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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, July 18: A Creston man reported a storage unit in the 300 block of SW C Street had been broken into. A lock was cut off and the contents rummaged through, with some items stolen. A caller repo...
The Odessa area wheat crop is now being harvested and delivered to the town's two grain cooperatives. The Odessa Trading Company (a division of Ritzville Warehouse) received an initial load of club wheat on July 1 in the Batum area southwest of Odessa, according to marketing manager Mark Cronrath. He estimates that about 30 to 35 percent of the wheat harvest has already been delivered to the Trading Company's rural and in-town stations. Over at the Odessa Union Warehouse,...
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, July 11: EMTs from Reardan and Edwall assisted Davenport ambulance personnel in caring for a 67-year-old Edwall woman suffering severe abdominal pain. A Davenport woman reported she was the...
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, June 27: A Davenport woman reported receiving fraudulent phone calls from someone identifying themselves as with “Children’s Chance.” Aboard a house boat in the river north of Hawk Creek cam...
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, June 20: After a Davenport mother’s call to dispatchers about her two sons, ages 9 and 12, not returning home from the Water Park pool, a couple of deputies launched a search that ended when...
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, June 13: A deputy provided traffic control after a motor home towing a boat became inoperative in the middle of Hawk Creek Road at Miles Creston Road. A patrol vehicle was involved in a collis...
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, June 6: A Mondovi area resident described a man looking into the windows of a house from a patio. A woman was observed sleeping in a running vehicle parked at the U.S. 2 Telford rest are...
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, May 30: Trader’s Express in Davenport was given erroneous information by a driver who attempted to leave with a gas nozzle still in the vehicle’s tank, breaking it off. No one was hurt af...
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, May 9: Reardan emergency personnel assisted Spokane County authorities who discovered a vehicle off the roadway on Coulee Hite Road with the driver at the wheel. A collision involving a veh...
Odessa’s Travis Schuh turned in the fastest time among Odessa and Lincoln County runners in Spokane’s Bloomsday race May 1. He finished his race in 48:55, narrowly outpacing Davenport’s 18-year-old Nathan Hopkins who had a time of 50:07. Almira’s Darren McCall finished in 1:05:34, Creston’s Alicia Rosman in 1:21:21, Edwall’s Mariah Wollweber in 1:31:42, Harrington’s Jaeger Jacobson in 1:09:45, Reardan’s Carson Torkelson in 1:17:40, Sprague’s Tracey Korthuis in 1:12:36 and Wilbur’s Eric Wyborney in 1:00:12. Schuh plac...
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, May 2: A cow got stuck in a fence near SR 23 and Ringwood Road in the Sprague area. A Davenport woman said she discovered a smashed cigarette on the deck of a residence in the 300 block of...
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, April 25: Wilbur ambulance and MedStar aerial ambulance personnel, along with an off-duty firefighter and sheriff’s deputies assisted in the transport of a patient from the U.S. 2 Telfo...
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, April 11: Acknowledging she and her dog are afraid of cats, a Wilbur woman phoned in her concern that a stray cat had gotten inside her house. A woman was injured in a one-vehicle rol...
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 28: A collared pit bull dog was reported to be growling at people outside a store at Eighth and Morgan streets in Davenport. The animal was taken into custody. A deputy responded to a re...
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 21: Dispatchers received calls from at least two Sprague residents reporting a suspicious vehicle occupied by a man in his early 30s with a beard and moustache, wearing a ball cap and...
New pastor Harrington United Methodist Church and the Zion United Methodist Church have recently been blessed with a new pastor, Michelle Mitchell, commuting from her home north of Davenport. She comes with a diverse work history and commitment to service in a wide range of ministries. She spent 25 years as a university professor with a PhD in computer science. “My most recent full time appointment was at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, although I taught as an adjunct at Whitworth for a couple of semesters after moving to S...
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 14: A Sprague man was arrested in connection with the burglary of a residence in the 300 block of East 1st in Sprague after a woman reported food, about $200 cash, records and mov...
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 7: A Davenport woman reported receiving a fraudulent phone call from someone claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service. Reardan Police investigated a possible harassment inc...
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. 29: A Reardan woman requested a county deputy’s help with allegations of vehicle theft and drug use. A Davenport caller reported speeding vehicles on Sixth Street as it becomes McInn...
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. 22: A woman staying at a Davenport motel reported she wasn’t able to find two suitcases she left near the county courthouse. A Davenport woman told dispatchers someone was attem...
Harrington Historic Preservation Commission Saturday, February 6, the commission met at the Miller residence with Celeste Miller, Aileen Sweet, Anita Harman and Lindsey Hutsell present. Suggestions had been made to invite specific citizens to ascertain their potential interest in serving on the commission, since there is a need to increase membership. However, no one had been contacted in the interim. A motion passed to have Hutsell create a time-line of the group’s accomplishments from its inception to the present. Informati...
Executive Director Lincoln County Economic Development Council Goals developed for 2015 and steps taken to accomplish them are discussed in this article by Margie Hall. Key goal 1: Retain, expand and recruit businesses During 2015, the EDC provided assistance or training to 53 businesses, ranging from start-ups to established firms. We also hosted our second business-to-business networking dinner to help owners and managers from across the county get to know each other’s products and services. One of the training events we h...
The February 9 special election held in Lincoln County saw the school and hospital levies in Odessa and Harrington pass by comfortable margins. Of the 5,823 registered voters in 40 precincts, 3,107 had returned ballots by February 12 when the last count was tabulated for a voter turnout of 53.36 percent. The election will be certified on February 19. Odessa School District 105’s Proposition 1 (Replacement Maintenance and Operation Levy) passed within Lincoln County by 323 to 114 votes or 73.91 to 20.09 percent. When the f...
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. 1: Three county jail inmates, including one housed under contract with the state Department of Corrections and another from Adams County, got into a fight shortly after corrections off...
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. 18: The driver of a vehicle that went off U.S. 2 and into a ditch near the county line east of Reardan was placed into custody by the Washington State Patrol on suspicion of driving und...
