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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. Aug. 27: A railroad crossing malfunction was reported at the Mondovi crossing. A broken window was discovered at the Davenport city pound at Eleventh and Ross streets. A juvenile boy was identified...
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. Aug. 13: Sprague firefighters handled a brush fire at SR 23 and Ringwood Road. Two llamas were reported at-large on Fitness Lane near SR 28 near Davenport. A local logger's skidder was reported...
The Ritzville Art Gallery has begun featuring different artists on the first Friday of each month. On September 7, several local authors will be featured and will be signing their published works and discussing their upcoming books. Dr. Miles Athey Miles Athey, Ritzville resident, will discuss his most recent publications, a Western trilogy of historical fiction about Ritzville in 1882 called Crab Creek Chronicles. Dr. Athey spent most of his career as a technical researcher, consultant and college professor. Over the past...
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. July 30: After Lincoln County Pharmacy personnel reported a man had shoplifted two candy bars, two deputies had a suspect detained in the Davenport city park. Anticipating a visit to the area to asses...
Football The Odessa-Harrington Titan football team will hold its first practice on Wednesday, August 15, at 6 p.m. in Odessa. Any student athletes wishing to participate need to obtain the proper forms from either Odessa School District or Harrington School District. The forms must be filled out completely prior to participation. Student athletes also will need to make sure their sports physical is current for this upcoming season. Please contact either Odessa School District or Harrington School District if there are any...
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. July 23: Two individuals were booked into the county jail for trespassing after a Riffe Road resident reported that a suspicious vehicle with headlights off pulled into a shop area. An argument...
The area’s wheat harvest is now in full swing. A few farmers were ready to go a week ago, but the prior weekend’s thunderstorm postponed things for a few more days while everything dried out again. According to both Mark Cronrath of the Odessa Trading Company and Byron Behne of the Odessa Union Warehouse Company, frost damage from last winter is turning out to be the primary weather event affecting yields for most farmers this year. Both men also said that yields ranged all...
The hiring of a new science teacher for Odessa High School was approved at the July 25 meeting of the Odessa School Board. Seth Hodges comes to Odessa from St. Michael’s, a private Catholic high school on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. The school there is about the same size as Odessa’s school. Hodges is originally from Washington and his elderly mother still lives in the state, so he was looking for a way to move back “home.” The board also accepted the resignation of Darin Reppe as the athletic director for the Odessa-...
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. July 16: A county Public Works crew estimated they'd need a couple of hours to clear a tree that fell across the roadway at Downs and McKinley roads. Four horses in a pasture along SR 28 in the...
Pioneer Days were held in Davenport last weekend, with Odessa’s community float and royalty participating in the Saturday parade. Part of the weekend activities was a production of the musical Annie by Davenport Theatrical. The production was held at Davenport High School. Several people from the surrounding area had parts in the play, some of whom have been involved in theater in some way for years. Karen Brewster was in fine form and excellent voice as the irascible Miss H...
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. July 9: A lightning strike set a tree on fire in the Neal Canyon area near Wilbur. Deputies were unable to locate a vehicle that a caller reported had run off Jones Bay Road and down a steep grade. A...
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. July 2: Davenport deputies responded to a verbal dispute at a Fifth Street residence after a caller told dispatchers about loud shouting originating from there. Davenport ambulance personnel assisted...
A report first appearing in the Harrington Citizen and then carried in the Spokane Spokesman-review and the Seattle Times in July 1909 didn’t amuse R.S.Crowl, the editor of The Odessa Record. In fact, he was furious about a story, which had it that all of the farm land southwest of Odessa was adrift in sand. The Record fired back with this front-page article in its July 12 issue: If a person were inclined to believe all of the stories gotten up by many unreliable corespondents, by this time he might really believe that the p...
I urge your readers once again to contact their members of Congress and demand that Congress fix the problem it created in 2006 for the United States Postal Service. In 2006, Congress decreed that the USPS must fully fund current and future employees’ pension and health care costs to the tune of $5.5 billion a year. The Republican-dominated Congress required this funding to be done in 10 years to cover the costs for the next 75 years! No business pays 75 years into the future for its employees’ pension and health benefits. No...
Jim Kershner, whose recent article in the Spokesman Review featured the Harrington Opera House and BankBlock, will be presenting a Humanities Washington program entitled, “Two Extraordinary Lives in the Inland Northwest: Carl Maxey and Chief Moses.” This free event will be held on Friday, July 13 at 7 p.m. in the Opera House auditorium. Kershner is a well-known author, historian and journalist in Spokane and is a staff historian for HistoryLink.org, an online Encyclopedia 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. June 25: Dispatchers took a report of a truck that passed another vehicle on the shoulder, cutting it off, at the Spokane County line on SR 2. Damage was reported by the driver of the second vehicle....
Several parents of spring 2012 college graduates from Odessa and its nearest neighboring towns submitted photos and information on their children’s progress. The official results have now also been released by Washington State University and are included below, regardless of whether prior articles have appeared in The Record about any given student. Honors earned by students are listed as follows: summa cum laude for a cumulative grade point average of 3.90 or better, magna cum laude for a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.70 b...
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. June 18: A Bald Ridge Road resident described construction trucks traveling at unsafe speeds. A caller advised dispatchers that a vehicle tailgated him on Morgan Street through Davenport. Wilbur...
The Odessa School Board met June 19 to consider an offer to purchase the old bus barn. The Odessa Trading Company’s offer of the district’s minimum asking price of $57,000 was accepted by unanimous vote of the board. The board discussed three bids it had received for the construction of two different sizes of a new storage facility for the district’s vehicles. The bid from Johnson Brothers Construction was accepted for erection of a 50' x 72' free-standing pole structure attached to the grandstand. The board asked for chang...
Helen F. Sandygren, 91, died June 18, 2012 in Spokane, Wash. Her home was Harrington, Wash. She was born on January 30, 1921 in Rocklyn, Wash. to Edward and Frieda Mielke. She graduated from Harrington High School in 1939. She is survived by her son, John Sandygren and his wife Lisa; five grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren; brother, George Mielke (Edwina); and sister-in-law Dorothy Mielke, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her...
On July 10, 2012, AgVentures NW is sponsoring a varietal strip trial tour at Mike Miller’s farm on Rehn Road in Adams County, Paul Porter, Seed Division Manager has announced. The tour will start at 5:30 p.m., showcasing new wheat variety releases from six different wheat breeders: Washington State University, Oregon State University, Syngenta – AgriPro Wheats, USDA-ARS, Limagrain Cereals Seeds and WestBred. The tour will include soft white winter wheat, a two-gene, beyond-tolerant soft-white winter, several hard-red win...
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. June 11: Lincoln County authorities were asked by their Adams County counterparts to keep an eye out for a vehicle carrying two individuals suspected in an attempted robbery of a semi-truck driver on...
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. June 4: Two vehicles were involved in a collision on SR 174 north of Wilbur. A moose calf was spotted behind the Davenport football field and near the Lincoln County Museum. A caller told dispatchers...
Editor’s note: This article was not received in time for last week’s issue, although it did appear on our website last week. We include it here for our paper edition readers. Harrington School District Superintendent Mike Perry sent a letter to all parents and staff Wednesday, June 6, on the subject of potential pertussis (whooping cough) exposure by students of the school district. On June 5, he received notification that there was a confirmed diagnosis of pertussis (whooping cough) within the Harrington School District and...
Mark Stedman of Mohler/Harrington would like to become the next Lincoln County Commissioner, Position #1. He faces Alan Stromberger of Sprague and Kim Ramm of Odessa in the primary election to be held this summer. The primary will narrow the race to two candidates who will face off in the November general election. Stedman may not be a familiar face to most Odessa residents, but he is very well known in other parts of Lincoln County. He served as the superintendent of the Harrington School District for six years and then as...
