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Dept 1 Adult & Youth Booth and Displays Open Adult Patra Canfield, Davenport, Bluestem Grange #776, 1st Place Grange Booths Dept 4 Herdsmanship Small Animal Rabbit Barn Large Animal Beef Barn Dept 6 Round Robin 4-H Jr. Tayson Gerdes, Cheney, Large Animal, Round Robin Grand Champion 4-H Interm. Alyssa Iverson, Odessa, Large Animal, Round Robin Grand Champion 4-H Sr. Whiney Wollweber, Edwall, Large Animal, Round Robin Grand Champion FFA Fr/So Dylan Holbrook, Davenport, Large Animal, Round Robin Grand Champion FFA Jr./Sr....
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, Aug. 29: Tools were taken from a job site trailer in the Spring Canyon area. In the 700 block of Eighth Street, a dog bit an elderly Davenport woman on the leg, breaking the skin. Deputies inv...
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, Aug. 22: Davenport ambulance personnel joined Reardan EMTs at the Fist A Cup coffee stand where a 17-year-old girl had fainted. Odessa Union Warehouse personnel requested patrols to help pre...
(Davenport, Wash., August 24, 2016.) It has been a year and a half since the Lincoln County Economic Development Council and WSU Extension hosted a forum to address childcare issues. The impetus for the forum was a survey of local companies on the impact that child care has on their business. The results of that survey and the large turnout at the forum confirmed what we’d been hearing – a lack of childcare services in Lincoln County was having a negative effect on our families and our businesses. Fast forward to summer 201...
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, Aug. 15: Responding to a residence on Lamont Road, Sprague ambulance personnel assisted an 89-year-old woman believed to be suffering a heart attack. A Creston woman reported an email sca...
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, Aug. 8: Windy conditions caused a Sunday blaze near Irby Road and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks to flare up, requiring Odessa firefighters to return to the scene. Responding...
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, Aug. 1: Almira EMTs and Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted a 1-year-old girl who suffered cuts to her head after hitting it against an air conditioner. Responding to the local post off...
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, July 25: No one was injured after a vehicle left SR 231 about four miles south of Edwall. A Mill Canyon Road resident told dispatchers she was “tired” of having to deal with a loose llama t...
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, July 18: A Creston man reported a storage unit in the 300 block of SW C Street had been broken into. A lock was cut off and the contents rummaged through, with some items stolen. A caller repo...
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, July 11: EMTs from Reardan and Edwall assisted Davenport ambulance personnel in caring for a 67-year-old Edwall woman suffering severe abdominal pain. A Davenport woman reported she was the...
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, June 27: A Davenport woman reported receiving fraudulent phone calls from someone identifying themselves as with “Children’s Chance.” Aboard a house boat in the river north of Hawk Creek cam...
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, June 20: After a Davenport mother’s call to dispatchers about her two sons, ages 9 and 12, not returning home from the Water Park pool, a couple of deputies launched a search that ended when...
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, June 13: A deputy provided traffic control after a motor home towing a boat became inoperative in the middle of Hawk Creek Road at Miles Creston Road. A patrol vehicle was involved in a collis...
There has been a lot of talk on the street lately about a proposed public safety sales tax in Lincoln County. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you some of our struggles, clear up a few misconceptions and then explain the concept to the public. First of all, as you know, the county had a very difficult time balancing the 2016 budget. This condition has been escalating for several years and will continue to compound itself into the future. I feel that it is...
Harrington Opera House Society The monthly meeting of Opera House Society met Monday evening in the Art Room with Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Karen Robertson, Carol, Gordon Herron, Marge Womach and Linda Wagner attending. As the completion of the elevator installation is nearing, the building committee has a short list of finishing touches that will be worked on, including the state inspection of the elevator on Tuesday, chandelier controls and an air...
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, June 6: A Mondovi area resident described a man looking into the windows of a house from a patio. A woman was observed sleeping in a running vehicle parked at the U.S. 2 Telford rest are...
The monthly meeting of Opera House Society met Monday evening in the Art Room with Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Karen Robertson, Carol, Gordon Herron, Marge Womach and Linda Wagner attending. As the completion of the elevator installation is nearing, the building committee has a short list of finishing touches that will be worked on, including the state inspection of the elevator on Tuesday, chandelier controls and an air conditioner electrical fix. New carpeting has been laid where needed, and finishing...
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, May 30: Trader’s Express in Davenport was given erroneous information by a driver who attempted to leave with a gas nozzle still in the vehicle’s tank, breaking it off. No one was hurt af...
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, May 23: Dispatchers took another report of an IRS scam incident from a Davenport resident. Executing a search warrant at a residence in the 1000 block of Thirteenth Street in Davenport, dep...
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, May 9: Reardan emergency personnel assisted Spokane County authorities who discovered a vehicle off the roadway on Coulee Hite Road with the driver at the wheel. A collision involving a veh...
Odessa’s Travis Schuh turned in the fastest time among Odessa and Lincoln County runners in Spokane’s Bloomsday race May 1. He finished his race in 48:55, narrowly outpacing Davenport’s 18-year-old Nathan Hopkins who had a time of 50:07. Almira’s Darren McCall finished in 1:05:34, Creston’s Alicia Rosman in 1:21:21, Edwall’s Mariah Wollweber in 1:31:42, Harrington’s Jaeger Jacobson in 1:09:45, Reardan’s Carson Torkelson in 1:17:40, Sprague’s Tracey Korthuis in 1:12:36 and Wilbur’s Eric Wyborney in 1:00:12. Schuh plac...
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, May 2: A cow got stuck in a fence near SR 23 and Ringwood Road in the Sprague area. A Davenport woman said she discovered a smashed cigarette on the deck of a residence in the 300 block of...
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, April 25: Wilbur ambulance and MedStar aerial ambulance personnel, along with an off-duty firefighter and sheriff’s deputies assisted in the transport of a patient from the U.S. 2 Telfo...
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, April 11: Acknowledging she and her dog are afraid of cats, a Wilbur woman phoned in her concern that a stray cat had gotten inside her house. A woman was injured in a one-vehicle rol...
Lincoln County Commissioner Mark Stedman submitted a proposal to the Odessa Town Council at their last meeting on April 11 that would increase the sales tax collected within Lincoln County by 3/10 of one percent. The rate, which is currently 7.7 percent, would rise to 8.0 percent. The taxes collected now go four different entities. The state of Washington get 6.5 percent, local jurisdictions get 1.0 percent, criminal justice gets 0.1 percent and emergency communications get 0.1 percent. If the tax rate is raised to 8.0 percen...
