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DAVENPORT-Dozens of family members, law enforcement officers, county elected officials and community figures packed the Lincoln County Commissioner's chamber to bid Sheriff Wade Magers and Undersheriff Kelly Watkins a happy retirement during a celebration Wednesday, June 22. Magers and Watkins are both set to retire June 30 after working together with Lincoln County for 32 years. The current sheriff has been in his post for 15 ½ years and is retiring six months before...
DAVENPORT-After a 37-year career in outdoor law enforcement, 27 years of which were spent as Lincoln County's resident Fish and Wildlife officer monitoring pesky cougars, black bears and litterers, Curt Wood headed for retirement May 25. Wood, a Wisconsin native who now lives in Mill Canyon, hung up his badge and now looks forward to more time spent with his four grandchildren. He doesn't plan to stay indoors, as his retirement plans include plenty of hunting, fishing and trav...
DAVENPORT--An avid 4-H kid raised on a wheat and cattle farm in Lincoln County, Don Llewellyn never outgrew his childhood love of livestock husbandry. The Washington State University Livestock Extension Specialist came home this spring. Llewellyn is putting his practical, positive approach to work for the people of his native county and started as the new director for Lincoln County Extension May 16. "It's a great opportunity to come full circle," he said. "To come back here...
DAVENPORT—The Willow Ridge apartment complex and safe house for victims of abuse or violence is expected to transfer from Family Resource Center to Rural Resources Monday, June 27, Cruze Thompson of Rural Resources told the Lincoln County Commissioners Tuesday, June 21. The transfer has been in process for months, and issues at Willow Ridge have occurred for four years, commissioner Scott Hutsell noted. All residents at Willow Ridge now have their own accounts with the city, Thompson said. However, the contract with Rural R...
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 13 Traffic stops: 0 An expected death was reported on the 100 block of Eighth Street in Davenport. A caller reported he had been scammed. An Edwall man reported a suspicious vehicle. Lincoln County District C...
Government and community meetings and gatherings in Davenport, Odessa, Harrington, Reardan and Sprague for the week of June 24-30. If you’d like your organization included in this tab, email dteditor@centurytel.net. Monday, June 27 Odessa town council meeting at 7 p.m. in the Library Wednesday, June 29 Davenport school board meeting at 6 p.m. in the HS Auditorium Reardan-Edwall school board meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Commons Harrington school board meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Commons...
DAVENPORT-- The Senior Center is in danger of having to close its doors and losing its ability to provide its meal program for senior citizens. Due to the present state of the economy, including high fuel and food costs, COVID-19 restrictions (past and ongoing) and the loss of many of our members and financial support of those members, the senior center may have to close. The Davenport Senior Center provides meals to approximately 30 local seniors three days per week. They work closely with Lincoln Hospital and Clinic with...
SEVEN BAYS-The current police chief in Reardan wants to level up. Andy Manke, a former Lincoln County Sheriff's Office deputy and a 22-year retired veteran of the Army/National Guard, is one of five candidates running for Lincoln County Sheriff this election cycle. The decision to run was an easy one for the county native. "I have the biggest leadership resume out of all the candidates combined," Manke said. "I've had professional development in leadership, not to mention the...
REARDAN-After a considerable amount of thought, Pete Brickner is running for Lincoln County Treasurer. "I want the citizens of Lincoln County to have a choice," Brickner said. "I don't believe the two choices that were presented were enough. So, I put my name into the hat." His decision to run was not a spontaneous one. "I've been considering running for treasurer for a long time," he said. "It wasn't a spur of the moment plan." Brickner said he would have regretted not...
DAVENPORT--Lincoln County Fire District No. 5 recently received a donation of canned emergency drinking water from leading brewer, Anheuser-Busch, to help provide critical hydration to its responders during this year's wildfire season. On June 22, King Beverage Inc, a local Anheuser-Busch wholesaler partner, dropped off 2,352 cans to the department to help support its wildfire response. Maintaining firefighters' hydration during long incidents or disasters such as wildfires...
Davenport birthdays June 24: Emma Johnson, Mike Hale, Callen Wynecoop, Linda Spencer, Patty Hupp, Bo Gustaveson ♱ June 26: Craig Deppner, Stephanie Zeiler June 27: Kelli Wilkie, Darci Dennis, Cindy Warner June 28: Mariah Liebing, Emmett McCowan June 29: Ryan Slahtasky, Cade Hardin June 30: Paige Van Buren, Anthony Smith, Jason Schillinger Davenport anniversaries June 24: Frosty and Jill Freeze June 25: Glen and Nancy Reinbold, Tom and Jolie Sorensen June 26: Brad and Kim Cole, Doug and Patti Ensor, Roy and Susan Alspach J...
Ellen Marie Geissler, 90, of Davenport, Washington passed away on Sunday, June 19, 2022. Ellen was born on June 4, 1932 in Davenport to Theodore and Ella Harms. She enjoyed growing up on the farm near Mondovi and getting into mischief while doing farm chores with her twin sister, Elaine. She often told the story about hanging Elaine on a nail in the chicken coop and Elaine couldn’t get down. Since they looked identical, they enjoyed pulling pranks on boyfriends and teachers by...
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...
ODESSA – The kids' fishing derby held Saturday morning, June 11, on private property at Schafer's pond south of Odessa was sponsored by the Crab Creek Alliance, the second event held this year by this newly organized Odessa non-profit. Many contributors to the event provided fishing poles for those who did not have them (although most brought their own), as well as everything from nightcrawlers for bait, hand-tied fishing flies by Rennie Tassell of Rosalia, and even c...
Ray was born to Clara and Archie Hoople on Nov. 20, 1927 in Davenport, Wash. and passed away June 5, 2022 in Moses Lake, Wash. Ray had an older sister Irene and younger brother Edward. After graduation from Davenport High School, he enlisted in the US Coast Guard and married Eleanor Hopkins in 1948. They were married for 73 years before her passing Jan. 2022. Ray worked for Texaco and Phillips 66 Oil Company in Davenport and Soap Lake, Wash. He farmed many years for the Rux fa...
Clara Dorothea “Dot” Klein, 87, passed away peacefully May 23, 2022 at her daughter and son-in-law’s home in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born Aug. 1, 1934 to Clara and LeRoy Duncan on her maternal grandparent’s farm in Dietrich, Idaho, joining an older sister. Clara’s parents were ministers, so the family moved quite a bit in her early years. The family lived in Indian Springs, Idaho until she was about three years of age, then moved to Deer Lodge, Mont., where she started e...
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...
