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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
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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 2: Harrington ambulance personnel assisted a 70-year-old man with a low pulse and shallow breathing. Checking a report that a resident of the 200 block of South Elm Street had heard two...
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 25: A caller reported smelling smoke in the 200 block of Marshall Street in Davenport. A vehicle was wedged under a tree after its driver swerved to miss a deer and went off SR 25 abo...
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 18: No one was reported hurt from a collision involving a vehicle and deer on Interstate 90 in Lincoln County. Davenport ambulance personnel and emergency responders from Reardan and Edw...
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 28: Davenport ambulance personnel assisted a man who suffered cuts in a fall at the Davenport Retirement Village. Edwall firefighters were summoned to a fire near Tucker Prairie and Car...
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 21: A caller report’s that a washout had occurred on Hawk Creek Road was forwarded to the county Public Works Department. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation personnel reported that buoys and l...
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 14: A county jail inmate’s lunch was taken by another inmate who thought he was doing a third inmate a favor to hold the lunch for him. Corrections staff advised the inmate that he was t...
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 7: An injured deer was found on SR 23 west of Rocklyn Road. A caller reported a suspicious package in the alley behind the 700 block of Ross Street in Davenport. A responding deputy det...
At the NE 1B League Championships on May 1, hosted by Valley Christian High School, the Odessa High track and field teams took first place in both the boys and girls meets. Boys 1. Odessa 128 2. Valley Christian 120 3. Wellpinit 115 4. Republic 98 5. Selkirk 82 6. Columbia (Hun) 22 7. Northport 14 8. Curlew 13 9. Inchelium 11 10. ACH 6 11. Cusick 2 100 Meters 2. Gaven Elder 11.45 5. Jonny Hayashi 12.06 7. Pilot Weishaar 12.60 PR 16. David Hayashi 13.68 200 Meters 2. Gaven Elder 23.47 6. Jonny Hayashi 24.92 7. Brady Walter 24....
On Wednesday, April 18, the track and field team competed at Lakeside High School in Nine Mile against the following teams: Colfax, Davenport, Garfield-Palouse, Harrington, Lind-Ritzville, Oakesdale, Reardan, St. George’s and Wellpinit. The Odessa boys placed third and the girls placed fifth. Colfax won the boys’ competition, and Oakesdale took first on the girls’ side. NE 1B/2B D7/9 League Meet Boys’ team 100 meters Gaven Elder took first place in 11.35 seconds. Jonny Hayashi fourth with a time of 11.81. David Hayashi...
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 16: Harrington Golf and Country Club personnel advised dispatchers they were tending to a wounded owl at the golf course clubhouse. The message was referred to the local state Fish and W...
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 9: A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad crew was enlisted to repair the malfunctioning Brown Road crossing arms in Sprague. A report of a possible road rage incident on Int...
The first track and field meet of the season took place last Saturday in Ephrata, where schools large and small competed in the Ray Cross Invitational. Besides our own Odessa Tigers, the following teams were signed up to participate: A.C. Davis, Almira/Coulee Hartline, Chelan, Chiawana, Cle Elum/Roslyn, Connell, Easton, Ephrata, Gonzaga Prep, Harrington, Juanita, Kennewick, Lake Roosevelt, Liberty Bell, Moses Lake, North Central, Okanogan, Omak, Othello, Prosser, Quincy, Richland, River View, Royal, Sunnyside, Toppenish, Wate...
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 12: A caller reported being the target of an IRS phone scam. A woman asked that a hospital evaluate her 7-year-old son who “keeps attacking” her. Deputies removed a “fully tattooed Nativ...
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 5: A Reardan woman expressed her concern that her granddaughter had not yet arrived as expected from north Spokane. Responding to the 700 block of Fifth Street, Davenport ambulance per...
Sheriff Wade Magers introduces Marine 1 to our marine fleet. We were fortunate enough to acquire a new 23-foot vessel made by Life Proof Boat. Our current 1994 19-foot Almar was in tough shape and was needing to be replaced. The old vessel simply was not a great patrol boat and the old two-stroke outboard was beginning to fail. We partnered with WA State Parks, which is responsible for marine budgets and grant opportunities associated with marine programs throughout 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, Jan. 29: A county jail inmate was disciplined for passing a note from one cell to that of another inmate. Deputies responded to a residence in the 700 block of Marshall Street in Dav...
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. 15: Sprague ambulance personnel joined the Washington State Patrol in responding to a report of a one-vehicle slide-off on Interstate 90. Davenport ambulance personnel tended to a wom...
In 2013, the federal government shut down for 16 days. What that meant for those of us wishing to access our very own Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area at that time, was nothing short of unbelievable. Operating under a contingency plan for a lapse in funding developed by the director of the National Park Service (a presidential appointee), in conjunction with the Secretary of the Interior (a presidential cabinet post), the Park Service spent untold taxpayer dollars to ph...
Bob was born July 31, 1923 in New Castle, Pa. and passed away on December 5, 2017 in Spokane. His home was in Harrington for over 67 years until moving to Spokane's Fairwinds Northpointe retirement community in 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife of 49 years, Carol Uhrich Sewall, his parents, Edward and Mary, brother Harold, sisters Alice and Emma, and his long time companion, Shirley Swartz. He is survived by their three daughters: Ilona Wiley (Larry), Spokane, Heidi...
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, Dec. 4: An ambulance crew transported a rural Harrington man with a medical emergency to Lincoln Hospital in Davenport. Harrington ambulance personnel assisted a man who collapsed while wor...
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, Oct. 16: A caller reported receiving a scam phone call advising him his grandson is in jail. Three tires blew out while half a house was being towed on U.S. 2 in the vicinity of Bennett Roa...
The more time I spend serving the people of Lincoln County, the more things I see that make me shake my head. When I first got elected, I knew that there would be plenty of hurdles standing in the way of progress. Overcoming some of these issue would be an inviting challenge. But in reality, there are not enough hours in a day, so you have to learn to pick your battles. So, I thought I would take some time to describe just a few of those battles that the public may not be...
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, Oct. 2: Deputies responded to a report that a man had shot himself in the head in the vicinity of Hopp Road in the Odessa area. A burglary was reported at a residence in the 1300 block of Log...
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, Sept. 25: Several juveniles entered the Davenport city park and tossed garbage on the ground, moved trash receptacles around and “trashed” the rest rooms. Deputies investigated reports...
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, Sept. 18: Reardan and Edwall firefighters joined Avista Utilities to respond to a report of a transformer blowout and resulting pole fire. Electrical power was out for the morning hours thr...
