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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, March 5: A Reardan woman expressed her concern that her granddaughter had not yet arrived as expected from north Spokane. Responding to the 700 block of Fifth Street, Davenport ambulance per...
DAVENPORT (March 12, 2018) – Lincoln County has launched a project to update the Hazard Mitigation Plan. The next planning meeting is open to the public and will take place on March 27, 2018, at 10 a.m. at the chambers of the Lincoln County Commissioners. This update will include integration of the existing Lincoln County Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Local agencies and organizations in Lincoln County have created a committee to complete the required five-year update of the document as part of the FEMA Pre-Disaster M...
Robert (Bob) Schultz would like to let you know his work here is done. He received a call, late afternoon on Sunday, March 4, 2018, while resting peacefully at the family farm where he was born and raised, for a trip he will not be returning from, but one that will reunite him with friends and family, including his parents, Adolph and Lydia Schultz also of Harrington. Robert is survived by his wife Vivienne of 68 years, son Randy (Myra) Schultz, daughter Marita (Ed)...
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, Feb. 19: Responding to a residence on Linstrum Road, Harrington ambulance personnel assisted a 61-year-old man with post-surgery complications. A deputy responded to a report from The Dav...
The Odessa Town Council met Monday night to hear from the candidates for the open council position, get updated on the roadway repair and reconstruction efforts and bid a fond farewell to retiring town clerk Gail Kiesz. A public hearing on the street project was led by Steve Nelson of Century West Engineering in Spokane. He presented each council member with a map of the town indicating which roads would be involved in the project, for which bids are currently being...
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, Feb. 26: A caller told dispatchers his wife, thinking someone may have been inside her Reardan residence, locked herself in an upstairs bathroom after hearing someone walk around and bang on...
1 years ago The Odessa Record February 22, 1918 Day’s work get Y.W.C.A. quota: Pro Germans and others in the state who have been opposed to the United States participating in the war will find it advisable to keep their opinions to themselves from now on. The department of home defense on the state council of defense has just issued to the county councils a complete detailed “code” of instructions and suggestions for meeting disloyalty, of whatever degree. This booklet naturally will not be made public, but it is the resul...
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, Feb. 12: Almira ambulance personnel transported a 90-year-old man with stomach pains to a local hospital. After Davenport firefighters extinguished a fire that fully engulfed a vehicle, Dav...
City Council Wednesday, February 14, the Harrington City Council met with one council member absent. In attendance were Mayor Dillon Haas, councilmen: Peter Davenport, Jeremy Sewall, Levi Schenk and Justin Slack, town clerk Bunny Haugan, maintenance supervisor Scott McGowan, and visitors Billie Herron, Brent Wilday, Marge Womach, Brian Belsby (Belsby Engineering), Stormy Stiles, Nathan Luck and Maddie, and Cherie MacClellan. Brian Belsby discussed Small Water System Management Plans and the Rural Community Assistance Corporat...
HOHS The Harrington Opera House Society met February 5 with Linda Wagner, Sheryl Stedman, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark Stedman, Cherie MacClellan, Marge Womach, Susan Larmer, Gordon Herron and Karen Robertson present. At the close of the meeting Billie Herron and Carol returned from Reardan and visited briefly. Ed Haugan gave the treasurer's report, noting that the average monthly bills for the building is $900, a figure arrived at by dividing last year's expenditures by twelve....
Dorothy "Dot" Williams died January 27, 2018 in Spokane at the age of 87. She was born August 10, 1930 to Anthony and Anna (Scrupps) Groh in Odessa. She met and then married David G. Williams in 1948. They farmed for many years before retiring in Odessa. Dot was preceded in death by her husband David in 1998, a son Wesley David Willams in 1955 and one brother Anthony "Tony" Groh. She is survived by her children Nancy (Jerry Schwab) Williams, Debra (Bill) Bayer and Craig...
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, Feb. 5: Responding to the 900 block of Fifth Street, Davenport ambulance personnel assisted a man who was described as “feeling sick and weak.” Wilbur ambulance personnel transported an 86-y...
Monday night’s meeting of the Odessa Town Council included a discussion of the recycling bins in town in which citizens are encouraged to deposit used cardboard, plastic bottles, aluminum cans and newspapers. The service was instituted several years ago when Odessa was still collecting and hauling its own waste. The tipping fees were based on the tonnage of waste delivered. To decrease the level of waste tonnage, the town opted to contract with the Lincoln County Transfer Station near Davenport to provide dumpsters for i...
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, Jan. 29: A county jail inmate was disciplined for passing a note from one cell to that of another inmate. Deputies responded to a residence in the 700 block of Marshall Street in Dav...
PDA January 23, a group from the Harrington Public Development Authority met at the Post & Office to participate in a presentation via Zoom to the Wash. State Senate Economic Development & International Trade Committee in Olympia. Harrington’s PDA had been requested to participate by Senator Maralyn Chase (32nd District, Edmonds) via contact with Margie Hall. Those presenting locally were Margie Hall (Lincoln County EDC), Heather Slack (current president of PDA), Josh Steward (prior president of PDA) and Harrington Mayor D...
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, Jan. 22: Sprague ambulance personnel joined the Washington State Patrol in response to a possible rollover collision on Interstate 90. Booker Automotive personnel in Davenport requested ass...
(Davenport, WA, Jan. 30, 2018) – Harrington’s Mayor and members of the Harrington Public Development Authority recently participated in a presentation to the State Senate Committee for Economic Development and International Trade in Olympia. Senator Maralyn Chase of Edmonds, the committee chair, had come across a 2016 press release that publicized Harrington’s downtown broadband project. The senator invited the stakeholders to share their story with the committee via the Internet from The Post & Office, a coffee shop in Ha...
Strate Funeral Home is pleased to announce the addition of Dan Verheul to their staff. Dan is a licensed funeral director/embalmer who has worked in the funeral industry for over 30 yrs. Dan will also be the pre-planning funeral counselor for Strate Funeral Home. Dan previously worked in Spokane but is very familiar with working in smaller communities. Dan is very active with the Spokane Lilac Festival Association where he has served as a director for the last four years. Dan...
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, Jan. 15: Sprague ambulance personnel joined the Washington State Patrol in responding to a report of a one-vehicle slide-off on Interstate 90. Davenport ambulance personnel tended to a wom...
August The Odessa school district reported that its purchase of the property of the late Viola Els located diagonally across the street from the gymnasium is proceeding and is scheduled for closing soon. Northwest Farm Credit Services presented a check for $2,000 to the Odessa High School chapter of FFA for its community garden project. The country home of Jeff and Amber Zagelow caught fire while the family was away on vacation. There was serious damage to the home, and the Zagelows and their four children will rent a house...
Wheatland Theatre Co. will hold auditions for its summer musical “Oklahoma!” on Saturday, February 3, at 1:30 p.m. at Davenport Middle School. Those auditioning will learn excerpts of music and choreography from the show. No preparation is required. Auditions are open to adults and high school students. Rehearsals for the production will begin twice a week in May, increasing in frequency in June, in preparation for six performances, July 20-29. All rehearsals and performances will take place in Davenport. Mileage reimbursemen...
Keith Bailey, general manager of Ag Ventures NW, LLC, has announced the business unification of all five partners in HighLine Grain: Odessa Union Warehouse Cooperative, Reardan Grain Growers, Inc., Central Washington Grain Growers, Inc., Davenport Union Warehouse Co. and Almira Farmers Warehouse, Inc. The membership within each company voted its approval for unification. The five companies will combine into HighLine Grain Growers, Inc., while continuing the tradition of independent, locally-owned cooperatives in the area. By...
1 Years Ago The Odessa Record January 18, 1918 Federal Reserve Bank for Odessa: The Farmers and Merchants Bank has just received notification that it has been admitted to membership in the Federal Reserve System, the strongest banking system of the United States. In addition to the examination of the state of Washington, it now comes under the supervision of the United States Government and the bank can avail itself of the liberal re-discount privileges offered by the...
Janice Floether Wasson died January 10, 2018 in Spokane at the age of 68. She was born November 19, 1949, in Spokane to Otto and Emma Floether. Janice enjoyed listening to Elvis Presley. Janice is survived by her son Jason Jones, one brother Doug (Merope) Floether and one nephew Michael Floether. She is preceded in death by her parents Otto and Emma Floether, one brother Gary and one sister Sharon. A funeral service will be held Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 11 a.m. at the...
Opera House Society The Harrington Opera House Society met January 8, with Pres. Linda Wagner, Carol, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Cherie MacClellan, Karen Robertson, Gordon and Billie Herron and Heather Slack present. Sensors have been installed, but a recently purchased door sweep still needs to be installed. WiFi was installed and is now available for use at meetings held in the Art Room. Purchase of a computer has not received good support. Discussion was held regarding heat and adequate lighting for the...
