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DAVENPORT - During Davenport Elementary School's Hawaiian-themed spring concert, band teacher Robert "Rob" Harper received an award and a standing ovation honoring his more than 30-year career as a music educator. Harper, who is retiring at the end of the school year, accepted the award from the school's Associated Student Body on May 21. In July 2024, Harper was named the honorary grand marshal for Pioneer Days. Originally from Issaquah, Washington, Harper performed with the...
LINCOLN COUNTY — Families and friends will gather to celebrate the Class of 2025 high school graduations across Lincoln County this weekend. Below is a preview of commencement ceremonies, including dates, times, valedictorians, salutatorians and keynote speakers, organized by town. Davenport Community Baccalaureate: 7 p.m. Thursday, June 5, Zion Lutheran Church Graduation: 1 p.m. Saturday, June 7, Davenport High School Gym Valedictorian: Jacob Furman Salutatorian: Thomas Furman Harrington Graduation: 6 p.m. Friday, June 6, Ha...
DEEP CREEK - When life gives you potatoes, you make anything you want. The Spokane Hutterian Brethren between Reardan and Airway Heights dumped loads of russet potatoes after customers in the Columbia Basin cut contracts by 1,000 acres per seed farmer. "Each acre cost us $2,500 to cultivate, so it's a significant loss when this happens," Hutterian Brethren Leonard Gross said. The potato mountain was at the corner of West Sprague Road and Ritchie Road, off U.S. Highway 2, over...
HARRINGTON - The Harrington School Spring Concert filled Main Street with music under the direction of Victoria Dreher on Tuesday, May 27. The event, starting at 7 p.m., featured performances by the fifth-grade, sixth-grade, and high school big band. The fifth-grade band opened with "Camptown Races," "When the Saints Go Marching In," and "Hard Rock Blues." The sixth-grade band followed, performing "Surprise Symphony," "O Canada," and "Star Wars." The high school big band...
ODESSA - One is a small-town native with a background in office management; the other, a seasoned officer and domestic violence expert. Together, Erika Rose, 43, of Spokane Valley, and Amy Hardung, 47, of Odessa, are transforming the Odessa Police Department from the inside out-both in appearance and operations-with a shared mission: to protect victims of crime and ensure their community is safe, organized, and prepared for the future. According to Rose and Hardung, when they...
DAVENPORT - Motorists passing workers picking up litter along highways often assume they're serving a punishment. That wasn't the case in Davenport on Saturday, May 31, when the Davenport Lions Club held its biannual volunteer cleanup along Highway 2. Starting at 8 a.m., 10 club members collected 34 bags of trash in about two hours. Equipped with Department of Transportation waiver forms, heavy boots, high-visibility vests, gloves, and trash bags, the volunteers included Jim...
EDWALL – Eight members of Christian Heritage School's class of 2025 were honored at their graduation by family, friends, and community members during a ceremony in the high school gymnasium on Saturday, May 31. Approximately 150 people watched as Chloe Clarkson, Zachary Colvin, Susanna Hein, Kariya Lacy, Sadie Mattila, Alison Sears, Audria Sears and Laurel Victor entered the gym and passed beneath an archway of red, white and blue balloons and onto the stage; their measured g...
There are far too many traffic rules to cover over the span of a short article, but I was asked if I could provide some basic information on common traffic violations observed within the city limits of Davenport. Besides common offenses such as speed and failure to wear a seatbelt, there are four rules of the road we commonly see violated in the downtown Davenport area. The first common violation we see is the crossing of the solid yellow barrier located in the downtown corridor on Morgan Street between Harker Street and...
1 years ago Andrew Jackson Scott, 96 year old pioneer of the Lord’s Valley passed away at the soldiers home in Orting, WA. Mr. Scott took up his homestead before the town of Harrington was founded. Harold Tyndall, age 27, drowned last week wile fishing at Northrup lake, about 18 northwest of Odessa. Tyndall, an Almira man, fell from the boat he was trolling in with friend George Sanford. 75 years ago The county Commissioners will supply sodium chlorate to farmers that agree to treat weeds on the roadsides adjoining their f...
Listen here, privates-kidding, kidding! Listen up, Lincoln County-said in the tone of someone who once forgot their own keys while holding them and is now somehow nearly licensed to operate a 22,000-pound combat truck. That's right, your managing editor has traded the newsroom for night vision and a whole lot of sunscreen. I've been out in the Idaho desert for a little over a week with the National Guard, and while this field training isn't forever, it has definitely been an...
Davenport birthdays June 5: Janaye Wilkie, Bonnie Booth June 6: Addison Smith, Gary Kersten, Shelby Hargrave June 7: Kaysa Panke, Ruth Oehlwein June 8: Jeff Semprimoznik, Jasper Linstrum June 9: Keaton Hupp, Virginia Morrison, Kasen Brown June 10: Roberta Telecky, Bennett Wagner June 11: Jamie Chappell, Cheyne Odenrider Davenport anniversaries June 5: Jeremy and Shannon Sewall June 7: Chris and Amy Jenness, Bryan and Linda Miller June 8: Bill and Marlena Guhlke June 9: Jeff and Peggy Semprimoznik, Gary and Sharon Buck June...
REARDAN – In his 32 years as agriculture teacher, Fred Springer did a lot for Reardan High School. On Tuesday, May 15, the school did something for him. It honored the former teacher and his wife Kathy at the grand opening of the state-of-the-art Fred and Kathy Springer Memorial Greenhouse. After graduating from Otis Orchards High School in 1956, Springer joined the Marines and then attended Washington State University. Upon his graduation in 1967, he accepted a job at R...
Davenport birthdays May 29: Olivia Alspach May 30: Nolan Lilje, Diana Schweiger, Anne Guhlke May 31: John Coley, Maraih Klips, Matthew Delafield, Carah Piper June 1: Casey Breithaupt June 2: Laurel Hansen, Christine Jenkins June 3: Ryan Buchmann, Joe Coppersmith, Connie Lust June 4: Heath Becker, Maddilynn Collins Davenport anniversaries May 30: Corey and Leslie Oliver, Luke and Lindsey McCluskey June 2: Max and Hannah Mielke June 3: Steve and Roberta Telecky, Mike and Dawn Hale June 4: Matt and Andria Street Reardan...
Memorial Day has come and gone, but its meaning hasn't left me-not even out here in the dry heat of Boise, Idaho, where I'm currently in the thick of my Annual Training with the Army National Guard. This year, something small caught my eye-and heart. Coins, carefully placed on the headstones of military graves. It's a tradition I had noticed in the past, but only recently took the time to understand. And now that I do, I can't stop thinking about it. For those unfamiliar, the...
1 years ago A number of Davenport people expect to drive to Keller next week to attend the annual salmon day festival. Chinook salmon are reported to be running in the San Poil river in great numbers. Owens Brothers of Reardan, received a contract to grade and gravel about seven miles of state road 22 in Stevens county. The job will pay $38,939 to the contractor. 75 years ago 280 sacks of cement were used to pour 240 feet of sidewalk around the bank. The new sidewalk is 10 feet wide and 6 inches deep. The work done by the H...
REARDAN – The Lions Club hosted the senior classes of Reardan High School and Christian Heritage School in the Community Hall at its annual breakfast, Tuesday, May 20. "This breakfast is the Lions Clubs way of acknowledging the students for their graduation from high school," club president Dale Swant said. "We also use this time to reward deserving seniors with scholarship money." Forty-five students dined on hotcakes, French toast, ham, eggs, and hash browns before h...
LIND — Grain growers in Lincoln and Adams counties are invited to attend the 107th annual Lind Field Day on Thursday, June 12, for a firsthand look at the latest research from Washington State University on dryland crop production. Hosted at the Lind Dryland Research Station, the event begins with registration at 8:30 a.m., followed by field tours at 9 a.m. Attendees will learn about recent advances in grain variety development, crop rotation systems, and soil health research tailored to one of the driest wheat-growing r...
DAVENPORT - The Genoa Circus, presented by Carson & Barnes, now known as "CB," delighted families with performances at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds on Friday, May 24, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The show featured acrobatics, hula hoop artists, jugglers, contortionists, clowns, comedy, magic, and a giant transforming auto-bot that children got photographs with, after a peanut raffle. Attendees enjoyed snow cones, popcorn, cotton candy, sodas, and circus souvenirs before...
Davenport birthdays May 22: Lana Bowdish, John Hiccox, Diane Wade, Beau Duff, Ashlynn Allinger, Isabel Munz May 23: Shirley Larson, Stacy Oehlwein May 24: Anthony Smith, Corey Cunningham May 25: Cody Cox, Dawn Dehn, Brian Dennis, Sarah Stiles, Dan Gunning May 26: Esteban Plasencia, Oliver Hein, Chase Zellmer, Stacy Breithaupt May 27: Nicole Curtaccio, Tommy Plumb, Paula Reed, Dan Klips, Tim Podowicz May 28: Michelle Lilje, Stephanie Morgan, Matt Street, Bryce Bailey, Lucas Zeus, Noreen Hutfless Davenport anniversaries May 23:...
HARRINGTON - Harrington School welcomed more than two dozen professionals on Thursday, May 15, for a hands-on Career Day, allowing students to explore a wide range of industries and career paths. Students rotated through three 45-minute sessions, hearing from multiple presenters in classrooms grouped by career field. Each professional spoke for 15 minutes about their work, highlighting everything from day-to-day responsibilities and education requirements to salary ranges,...
You know it's been a big week when the most exciting events in the county happen three blocks from your own driveway. I'm still reeling. If this past week were a movie, it would be called "Harrington: The Musical," starring classic cars, camera flashes, kids who now call me "camera lady," and a dog with a big attitude in a tiny package. It all started with something I've had on my calendar for nearly two months: speaking to the students at Harrington School-with some visitors...
1 years ago Pete Johnson will be the new operator of the Great Northern Station in Odessa. Mr. Johnson was the operator at Harrington for several years and made the move due to staffing cuts in Harrington. Washington Water Power announced the completion of the line between Long Lake and Stratford. The project cost $2,000,000 and took 30 car loads of copper wire and thousands of poles and a large amount of other equipment. 75 years ago Harry Heid, manager of the Union warehouse, was nearly buried in a pile of wheat. Heid...
Growing Gorillas Co-Op Preschool celebrated its end-of-year program at Zion Lutheran Church with some graduating and moving on to kindergarten during their ceremony on Monday, May 19. Back row, from left to right: Heaton Hurt, Oliver Strahan, Chelsea Fenn, Duke Schultz, Gemma Guhlke, Waylon Williams, Felicity Mielke, and Theo Hein. Front row, from left to right: Finley Bodeau, Ember Linstrum, Hadleigh Linstrum, Avery Hunt, and Aspen Mawdsley....
HARRINGTON - Engines roared and music filled the streets as hundreds of visitors packed downtown Harrington on Saturday for the 13th annual Harrington Car Show - a growing tradition that honors the legacy of its late founder, Allen Barth. Co-organized by his daughter, Jill Barth, and partner Jay Gossett, this year's event drew an estimated 300 to 500 people to North Third Street, where polished chrome, classic engines and community pride were on full display. A total of 155...
