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Summer weather has taken its sweet time arriving this year, but the Davenport Water Park opened Tuesday, June 14. That allowed divers and swimmers to enjoy the outdoors as the sun began to break through the clouds Wednesday, June 15....
DAVENPORT-Partisan candidates running for Lincoln County audiences had a chance to speak to the public and, in some cases, answer questions from concerned citizens at a forum hosted by the county Republican Central Committee at the high school auditorium here Friday evening, June 10. After moderator Sue Lani Madsen offered an invocation and Committee chair Mary Blechschmidt led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, uncontested candidates Adam Walser (prosecutor), Chandra...
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. June 5 Traffic stops: 18 A panic alarm was reported going off at Cenex in Davenport. A caller said she believed the bridge on Sunset Highway Road just east of Davenport could collapse. A caller said her brother was f...
DAVENPORT-Adam Johnson may be in law enforcement outside Lincoln County, but the Airway Heights officer believes the position of Lincoln County Sheriff is a natural next step for him. Johnson is running for Sheriff after considering a campaign for the past 18 months. "When I first got into law enforcement, I thought that every place I've ever gone...I worked my way up," Johnson said. "Sheriff has always been one of those opportunities that I want to make, and I can tell you...
Odessa birthdays June 17: Mellonet Deife June 18: Jacob DeWulf, Milo Holman, Cora Holman June 19: Lori Weber, Silas Sebesta, Jody Tschritter, Aubrey Iverson June 20: Lincoln Lovgren, Angela Weber June 21: Jason Scrupps June 23: John DeWulf Davenport birthdays June 17: Andrew Bennett, Debbie Merserve, Chantel Heath, Jim Golden, Ed Ensor June 18: Barb Curtis, Ashley Jay, Brayden Duff June 19: Chris Gunning, Gerry Rambo June 20: Luke Hammond, Shelly Johnston, William Briggs June 21: Harlow Janke, Hannah Mielke, John Badgley, Lib...
Government and community meetings and gatherings in Davenport, Odessa, Reardan, Harrington and Sprague for the week of June 17-23. If you’d like your organization included in this tab, email dteditor@centurytel.net. Tuesday, June 21 Lincoln County commissioners meeting at 8 a.m. in the County Courthouse Wednesday, June 22 Lincoln County Parks and Recreation District No. 3 meeting at 9 a.m. in Memorial Hall Sprague city council meeting at 6 p.m. in the Library Odessa school board meeting at 6 p.m. in the Library Davenport c...
DAVENPORT--The Lincoln County Commissioners are accepting applications to expand the Lincoln County Board of Health in response to updates to RCW 70.05.030. The updated statue requires equal representation between elected officials and nonelected community members to sit on the local Board of Health. In Lincoln County, this change will expand the Board from the current three county commissioner structure to include three nonelected community members representing public health, healthcare facilities and providers, a consumer...
DAVENPORT-After a brief 19-month retirement from law enforcement, Brian Telford is trying to get back in the game as the elected Lincoln County Sheriff in this year's election. The former Chief Criminal Deputy under Sheriff Wade Magers said he believes in a proactive, not reactive response to crime. "We're going to have some of those issues, it's just the nature of the beast," Telford said. "But if you don't put your thumb on it, it will get out of control, and once it gets...
DAVENPORT-It didn't take the Lincoln County Commissioners long to nominate Sergeant Gabe Gants to the position of interim Sheriff, effective July 1 following current Sheriff Wade Magers' retirement June 30. Gants was chosen from three finalists given to the commissioners by the Lincoln County Republican Central Committee. The finalists, which included Gants, Andy Manke and Jeff Barden, are all running for sheriff in this year's election. The committee interviewed six candidate...
DAVENPORT—Commuters going east and west on Highway 2 between here and Reardan have been faced with the choice of sitting in long construction delays or testing their knowledge of area farm roads during the past month as crews continue work on the state highway’s 13-mile stretch. This week, the delays have come in Davenport city limits and just east of the city. Crack sealing was done Monday, June 6 as traffic was piloted through the city. That work was expected to continue east toward Reardan as crews crack-seal roadway sho...
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. May 30 Traffic stops: 20 A caller reported a deer stuck in a fence on Highway 28 at milepost 128. A caller reported a vehicle off the roadway on Highway 231 at milepost 36. An Odessa woman said her 13-year-old son r...
Government and community meetings and gatherings in Davenport, Odessa, Reardan, Harrington and Sprague the week of June 10-16. If you’d like your organization included in this tab, email dteditor@centurytel.net. Monday, June 13 Odessa town council meeting at 7 p.m. in the Library Thursday, June 16 Lincoln Hospital Board of Commissioners meeting at 3:30 p.m. in the County Courthouse Reardan town council meeting at 6 p.m. in the United Methodist Church...
DAVENPORT—A quick look through this week’s issue of The Record-Times indicates one fact quite clearly: it is election season. Stories about interim sheriffs, candidate forums and county and city business dot the pages this week, with plenty of graduation and Mule Days coverage to ease any tension or rising blood pressure one might feel from reading about local politics too much…ha! As I feel the paper and county residents have made clear, the upcoming August primary is the m...
DAVENPORT- Rob Coffman has served District 3 as county commissioner since 2010 and is hopeful for another four-year term. Coffman is running for his fourth term in office. When asked if he thought the commissioner's board is doing a good job, Coffman said "I do. We have been able to balance the budget every year with declining revenues and more unfunded mandates from the state being put on us." "We've effectively balanced 11 budgets since I've been with Lincoln County," he...
REARDAN--Mule Days was a very joyful event this year. The class reunion was well attended with over 350 people in the huge tent outside of Smith Gym. Because of the rain, fewer than half of the cars expected for the car show turned up. However, there were several beautiful classis that made the show worthwhile. The parade had over 60 participants, with the Deer Park float taking first place and the Davenport float taking second. Deer Park's float was themed "Fun All Around"...
Davenport birthdays June 10: Loren Rux, Roberta Telecky, Bennett Wagner June 11: Jamie Chappell, Cheyne Odenrider June 12: Sydney Geissler, Tyler Furman, Scott Hutsell, Pat Casper, Gary Guhlke June 13: Jen Rief, Tessa Semprimoznik, Richard Singer, Dick Sitko June 14: Jerry Newcomb, Karen Lyle, Bri Davenport, Jerry Warner, Raylee Murdock June 15: Kyler Hopkins, Scott Hardin, Ronnie Wilkie, Chris Jannett, Harper Morcom, Alex Davis, Oliver Fisk June 16: Caili Schimek, Autumn Cursi, Leonard Abbott ♰ Davenport anniversaries J...
DAVENPORT—The county commissioners passed a resolution adopting the Lincoln County capital facilities plan Monday. The plan lists projects that are needed and what funding will be required to achieve those projects, which include improvements at the courthouse, fairgrounds and jail. The first need listed included updating the kitchen in the jail. Cabinets would be replaced, and the dishwasher would be updated. This would cost $15,000 and be completed this year. Other projects budgeted for this year include redoing the c...
DAVENPORT-An indoor graduation open to all members of the public for the first time since 2019 was a welcome sight on a rainy, windy day for locals looking to celebrate the 37-member Class of 2022 during a ceremony Saturday, June 4 in the high school gym. Family members, friends and community members filled the bleachers and floor seats facing the stage set up on the north end of the gym, where the graduates proceeded at the start of the ceremony to the typical tune, "Pomp...
Eugene F. Worley of Odessa, Wash. passed away on May 30th, 2022. He was born in Bonners Ferry, Idaho on Nov. 19th, 1937 to Marion and Mabel Worley. Gene married Shirley Frederick in November of 1958, and together they settled down in Odessa where he worked for the railroad for 43 years as a Machine Operator. They later raised a family of two children Mark and Sherry (Mcmillan) Worley. Gene was all about the adventures, from hunting deer and elk, fishing, to taking the...
Davenport birthdays June 3: Ryan Buchmann, Joe Coppersmith, Connie Lust, Katie Jo Wagner ♱ June 4: Gavin Boggs, Heath Becker, Maddilynn Collins, Kelly Rosman ♱ June 5: Janaye Wilkie, Corday Umtuch, Bonnie Booth June 6: Addison Smith, Shelby Hargrave, Gary Kersten, Debbie Keller June 7: Kaysa Panke, Ruth Oehlwein June 8: Jeff Semprimoznik, MyKenzie Deverell, Jasper Linstrum June 9: Keaton Hupp, Jamie Mitchel, Virginia Morrison Davenport anniversaries June 3: Steve and Roberta Telecky, Mike and Dawn Hale, Harold and Cla...
CHENEY-A personal record jump of six feet three inches gave Reardan sophomore Richard Alsept Lincoln County's lone individual 2B state champion at the WIAA 2B State Championships held at Roos Field on the campus of Eastern Washington University Thursday-Saturday May 26-28. Alsept's high jump mark was two inches higher than his second place competitor, senior Tre Seydel of Raymond. Senior Jarrett Jacobsen of Davenport finished third in the event. The Davenport boys had the...
DAVENPORT--The Davenport boys golf team won the WIAA academic state 2B title this year. The team, comprised of six boys, has a cumulative 3.46 grade point average this season....
DEER PARK – Four Odessa golfers did well at the 1B/2B state golf meet last week. Tiger senior Daeton Deife finished in 18th place tied with his first cousin Kallen Maioho of Wilbur-Creston-Keller, each of them scoring 173 over the two-day tournament. Fellow Odessa senior Landen Brooks was not far behind, finishing in 21st place tied with Colton Seymour of Cusick at 175. In team scoring, the Tiger boys took sixth place with a score of 42. Maddox Schumacher of Davenport High (and formerly of Odessa) finished in 15th place tied...
Kaye Marie Timm was born Jan. 12, 1952 in Davenport, Wash. On May 22, 2022 she passed away peacefully in Kirkland, WA after fighting cancer hard, twice. Kaye attended school in Harrington until her High School graduation. She was a proud alumna of Central Washington University. She always loved the city and quickly made the move to Seattle to spend her professional years in corporate accounting, working for many non-profit organizations. However, many summers she continued to...
Ardell Boleneus passed away May 14, 2022 at her home in Spokane, WA. She was born April 27, 1940 in Colville, WA to Jess and Clara Denison and was one of eleven children. Ardell grew up on the West End of the Spokane Indian Reservation and later married Mark Beardslee and they had three daughters Brenda, Glenda and Renda. Mark passed away in 1985. Ardell married Deral Boleneus in June of 1991 at their home north of Reardan, WA and their blended family grew to 5 with Deral’s ch...
