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DAVENPORT-Incumbent Matt Schneider was certified as the winner of a hotly contested race for Fire District No. 5 Commissioner No. 2 by the Lincoln County elections committee Tuesday, Nov. 23. Schneider held off a strong challenge from Don Staley of Deer Meadows 349-346, with nine write-in votes tallied. Schneider secured the narrow victory by courting the farmer's vote. His votes outweighed Staley's 61-10 in rural Davenport, 54-11 in Wheatland, 50-25 in east Larene, 27-3 in...
DAVENPORT-A proposed redistricting map submitted by the State Redistricting Commission could move Lincoln County from the 13th Legislative District to the 9th Legislative District. However, the commission failed to agree on a new districting map by its Nov. 15 deadline, so the state Supreme Court will decide the final map. The four-person voting commission, which includes House Democratic Caucus Appointee April Sims, House Republican Caucus Appointee Paul Graves, Senate...
Tags are out for the Christmas Care Project and community members can stop by Davenport Pharmacy or Some Like It Hot Espresso to pick up one or more tags from the Sharing Trees. Each tag contains the age, gender and item needed for an individual in need this holiday season. Children have multiple tags for various items needed or wanted. People should only purchase what is listed on the tag since they have other people shopping for them also. Gifts are due back, unwrapped with the tag attached, at the Sharing Tree locations...
Conner Van Pevenage, a Harrington native and valedictorian of the Davenport High School Class of 2013, was one of 25 graduates of the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration selected for the college’s celebration of 25 years after re-instatement, “25@25.” Van Pevenage graduated the College of Business Administration at Pitt in 2017 and is a portfolio trading associate for Morgan Stanley....
DAVENPORT-The first sustained and sticking snowfall of the fall/winter season arrived in Lincoln County Thursday, Nov. 18 into Friday, Nov. 19, marking the first winter weather commute for local drivers. 1.7 inches of snow were recorded in the Davenport area by the National Weather Service after no snow was measured previously in November. 0.2 more inches fell in the morning hours of Tuesday, Nov. 23 to bring the week's total to 1.9 inches. Davenport averages 2.7 inches of...
Government and community meetings for the week of Nov. 26-Dec. 2. If you’d like your organization included in this tab, please email dteditor@centurytel.net. Monday, Nov. 29 Davenport school board meeting at 6 p.m. in the K-8 Library Thursday, Dec. 2 Reardan town council at 6 p.m. at the Reardan United Methodist Church...
DAVENPORT—Thanksgiving, a time to spend with family and be thankful for life’s blessings while consuming a little too much food, is here. It’s also a holiday where people often reminisce about past happenings, memories and interactions while looking ahead to the future. In that light, let’s look back at what was happening locally during the Thanksgiving holiday at various points throughout the past century. Five years ago…2016 Locals looked forward to Davenport’s Annual Hometown Christmas, where Santa was anticipated...
Dear Editor: Each Thanksgiving it is important to pause and reflect on all that we have to be grateful for. Especially over the last nearly two years of COVID, we at the UW School of Medicine-Gonzaga University Health Partnership appreciate and are very thankful for the physicians and healthcare workers in Odessa and Davenport, who, despite unprecedented stress and hardship, continued to train our medical students. We desperately need more high-quality, well-trained physicians and we simply could not achieve that goal without...
DAVENPORT—The Gorilla football team’s successful 9-2 season was reflected in the NE2B all-league teams announced this week. Five Davenport players are on the first team, with four players being recognized on both sides of the ball. Two more Gorillas are on the second team, as are two Reardan players. Davenport rode its running game and dominant line all season, and that was reflected in first team selections for seniors Willie Waters and Cody Jenkins and junior Wyatt Telecky on the offensive line. Senior running back Mar...
Davenport basketball Nov. 30 vs. Kettle Falls (nonleague) Dec. 3 at Liberty Bell (nonleague) Dec. 7 vs. Liberty (Spangle) (nonleague) Dec. 10 at Lind-Ritzville/Sprague (nonleague) Dec. 11 vs. Reardan Dec. 14 at Odessa (nonleague) Dec. 17 vs. Northwest Christian (Colbert) (nonleague) Dec. 28-30 at West Valley Christmas Tournament Jan. 4 vs. St. George’s Jan. 7 at Kettle Falls Jan. 8 vs. Liberty Bell Jan. 11 at Almira-Coulee-Hartline (nonleague) Jan. 14 vs. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Jan. 18 vs. Chewelah Jan. 22 at Colfax Jan. 25 a...
DAVENPORT--A train transporting grain through town derailed around 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20 behind the grain elevators between Third and Fourth Streets. The derailment caused Highway 28 to be closed in both directions for about 2.5 hours before re-opening when Kyle Mattox used his tractor to move train cars blocking the highway. Eight cars were still off the tracks Saturday morning. Some were completely turned over, with others slightly off the track. Some tracks just west of...
DAVENPORT--Highway 28 is closed in both directions at milepost 130 near Fitness Lane due a train derailment. According to sources in the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, several grain cars derailed behind the elevators near Fourth Street. Drivers can detour on Third and Fitness Streets. Third Street was originally blocked by derailed cars, but crews were able to clear that to create a detour. No estimated time of re-opening has been given, and no injuries have been reported. The Department of Transportation reported that it...
DAVENPORT—High winds occasionally gusting over 60 miles per hour swirled through the Inland Northwest Monday before dying down throughout Tuesday, felling trees and causing power outages. However, it appears the eastern Lincoln County area dodged severe damage from the storm. Lincoln County Public Works engineering manager Dave Sanford said crews had to respond to six fallen trees in the area. “They were blocking trees that we had to have guys out after hours to clear, but we were able to clear them without any issue,” Sanfo...
DAVENPORT—The Lincoln County Health Department has been allotted $490,000 a year over a two-year span in Foundational Public Health Funding as part of the state budget. The money will be disbursed in six-month increments beginning July 1, public health administrator Ed Dzedzy told the Lincoln County Commissioners at the commissioner’s meeting Monday, Nov. 15. Dzedzy said the department expects that funding will increase as time goes on. The department hopes to fill two new positions and re-hire an existing unfilled pos...
DAVENPORT-Lincoln County Care and Share is moving locations after 36 years in its present building two blocks behind Safeway on 13th Street. Now, the nonprofit that provides clothing and furniture to those in need has outgrown the space and is moving to a recently purchased location on Morgan Street across from Molecule Cannabis between Second and Third Streets. But before the move can take place, Care and Share has further financial needs to take care of. "This purchase has...
DAVENPORT—A speedy city council meeting culminated with council approving its lone new business item to award coronavirus relief funds to local non-profit organizations Nov. 10. The city had $35,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to disburse. The Davenport Gun Club received $30,000 total to help its ongoing shooting range project. The project will cost $65,000 total, according to meeting documentation. The Lincoln County Historical Society received the remaining $5,000. $2,500 came from the city tourism fund for museum u...
DAVENPORT—Drug paraphernalia, presumably used for consumption of marijuana, was found in the first-floor women’s bathroom of Superior Court in the Lincoln County Courthouse Tuesday, Nov. 9, according to records. A semi-clear straw and tinfoil were spotted by two unnamed women in the east-side large stall in the bathroom. Deputy Brian Hudspeth said both items were charred, indicating they had been used for drug consumption that was likely marijuana, according to Sheriff Wade Magers. Hudspeth took both items to the She...
DAVENPORT--We are all approaching the time of that seasonal "cooped up" feeling that visits when Old Man Winter arrives in town. You can choose to pass this time indoors to read a good book, play a crossword puzzle or take a Sunday drive. If the latter is your preference, then I suggest you start in Davenport where history can be found all around. Take for instance a concrete rectangle standing near the alley on Ninth Street between Maxwell and Main. You've probably driven or...
COWICHE-Reardan soccer's Cinderella-like run into the state B soccer playoffs came to an end in the quarterfinals against No. 3 seed Highland 2-1 Saturday, Nov. 13 in the Yakima Valley area. The team finished its season 10-8-1 after making the playoffs for the first time in the schools' two seasons of existence. "It was a pretty spirited game," Reardan head coach Brian Scott said. "It was a lot of fun, other than being on the losing side." The teams played a scoreless match...
DAVENPORT—Gorilla football head coach Justin Young was informed last week that he was named the Seattle Seahawks High School Coach of the Week for Week 8 amongst statewide 1B, 2B, 1A and 2A schools. Davenport throttled Chewelah 42-18 in Week 8 to clinch a top-two seed in the NE2B standings and a home District 6 crossover game to advance to the state playoffs, in which the Gorillas topped Lake Roosevelt to secure their playoff spot. Young led Davenport to a 9-2 season overall. Young, a self-proclaimed Seahawks fan, won $500 f...
SPOKANE-Five local players have been named to the NE2B girls soccer All-League First Team, while another Gorilla was named honorable mention. Reardan had three players represented on the first team, while two Davenport players received the honor. Reardan, which was the only league team to advance past the first round of the state playoffs, featured freshman Noelle Raczykowski and seniors Ayden Krupke and Madalyn Dewey on the First Team. Davenport eighth-grader Glenna Soliday...
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. Nov. 8 Traffic stops: 7 A caller reported a black cow loose on Highway 2 at milepost 244 that the caller honked at and chased toward a fence. Wilbur School District said a parent showed up to a student-teacher con...
HARRINGTON – Council discussed bills, COVID-19 relief funds, public works employees and apartments at its Nov. 10 meeting. Casey Monge will no longer be needed for her license as operator to cover the wastewater treatment plant, since Devin in the Public Works Department now has his license. Councilmember Peter Davenport asked about attorney fees and whether they were all used for consultation for creation of the new City Handbook. Mayor Nathan Luck said the fees were for the...
DAVENPORT--The Davenport football was named the No. 8 seed for the state playoffs and will take on the No. 9 Toledo Riverhawks of the Central 2B League in the first round of the tournament. Toledo is 9-2 overall this season. The Riverhawks' only losses are to fellow 2B playoff contestants in No. 1 Kalama and No. 5 Onalaska. The Riverhawks play a similar style to Davenport, relying on a strong, physical rushing attack and a solid front-seven defense while passing very little an...
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. Nov. 1 Traffic stops: 21 A Harrington man called the Sheriff’s Office to argue about the medical necessity of COVID-19 vaccines. A Spokane man reported a possible overdose situation. A caller said she hit a deer, but...
