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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, Sept. 21: Despite a store employee’s concern, a deputy determined that a group of people camping on property owned by Safeway adjacent to the Davenport store were there by permission of the 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, Oct. 3: A Sprague man reported a fraudulent charge for $34.62 on a credit card. A Creston woman reported being assaulted during an argument with a family member. A Davenport man told dis...
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. 19: Sprague ambulance personnel and the Washington State Patrol responded to a one-vehicle collision on Interstate 90 at the westbound Sprague rest area. An Odessa man was arrested aft...
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, Aug. 29: Tools were taken from a job site trailer in the Spring Canyon area. In the 700 block of Eighth Street, a dog bit an elderly Davenport woman on the leg, breaking the skin. Deputies inv...
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, Aug. 22: Davenport ambulance personnel joined Reardan EMTs at the Fist A Cup coffee stand where a 17-year-old girl had fainted. Odessa Union Warehouse personnel requested patrols to help pre...
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, Aug. 1: Almira EMTs and Wilbur ambulance personnel assisted a 1-year-old girl who suffered cuts to her head after hitting it against an air conditioner. Responding to the local post 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, July 25: No one was injured after a vehicle left SR 231 about four miles south of Edwall. A Mill Canyon Road resident told dispatchers she was “tired” of having to deal with a loose llama 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, 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...
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...
WARDEN – Farmers, local dignitaries and water managers celebrated construction of the new Lind Coulee Siphon complex. It’s part of a 10-year effort to bring surface water to hundreds of deep-well irrigators now relying on a declining aquifer known as the Odessa Subarea. With the flip of a switch and raising of a gate, water from the Columbia River poured through newly built siphons to be delivered to farmers growing potatoes, corn, alfalfa and seed crops in the rolling hills near Warden in eastern Washington. “Today beaut...
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 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...
(Davenport, WA, May 31, 2016.) All signs point to a successful tourism season this summer, according to the Lincoln County Economic Development Council. Starting this year, the marinas are being managed and marketed by Guest Services, Inc., a national corporation with extensive experience in the tourism industry. In addition, the National Park Service is celebrating its Centennial and doing some marketing of its own. The combination of the two should bring increased business to local merchants who are ready to take...
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 23: Dispatchers took another report of an IRS scam incident from a Davenport resident. Executing a search warrant at a residence in the 1000 block of Thirteenth Street in Davenport, dep...
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...
Member of Odessa Healthcare Foundation Board of Directors Thousands of dollars in gift certificates and merchandise have been generously donated to support the Odessa Healthcare Foundation’s 25th Annual Wine Tasting, Microbrew Sampling and Auction to be held this Friday. Items in the Live Auction and “Live on the Side” section that have yet to be mentioned include the following: Vacation packages • Holland America cruise for two (up to seven days) to your choice of Alaska, the Caribbean, Mexico or Canada/New England (a gift...
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...
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...
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...
Court 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, Nov. 16: Dispatchers referred a possible poaching incident in the vicinity of Addington Road near Reardan to the Washington State Patrol for investigation. Responding to the 1000 block of Was...
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, Nov. 9: A deputy was notified of a request from Corner Café personnel in Creston for help with a person who refused to leave and had been “verbally abusive” toward customers there. Deputies...
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. 12: Dispatchers took a report of a semi-truck traveling at high speeds in a field south of U.S. 2 about two miles west of Davenport. Six loose cattle were on SR 28 in the Lamona area. A c...
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. 5: Kids were out throwing eggs in the Davenport city limits. Welding equipment was reported stolen from a residence near the Sprague Motel on East 1st Street. A deputy advised a man not...
