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DAVENPORT – Lincoln County Health Public Administrator Ed Dzedzy and other county health staff often receive calls from residents asking when they can receive the Moderna vaccine aimed at preventing COVID-19 infection. Giving those callers a clear answer is difficult, however, because the department now is not sure how many doses the county will receive from the state on a weekly basis until the Friday prior. This has created a frustrating situation for Dzedzy and his staff, he shared with the Lincoln County Commissioners a...
DAVENPORT – A few hundred yards north of the baseball fields off McInnis Road on the northeast side of town lie four sewer lagoons on premises the city uses as spray irrigation for sewer lagoon water. The lagoons are staggered in elevation. Chemicals are put in the top lagoon, and the water flows from one to the other. The roughly 75-acre area now needs a new farmer to partner with the city through a public contract to maintain and farm the land in exchange for the ability t...
HARRINGTON – The city’s wastewater plant modification project application is third on a ranked list of 121 proposed clean water projects that could receive various funding, pending approval, in a list published by the Department of Ecology Jan. 14. “The project develops plans and specifications and constructs the recommendations of the 2020 Facilities Plan Update,” a summary of the project on the list, accessible on the DOE’s website, reads. “The modifications will eliminate leaks from treatment lagoons that contaminate...
DAVENPORT – The Lincoln County Commissioners heard a proposal for administering a tourism tax in 2021 from Margie Hall, director of the Economic Development Council, at the commissioner’s Jan. 19 meeting. The tax, which the county has partnered with the EDC in some form for the last 10 years to administer, would be aimed at increasing tourism in town in 2021. Traditionally and theoretically, 2% of the 8% sales tax the county receives from tourism activities is used for tourism, commissioner Scott Hutsell said. Hall gave a d...
ODESSA – Les Jimerson, formerly the number-two man on Odessa's two-man police force, was sworn in as the newest Odessa Town Marshal by Mayor Bill Crossley at Monday night's town council meeting. Former chief Brent Dell resigned his post in December to take a job elsewhere. Jimerson joined the Odessa force in March of 2019. The first 2021 meeting of the council on January 11 was once again via Zoom, and a full complement of council members was present: Vickie Iverson, M...
ODESSA — Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center is now dispensing the COVID-19 vaccine per state and county health department guidelines. The local hospital has received 50 doses of the Moderna vaccine in the last two weeks, employees said. Long-term care and assisted-living residents, healthcare workers, community firefighters and police officers are currently being vaccinated. The administration is working with the Lincoln County Health Department to begin weekly dosage ordering to continue vaccinating the community. A plan h...
HARRINGTON – The Harrington Opera House Society met for their 2020 annual meeting wrap-up on Jan 4, 2021 in the Art Room with the following present: Ellen Evans, Becky Moeller, Mark and Sheryl Stedman, Ed and Bunny Haugan, Gordon and Billie Herron and Linda Wagner. The group approved payment of membership dues to the Harrington Chamber of Commerce for the 2021 year. Billie Herron had met with a representative of Leffel, Otis & Warwick regarding continued auditing and filing of tax returns, when Herron’s computer is removed fr...
DAVENPORT-The Lincoln County Health Department received 200 more doses of the Moderna vaccine aimed at preventing infection of COVID-19 Jan. 11. It is a beginning-of-the-week trend the department hopes will continue, and grow, on a weekly basis as the fight to curb the virus continues. "We hope to receive even more than that each week eventually," Health Department Public Administrator Ed Dzedzy said. 700 vaccine doses have arrived in the county so far. 100 of those doses are...
OLYMPIA--Davenport native and Christian Heritage graduate Josh Regan (above) was one of the Washington State Patrol troopers standing guard late Sunday night at the state Capitol in advance of the opening of the legislative session....
DAVENPORT—High winds swept across Eastern Washington the night of Jan. 12 and throughout Jan. 13, creating power outages and felled trees across several counties. Lincoln County hadn’t been blustered as hard as Spokane County by press time, but effects were still felt. The school district here closed to in-person learning Jan. 13. The district asked students on its Facebook page to check in with teachers by 10 a.m. to get work done, if possible. Meanwhile, the Reardan-Edwall School District has gone remote through at lea...
DAVENPORT—A country glued to the news sat in stunned silence on Jan. 6, as a pro-President Donald Trump far-right extremist mob rushed the Capitol building as Congress and Vice President Mike Pence convened to read the results the electoral vote of Dec. 14 that certified the 2020 general election results confirming Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as president-elect and vice president-elect. Rioters broke into the Senate rotunda, with one man famously dressed like a buffalo sitting in Pence’s seat. (The vice pre...
DAVENPORT-- The Lincoln County Economic Development Council has closed the books on 2020, ending a year that did not go as planned. Due to the pandemic, the EDC set aside previously scheduled projects and focused their attention on obtaining and utilizing Coronavirus Relief Funds. Since Governor Inslee’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order took effect in March, the EDC has facilitated over $700,000 in grant awards. The federal CARES Act provided for Coronavirus Relief Fund payments to state and local governments to combat the e...
LINCOLN--The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is looking for information on the theft of an enclosed trailer that was stolen in late December from a job site in Deer Heights in northern Lincoln County. The trailer had a significant amount of equipment inside, like hand tools, power tools, table saws, chop saws, jig saws, step ladders, compressors and other equipment totaling over $15,000 in loss. It has been entered as stolen in the state system, and had a plate 9518ZU that h...
TELFORD--The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office was notified that a 16-year-old male escaped at the Telford Rest Area as he was being transported to Spokane from Omak by a Child Protective Service Jan. 10. The juvenile had mental health issues, was high on methamphetamine, and had a warrant for his arrest. He previously fled a Spokane County foster home and was facing several pending charges in Spokane. The Omak CPS and Spokane CPS were meeting at the rest area at a half way point when he escaped. Sheriff Deputies responded t...
Jeff Barkdull was sworn in as Lincoln County Superior Court Judge on Friday, Jan. 8. He replaces retiring judge John Strohmaier. Barkdull, who was previously county prosecutor, was elected to the judge's position by vote of the county in the November general election. He defeated his challenger, District Court Judge Dan Johnson, pulling in 68.92% of the vote to Johnson's 30.79% vote count....
DAVENPORT-Kody Becker was promoted to the role of chief criminal deputy for the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department's command staff team effective New Year's Day, Sheriff Wade Magers announced via a social media post Jan. 7. Kody has many years of experience and is extremely knowledgeable with quality leadership and investigative skills," Magers wrote. "I am proud to promote Kody and know he will do an outstanding job serving you and representing our office with class and...
REARDAN—Police chief Andy Manke shared a police activity report for December at council’s Jan. 7 meeting. If one got pulled over in town for a traffic infraction, statistically there was about a 1 in 3 chance they wouldn’t get off without a ticket in the town with a restaurant titled “Speed Trap.” 73 traffic stops occurred, with 46 verbal warnings given and 27 traffic infraction tickets disbursed. Manke gave 10 tickets, as did reserve officer Chris Stein. Reserve officer Bryan Gordon handed out six tickets, while new reser...
DAVENPORT-The explanation of where solid waste goes after being dropped off at the Lincoln County Transfer station is fairly straightforward: It is loaded onto a train, transported to Spokane and then redirected to Roosevelt Regional Landfill in Klickitat County. However, where does the recycled material go? The answer depends on what type of material is in play. Scrap metal "usually" goes to Schnitzer Steel Industries, which has locations the transfer station gives the metal...
WILBUR—A citizen informing Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputy Kurt Cuzzetto of a suspicious vehicle parked south of town resulted in an arrest on charges of criminal trespassing and driving with a suspended license and drugs being uncovered in the vehicle. John A. Long, 42, of Moses Lake, was arrested Dec. 31, 2020 on two charges of criminal trespassing and three charges of driving with a suspended or revoked license. He was booked into Lincoln County Jail. According to a press release from the sheriff’s office, Cuzzetto...
WILBUR—A citizen informing Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputy Kurt Cuzzetto of a suspicious vehicle parked south of town resulted in an arrest on charges of criminal trespassing and driving with a suspended license and drugs being uncovered in the vehicle. John A. Long, 42, of Moses Lake, was arrested Dec. 31, 2020 on two charges of criminal trespassing and three charges of driving with a suspended or revoked license. He was booked into Lincoln County Jail. According to a...
OLYMPIA — As of Jan. 1, low-wage earners and some salaried employees are being paid more for their efforts on the job. Across Eastern Washington and some areas west of the Cascades, the minimum wage increased 19 cents per hour, from $13.50 to $13,69, according to the state Department of Labor and Industries. The minimum wage in the cities of Seattle and SeaTac increased to $16.69 per hour and $16.57, respectively, the agency said, noting those minimum wages are set by city ordinances. Elsewhere in the state, the minimum w...
An article in the Dec. 31 issue of The Times titled “Reardan restaurants reeling under restrictions” contained multiple errors and was prematurely cut off in print copy due to reporting, graphics and editorial oversights. Dean’s Drive-In is open every day at 8 a.m. except on Sundays, when it opens at 11 a.m. The restaurant closes at 6:30 p.m. every day. Owner Robin Landreth can be quoted as stating that 90% of her workers are related to her, not customers, as was mistakenly typed and not corrected in the article. The full,...
DAVENPORT—Scotty Duane Maiden, 30, of Davenport, and Michelle Leigh Hopkins, 47, of Davenport, were booked into Lincoln County Jail on Dec. 29 on charges of dealing in depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in the 1st and 2nd degree and possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in the 1st and 2nd degree. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received information from the Internet Crimes Against Children, who track cases regarding sexually explicit images of minors on the int...
The calendar has flipped, and a new year is facing Davenport and Reardan. The Times spoke with Davenport mayor Brad Sweet and Reardan mayor Gail Daniels to discuss their cities and towns looking to 2021. Sweet: Locals hopes 2021 is "return to normal" City residents would prefer that 2021 brings a return to life as normal: A time where businesses are open, people can gather and community events can bring locals together. That was the sentiment shared by mayor Brad Sweet when...
OLYMPIA-Lincoln County commissioner Scott Hutsell announced he was stepping down as chair of the Washington State Public Works Board on Jan. 4. He will be replaced as chair by Kathryn Gardow. Hutsell joined the board as an elected county representative in 2012 and was appointed chair by Gov. Jay Inslee in 2017. "This is a bittersweet day for me and, while the struggle to regain Public Works Board dedicated revenues remains, I believe that public infrastructure is being...
