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Government and community meetings in the Davenport, Reardan, Harrington, Edwall and Sprague area for the week of Oct. 1-7 Monday, Oct. 4 Lincoln County Commissioners meeting at 8 a.m. in the Lincoln County Courthouse Thursday, Oct. 7 Reardan town council at 6 p.m. in the Reardan United Methodist Church...
DAVENPORT—Reports of white-tailed deer dying from Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, or EHD, are increasing in the Inland Northwest this year. The reported deaths, which are normally around 25 a year, have reached the hundreds within the Department of Fish and Wildlife. The deaths have been reported around Lincoln County, Whitman County, Spokane and Colville. “We don’t have a way to survey exactly where all the deer are dying, but it’s more about the general magnitude of all the reports,” said Fish and Wildlife Spokane District...
LINCOLN COUNTY-Mandates, pandemics and new curriculum all appear to be influences on enrollment rates, trends and retention numbers across eastern Lincoln County. Each of the four main school districts/schools in the area have seen different enrollment trends over the past five years and have seen numbers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in different ways. In Davenport, numbers dropped before 2020 but are back to 2017 rates this year. The Reardan-Edwall School District has...
DAVENPORT—A mandate issued by the state in August that required all public and private K-12 school staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing their job has forced teachers, staff and administration in east Lincoln County to make some tough personal decisions. The deadline for school staff to be fully vaccinated is Oct. 18. The Department of Health has defined someone as fully vaccinated when they’ve received two doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or one dose of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine and...
DAVENPORT—The Lincoln County Commissioners approved two resolutions aimed at applying for a broadband construction project with the Public Works Board. The application would request federal funding on a non-matching basis for fiber broadband in Odessa, Harrington, Reardan and possibly the Hawk Creek area. Those resolutions were approved at the commissioner’s Sept. 20 meeting. Commissioner Scott Hutsell said the board doesn’t know yet how much the application will be requesting in grant funding, as county partner Petrichor is...
HARRINGTON – The Harrington Fall Festival is coming this weekend, Friday, Sept. 26-Sunday, Sept. 28. The Harrington Opera House Rummage Sale will open Friday, Sept. 24 at 9 a.m. and conclude at 3 p.m. Saturday will begin with the Pancake Breakfast from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Memorial Hall. Huff 'n' Puff Fun Run (with check-in time from 8:15-8:45) begins at 9 a.m. Also from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. will be the Harrington Opera House Rummage Sale and tours of the building from 9 a.m. to noon. The famous Lions Club BBQ is held at the c...
OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington State Department of Commerce today announced 20 rural cities, towns and counties will receive a total of more than $11.4 million in Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) for 2021. The 22 projects funded will: improve rural water, sewer, streets, community facilities and fire protection systems, support affordable housing and economic development and complete community planning for asset management, recreation and growth. Grants include funding for critical fire and emergency facility p...
DAVENPORT – Saturday, Sept. 11 marks the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States. The coordinated attacks involved the hijacking of four commercial planes that were crashed into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the west side of the Pentagon in Virginia and a field in Pennsylvania. The latter was intended to attack Washington, D.C. and was the only plane to miss i...
Adult and Youth Booth & Displays Vendor – Lincoln County Solid Waste Best of Show Grange Booths – Bluestem Grange 1st Place Other Booths Cat Nip Acres Commissioners Award Other Booths – Lincoln County Fair Advisory Board-Lindsey Smith created Best of Show Adult & Youth Posters 4-H Cloverbud Kylie Llewellyn, Almira - Nutrition in Lamb Feed Best of Show Beef 4-H Junior: Addilynn McKay,, Sprague - Beef Fitting & Showing Reserved Champion 4-H 4-H Junior Ava McKay, Sprague - Beef...
Varsity games this week for Davenport, Reardan and Harrington Friday, Sept. 10 Davenport football vs. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague @ 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11 Reardan and Harrington cross country invitational at Shadle Park @ 9:30 a.m. Reardan soccer at Connell @ 11 a.m. Reardan football vs. Oroville @ 1 p.m. Davenport volleyball vs. Northwest Christian (Colbert) @ 1:30 p.m. Davenport cross country invitational at Clarkston, time TBD Tuesday, Sept. 14 Harrington volleyball at Columbia (Hunters) @ 3:45 p.m. Davenport vs. Reardan...
HARRINGTON – Historic researcher and storyteller Rebecca Hom has asked for our readers to look in their family's old letters and see if they have any information regarding the WASPs from World War II. As unlikely as it seems, local readers might have letters written by Katherine Applegate and Vivian Witt, Harrington alumni from the Class of 1921. It was Vivian who sent the obituary of Katherine to The Citizen. Vivian had been an early telephone operator in Harrington and later resided in Illinois where she was a professional...
Montana Rose 'Tana" Hardung died July 30, 2021. She was born in Livingston, Montana to Adam and Rosa (Schiewe) Schorzman on April 3, 1927. She married Herbert H. Hardung on August 26, 1945, and they raised three children. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband and both sons, James and Thomas. She is survived by eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and her daughter, Patricia Robinson of Palm Springs, Calif. At a later date, her ashes will rest with Herb... Full story
HARRINGTON – Mayor Nathan Luck opened council’s Aug. 25 meeting with councilmembers Peter Davenport, David Buddrius, Justin Slack, Steven Hardy and Levi Schenk (by Zoom) and visitors Cherie MacClellan, Denisa Holling, Jess & Cynthia Silhan and Joe Armand. Mayor Luck gave a report on the street projects, stating that some asphalt was put in on Douglas and First (via a TIB grant), as was some chip sealing. "We will have a little money left over and will see what we can do with that money,” Luck said. Hardy asked if it could...
Davenport Elementary kindergartner Natasha Alexander is dropped off at school by her grandfather, Cliff Warwick Wednesday, Sept. 1. Superintendent Jim Kowalkowski said the first day of school was overwhelming, but went well overall as enrollment is higher than the district expected. Davenport and Harrington started school Aug. 31, while Reardan started Sept. 1....
1 locals receive Innovia scholarships The Times 10 students from the Davenport, Reardan, Harrington and Sprague area have earned Innovia scholarships for higher education. Most local scholarships were awarded by the Mondovi Grange/Wilson Farm donation fund. Two girls from Sprague were lucky enough to receive multiple scholarships. Kelsey Billigmeier received a $1,000 award from Mark and Kay Burkett, a $2,000 award from William and Flossie Sanborn and $1,900 from the Mondovi Grange/Wilson Farm donation fund. She plans to...
LINCOLN COUNTY—It took 18 months since COVID-19 was first confirmed in the United States for Lincoln County to see its highest surge of the coronavirus to date, but August saw a spike of 180 new cases. However, only eight cases resulted in hospitalizations. Two patients died of the virus, one age 63 and the other age 79. One of the eight hospitalizations was in a person fully vaccinated against COVID-19. “While we have COVID patients being treated in Lincoln and Odessa hos...
HARRINGTON – Mayor Nathan Luck opened council’s Aug. 25 meeting with councilmembers Peter Davenport, David Buddrius, Justin Slack, Steven Hardy and Levi Schenk (by Zoom) and visitors Cherie MacClellan, Denisa Holling, Jess & Cynthia Silhan and Joe Armand. Mayor Luck gave a report on the street projects, stating that some asphalt was put in on Douglas and First (via a TIB grant), as was some chip sealing. "We will have a little money left over and will see what we can do with that money,” Luck said. Hardy asked if it could...
Varsity games coming up this week for Davenport, Reardan and Harrington Friday, Sept. 3 Reardan football at Northwest Christian (Colbert) @ 4 p.m. Davenport football at Colfax @ 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4 Davenport volleyball tournament @ 9 a.m. Harrington volleyball vs. St. John-Endicott J.V. @ noon. Tuesday, Sept. 7 Harrington cross country jamboree at Northwest Christian (Colbert) @ 3:30 p.m. Reardan soccer at Kettle Falls @ 4 p.m. Davenport volleyball at Liberty @ 6:30 p.m. Reardan volleyball vs. Upper Columbia Academy @...
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. 22 Traffic stops: 24 Washington State Patrol said they found a cow loose on Highway 21 around milepost 99. Lincoln County Hospital said a woman brought in for treatment had her husband show up, make a scene and...
ODESSA – Norman Ott has retired from his eponymous business, Ott Insurance, after 42 years at the helm. His retirement does not mean that there will be an empty storefront on First Avenue however. His business partner for the past several years, Cindy Haase, will now operate Haase Insurance from the same west First Avenue location. That was the plan back when the two of them entered into a business partnership that ultimately operated insurances offices in both Harrington a...
Editor’s Note: This is an update to last week’s article on the six candidates who had filed before press time during a three-day special filing period Aug. 10-12. LINCOLN COUNTY – Nine candidates used a special three-day filing period to file for county positions that hadn’t received any filers during the regular period in May Aug. 10-12. Four candidates filed for local positions. Celeste Lewis of Reardan was the only local candidate to file after press time last week. She filed for re-election on the town council there....
HARRINGTON – City Council met at city hall on Aug. 11 with the following in attendance: Mayor Nathan Luck; Clerk Jere Lee; Councilmen Justin Slack, Peter Davenport, David Buddrius, Stephen Hardy and Levi Schenk; visitors Joe Armand, Jess and Cynthia Silhan and seven others viewing on YouTube. Council approved the minutes with corrections and the bills. Schenk voiced opposition to the city subscribing to newspapers, saying he thought the library should pay for them. At issue was the Memorial Hall custodian, which has become a...
DAVENPORT – 6th Street Café and Pizza and Romriell Dentistry are temporarily closed due to COVID-19 issues amongst employees. Both closed their doors last week and will be closed through the start of next week. COVID-19 rates had plummeted in Lincoln County by the beginning of July, but the widespread Delta Variant has caused a surge in local cases. The county had seen 25 new cases in a 14-day span as of July 30 and has had nine more cases this week, creating 34 new cases in a 19-day span. The county had almost zero CO...
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 25 Traffic stops: 5 A caller complained about people speeding on Miles-Creston Road near her house, saying the speeding cars were close to causing accidents. A collision was reported at Fort Spokane where a you...
Thursday, July 29, the Summer Reading Program concluded with Kris Moritz, leader, with two assistants, Evie Mann and Erica Bailey. During their reading and learning session the children seemed intrigued by some of the creatures: blobfish, goblin shark, bird-eating tarantula, Japanese spider crab and the dugong (a cousin to the manatee). One of their crafts was making animals out of play dough, which allowed them to express their creativity. The final project had guidelines....
