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Hall of Fame Members Athlete Graduated Inducted *Deceased Fran Birge 1957 2016 * Karen Nichol Christensen 1971 2020 Keith Cronrath 1973 2018 Matt Cronrath 2008 2021 Dalles Deife 1994 2018 Carol Michaelsen Evavold 1963 2020 Joe Evavold 1985 2019 Jon Evavold 1962 2016 Al Fink 1949 2016 Ryan Floch 1999 2016 * Harley Frank 1951 2017 * Dan Gettman 1962 2020 Nancy Schauerman Glines 1970 2020 Marci Smith Grall 1996 2020 Marie Cronrath Grasso 1977 2018 Jesse Hardt 1991 2016 Jennie Harp 2006 2021 Ellen Homberg Holman 1982 2018 Sandy...
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 9 Traffic stops: 12 A woman reported a suspicious male wearing a denim shirt and brown pants sleeping next to her fence. A Davenport woman reported a lost llama. A Davenport man said he wanted more patrols in the...
DAVENPORT—Council passed five resolutions at its regular council meeting May 12 after hearing reports from the finance committee, fire/police committee and mayor Brad Sweet. The first resolution allows the city to surplus unused supplies and equipment. Bids on the following items will be accepted June 1-14: A 1992 Chevy 4X4 pickup, a 1972 GMC 5500 series flat-bed truck, a Whitco pressure washer 4100, steel stamped street signs, a 1999 Wells Cargo trailer, a bookshelf, miscellaneous runway/taxilane lighting fixtures, an A...
DAVENPORT—What the city’s partnership with Lincoln County Fire District No. 5 will look like in the future was a point of discussion at the police/fire committee meeting that took place before city council’s regular meeting May 12. Fire District No. 5 Commissioner Mike Piper and Chief Craig Sweet attended the meeting with committee members Heath Becker, Cory Hollis and Patrick Katz and mayor Brad Sweet. City administrator Steve Goemmel and clerk Dave Leath were also part of the discussion. Three options for city fire servi...
DAVENPORT – Lincoln County Commissioners hosted a public hearing regarding Community Economic Revitalization Board funding for Lincoln County’s rural broadband project during a meeting May 17. Economic Development Director Janice Cepeda presented the portion of the project, which would provide high-speed, open access broadband to Wilbur, Creston, Almira and Harrington by August 2022. No member of the public spoke. The CERB grant funding application approved by commissioners is for $2 million. The county would have to mat...
DAVENPORT – The city maintained its revenue and expenditures plan in the first quarter to remain in the black, according to the financial report released and discussed at the finance committee’s May 12 meeting. The committee, which consists of councilmembers Nathan Hansen, Lance Strite and Theresa Telford, was left with only one question. Strite inquired about the property tax revenue, which has been $2,055 so far…just 0.8% of the budgeted $265,000 for the year. City clerk Dave Leath explained that typically property taxes...
PULLMAN – Washington State University professor Lav Khot has been named interim director of AgWeatherNet. Khot takes over as director for Dave Brown, who stepped down. "We want to make sure this high-quality data is collected and distributed to grower stakeholders so they can make informed decisions that benefit their operations and the state of Washington," Khot said. Khot will serve an interim term of two years and is an associate professor in biological systems e...
DAVENPORT – Seven department heads or representatives gave updates and shared goals/requests at the School Board’s quarterly meeting Monday, May 17. The presentations followed the approval of the consent agenda, which included hiring Morgan Hunt and Kyra Arland as elementary teachers, Tracy Winzer as secondary ELA, Jennifer Hargrave as ALE/Options Program teacher/director and Tim Zeiler as junior high boys basketball head coach. Sarah Sweetser gave a food services presentation and described how food service workers have tra...
Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law Senate Bill 5228, to existing standards and training for public school workers, to combat institutional racism in our public schools. Next, state government will require students to learn the same as part of their curriculum. That will further divide them against each other in and out of the classroom. There is nothing "critical" about the human race, only the politically correct disease pushed on to the American people in the guise of racial compassion, where there is no systemic racism, but...
DAVENPORT – 1st Place - Computer Problem Solving: Gunnar Knutson; Knutson will participate at the FBLA National Leadership Convention. 1st Place - Partnership with Business Project: Navia Bowdish, Kylee Buchanan and Allison Jorden; This group will participate at the FBLA National Leadership Convention. 4th Place - Business Plan: Zackary Bruce, Evan Gunning and Jesse Raugust; This group will participate at the FBLA National Leadership Convention. 6th Place - Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure: Zackary Bruce 6th Place - L...
Ruth Rose (Morrison) Van Buren 1945 - 2021 Ruth Rose (Morrison) Van Buren passed away peacefully May 1, 2021, at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur D' Alene, ID. We bid goodbye to our loving mother. She was born in Tomahawk, Wisconsin on April 9, 1945 to Gladys G Petta Morrison and James Hugh Morrison. Ruth was one of three children; proceeded in death by her brother Gary and survived by her brother Ron. Ruth served in the Special Services Department of the Navy from 1965 to...
Grant A. Van Buren 1949 - 2021 Grant A. Van Buren, 72, passed away peacefully April 26, 2021, at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane. The Good Lord invited Grant to the great hunting ground and brought him home. Grant was born Feb. 10, 1949 to Clara Reinbold Van Buren and Otto Van Buren in Ritzville Wash. Grant grew up in Davenport and was one of 5 siblings. He was preceded in death by his sisters Dona Van Buren Patti, Sandy Van Buren Knapp and survived by his brother Glenn...
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 9 Traffic stops: 12 A woman reported a suspicious male wearing a denim shirt and brown pants sleeping next to her fence. A Davenport woman reported a lost llama. A Davenport man said he wanted more patrols in the...
DAVENPORT—This week, May 17-21, is early filing week for candidates interested in running for office in open positions on the Lincoln County ballot for the August primary and November general elections. As of May 18, 38 total candidates had filed and been approved by the Lincoln County Auditor. A complete list of open positions can be found in the May 6 issue of The Times. Here are all the candidates that have filed for positions in Davenport, Harrington, Sprague, Reardan and Edwall thus far. Only one race is contested to t...
DAVENPORT – A Lincoln County Jail inmate has been found dead for the second time in the last month. Mark W. Robinson, 45, was being held in jail and awaiting transfer to the state Department of Corrections when he was found dead during a routine cell check around 11:30 p.m. May 6. Officials believe Robinson committed suicide. Family members have been notified. Two days earlier, Robinson was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to five felony no-contact order violations. He was found mentally competent b...
DAVENPORT – A Creston man convicted of first-degree child molestation was sentenced to 12 months confinement in Lincoln County Jail. Mathew Scott Chafin, 31, will also serve lifetime probation and five years of treatment after he was found guilty of the charge in Superior Court May 4. Chafin originally pleaded guilty Dec. 15. A jury trial date had been for March 20 and readiness status set for Feb. 16, according to Lincoln County Superior Court records. At that Feb. 16 court appearance, a 40-day mental evaluation was a...
REARDAN – Council approved a request of police chief Andy Manke to begin the hiring process of two new reserve officers at its May 6 regular meeting. Manke is eligible to retire near the end of 2022. Candidates are not set in stone yet, but council’s motion allows the police department to begin the process of hiring new law enforcement reserve officers for when Manke steps away. The unanimously approved motion was council’s only official action taken. During the public comment section, a roughly 20-minute discussion betwe...
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 2 Traffic stops: 7 A Reardan man requested help with a lockout. A woman called 911 in a panic and didn’t want the dispatcher to talk to her husband. May 3 Traffic stops: 8 A Davenport woman reported suspicious cir...
Raymond Mattox 1932-2021 Raymond Mattox passed away May 1, 2021 at his home in Reardan, Wash. He was born Oct. 15, 1932 in Ronan, Mont. to Leland and Gertrude Mattox. Raymond married Linnea Anderson on Feb. 20, 1953 in Seattle, Wash. Raymond was a plumber and he owned and operated Ray's Plumbing in Everett for several years before moving to eastern Washington where he developed Rocky Top Estates. Raymond loved the outdoors with family and friends camping, hunting and fishing,...
May 4 vs. St. George’s Girls Singles: #1 Singles – Annie Sawyer from SG defeated Mackenzie Bramer from Dav, 6-2, 6-3 #2 Singles – No Match | #3 Singles – No Match Boys Singles: #1 Singles – Robert Deforest from SG defeated Kale Smith from Dav, 6-0, 6-1 #2 Singles – Ian Reichel from SG, defeated Brendan Wilson from Dav, 6-0, 6-2 #3 Singles – No Match Girls Doubles: #1 Doubles – No Match | #2 Doubles – No Match Boys Doubles: #1 Doubles – No Match | #2 Doubles – No Match Pro Set – Mixed Singles May 6 vs. Reardan (all pro sets) O...
DAVENPORT – 12 athletes from Davenport and Reardan high schools have made the all-NE2B teams for football and volleyball, which this year ran from February to early April due to previous COVID-19 cancellations. The Gorillas had four football players and two volleyball players represented, while the Indians had five football players and one volleyball players on the all-league teams. Davenport junior Willie Waters headlined the group, making the first team for both offensive and defensive lines. Senior linebacker Skyler Henry,...
REARDAN – Three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning was enough to dig the Indians out of a deep hole in their district playoff game against the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos Tuesday, May 11. Reardan ended its season with a 15-6 loss at home and finished the truncated campaign 5-8. LRS jumped on Reardan early, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning. The Indians held the Broncos scoreless for the following three innings, but three runs in the fifth, five runs i...
CHEWELAH – Split between events and individuals, the Davenport track and field team will have 42 representatives at the District 7 2B championships in Ritzville May 13 after the North qualifying meet May 7. Reardan, meanwhile, totaled 13 qualifications after the South qualifying meet in Colfax. The top eight finishers in each event qualified for districts. If an event featured fewer than eight participants, all finishing participants qualified. Any athletes that scratched d...
Susan Ann (Coombs) Els, 79, passed away at Lincoln Hospital in Davenport on Fri. May 7, 2021. She was born in Spokane on Nov. 23, 1941, the daughter of Donald and Evelyn (Talkington) Coombs. She graduated from Harrington High School in 1960, where she was active in band, the school newspaper, and tennis. She attended Washington State University, graduating in 1964. On June 20, 1964, she married James H. “Jim” Els, also of Harrington, at the Harrington Community Church. The...
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 2 Traffic stops: 7 A Reardan man requested help with a lockout. A woman called 911 in a panic and didn’t want the dispatcher to talk to her husband. May 3 Traffic stops: 8 A Davenport woman reported suspicious cir...
