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PASCO — Most of Eastern Washington will remain under a heat advisory through 8 p.m. Thursday night, June 3, as temperatures break into the 100s for the first time this summer. According to the National Weather Service, the Lower Columbia Valley can expect temperatures to remain at or above 100 degrees. The temperature already hit 104 degrees in the Pasco area today, June 2, officials said. "Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses," the National Weather Service advisory said,...
DAVENPORT—Superintendent Jim Kowalkowski will sign off on his educational career following the 2021-22 school year, he informed the school board via a resignation letter that was accepted at the board’s May 24 meeting. Kowalkowski’s retirement, which becomes official June 30, 2022, will come after 15 years as superintendent here. “I have been very fortunate to have served as your superintendent since 2007,” Kowalkowski’s letter read. “These past 14 years have been very rewarding and I have been blessed to work with an amazi...
DAVENPORT—Three teenagers were arrested Saturday, May 22 on charges of theft of a motor vehicle and made their first appearance in Lincoln County Superior Court Tuesday, May 25. 15-year-old Dylan Doughty, 15-year-old Paul Russell Miller, Jr. and 14-year-old Chantal Tapia were arrested by Lincoln County Sheriff Sergeant Jerad McLagan and booked in Martin Hall Juvenile Detention Center, according to records. Doughty was also charged with minor in possession of alcohol. All three entered not-guilty pleas May 25. According to r...
ODESSA – The members of the Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame committee have been meeting regularly for the past several months, working to select the 2021 inductees. These individuals and team members will be honored June 19 at the Odessa High School gymnasium foyer. Larry Weber, chairman of the Hall of Fame committee, will present plaques to each of the athletes present or to family members, assisted by vice-chair Jon Heimbigner. Even though the alumni banquet has once again b...
1. Nomination and appropriate documentation may be submitted for one or more of the four classifications: A. Athlete B. Coach C. Contributor D. Team 2. To be eligible for nomination to the Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame, the candidate must have been a graduate of Odessa High School, a teacher, coach or member of the community. It is not necessary that the nominee be born in this area; the individual can qualify through residence in the Odessa area during the years the sports personality attained prominence in one of the four...
The Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame was founded in March 2015 and is located in the Odessa High School Gymnasium. The mission of the Odessa Athletics Hall of Fame is to recognize and honor athletes, coaches, teams, administrators and contributors who excelled in their respective sports or coaching/support roles and who helped bring honor, recognition, distinction and excellence to Odessa High School by their conduct both on and off the field, or court, of competition. This recognition will help maintain the spirit, pride and...
One woman honoring her father's dream brought literally hundreds of people to Harrington on Saturday, May 15, for the 9th Annual Car Show. Naturally, Jill Barth did have assistance to pull off this fete. Her father's dream continues. This year there were 153 registered cars with more than 200 cars in attendance. Many of these were first-timers registering for the event. "This was our first year hosting vendors onsite and our first year with a food truck. Everything was amazing...
ODESSA – The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the library and the meeting was available via ZOOM on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 6 p.m. for a special board meeting. Present were board chair Ed Deife; board members Janie Steward, Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Carmen Weishaar; Superintendent Dan Read; Principal Jamie Nelson; Assistant Business Manager Staci Claassen; Operations Supervisor Justin Parr and Athletic Director Bruce Todd. The board approved the recommendation of the athletic director t...
ODESSA – The May 10 meeting of the Odessa Town Council met in the community center was chaired by Mayor Bill Crossley and attended by the full council (Vickie Iverson, Landon Lobe, Kelly Watkins, Amy Hunt, Marlene Kramer). The council voted unanimously to cancel the recycling contract with Lincoln County, citing the expense involved in the program. The town must give one month’s notice to the county, so the cancellation will take effect in about the second week of June. Also approved was Resolution 2021-03 for a loan fro...
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. May 9 Traffic stops: 12 A woman reported a suspicious male wearing a denim shirt and brown pants sleeping next to her fence. A Davenport woman reported a lost llama. A Davenport man said he wanted more patrols in the...
PASCO – Five voters led by a Pasco City Councilman have filed a petition to recall Gov. Jay Inslee from office for abusing the powers of his office during the coronavirus pandemic last year. The recall petition was filed with the Secretary of State’s Office in Olympia on Monday, May 17. Gov. Inslee has yet to respond to the recall petition. Under the state Constitution, any elected official in the state can be removed from office for misfeasance, malfeasance and violating an...
HARRINGTON – Miss Harrington Lexy Crawford crowned her successor Caroline Slack during the Harrington Car Show on Saturday, May 15. Lexy is the daughter of Janese and Troy Crawford. She was crowned last summer in a socially distanced outdoor ceremony with a few Harrington Homemakers and the Crawford family present. Her coronation was celebrated with a parade of cars through Harrington streets. Ms. Crawford’s reign was overshadowed by the pandemic but she served as a pos...
ODESSA – The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for most of Eastern Washington for Memorial Day weekend. The outlook begins Thursday, May 26, and continues through Tuesday, June 1. West or southwest winds are expected to gust to between 35-45 mph beginning Thursday afternoon, according to the forecast. Gusts were expected to begin in the Pullman, Moses Lake, Ritzville, Spokane and Wenatchee areas following the arrival of a strong cold front c...
DAVENPORT—Council passed five resolutions at its regular council meeting May 12 after hearing reports from the finance committee, fire/police committee and mayor Brad Sweet. The first resolution allows the city to surplus unused supplies and equipment. Bids on the following items will be accepted June 1-14: A 1992 Chevy 4X4 pickup, a 1972 GMC 5500 series flat-bed truck, a Whitco pressure washer 4100, steel stamped street signs, a 1999 Wells Cargo trailer, a bookshelf, miscellaneous runway/taxilane lighting fixtures, an A...
DAVENPORT—What the city’s partnership with Lincoln County Fire District No. 5 will look like in the future was a point of discussion at the police/fire committee meeting that took place before city council’s regular meeting May 12. Fire District No. 5 Commissioner Mike Piper and Chief Craig Sweet attended the meeting with committee members Heath Becker, Cory Hollis and Patrick Katz and mayor Brad Sweet. City administrator Steve Goemmel and clerk Dave Leath were also part of the discussion. Three options for city fire servi...
DAVENPORT – Lincoln County Commissioners hosted a public hearing regarding Community Economic Revitalization Board funding for Lincoln County’s rural broadband project during a meeting May 17. Economic Development Director Janice Cepeda presented the portion of the project, which would provide high-speed, open access broadband to Wilbur, Creston, Almira and Harrington by August 2022. No member of the public spoke. The CERB grant funding application approved by commissioners is for $2 million. The county would have to mat...
DAVENPORT – The city maintained its revenue and expenditures plan in the first quarter to remain in the black, according to the financial report released and discussed at the finance committee’s May 12 meeting. The committee, which consists of councilmembers Nathan Hansen, Lance Strite and Theresa Telford, was left with only one question. Strite inquired about the property tax revenue, which has been $2,055 so far…just 0.8% of the budgeted $265,000 for the year. City clerk Dave Leath explained that typically property taxes...
PULLMAN – Washington State University professor Lav Khot has been named interim director of AgWeatherNet. Khot takes over as director for Dave Brown, who stepped down. "We want to make sure this high-quality data is collected and distributed to grower stakeholders so they can make informed decisions that benefit their operations and the state of Washington," Khot said. Khot will serve an interim term of two years and is an associate professor in biological systems e...
DAVENPORT – Seven department heads or representatives gave updates and shared goals/requests at the School Board’s quarterly meeting Monday, May 17. The presentations followed the approval of the consent agenda, which included hiring Morgan Hunt and Kyra Arland as elementary teachers, Tracy Winzer as secondary ELA, Jennifer Hargrave as ALE/Options Program teacher/director and Tim Zeiler as junior high boys basketball head coach. Sarah Sweetser gave a food services presentation and described how food service workers have tra...
DAVENPORT--Six more candidates in the Davenport/Reardan/Harrington/Sprague area filed for candidacy in various positions up for election yesterday, three of which were for Sprague mayor. That race now becomes a contested race between four candidates. Trace De Garmo filed Tuesday, while Sunnie Fortin, Scooter Dearing and M. Shawn Coombs filed yesterday. Locally, Lance Strite filed for Davenport city council, Jennifer Cox filed for Reardan-Edwall School District's board of directors and Shelley Quigley filed for Harrington...
HARRINGTON - Caroline Slack, a junior at the high school here, has enjoyed the FBLA experience she's been a part of all three years thus far, but she never expected to qualify for national competitions by her junior year. But she didn't just qualify for nationals in one event at the state competition. She qualified for three. "I did not expect to place that high at state as a junior," Slack said. "That's crazy." Due to FBLA rules, she must choose one to compete in. She chose h...
SPOKANE — It continues to get easier and easier to get to all kinds of places outside of Spokane with the ease of new non-stop airline travel. Once the butt of a joke that “you can’t get there from here,” Spokane International Airport announced April 30 that Southwest Airlines will offer new seasonal direct flights to both Chicago and Orange County, Calif. beginning June 6. In addition. direct service to San Jose, Calif. resumes on the same date. The once-daily flights to Chicago will fly into Midway Airport, connect...
HARRINGTON –Harrington's Ninth Annual Car Show will be held Saturday, May 15, 2021, in honor of its founder, Allen Barth, who passed away in 2017. This car show has continued to grow yearly due to the generous donations from its sponsors. Sponsors for this year's event include: The Studebaker Garage, CONAGSCO, Wild Hair Salon, Leonardson's Engineering, Wilcox5555, Harrington Lions Club, The Post and Office, Circle H Ranch, Ott Insurance, Duck Lake Farms, Wagner Financial Strategies, Scott and Celeste Miller, Harrington T...
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. May 2 Traffic stops: 7 A Reardan man requested help with a lockout. A woman called 911 in a panic and didn’t want the dispatcher to talk to her husband. May 3 Traffic stops: 8 A Davenport woman reported suspicious cir...
SPOKANE — It continues to get easier and easier to get to all kinds of places outside of Spokane with the ease of new non-stop airline travel. Once the butt of a joke that “you can’t get there from here,” Spokane International Airport announced April 30 that Southwest Airlines will offer new seasonal direct flights to both Chicago and Orange County, Calif. beginning June 6. In addition. direct service to San Jose, Calif. resumes on the same date. The once-daily flights...
