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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. Sept. 24: Davenport ambulance personnel assisted a woman at a Washington Street residence who was having breathing difficulties. Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted a 59-year-old woman at a North...
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. Sept. 10: A caller reported someone had cut the head off a deer after it was hit by a car on Menke Road. Swanson School and Schmierer roads were closed at their intersections with Hatten Road were...
The Odessa-Harrington Titans were defeated by the Touchet Indians September 14 in Odessa’s Sausage Bowl under the lights at Finney Field, 42 - 60. After last week’s loss of starting quarterback Jared King, out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL, and of Markus Smith for a couple of weeks due to a concussion, the Titans were counting on other players to step into the breach. They did so, and generated an effective offense. The defense suffered the losses in this game as two linemen, Zack Schaal and Ricky Hedreen, wer...
After last week’s overpowering win over LaCrosse/Washtucna, the O-H Titans were handed a decisive defeat this past week at the hands of Cusick, 48-14. Cusick 8 26 6 8 48 O-H 0 0 8 6 14 After Justin Hunt intercepted a pass on the very first play of the game, the Cusick team settled down and dominated the Titans. Cusick’s first touchdown came on a 24-yard run and two-point conversion. The rest of the first quarter was defensive, and neither team scored. In the second qua...
Britney Lynn Praetorius of Odessa and Lance Carlyn Wagner of Harrington will be united in marriage November 10, 2012, at the Heritage Church in Odessa with Pastor Jon Hayashi officiating. Britney is the daughter of Lee and Debbie Praetorius of Odessa and the granddaughter of Louella and the late Robert Praetorius, and Wayne and the late Vi Frederick. Lance is the son of Ken Wagner of Harrington and Colleen Wagner of Spokane and the grandson of the late Ervin and Janet Wagner...
Sustained winds of 22 - 25 miles per hour Monday took what is now called the Apache Pass fire from about 200 acres Sunday evening to more than 18,000 as of Tuesday morning. Extremely dry conditions in the scablands contributed to the blaze. All available firefighters from the Odessa area responded to the blaze, which at its closest point to Odessa was burning Monday afternoon about 12 miles north of Odessa, just north of Eagle Springs Road. Crews from Wilbur, Creston,...
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. Sept. 3: Odessa ambulance personnel assisted a woman who had been bucked off a horse in the vicinity of East Dobson Road. Minimal damage was reported to a vehicle involved in a collision with a deer o...
The official results are now in for the swine classification at the Lincoln County Fair. Justin Hunt of Odessa/Ritzville had the grand champion 4-H hog in the senior division of Fitting & Showing, and Carsen Weber of Odessa had the reserve champion in the same categories. Nick Nelson of Odessa had the grand champion hog in junior/senior division of FFA Fitting & Showing, and Ashley Baarstad of Davenport had the reserve champion Marlee Eldridge of Odessa had the grand champion 4-H market hog, as well as the reserve champion...
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...
The results of the Lincoln County Fair have been released and only the swine results have somehow gone missing and will be provided later. Display booths representing the theme of this year’s fair were entered by Canniwai Grange of Odessa, which took first place and the Lincoln County Pomona Grange of Marlin which took second place. The Odessa/Harrington FFA chapters worked together on a display entitled “Is There Yellow in Your Green?”, which won Best of Show. In the FFA P...
Perhaps you would care to print a rebuttal to the hyperbole-laced article by Wendell Potter (Aug. 23 Record) regarding Rep. Ryan’s medicare plan? The enclosed analysis appeared on Yahoo! Finance on Aug. 23, and presents the other side of the argument. Jim Els Harrington “THE MYTHS AND REALITIES OF THE RYAN MEDICARE PLAN” By ANDREW G. BIGGS Gov. Mitt Romney's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate has turned the 2012 presidential election into a referendum on Medicare reform. Ryan has 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. 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...
