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Tayla Lynn and Eric Tingstad were to perform at the Harrington Opera House this Friday. After the original booking in Harrington, Tayla was asked to appear at the taping of a PBS/BBC and SONY Music American Masters documentary on Loretta Lynn this week. In addition, she was asked to open for her "Memaw," Loretta Lynn October 11 in the Ryman Theatre and perform a two-hour show at Tootsies, a famous honky tonk located behind the Ryman in Nashville, Tenn. So now fans will have ex...
Ray (Bud) Pfeifer passed away October 3, 2014, in Ellensburg, formerly of the Soap Lake and Marlin areas. He is survived by his two children Marilyn (Michael) Santangelo and Lyle (Marlene) Pfeifer along with his six grandchildren: Joe (Casey) Giovanelli, Maggie Santangelo and Mitchell, Matthew, Brian and Kaitlin Pfeifer. Ray has four brothers Cecil, Dale, Loren and Keith Pfeifer, along with three sisters, Lois Starkel, Lorene Arbuckle and Donna Rainey, and numerous nieces and...
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, Sept. 29: A caller reported a horse missing in the Devils Gap area north of Reardan. A Creston man reported three llamas messing up his garden and rubbing on a truck parked in the 300 block of NE Foster. The...
This past Saturday, the Big Red Barn Farmers Market in Davenport hosted a Farm-to-Table event. Local chefs, Adam Hegsted and Aaron Fish prepared a five-course meal in which all the food was provided by market vendors and travelled no more than 45 miles to the table. The event was hosted in the historic Big Red Barn two miles east of Davenport. The barn is listed on the National Historic Barn Registry and was restored by Davenport native, Crayton Guhlke. To say the dinner was...
Harrington alumni began arriving in the week prior to the Harrington Fall Festival, and the town had a flurry of activity preceding Saturday's festival events. With flags flying on Third Street, the parade route was being hand-swept on Friday. USBank was serving hotdogs, and the weather seemed ideal. The Lions Club members were in the city park at their barbeque pit. Water was being applied to the field east of the school bus garage in preparation for the early Saturday mud...
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, Sept. 22: A report of possible poaching occurring in the Bald Ridge area northeast of Davenport was referred to the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. Deputies checked out a report that bet...
The Odessa School Board met on September 24 for their regular monthly meeting to approve the resignations of Sam Read as golf coach and Rachel Roberts as assistant junior-high girls basketball coach, a salary rider adjustment in Julie Wehr’s contract, naming Terri King as Senior College Advisor, Ellen Holman as Senior Class Advisor, Ben Burbank as the FFA advisor and Landon Lobe as a volunteer trap shoot advisor. Principal Jamie Nelson told the board about upcoming homecoming activities planned for the week beginning O...
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, Sept. 15: A collision involving a truck and deer occurred on Tokio Road between Jantz Road and SR 21. A Reardan woman reported receiving a scam phone call advising that her computer was about to crash and she...
Tuesday evening, September 16, in the city park, president Celeste Miller opened the meeting of the Harrington Historic Preservation Commission at 6:45 with Karen Allen, Aileen Sweet, Terry Howe, Anita Harman and Marge Womach present. Shortly thereafter Lindsay Harder arrived and the meeting continued. Discussion was held regarding the windows of the HHPC office and the desire of the group to have photos on display for the Fall Festival. Miller informed the group that Chaz Bates of Studio Cascade was on vacation and that she...
To the Editor: Around three years ago, T-Mobile received a little more than $19 million in Federal FCC grant money to build multiple towers around the United States. More to the point, they received approximately $3.3 million to build five 300-foot-tall telecommunications towers in Lincoln County. The purpose of the FCC grant was to increase cell phone reception in rural areas. Now, T-Mobile and their tower builder 52 Eighty, are applying for Conditional Use Permits (CUP) in Lincoln County to erect those towers. The five...
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, Sept. 8: Three or four sports cars were observed speeding and making bad passes on U.S. 2 just outside Davenport. A motor home became stuck about 30 feet off the U.S. 2 roadway near the Lincoln County...
Harrington Opera House Society The Society’s board meeting was held September 9 with 12 people present. The meeting was preceded by several members of the community and many Society members working to clean the opera house for upcoming events. Plaster work on the upper walls in the opera room which may be completed before the Harrington Fall Festival. The track system was not installed for the stage curtains. Future potential work projects include refinishing the new stairs, refinishing the stage floor, installing the k...
One small step in the rejuvenation of Old Town Hall has been completed in plenty of time for Deutsches Fest. Old Town Hall Rejuvenation Society members waited impatiently for the weather to cool before Midnight Finishing of Davenport could make repairs to the front steps. Passersby will notice a beautiful finish on the steps, the removal of a trip hazard between the steps and the sidewalk, and the repair of some very unsightly cracks in both the sides of the steps and the...
Gorilla Classic At the Gorilla Classic Volleyball Tournament held last Saturday, September 6, in Davenport, the Odessa-Harrington girls lost to Davenport by scores of 17-25 and 12-25 and also lost to Omak by two games to one, winning the first game 27-26 but then losing the next two, 17-25 and 12-15. The Titans won their two final matches, the first one by two games to one to Almira-Coulee/Hartline. They lost the first game 12-25, then won the next two 25-22 and 15-7. In the final match against Bridgeport, the Titans won...
The Harrington Chamber of Commerce met Wednesday, September 3, under President Cassandra Paffle-Dick. Chamber members present were Bunny Haugan, Margie Hall of the Lincoln County Economic Development Council, Kathy Hoob, Cindy Haase, Allen Barth, Summer Clark (of US Bank), Sharon Nighswonger and Marge Womach. Margie Hall informed the Chamber that the broadband grant application had been submitted and may be viewed on the EDC website. She also announced two events by the EDC...
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, Sept. 1: Sprague firefighters participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and enjoyed a barbecue as well. Emergency personnel from Creston, Lincoln and MedStar air ambulance assisted a 78-year-old man who...
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, Aug. 25: Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted a man on the ground next to a van at Main and Alder yelling for help. Tuesday, Aug. 26: A collision involving a car and a piece of farm equipment took place near...
Curtis E. Finck was born February 28, 1925 in Elgin, N.D. to August and Matilda Finck. Curtis grew up in North Dakota and in 1945 joined the U.S. Army where he served until his discharge in 1946 at Ft. Lewis, Wash. On June 1, 1952, he married Sylvia Bartalamay in Odessa, and they farmed and raised their family. Sylvia passed away in 1998, and Curtis continued to live in Odessa until his death on August 21, 2014 at the age of 89. He is survived by four children: Nancy Gillen,...
The descendants of early Marlin-area farmers Jacob and Eva Kallenberger gathered at the Old Town hall and Reiman Park in Odessa, with relatives arriving from many areas. Those attending from the Phil and Nettie (Kallenberger) Pfeifer family were Myrna Bischoff of Harrington; Bob and Lorene Arbuckle of Ephrata; Howard and Claudia Pfeifer of Wilson Creek; Loren, Sharon and Marty Pfeifer, Lois Starkel and Jean Starkel all of Odessa; Ronald Pfeifer of Randal, Wash. and Jerry and...
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, Aug. 18: An inmate in the county jail hid contraband food items, extra uniforms and bedding in a cell. Another inmate's dinner was eaten by a third inmate. Others confined there clogged a day room toilet...
The Economic Development Council (EDC) invites Lincoln County businesses to attend two back-to-back events scheduled for Thursday, September 25. A social media marketing workshop entitled Winning and Building Business will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. at Davenport Memorial Hall (511 Park St.). Business owners and marketing staff will learn how to build business using websites, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+ and more. The workshop is free but requires preregistration at edcjoyce@centurylink.net or (509)725-1170....
Aug. 13, Mayor Paul Gilliland called to order the meeting of the city council with members Terry Howe, Rick Becker, Peter Davenport, Levi Schenk and Mike Cronrath present and Bunny Haugan, Scott McGowan, Margie Hall, Ashley Schenk, Charles Marsh, Sharon Schultz and Marge Womach in attendance. Margie Hall of the Economic Development Council gave an update of activities and meetings and provided the council with handouts. She noted that the mayors would be meeting on Sept. 12,...
Great Northern Railroad - Part 1, submitted by Marjorie Womach, was published on July 10 and Part 2 on July 17. Anyone interested in additional information on Northwest railroads may come to The Record office where we have several books for sale on the subject. In 1921 it was said that in order for the Harrington Harvester to sell its machines at distant towns, they used two small white mules that pulled and scratched their way up the old City Hall hill pulling one of their machines. They wrote that the belly of the mules...
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, Aug. 11: A county patrol car sustained no visible damage after a fawn ran into the car door. MedStar air ambulance used the U.S. 2 Telford rest area west of Davenport to transport a patient w...
The Harrington Opera House Society met for their monthly meeting, opened by President Mark Stedman and attended by Sheryl Stedman, Becky and Stephen Hardy, Carol, Edwin and Bunny Haugan, Billie and Gordon Herron, D. P. Charlton, Bonnie Hardy, Karen Robertson, Marge Womach and Linda Wagner. Progress might appear slow in regard to the opera house building projects, however the progress is steady in consistent increments following a master list of pieces of the structure that need work; each is thoroughly investigated and...
