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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, March 2: Sprague’s city dog catcher reported being bitten twice in the foot by a dog while in the 300 block of West 2nd Street. A caller told dispatchers that a truck ran her off the roadway...
Leroy Kuest, a native of Odessa, died Saturday, February 21, 2015, at Rockwood at Hawthorne care center. Born in Odessa on August 25, 1918, he was the last of seven children of Julius and Rosena Kuest, who had homesteaded in the area before 1900. Leroy graduated from Odessa High School, worked for the local Richfield service station and in 1942 joined the U.S. Air Force. Throughout World War II, he was stationed in eastern England near Bury St. Edmunds, where he was a crew chief maintaining B-17 bombers – a member of the 331s...
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. 23: Someone knocked over the “click it or ticket” sign on the east end of Reardan. Responding to the 300 block of C Street, Sprague ambulance personnel assisted a local woman who thought...
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. 16: Searching the Tamarack Canyon Road area, a deputy was unable to locate a man described by a caller as “wearing a blue hoodie and jeans, carrying a duffel bag and sitting on the north side of the r...
Area voters in 22 precints gave yes votes to all of the levies requested in the special election of February 10, 2015. Out of 2,592 registered voters in Lincoln County, only 1,306 submitted their ballots for a voter turnout of 50.39 percent. Another tabulation of the votes will take place February 23 prior to the certification date of February 24. Odessa School District 105 proposed a replacement maintenance and operation levy of $698,000. Total results for the district, which also includes Adams and Grant Counties, are:...
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. 9: A collision involving a vehicle and deer took place on SR 25 about 13½ miles north of Davenport. Two male basset hounds were found without tags on their collars at the top of Hawk Creek Road. Respondin...
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. 2: Kids were observed playing in a vehicle at Elliott Motors in Davenport. Tuesday, Feb. 3: A Davenport man told dispatchers he believed himself to be an identity theft victim and that he had lost about $...
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. 26: A deputy responded to an illegal burn in a backyard in the 900 block of Morgan Street in Davenport. Someone took meat and a camera from the Odessa meat processing plant without authorization. Res...
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. 12: Christian Heritage School personnel reported that someone took about $100 worth of fuel from at least two school vehicles parked on the grounds in Edwall. Lincoln Hospital personnel requested ass...
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. 5: A traffic collision occurred in the vicinity of Bell and Pope in Wilbur. Two vehicles collided at the intersection of SR 231 and Detour Road, where fog was especially thick. One vehicle ended up in a ditch. No one...
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. 29: Davenport ambulance personnel assisted a 64-year-old man who had fallen at a residence on Mill Canyon Road northwest of Davenport. Deputies assisted Odessa Police with a possible domestic dispute inv...
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. 22: Stopped at the Telford rest area on U.S. 2 by a deputy after a vehicle had been observed being driven erratically, even to the point of going into a ditch, the driver explained that the sun had bee...
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. 8: Responding to the 200 block of East 4th, Sprague ambulance personnel assisted a 14-year-old girl experiencing breathing difficulty. A Harrington man reported fraudulent use of a debit...
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. 1: A one-vehicle rollover collision was reported on I-90 near Sprague. Deputies responded to a report of an assault involving two men and a woman at a residence on Mill Canyon Road north...
The Lincoln County Economic Development Council has shared that, "The biggest threat to the quality of life in our county is youth out-migration." Our graduates are leaving our communities and not returning to fill the many open positions in business, healthcare, government, construction, agriculture and science. The Odessa High School chapter of Future Business Leaders of America has partnered with the Council to tackle the problem head on to try and make a difference....
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. 24: Harrington ambulance personnel assisted a woman who had fallen inside a Sherlock Street residence. She was transported to Lincoln Hospital in Davenport. Responding to an unrelated incident at an Ali...
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. 10: Emergency personnel from Davenport and Reardan assisted a 77-year-old woman who had fallen in her bathtub. A caller reported a sign with the message “I love my girl. Sorry” was placed near a bridge...
Lynn and Eric Tingstad performed at the Harrington Opera House to an audience of more than 110 on Friday evening, Nov. 7. President Mark Stedman of Harrington Opera House Society introduced Tayla Lynn, a granddaughter of the country star legend, Loretta Lynn. Tayla grew up in the heart of Tennessee. She introduced Eric Tingstad, a Grammy Award winner, who had previously performed in our opera house as Tingstad and Rumble. The free flowing program seemed to be decided moment...
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. 3: A deputy responded to the 100 block of Washington Street in Davenport after receiving a report that someone had threatened to “break the face” of a female resident. Deputies investigated the theft o...
Our community is in desperate need of additional EMTs to help serve both 911 calls and emergency transports to other communities for advanced levels of care. Unfortunately, the need for EMTs isn’t unique to our community. Services such as ours struggle to keep quasi-volunteers due to the commitment involved in maintaining EMT certification and due to the time commitment it takes. The need for maintaining competence and credential is, of course, essential and necessary to provide the high quality of service that our patients a...
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. 27: A deputy assisted Davenport Safeway store personnel in the removal of a man and woman discovered sleeping in a tent next to a dumpster. A caller reported the theft of a riding lawnmower from the 1300...
Ebola is not an eminent threat to the Pacific Northwest, but healthcare providers at Lincoln Hospital and North Basin Medical Clinics in Davenport, Wilbur, and Reardan and at Odessa Memorial Hospital and Clinic in Odessa are taking steps to be prepared in the event the virus arrives on their doorsteps. “An outbreak of Ebola virus disease is unlikely to occur in Washington,” said Ed Dzedzy, Lincoln County Public Health Administrator. “We have good infection-control practices, well-trained public health staff and a proce...
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. 20: A caller reported the theft of a stabilizer hitch from property in the 35000 block of Miles Creston Road. The owner of farmland adjacent to Bull Run Road north of Reardan reported someone drove a veh...
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. 13: An Odessa ambulance was involved in a collision with a fawn on SR 28. Deputies and state Department of Fish and Wildlife officers kept watch on a moose that had bedded down in a yard in the 300 block...
To the Editor: In the 12 years I have been active in politics, I have been blessed to work with a positive group of Lincoln County Republicans. Through two spirited presidential primaries, we’ve shared common values while making room for many opinions on how to advance those values. In the end, we support the shared goals of the Republican party and the candidates who will carry the battle forward. What we don’t have is a process for making endorsements in an all Republican general election, such as the one we face in the...
