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MEDICAL LAKE-It has been tough to find housing on the West Plains recently, but a new option is coming soon. The Park Apartments have been under construction on the north end of the city and are expected to be ready for move-in this winter. The 78-unit, three-building complex may have its first building done by the end of 2022, said Nick Brumback, president and co-owner of Brumback Commercial Real Estate and Brumback Construction, the company that owns and is constructing the...
CHENEY-A flip of the calendar to September means that for most seasons, it's time to hunt. Many big game, small game and bird hunts began Sept. 1, while others begin later in the month or into October. The hunting season looks more promising for deer opposed to last year, when the animal was ravaged by disease that particularly hit white-tail populations. "Last year really took a toll on white-tail especially, but we saw it in mule deer too," Fish and Wildlife Officer JoLynn...
Since the Davenport Times and Odessa Record merged to create the Lincoln County Record-Times, our two-person news staff has worked together to report on news, community and sports items in Davenport, Odessa, Reardan, Harrington and the surrounding areas in Lincoln County. Leveraging that staff to turn in a small-town weekly paper that goes up against any small paper in Eastern Washington quality-wise has been hard, but rewarding work. Now, we’re looking to expand that even further with paid and volunteer opportunities. We a...
DEEP CREEK- A blaze that erupted Sunday, Aug. 28, north of U.S. Highway 2 burned 109 acres and two structures, including a shed and barn. The fire was located between Wood Road and Brooks Road, according to staff reports. It occurred just east of the Spokane-Lincoln County line. Level 3 evacuation notices were in place from Christensen Road to the east, Ritchey Road to the west, Highway 2 to the south and Sprague Road to the north until later Sunday night. Level 3 notices...
BLUESTEM – Entering the missile site owned by Peter Davenport just north of Bluestem Road between the city of Davenport and Harrington requires unlocking two gates and wandering down old roads largely overgrown by sage brush. To the untrained eye, the site, which is one of six in Lincoln County, appears to be a bizarrely oversized storage site for a farmer or person looking to get off the grid, but the history of the sites goes much deeper than that. Site stores many UFO files Davenport has a unique reason for owning this s...
REARDAN-Gonzaga head baseball coach Mark Andrew Machtolf was arrested by Reardan Police and booked into Lincoln County Jail on a charge of driving under the influence late Thursday, June 9, according to Chief Andy Manke. Machtolf, who just completed his 19th season at the helm of the Bulldogs' diamond squad, had a blood-alcohol level as high as 0.284 at the time of booking according to tests administered at Lincoln County Jail, arresting officer Melissa Foust's arrest report...
DAVENPORT—A Ritzville man charged with fourth-degree assault, harassment and disorderly conduct stemming from an incident involving state Sen. Mark Schoesler last October was sentenced for one charge last week. Glen Roy Stockwell of Ritzville was convicted of fourth-degree assault in Lincoln County District Court Tuesday, May 24, but had charges of harassment and disorderly conduct dismissed, according to court records. Presiding judge Dan B. Johnson sentenced Stockwell to 12 months supervised probation, 12 months u...
DAVENPORT—A Ritzville man charged with fourth-degree assault, harassment and disorderly conduct stemming from an incident involving state Sen. Mark Schoesler last October was sentenced for one charge last week. Glen Roy Stockwell of Ritzville was convicted of fourth-degree assault in Lincoln County District Court Tuesday, May 24, but had charges of harassment and disorderly conduct dismissed, according to court records. Presiding judge Dan B. Johnson sentenced Stockwell to 12 months supervised probation, 12 months u...
Spokane Valley--The second round of the District 7 2B Tournament featured two overtime contests, mostly expected results and one surprising result that affected the outlook of the girls' bracket. All higher seeds won Thursday, with the exception of the Reardan girls pulling off an upset victory over St. George's in overtime that sent them into the district semifinals and the favored Dragons into a loser-out scenario. Locally, the Davenport boys survived St. George's in...
Spokane Valley--The basketball postseason has arrived in the Northeast 2B League, with all 11 boys and girls teams earning their spots in the double-elimination tournament beginning Monday, Feb. 7 and running 12 days until the final round Saturday, Feb. 19. Locally, the Davenport boys finished third in the regular season and earned a first-round bye, while the Reardan girls finished fifth and also received a de facto bye after Chesterton Academy forfeited the tournament. The...
DEEP CREEK--An adult woman was killed this morning in a two-car crash near the 6500 block of North Wood Road in Spokane County northeast of Reardan. The crash occurred around 7 a.m., according to a press release from the Spokane County Sheriff's Office. The woman, whose name has not been released, was driving a 2003 Saturn Ion northbound on Wood Road when the car crossed the center line and crashed into a 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck, the release said. The deceased was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the...
SPRAGUE—A Cheney man was arrested and booked into Lincoln County Jail Saturday morning in connection to a burglary at a Sprague address. Bruce Paul Havens, 48, who resides on the 25400 block of South Columbia Basin Highway just south of Tyler, was arrested by Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputies and two Washington State Patrol troopers in connection with stolen scrap metal from a property on 9243 Wollweber Road here. Corey Stolp of Edwall called LCSO to report a suspicious Ford SportTrak pulling a flatbed trailer nea...
Last week, the WIAA unveiled its state tournament allocations for fall sports. These allocations determine how many teams each district gets to send to the state playoffs in these sports, which around here, include football, soccer and volleyball. No changes were seen in soccer and volleyball. District 7, which includes Davenport and Reardan, was given one berth in girls soccer and three in volleyball for the 2B state playoffs. A fair allocation, as the number of 2B girls soccer teams statewide is slim, and three of 11 teams...
MEDICAL LAKE-The Reardan girls soccer team capped off an improved non-league schedule with a convincing 7-1 victory over the Medical Lake Cardinals on Monday, Oct. 4. Reardan earned its second straight victory after topping the Cheney junior-varsity girls Thursday, Sept. 30. Reardan improved to 4-3-1 overall with the win. The girls now have wins over Lake Roosevelt, Brewster, Medical Lake and Cheney junior-varsity this year. Meanwhile, Medical Lake lost its ninth-straight...
Have we become too divided as a country to properly honor those lost to tragedy? This question has crossed my mind multiple times in the last week, which was largely focused on recollecting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Saturday was the 20-year anniversary of the attacks. I was glad to see many tributes and well-written, thoughtful notes in print, online and via social media commemorating and honoring the 2,977 lost, including 340 firefighters and 72 law enforcement officers. Unfortunately, I also saw...
DAVENPORT — Masks will still be a part of sports this year, but face covering rules won’t be as restrictive to start the 2021-22 school year. The state Department of Health released new guidelines that mandate masks in some athletic settings, but not in others. The guidelines come on the heels of the state once again requiring masks in K-12 schools this year, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status. Athletes won’t have to mask up during competition or practice for any outdoor sport. Masks aren’t required for low or moderat...
DAVENPORT—“BOOM!” What sounded like a bomb going off to Sami Guhlke hit the sky’s soundwaves as the Reardan resident walked with her dog to pick up eggs from her family farm’s chicken coop three miles south of town after the sun set March 25. 45 seconds later... “BOOM!” A second clap…then 45 seconds after that, a third… “BOOM!” “At first I thought something went wrong at Fairchild (Air Force Base),” Guhlke said. As it turned out, Guhlke wasn’t the only person, locally or regio...
DAVENPORT - The Gorillas (0-2) battled for a set and a half, but are still searching for their first set and match victories this season after getting swept at the hands of the Liberty Lancers (2-0) at home Tuesday, Feb. 23. Liberty was victorious 27-25, 25-22, 25-9. The first set was back-and-forth. Davenport went on a 5-0 spurt to take a 23-20 lead, but Spangle-based Liberty erased the deficit and held on for the 27-25 decision. Davenport built a larger lead and more...
CHENEY — Few teams in college basketball appear to have been as affected by COVID-19 as the Eastern Washington men’s basketball team. Having already had several players sidelined due to positive tests and contact tracing protocols earlier in the season, another positive test within the program forced the cancellation of two games against the Portland State Vikings over New Year’s weekend. EWU then announced that it was shutting down its program through at least Jan. 10, which will also result in previously scheduled games...
PORTLAND - Two wins may not seem like much, but the Eastern Washington women's basketball team's pair of victories at Portland Stat Dec. 31 and Jan. 2 to open Big Sky Conference road play will surely be a confidence booster for a young team with just one senior that only managed three conference wins all last season. EWU won 73-71 in the first game and 73-67 in the second game. Eastern improved to 2-2 in conference and 3-6 overall with the two victories, and in both games...
MEDICAL LAKE—A popular sentiment after the shutdowns and hardships of 2020 may be for residents to plead for everything to “get back to normal.” However, simply hoping for things to get back to the way they were may not always be the right mindset, City Administrator Doug Ross and Mayor Shirley Maike said when discussing the city’s outlook for 2021. “It’s been nine months now,” Ross said. “I don’t like when people say ‘life returns as normal.’ Maybe this is normal.” He noted that the city functions nearly the same as befo...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — James “Sonny” Weathers is in the last of his initial four-year term as a city council member, elected in 2017. He’s also now in his first year as mayor, taking over for Kevin Richey, who resigned at the end of 2020. He plans to run for re-election after his term expires. Weathers, whose main career is a full-time member of the Washington Air National Guard, has been married to his wife, Angela, since 2002. They have three children ages 13, 11 and six. The family enjoys being involved in their local church,...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — The domino effect of former Mayor Kevin Richey’s resignation, former Councilman Steve Lawrence’s resignation and Councilwoman Jennifer Morton’s approved extended absence for several months due to deployment reared its head when the time came for council to select a deputy mayor at its first legislative session of the year Jan. 4. Former Deputy Mayor Sonny Weathers was named Richey’s mayoral replacement through the end of his term in 2021 and was heading up his first meeting as mayor/council chair. That left...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS—Council approved the final 2021 budget in its last meeting of the year, a Dec. 21 legislative session. The final budget includes several amendments from the original proposed 2021 budget, in both revenues and expenditures. The current expense fund had many of the budget amendments. Original proposed revenues were $11,339,381.87, while original fund expenditures were $10,954,801.65. Because proposed revenues dropped to $10,774,409.28, a 5% decrease, fund expenditures were dropped to $10,774,409.28, a 1.6% d...
CHENEY-A lack of Eastern Washington University students on campus due to pandemic restrictions and online classes took a chunk out of the city's economy. Now, it has played a part in claiming Alliance Tire Pros, which permanently closed Dec. 21. "We couldn't bank on students coming back...when they announced next quarter will be (mostly) virtual," owner Jared Posey said. He noted the absence of volume the business would normally get from students took away the profit margins f...
