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AIRWAY HEIGHTS – A woman is being held in Spokane County Jail on $250,000 bail after allegedly shooting a man and leaving him alongside the road Sept. 24. Katey Kaczar, 29, hometown not released, was booked into the jail the evening of the shooting. She is facing charges of first-degree assault with a firearm and first-degree armed robbery, jail records show. According to a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office report, deputies responded to a reported shooting near the intersection of U.S. Highway 2 and South Stroup Road, just out...
REARDAN—A viral “challenge” that has been circulating via the popular social media app TikTok that urges its followers to vandalize its school grounds or areas has struck the town and school in the last couple weeks. According to the town Police Department, vandalism began at the town park in late August, when school began. Soap dispensers were ripped out of the park bathroom and toilets were plugged. The police department set up game cameras around the park bathroom and identified four middle school boys that caused damag...
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...
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...
REARDAN-The Reardan-Edwall School District woke up Sunday morning to the news of the sudden passing of Jay Warwick, a longtime district employee who died in his sleep at the age of 61 Saturday, Sept. 25. Warwick had worked in the district since May 8, 1989 and was in his 33rd school year. Upon his passing, he was a maintenance mechanic. "This was a total shock that came out of the blue," superintendent Eric Sobotta said. "He was well-loved by a lot of people and was often the...
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. 20 Traffic stops: 5 An Idaho man said he received several calls from his sister who told him he needed to call the police on her behalf. A Davenport man said someone was illegally dumping garbage in the dit...
DAVENPORT-The Gorillas came into Wednesday night's matchup looking for its second NE2B win in as many nights, but it was the rival visitors from Reardan that earned its first league win this season. Reardan knocked off Davenport in four sets (25-11, 25-16, 22-25, 25-18) Sept. 29. Reardan improved to 4-3 overall and got its first NE2B win this season in four tries. The team's previous three losses all came over nonleague opponents. Davenport, meanwhile, fell to 1-5 after earnin...
Note: Games and game times are subject to change. Friday, Oct. 1 Reardan football (homecoming) vs. Kettle Falls @ 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2 Davenport and Reardan cross country at Medical Lake @ 11:30 a.m. Davenport volleyball at Odessa @ noon. Monday, Oct. 4 Reardan soccer at Medical Lake @ 4 p.m. Davenport volleyball vs. Upper Columbia Academy @ 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5 Reardan cross country at Colfax @ 3:30 p.m. Davenport cross country at Chewelah, time TBD Reardan soccer vs. St. George’s @ 4 p.m. Davenport soccer at N...
REPUBLIC—The No. 6 ranked Davenport cross country boys team unofficially picked up a win in the Gorillas’ first league meet of the season at Republic Tuesday, Sept. 28. The Gorillas got a hypothetical score of 60 points, eking out St. George’s (63 points) and Chewelah (68 points). The meet results were listed but weren’t made official by press time this week. Meanwhile, the Reardan boys and girls and Harrington boys and girls high school and middle school teams competed in a District 7/9 meet at Asotin Sept. 28. The Reardan...
SPANGLE—The offensive struggles continued for the Reardan football team Friday, Sept. 24. The visitors traveled to face the Liberty Lancers and were shut out through three quarters en route to a 22-6 defeat. Reardan suffered its third straight league loss and fell to 1-3 overall this season and 0-3 in NE2B play. Liberty led 15-0 at halftime after Logan Wilson hit Kyler McCombs for an eight-yard touchdown and Ashton Strobel ran for a 50-yard score. Reardan sophomore quarterback Tate Nelson was sacked in the end zone for a s...
COULEE DAM-The Gorillas may have leveled up for their lone nonconference game after scheduling Lake Roosevelt, the No. 10 ranked 2B school in the state AP poll, once Oroville cancelled the previously scheduled matchup with Davenport. But the final result didn't show that, as Davenport traveled to Coulee Dam and routed the Lake Roosevelt Raiders 28-8 Thursday, Sept. 23. The first half was evenly matched. Davenport took an 8-0 lead on a 5-yard touchdown run by senior fullback...
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...
Earlier in September, Davenport Lions Club secretary Jim Reinbold extended an invitation to have me come speak and answer questions about my experience as editor of The Times thus far at the Lions’ Sept. 21 meeting. I gladly accepted on the draw of sharing some thoughts and receiving free food and beer as an exchange, and thought I’d share some of those thoughts in this week’s paper as well. After enjoying a meal of Salisbury steaks and mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans...
DAVENPORT--14 Eastern Washington youths were lucky enough to be recognized as market champions at the 2021Lincoln County Fair at the end of August. Eight competitors are from Davenport or Reardan, while a third hails from Almira to make nine Lincoln County winners. Not pictured above are: Amelia Ray of Reardan for her grand champion 4-H market steer, Jack Baser of Pomeroy for his grand champion overall market hog, Emma Wilson of Colbert for her grand champion 4-H market goat,...
ROSALIA-The Reardan volleyball varsity girls notched their second straight win Thursday, Sept. 16 over the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves in a nonleague matchup in three straight sets. Reardan won the first set 25-13, the second set 25-14 and the third set 25-12 in its convincing victory to improve to 3-1 and 0-1 in 2B play. Junior Coalie Whitman had eight assists and four aces for Reardan in the win, while senior Kendall Little had five kills and five blocks. The second league...
REARDAN-For the second time this season, the Reardan football team suffered a shutout at the hands of a league opponent Friday, Sept. 17. The physical Asotin Panthers came to town and knocked off the home team 31-0 to drop Reardan to 0-2 in NE2B play and 1-2 overall. The game started with a defensive back-and-forth struggle, with neither team managing to score in the first quarter. Asotin managed to reach the Reardan 26-yard line, but fumbled on fourth down where Reardan...
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. INCIDENT LOG Sept. 12 Traffic stops: 9 An Odessa woman said her power was out and she could hear a prowler outside. A Reardan woman said a vehicle had been driving around her house and pulling into her driveway and her nei...
Dixie Lee (Hardt) Moore died peacefully Sept. 3, 2021 in Spokane Wash., with her husband of 57 years James Moore at her side. She was born in Reardan, Wash. on Aug. 31, 1939 to her parents Bill and Laura Hardt. Dixie graduated from Odessa High School in 1957. She grew up the only child on the family farm outside Odessa Wash. She attended Kinman Business School until she was hired by Jensen Byrd, left to raise her children then retired from the West Valley school district food...
CHATTAROY—A week after losing a tight, last-minute contest at home to Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, the Davenport football team found itself on the winning side of an important, bounce-back game over the previously undefeated Northwest Christian (Colbert) Crusaders. Davenport improved to 2-1 with a 22-20 victory over NWC Friday, Sept. 17 to gain a win in a league that’s hotly contested to start the 2021 season. The win was Davenport’s second road victory of the year after the Gorillas knocked off Colfax in the season opener. NWC l...
DAVENPORT--One watching Thursday's matchup between Davenport and Medical Lake might've assumed the prior was the 1A team hosting a 2B team. However, it was the 2B Gorillas who trounced the 1A visiting Medical Lake Cardinals in a non-league matchup 5-0 Thursday, Sept. 16. The win was Davenport's second in a row after the Gorillas beat Reardan Tuesday. "They were physical, so I think that's going to help us get a little more physical ourselves," Davenport head coach Monty...
DAVENPORT – The Odessa Tiger varsity volleyball squad won the all-day tournament held in Davenport Saturday, Sept. 4. Throughout the day, the participating teams played each of the others in three-set matches rather than the usual five. The tournament provided an opportunity for the participating teams to get in some final practice before the season begins. After a few more non-league games, league play begins against Mary Walker High School in Springdale on Sept. 23. O...
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...
REARDAN – A short-handed council elected to table three items at the Sept. 2 meeting. In the absence of Clay Soliday and Dan Graham, unfinished business concerning the planning commission and the police policy manual and new business concerning the yard waste fence were all set aside for a later date. An ordinance to update policies and procedures for the town planning commission by repealing a previously approved ordinance was tabled. The policy, which would authorize the town attorney, clerk and code reviser to make n...
DAVENPORT – Lincoln County’s water levels have been steadily decreasing for quite some time, and this year’s drought that has brought minimal precipitation to the county isn’t helping. The county commissioners heard a report from Dr. Kevin Lindsey, a hydrogeologist with GeoEngineers based in Kennewick who has been working with the county on county aquifer levels for over a decade, and conservation district director Elsa Bowden on the current state of water levels and potenti...
