
DAVENPORT —Three Lincoln County Noxious Weed Board were reappointed Sept. 8. Keith Nelson was reappointed to the District No. 4 position; JoAnn Eagle to District No. 5 and Don Phillips to District No. 2....
ODESSA - The first signs of Deutschesfest are going up in paint, not tents. Linda Goodman, 58, of Odessa is painting storefront windows around town ahead of the 55th Deutschesfest, Sept. 17-20. She has the grocery store, NAPA and Odessa Trading Co. done or underway and may add the drugstore. She expects about five windows this year. Steve Braun, 59, of Odessa Trading Co. said the shop does it so people keep coming back for the Fest. "We've had a lot of people say that they lik...
George H. Arland April 26, 1943 to Aug. 30, 2026 George H. Arland, 83, passed away on August 30, 2026, in Davenport, Wash. George was born on April 26, 1943, in Tacoma, Wash., to Gilbert and Marian (McKay) Arland while they were working in the Puget Sound Shipyards during World War II. Following the end of the war, the family returned to Whitman County, settling in the city of Palouse Wash. He grew up there and graduated from Palouse High School in 1961. He then spent two...
HARRINGTON - Harrington's first farmers market closed its season Saturday the same way vendors said it ran all summer: small-town and steady. Event organizer Wende Fisk, 53, of Harrington said the Sept. 5 market was a sunny last day for a first-year effort that pulled people in from around Lincoln County. "I think it has been actually very successful, and it's been good to see different people from different communities coming in and supporting Harrington," Fisk said. "I...
1 years ago Enrollment in Davenport Elementary school is about 200 students for the year. The high school attendance is about 105, which is down about 25 from last year. More than a third of an inch of rain fell in the area last Tuesday and milder weather has prevailed since then. Three men wearing handkerchiefs over their faces used a gun to rob 3 men riding in a freight car near Odessa last week. The robbers netted about sixty dollars. 75 years ago Bay Construction Company of Seattle was awarded a nearly 1 million dollar...
