Articles from the March 24, 2016 edition
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Fifth-graders score high numbers in Math is Cool competition
Elementary schools from Cheney and Medical Lake competed in the fifth-grade Math is Cool competition, March 18, at Eastern Washington University. The competition began with a... — Updated 3/24/2016
CHS greenhouse under new management
For many years, the greenhouse behind Cheney High School has served primarily as a lab for experiments. Heather McLagan, one of the advisers for the high school's Future Farmers of... — Updated 3/24/2016
Westwood students particpate in local MESA competition
Four Westwood Middle School students - Bethany Fisher, Andres Margraf, Juliane De Los Santos and William Prater - recently participated in the eighth-grade Spokane MESA (Math,... — Updated 3/24/2016
Making contact
Cheney's Tom Davis (right) demonstrates his tapping technique to Dr. Peter Hansen (left) during a March 19 presentation on telegraphy at the Cheney Library. Davis received his... — Updated 3/24/2016
Fisher Building rezone requested
As part of its comprehensive plan review process, city planner Brett Lucas asked Cheney’s Planning Commission to consider answers to three questions for future discussions on land use. Those questions are how much land should... — Updated 3/24/2016
West Plains BRIEFS
West Plain Easter Egg hunts, Saturday March 26 Area youth will have plenty to choose from when it comes to finding Easter eggs this Saturday. The Cheney Kiwanis are holding their egg hunt at 11 a.m., sharp, at Salnave Park, with 4... — Updated 3/24/2016
What's Happening On The West Plains
All events are free unless posted otherwise. To get your event or meeting in the weekly What’s Happening section send an email with date, time, location and event to jmac@cheneyfreepress.com. Cheney • March 25, Baby Play and... — Updated 3/24/2016 Full story
Marie E. Larson
Our beloved Mother, Ga'ma, Grammie, Marie E. Larson, left us on March 18, 2016 at the age of 89. She joins her mother, Hazel Marie Camp and her husband of 48 years, Lamoyne (Larry)... — Updated 3/24/2016 Full story
Churches
Cheney United Church of Christ Cheney UCC members invite you to join us for our Easter Celebrations. Sunrise services will be at 8 a.m. at the Fairview Cemetery, 1530 Salnave Road just west of Cheney. Following that service at... — Updated 3/24/2016 Full story
Looking Back
10 Years Ago March 30, 2006 Cheney Superintendent of Schools Mike Dunn will be staying on the job after finding out he did not get a similar job with the Mead School District. Bob... — Updated 3/24/2016
McMorris Rodgers truths
It’s time for the truth concerning Cathy McMorris Rodgers. She is part of the most dysfunctional Congress ever. She is paid $174,000 a year by us to work for the 5th District of Washington state. This is what she has... — Updated 3/24/2016
Support Sanders March 26
Are you concerned about the number of fires we experienced last summer? Does the number of dangerous, mile-long trains, especially oil trains that come through Cheney blowing their horns and blocking intersections, bother you? Have... — Updated 3/24/2016
Lt. Gov. Brad Owen served 'Our Washington' well
For the last 20 years, Lt. Gov. Brad Owen (D) has served Washington well. Now, he is retiring and leaving the state senate as he found it — a dignified place to debate and enact... — Updated 3/24/2016
Taxed Enough
Thank you, Cheney Free Press, for highlighting the taxation issue out-of-town residents are having with their city of Cheney utility bills. Like many others, I was surprised to see new taxes of $25 added to my February statement.... — Updated 3/24/2016
It's time for a better understanding of the Vietnam War
There’s an effort in place that’s long overdue and will be ongoing over basically the next decade. The 2008 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the Secretary of Defense to conduct a program to commemorate the 50th... — Updated 3/24/2016
Knowledge is Power
The Medical Lake High School Knowledge Bowl team took second place in the Washington State XXXIV Knowledge Bowl championships, March 19, at Arlington High School. Medical Lake... — Updated 3/24/2016
Track crews in final stages of project
Crews from RailWorks are back on the job putting the finishing touches on their work to upgrade nearly seven-miles of track from Cheney to the Geiger Spur. The $7 million project... — Updated 3/24/2016
May 1 is new opening date at Holiday Inn Express
The calendar and weather have combined to delay the planned opening of the newly remodeled Cheney Holiday Inn Express In a December Cheney Free Press story, Debbie Anderson, who alo... — Updated 3/24/2016
Eastern's Morley to receive Represenative Timm Ormsby award
Eastern Washington University announced that professor Laurie Morley, Ph.D, is one of five Washington public university faculty to receive the 2016 Representative Timm Ormsby Award for Faculty Citizenship. Sponsored by the... — Updated 3/24/2016
Pine heating
Steam rises from four piles of wood chips created when a small stand of trees was harvested and chopped up to make way for the Salnave Glen apartment complex at State Route 904 and... — Updated 3/24/2016
News Briefs
Civility is topic of library series The Spokane County Library District and Humanities Washington invited residents to explore questions on civil discourse and more with a four-part election-year lecture series. Featured guest spea... — Updated 3/24/2016
Medical Lake pulls the trigger on road grader purchase
The Medical Lake City Council made the city’s purchase of a used road grader official by approving a budget amendment at their March 15 meeting. The $157,614 amendment pays for the grader, a 2008 Caterpillar 140M Motor Grader... — Updated 3/24/2016
Milt Priggee returns to the Inland NW
To those who have lived in the area for any length of time, and who might have been readers of Spokane newspapers in the late 1980s and through the 1990s, you may notice the Cheney... — Updated 3/24/2016
Washington Democrats gather Saturday to pick delegates for Clinton, Sanders
To caucus, or not to caucus, might not necessarily be the question. For many, how to caucus is more accurate. In that regards, the Spokane County Democrats are several steps ahead... — Updated 3/24/2016
Airway Heights makes land purchase for housing project
The Airway Heights City Council voted unanimously at its March 21 meeting to purchase two parcels, approximately 20 acres, of land to be used for a new housing site as part of the Fairchild Air Force Base Preservation and... — Updated 3/24/2016