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With four of the seven members on their way to Olympia to lobby legislators, and the mayor and some staff to follow, the Cheney City Council raced through a light agenda at its first meeting of the month Tuesday night. The council approved a...

Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake is getting a little facelift. A series of construction contracts were recently approved for the facility, largely in the Eastlake and Westlake buildings on campus. Gayle Bonnett, a project manager and architect...

Members of the Cheney High School band give it their full-throated all in cheering on the Blackhawks boys basketball team during Monday night’s playoff game with visiting Colville. The Indians...

Sometimes the best policy is just to make sure you have a policy. And in writing is even better. That’s part of the impetus behind Cheney Parks and Recreation’s Childcare Health Policy, which addresses how staff will work with area children ages...

Business remained somewhat quiet at the Tuesday, Feb. 5 Medical Lake City Council meeting, however a lease agreement update will bring in a small additional sum of money each month. The City Council revised a second amendment to its lease agreement...

Members of the Medical Lake Kiwanis serve up a turkey lunch for city seniors in the 29th annual senior citizens Valentine’s Day dinner Saturday, Feb. 9. The annual lunch features the Senior Citizen...

Reviewing vision statements took up the bulk of the Monday, Feb. 11 meeting of the Airway Heights Planning Commission. Discussions regarding chapter three of the city’s comprehensive plan continued this month, marking the fifth time the chapter...

By KYLEE ZABEL Reporter WNPA Olympia News Bureau Executive action has been taken on a bill that would allow teens 16 and 17 to preregister to vote while applying for their driver’s licenses at the Department of Licensing (DOL). The legislation...

The competitive spirit is heating up for the robotics club at Medical Lake High School. Students in the club are building a robot to compete in the FIRST Robotics competition April 3 at Eastern Washin...

from news Service reports Inspired by the national movement that has risen out of the Newtown, Conn. shooting, Eastern Washington University’s Office of Community Engagement (OCE) is launching the EWU 26 Days of Kindness Initiative. The 26 Acts of...

Training new employees can often be difficult for business owners. The learning curve can be steep and the return on investment minimal, at least at first. Employers sometimes are reluctant to become too heavily invested in employees who either...

On behalf of the Cheney High School Cross Country program we would like thank the community of Cheney for their support of our 50th annual Turkey Trot Thanks giving morning. There were over 300 walkers, joggers or runners present for this community...

Sometimes I wonder just how much good social media does, or if it’s meant to do good at all. Maybe it’s not meant to do anything. It’s just there. In a way it boils down to how you define good. What kind of outcome do you expect from using...

It’s been a tough year for public health. The U.S. is currently facing a particularly harsh influenza season, but this virus represents only one problematic pathogen. Another is the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of pertussis...

One of the most well-known faces in Medical Lake, Bob Kibling is the Kiwanis Senior Citizen Volunteer of the Year for 2012. Kibling received the award at the 29th annual Senior Citizens Valentine’s...

By Luella Dow Staff Reporter Once in a while you meet a person who has the patience, the skills and the natural talent to lovingly teach those of us who need to learn by a different path. We’re talk...

Beverly Greene Boyes Surrounded by her loving family, Beverly passed away at home in Auburn, Wash. on Jan. 16, 2013. She was the great-granddaughter of prominent and early Cheney resident Frank Clark... Full story

By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter Cheney wrestlers will have some strong representation this weekend in Tacoma as six members of the team advanced to Mat Classic XXV. The team had seven wrestlers...

Being the No. 1 seeds in last weekend’s 1 A Bi-district basketball tournament at West Valley in Spokane should have afforded those teams a little easier path down the playoff road to state. But not having a good map to negotiate getting down the...

It’s hard to say what the end result will be, but Eastern Washington’s men’s Big Sky Conference basketball season might have been brought back from the dead, and eased away from the cliff last...

Attention: As of this writing, Major League Baseball’s spring training is under way. It’s that time of year again when hope springs eternal for us baseball fans, if only for a brief few weeks until the reality of the regular season sets in when...

Eastern Washington University’s latest football recruiting class not only kept with the school’s interests in signing potential talent from inside the state but it may have produced talent to fill some of the holes the Eagles will have in 2013. I...

No one likely needs remind Eastern women’s basketball team about the length of a game. That generally it takes a full 40 minutes each night to make sure of success. But Eastern (9-5 Big Sky, 13-10...

The few Cheney High School boys basketball fans that made it to the home gym Monday night saw a good battle between two pretty evenly matched teams: Cheney and visiting Colville. In the end it was...

For whatever reasons, and head coach Jennifer Harmer said she listed as many as she could on the chalkboard after the game, the Cheney girls’ basketball team didn’t have one of their better...