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The Cheney City Council approved a land sale at its March 11 meeting that will bring the first marijuana facility to the city. In a 5-1 vote — Councilwoman Jill Weiszmann voted no with Councilman Bob Stockton absent — the council authorized Mayor Tom Trulove to sign and accept a sale of two parcels, with an option on a third, to Bill Youngs and partners for the construction of a marijuana production and processing facility in the city’s Commerce and Industrial Park. Construction of the facility is contingent on three factors:...
Katy Burge of Medical Lake, received academic honors fromthe Walter Cronkite School ofJournalism and Mass Communicationat Arizona State Universityby making the University’s Dean’s List...
Medical Lake students and staff have a new way to access books and reading materials as the school libraries are now offering ebooks and audiobooks through their Overdrive system at no charge. Students and staff can log into the system using their school ID and download materials to their smart phone, tablet computer, ereader or their computer. At the end of the lending period, titles will expire on the device and automatically return to the system. According to Medical Lake Middle School library tech Mary Kay Rowles, books a...
Hallett Elementary School once again held their annual book fair, sponsored by Scholastic Books, March 3-7. Diana Jones, the head library tech for Hallett said the fair helps the school purchase more books for the library's shelves. Jones added that the book fair also gives Hallett students a chance to look at titles and materials they would not normally have access to because they live in a remote community. "It's an opportunity to bring the bookstore to kids," Jones said....
Eastern Washington University will dedicate two days in May for students to present during a multidisciplinary symposium. The event allows students to present original works to a group of around 130 faculty advisors and mentors. The symposium provides graduate and undergraduate students with an academic setting where they can showcase their work to people experienced in their fields of study. The Student Research and Creative Works Symposium is an exceptional occasion in that the participants cover a vast range of colleges...
At a special meeting March 5, Eastern Washington University’s board of trustees approved the hiring of a consultant firm to help search for a new president. The board accepted a bid from EFL Associates to help in the hunt for a replacement for Dr. Rodolfo Arévalo, who is retiring July 15. Then board decided in a Feb. 6 special meeting to make a national search with the intention of having a successful candidate in place before Arévalo leaves. According to its website, EFL Associates specializes in executive searches in a var...
Education was the common topic at the March 7 West Plains Beekeepers Association meeting in Medical Lake. During her committee report, vice president Margo Buckles announced that she has been teaching lessons at Medical Lake High School. Buckles said she approached science teacher Jennie Wagner and asked if she’d be interested in having her students learn beekeeping lessons once a week in her horticulture class. According to Buckles, there will hands-on lessons and students will get a chance to take the state certified b...
The Washington State Patrol is conducting a homicide investigation into a Feb. 21 car-semi-truck collision outside Colfax that resulted in the deaths of two Eastern Washington University students. State Patrol public information officer Jeff Sevigeny confirmed media accounts they are looking into the possibility that 21-year-old Erica Polito Mosso was driving impaired when she may have slid on black ice around 4:45 a.m. Polito Mosso’s northbound 1999 Volkswagen Jetta went sideways on Highway 195 outside of Colfax and was s...
The city of Cheney is looking for volunteers to assist with this year’s Cheney Clean Sweep. The seventh annual day to collect litter and clean up public spaces takes place Saturday, April 26 beginning at 9 a.m. at Veterans’ Memorial Park. Volunteers are needed. If interested contact Brett Lucas as 498-9221 or blucase@cityofcheney.org. The city is also scheduling its large item pickup week for April 21-24 to coincide with Cheney Clean Sweep. Large item pick up will take place on resident’s normal collection day....
Particpants at last Friday's Blackhawk Dessert Auction peruse tables at Cheney High School searching for good bid items -- of which there were plenty to be found....
Thanks to last week's rapid snowmelt and rainfall, these geese had a new place to layover at the site of Cheney's 50-acre Park on Betz Road....
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Emmanuel Lutheran Church celebrates the Second Sunday in Lent this Sunday. Worship begins at 10:30 a.m. Christian education for grade school children through adult begins at 9 a.m. Lenten mid-week soup supper and worship continues on Wednesday, March 19. Soup supper is served at 5:30 p.m. followed by Holden Evening Prayer at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church All are welcome. We are a welcoming haven, nourishing all God’s people in body, mind and spirit. This Sunday will be the...
Ruth Joan Amos of Azalea, Ore., died Tuesday, Jan. 7, of natural causes at Riverview Terrace in Roseburg. A memorial service will be planned later. Ruth and her husband were avid horticulturists who owned and managed the Azalea Gardens for 20 years. They were members of the Rhododendron Club and truly loved their flowers. Ruth was secretary for the Azalea Garden Club and a member of the “Azalea Grange” for many years. Ruth lived a wonderfully full life. She was raised in the Cheney area and graduated from the Cheney High Sch...
1 Years Ago March 18, 2004 Eastern Washington qualified for the school's first-ever trip to the NCAA basketball tournament following their 71-59 win over Northern Arizona. The Eagles, 17-12 and a 15th seed, would face Oklahoma State, 27-3 and a No. 2 seed in Kansas City. A disturbed man wielding a hatchet held a clerk at bay in FHL Liquidators. Once police officer Dave Mather arrived, drew his sidearm and ordered the man to drop the hatchet he did so and was arrested....
We continue the story of the Sanders Branch School, nicknamed Brush College. The remarkable Mrs. Smouse, who began teaching there in 1913, made a tremendous impression on the students. With a lively imagination she often turned a hard or boring lesson into a game. "Her classroom," Helen Boots said, "was often a babysitting area when some of the farm families needed to be gone. They would stop at the school and drop the pre-schoolers off. Mrs. Smouse would take this as an...
The salmon colored walls and outdated booths of the former café at 24 West First St. were minor challenges for the building's new owners. Though the integrity remains for the most part unchanged, LaShay Germain and her husband Lonnie have taken on the heavy task of rejuvenating the former diner into a standout burger and seafood restaurant. "We wanted to start small," Germain said of her first venture into a sit down eatery. However she is not unfamiliar with the business of...
A tow truck removes a vehicle from the scene of a one-car, non-injury accident Monday that blocked traffic near the railroad tracks on Cheney Spangle Road....
Better Health Together along with Amerigroup, Community Health Plan of Washington and United Healthcare are holding a “Spring Enrollment and Resource Fair” at Spokane Community College in Spokane Monday, March 17, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This free enrollment fair will include information on general health and the Affordable Care Act, as well as in-person assistors to help people enroll in care coverage, and approximately 40 local, community-based organizations who provide additional health and family assistance. Sec...
Cheney residents hoping to provide public comment on a pair of zoning issues will have to wait one more week to do so. Monday’s Planning Commission meeting, which contained two public hearings dealing with a high-density residential rezone and another on commercial marijuana production, has been rescheduled to next Monday, March 17, at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. Planning Department administrative secretary Sue Beeman said the postponement is due to illnesses. The commission also has two vacancies, making a quorum difficult f...
Last week's big snowstorm followed by warming temperatures and rain created water problems for many cities and counties, including Cheney's Hagelin Park....
Sandra Sue Porter is the first girl to bring in a buttercup this season, earning her $5 from the Cheney Free Press....
The Airway Heights City Council took a step forward in regards to the city’s solid waste management at the March 10 study session. City Manager Albert Tripp presented a draft of the Spokane County Solid Waste Interlocal Agreement. He said the agreement has been the same in the past, with the exception that all of the assets that were owned by Spokane are now owned by Spokane County, who will control the regional solid waste system in November. Tripp added that the city could put out a request for proposal that would allow oth...
Cheney has taken another step closer to becoming self-sufficient with its municipal waste disposal system. At its Nov. 26, 2013 meeting the City Council authorized Public Works Director Todd Ableman and staff to proceed with plans to create the city’s own solid waste disposal system. Currently the city has its own collection trucks, but transports the accumulated waste to the city of Spokane-owned Waste to Energy Plant on Geiger Boulevard, northeast of Spokane International Airport. The city has been part of a 25-year r...
Virginia Baker performs the delicate work of slicing precise servings of dessert at last Friday's Blackhawk Dessert Auction fundraiser at Cheney High School. The event raised over $2,200 for Blackhawk athletics....
The Medical Lake City Council discussed several matters at the Feb. 25 meeting. City Administrator Doug Ross said he has been meeting with Sunshine Disposal and Recycling to discuss the pick-up and hauling of solid waste to a transfer station and the potential plans for when the interlocal agreement expires in November. “We’re discussing strategies and what are the best interests for our citizens,” Ross said. Ross also announced the city handled the snow fall well. He said the only complaint received came in the form of a...
