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DAVENPORT-Don't celebrate yet, but as of this issue, spring is less than a month away as the snow begins to melt here in town. While many will look forward to the prospect of warmer temperatures and equate that with more outdoors opportunities, there are still a few options while winter is still on scene. However, it remains undeniably true that options will increase come spring time. The Times caught up with Lincoln County Fish and Wildlife officer Curt Wood to check in on...
FAIRCHILD AFB -- Lovers of fast aircraft, aerial acrobatics and aviation history will have to wait until 2022 to get their fill. In a Feb. 17 post on their Facebook page, Fairchild Air Force Base officials said that because of the continuing issues surround the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Inland Northwest Skyfest event has been postponed. Officials said the looked a number of alternatives for staging the event, but in the end couldn't find a way to do so without creating...
REARDAN – Council’s Feb. 18 regular meeting consisted of five new business items, treasurer’s and mayor’s reports, a public comment and a miscellaneous item discussing a loan revision. Council first approved the minutes from the Feb. 4 meeting, then approved AP claim and AP payroll claim vouchers. Council also approved the Jan. 21 treasurer’s report after it was given by treasurer Megan Kamstra. Rick Wright and Jeremy Anderson spoke to council during public comment time, asking if the town had any information regarding...
DAVENPORT – Lincoln County’s share of the Moderna vaccine aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 has been reduced to zero in the past weeks as the state puts emphasis on mass vaccination sites and winter storms nationwide slow down shipping. That goose egg of new doses has been felt in many rural counties, not just here. Fortunately for rural health departments, there is a second FDA-approved vaccine by Pfizer that requires two shots spread three weeks apart. Now, individual rural counties don’t have the capacity to store...
DAVENPORT – The school board discussed whether to reconvene for in-person meetings now that Lincoln County is in Phase 2 of Gov. Jay Inslee’s re-opening at their regular Zoom meeting Feb. 22. They agreed to meet in-person beginning in March with a Zoom option for those who wish to tune in but aren’t able to physically. It was the lone action item at the meeting. The board did approve the consent agenda, which included accepting the Jan. 25 meeting minutes, approving the hire of high school assistant volleyball hire Trea Nonne...
DAVENPORT – Mathew Scott Chafin, 31, of Creston, has a jury trial date and sentencing set for March 30 to determine his sentence after he pled guilty to child molestation in the first degree. Chafin originally entered a guilty plea Dec. 15 with a jury trial date set March 20 and readiness status set for Feb. 16, according to Lincoln County Superior Court records. At that Feb. 16 court appearance, a mental evaluation was approved, which will take 40 days and will take place while Chafin is held in Lincoln County Jail, where h...
OLYMPIA – Reeling from a December dats breach that allowed hackers to access the personal information of roughly 1.6 million state residents, lawmakers are working with Gov. Jay Inslee to establish a new office to protect computers. Sponsored by Sen. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, Senate Bill 5432 would establish a new Office of Cyber Security. Officials from the Office of the Governor said Inslee requested the bill in response to the December data breach tied to resident unemployment claims filed in 2020. The data was in the p...
The first buttercup of 2021 was submitted to The Record this week by Stan Mustard of Odessa. The bright yellow flowers were sighted just beyond the town limits....
ODESSA – Lincoln County Treasurer Jody Howard has completed the 2021 Tax & Assessment roll for collection, providing notification that the treasurer shall now accept payment and issue receipts for the 2021 taxes and assessments per RCW 84.56.020. 2021 tax statements are scheduled to be mailed within the next two weeks. Taxpayers, whose mortgage companies request their tax statement, will not receive a statement. For further information or questions, contact the Treasurer’s office, 450 Logan, Davenport, WA, (509) 725...
ODESSA – The hammer is about to fall. After numerous requests via letter and in person, as well as citations issued by Odessa Police, nuisance properties within the Town of Odessa, that are not just unsightly but also health hazards affecting neighbors and/or anyone else needing to access those properties (delivery drivers, utility workers, etc.), the Odessa Town Council is taking action to clean up the properties and place liens against them in order to recoup the cost of remediation. At Monday evening’s meeting of the cou...
DAVENPORT – It’s not a complete re-opening, but it’s a start. Lincoln County joined the rest of the state in moving to Phase 2 of Gov. Jay Inslee’s re-opening plan beginning Feb. 14. The phase includes the re-opening of restaurants at 25% capacity, the return of sports competitions and permission for limited indoor entertainment establishment re-openings. Restrictions limiting outdoor or open air-dining to six people per table are still in place, and alcohol service/delivery still must end at 11 p.m. Much to many Lincoln...
DAVENPORT – Below-freezing temperatures and precipitation coincided for the first time in February after a dry start to the month President's Day. 3.2 inches were reported here by the National Weather Service (though it appeared to be more) on the Feb. 15 holiday, marking the first snowfall of the month after a drier-than-usual January. A small amount of snow fell Tuesday and Wednesday, but didn't match the bluster of Washington's Birthday. A slight chance of snow was f...
DAVENPORT – It’s becoming routine at this point: The Lincoln County Health Department applies for new Moderna vaccine doses aimed at preventing COVID-19 infection. The state doesn’t provide any new doses, while mass vaccination sites, such as the Spokane Arena, receive doses in the thousands. That was the case this week for the third week in a row, health department public health administrator Ed Dzedzy informed the county commissioners at their Feb. 16 meeting. This week, however, a new wrinkle was thrown in, and it invol...
DAVENPORT – The state’s advancement to Phase 2 of Gov. Jay Inslee’s re-opening plan means that restaurants complying with the governor’s mandates can finally open up indoor seating at 25% capacity. Most local restaurants are therefore now open for indoor dining with those restrictions in mind, and some have adjusted their hours as they work their way back from an 11-month on-and-off shutdown. Here are some updates on those sit-down restaurants, including a meal recommendation from a staff member at those eateries. El Ranchit...
DAVENPORT – Prior to council's action-less meeting Feb. 10, the finance committee heard the 2020 fourth quarter financial report that indicates the city is in a good spot when comparing revenues and expenses. The city received more tax revenue ($912,604) than budgeted for ($754,750), with retail sales and use tax profiting 148.5%. License/permit revenue was 211% more than budgeted for, and intergovernment fees, which included $77,850 in COVID-19 grant money, received 122.7% m...
ODESSA – Following a public uproar when Gov. Jay Inslee declared that the Puget Sound area was the first portion of the state to move to Phase 2 of his Covid-related economic re-opening plan, Inslee initially tried defending his decision but soon switched gears and declared that all of eastern Washington was moving to Phase 2. This about-face means that the much-postponed fall sports season can finally get underway at Odessa High School (see additional sports coverage, p. 8) and that many other potential events can take p...
SPOKANE – The Spokane Ag Show is ready to launch their virtual show February 23-25 via its website, agshow.org. The show is where industry professionals go to meet, learn and grow. It is one of the largest farm shows in North America and while it is virtual this year, it will continue to host industry exhibitors and conduct over 45 professional seminars relating to agribusiness from large-scale operations and small acreage farms and ranches. The show will be free to attend and along with access to exhibitors, some of the c...
OLYMPIA – As a single mother who survived on food stamps, an added $20 monthly cost for her four children’s lunch was more than Rep. Melanie Morgan, D-Tacoma, could afford at that time. Eliminating copays on her children’s lunch would have made a dramatic difference for her and her children, she said. “There was a reason I was on food stamps,” Morgan told the House of Representatives Feb. 12. “This may not seem like a lot to many people, but for me … $20 was a lot of money.” House Bill 1342, which would force schools that hav...
ODESSA – A little over one year ago, Odessa High School’s Chloe Winkler, now a junior, began coursework in computer science and programming in science teacher Jeff Wehr’s science department. Curious about the computer sciences, she showed interest in becoming a computer programmer and pursued coding-related projects. She has now learned more than five computer-science languages, including Q-Basic, R-Basic, JAVA, CSS, HTML and Python. Wehr says she is one of the top five coder...
Terrie Schmidt-Crosby | The Record Crab Creek in mid-Odessa is completely frozen over in this view looking west toward the Division Street walking bridge. Warmer temperatures are being forecast for Sunday and Monday....
ODESSA – According to Wikipedia, “Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a minor Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world… Saint Valentine's Day is not a public holid...
RITZVILLE - The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for Adams, Grant, Whitman and southern Lincoln counties. Hazardous winter weather will begin today with sustained winds of 20-24 mph and wind gusts up to 39 mph possible across the region. "Very cold wind chills are expected to accompany the winds," the outlook said, noting tonight's low will be about 9 degrees, with wind chills dipping to -8 degrees. Frigid temperatures are expected to continue...
ODESSA – The Feb. 9, 2021 special election results for Lincoln County show Odessa’s two school levies and one hospital levy easily passing by margins of over 70 percent in favor to 30 percent or less opposed. Voter turnout stood at 46.47 percent, with 1,284 votes counted thus far out of the 2,763 registered voters in the county. The Sprague and Readan-Edwall School Districts also had levies passing by approximately the same amounts as the Odessa School District. The election results are scheduled to be certified on Feb. 19....
ODESSA – A full complement of council members met Monday night either via Zoom or in the clerk’s office. Several members of the newly formed Metropolitan Park District board also attended via Zoom to discuss funding and various legal matters regarding the Odessa pool. One of the main issues of concern to the board was funding for 2021, since the taxes due the district will not be collected until 2022. Council members reassured the board that they were well aware of that fact and had already included pool maintenance and ope...
ODESSA – The Odessa Chamber of Commerce via Zoom met Feb. 9 to elect officers for the year and handle other relevant matters. Nominations were opened for all positions, although none were forthcoming. The slate of nominees from the prior Chamber meeting was then approved via a vote of acclimation by the participating members. The new officers are: President Jeff Huiras, Vice President Norm Ott, Secretary Terrie Schmidt-Crosby, Treasurer Larissa Zeiler, at-large board member Michelle Melgren, at-large board member Matt R...
