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RENTON – The pandemic has struck another blow to local athletics. The WIAA voted to delay the start of winter sports to Feb. 1, 2021 and shorten each sports season to seven weeks apiece at its Nov. 17 meeting. Practices for winter sports season, the most prominent of which are basketball and wrestling, were originally scheduled to begin Dec. 28, with competitions coming shortly after. However, a surge of positive COVID-19 cases caused the WIAA to create another delay in an a...
REARDAN - A small soap business here is raising funds this season to equip law enforcement with specialized safety lights designed to protect officers on busy roadways. The project headed by business owner Tammy Merrill has already exceeded its goal of buying 21 lights, including providing lights for officers in the Town of Reardan. Merrill decided to start a project to buy "Guardian Angel Devices" for officers in Arizona in honor of her father in law. "I make soap and have a...
REARDAN – The school board approved a replacement educational programs and operations levy of $2.00 per $1,000 of assessed property value at its Nov. 18 meeting. The levy will go on the ballot for a vote Feb. 9, 2021. The three-year levy would be a decrease from the current rate of $2.08 per $1,000 of assessed property value. However, the $2.00 figure is an educated estimation detailing the total ask, which is what voters will be deciding on, according to school staff. The replacement levy, which would take over for the p...
REARDAN – Council unanimously passed Ordinance 181 concerning tax levy revenue at its Nov. 19 meeting. Property taxes will raise by 2.35% in town, pending filing of the Lincoln County Assessor’s Office. The town’s projected revenue of the levy raise would rise to $93,000 from $90,860, an increase of $2,140....
Compiled by Georgia Smith The Times 70 Years ago November 23, 1950 Kays Debates in Vermont Tournament Darrel Kays, son of C.W Kays of Davenport, was a member of the George Washington University debate team which competed in the University of Vermont international tournament last week. Kays and his teammate defeated New York university, University of New Hampshire, Wesley university and Utica College of New York. Kays is majoring in foreign affairs at the university of Washington, D. C. Crow, Conrad Wed Sunday in a Cheney...
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. NOVEMBER 8 Number of traffic stops: 9 A cow was reported on the road on Highway 21. Suspicious vehicle report. Abandoned child report. NOVEMBER 9 Number of traffic stops: 10 Trespassing complaint. Suspicious per...
DAVENPORT-The Gorillas were planning to begin after-school practices for boys and girl's basketball and wrestling today, Nov. 16. Those plans were axed after Gov. Jay Inslee's latest measures to fight the rapidly spreading COVID-19 virus were announced yesterday, Nov. 15. All after-school practices and activities are postponed until further notice, the district announced via its Facebook page. "It's not safe right now," athletic director Tim Zeiler said. "I talked to other...
REARDAN--A driver was cited for driving while under the influence after a semi truck of construction lumber overturned on Highway 231 on Friday. The Nov. 6 spill occurred near Tramm Road, approximately mile marker 35. The road was closed from mile marker 30 (Reardan)to mile marker 45 (Long Lake Rd) for several hours....
REARDAN – An argument over harassment on Facebook resulted in the arrest of a Reardan man who officials are charging with cyberstalking and resisting arrest. Quintin J. Wright, 22, was booked into Lincoln County Jail on Nov. 3 on charges of cyberstalking and resisting arrest. On Nov. 2, 18-year-old Aubrey J. Shuman contacted Reardan Police chief Andy Manke and informed him that Wright was harassing her on Facebook Messenger, police reports say. Records say that Shuman’s co-worker at the Reardan Store, 19-year-old Bri...
November 9th, 1950 70 years ago ACHIEVEMENT DAY Member of 4-H clubs from throughout the county gathered at Reardan Saturday for their annual Achievement Day. Mrs. Hank Schmitt of Esoanola, leader of the Pots and Pans club, distributed pins to her group. Other club leaders were present including Esther Hmphrey, assistant leader, Bernadine Schmitt, Heidi Schmitt, secretary; Melcina Reilly, Shirley Ensor, Joyce Heldstab, club president; Winnie Lou Puls, vice president; Cherryl Jacobsen and Carol Lee Brommer. Lincoln County Exten...
REARDAN – The district has plans to improve the schools in the next five years. Finance director Justin Flaa presented a draft for a capital improvement plan through 2025 to the board. “Last year when we talked about capital projects, the board said loud and clear that you wanted to have a plan,” Flaa told the board. “This is our first draft of what that plan might look like.” The five-page plan detailed how much money various projects would cost and indicated what funding sources would be used. It listed project descripti...
LINCOLN COUNTY – Davenport and Reardan student-athletes had to wait seven months until practices could resume in any fashion. Now, sports camps have been occurring since October, but these practices look far stranger than normal. Throw that in with the fact that the athletes don't know when exactly they'll be able to play in a game, or what that game might look like, and the strange themes the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought become evident. "We're trying to keep an optimistic a...
RENTON, Wash. – The WIAA Executive Board approved a process for determining the status of upcoming WIAA seasons during the 2020-21 school year Nov. 2. The process outlines a timetable for decision making as well as a minimum participation requirement and is based on feedback from athletic directors. The Executive Board determined that, in order for a season to take place, 50% of schools in a WIAA region (by classification) must be eligible to participate in league games as p...
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. NOTE: Several listings are missing locations because the Lincoln County Sheriff’s office did not include them in its report to the media. OCTOBER 25 Number of traffic stops:30 OCTOBER 26 Number of traffic stops...
When COVID-19 increased family time and heightened boredom, Marcella Buter, her husband Joseph and her two children, Aijia and Avery Bower, set to work building this model sasquatch on their property in Ford, nicknamed "Squatchi." "Squatchi" is nine feet tall and was made with wire, paper mache and fiberglass. He took about three months to make, Buter said. She added that people often drive by to take pictures with "Squatchi," though neighbors have reportedly started...
DAVENPORT - They may be on a bucking horse in Montana, or riding bulls in Colorado or parking their gear bag behind the chutes at practice pens near Reardan. They are often smaller than their fellow riders and can be spotted by their long hair and narrow shoulders. They are spunky, brave and stubborn. These are the women of roughstock. In rodeo roughstock - event that include buckin' horses and bulls - are considered men's events. But a new generation of cowgirls is showing th...
LINCOLN COUNTY – Of the 7,853 registered voters in eastern Washington’s Lincoln County, 3,506 had submitted their ballots as of as of October 27 for a total of 44.6 percent of its voting public. In all of Lincoln County, only 37 voters have had their ballots rejected by the auditor’s office. Of those 37 voters, 15 reside in Davenport precincts; four in Reardan; three each in Odessa, Sprague and Wilbur; two each in Almira, Creston and Harrington; and one each in Irby, Edwall and Deer Meadows. Most of the rejected ballo...
REARDAN – A gathering of conservative community members made up the first "Ag Rally" near Reardan on Oct. 25, giving residents a chance to express their political thoughts just before the coming Nov. 3 election. Organizer Casey Nonnemacher said while the event wasn't "Republican", it drew conservative minded people from rural America. "This was a fun, community building event not supporting any individual candidate in particular. We gathered to celebrate freedom, a...
DAVENPORT – It appears that this year’s ammo shortfall didn’t encourage the deer population to reveal themselves to hunters, as early hunting season has netted the smallest harvest in some time. “It’s probably one of the slowest, non-eventful deer seasons I’ve ever worked,” Officer Curt Wood of the Department of Fish and Wildlife said. Wood has worked in Lincoln County in his position for 25 years. He said opening weekend for deer hunting season was “one of the slowest weekends” he’s had on the job. “I think deer population...
Janet passed away peacefully on October 23, 2020 in Davenport, WA after a long battle with Dementia. Janet was born January 2, 1934 in Spokane, WA to James and Genevieve Clinton. The family ran the Clinton Motel and gas station in Reardan for many years along Hwy 2. Janet graduated from Reardan High School in 1952; she played the flute in the Reardan Band, cheerleader, and was given the title of Miss Reardan in the spring of 1950. She left Reardan for a short time living in...
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. NOTE: Several listings are missing locations because the Lincoln County Sheriff’s office did not include them in its report to the media. OCTOBER 18 Number of traffic stops: 12 An Almira caller said his neigh...
REARDAN—The school district is in the process of hiring a new security officer after former security officer Brian Scott was moved to head of security and informational technology. Police chief Andy Manke proposed a potential partnership between the district and town to council at its Oct. 15 meeting—but only if a certain candidate is hired. His proposal hinges on Chris Stein being the district’s choice of hire. Stein is a reserve officer with the police department and is a school security officer in Spokane. The school’s cho...
OCT 19, 1950 70 YEARS AGO MOBILE X-RAY UNIT CHECKS 788 DURNING 3 DAY STOP HERE The number of Davenport persons getting free X-Ray checks for tuberculosis rose to 788, as the mobile unit made its last stop here last Thursday, according to Mrs. Rex F. Carpenter, executive secretary of the county T. B. League. The unit is working in Wilbur today and will be at Creston Friday which will complete its work in Lincoln county. Serving as hostesses for the unit Thursday were Mrs. J.D. McChallum, Mrs. Ira Rowe, Mrs. C.G Dekker, Mrs....
Although COVID-19 restrictions cancelled the Lincoln Hospital Foundation’s annual Sharing Hearts Luncheon, volunteers were still able to raise over $27,000 in funds last month by collecting donations. The “Sharing Hearts” effort raised over $27,000 for a special project, $340 to grow the Endowment Fund, and $840 to add to the medical scholarship for scholarships to go to Lincoln County students going into a medical field. The annual “Sharing Hearts” luncheon event raises funds for Lincoln Hospital, all the clinics, and suppo...
KENNEWICK--The always-intense rivalry between the Reardan Indians and Davenport Gorillas reached another level in 2005, with the two schools facing off twice, once in the regular season and once in the state semifinals. This week, The Times looks back to the state 2B semifinal matchup where Reardan exacted revenge for its regular season home loss to Davenport, rolling 29-7 over the rival Gorillas. The win sent the Indians to the state championship, where they would defeat DeSales 14-10 to become state champions. The look back...
