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MEDICAL LAKE -- The City Council voted unanimously at its Feb. 16 meeting to decline an offer by national retail firm Dollar General to purchase city property at the intersection of West Brooks Road, State Route 902 and North Lefevre Street. Dollar General originally approached the city offering to purchase the property, site of the former Ball and Dodd Funeral Home and used for a variety of purposes by the community, in early January, offering $200,000 for the land. The city originally purchased the property in 2002 for... Full story
CHENEY – City officials are in the process of updating the 10-year parks and recreation comprehensive plan — and they want to know what residents think and would like to see in the way or recreational opportunities and amenities. To that end, the city has posted a 2021 Parks Survey – Questionnaire online they are asking residents to complete. The five-page survey, which takes about 5-10 minutes to fill out, asks users for demographic information, parks and/or recreation progr...
FOUR LAKES -- A woman who crashed into a gas pump in Four Lakes, threatened to light it on fire and then steal a Cheney Police Department cruiser has been arrested. According to a report from KHQ News, 44-year-old Pearl Shamara is facing multiple charges tonight after Spokane County Sheriff's Office deputies say she stole a truck from a Spokane dealership earlier in the afternoon, Feb. 12, then led police on a short chase which was subsequently terminated. Around 4 p.m., police responded to a report of a woman who had crashed... Full story
UPDATE: Hours after the press conference, the Governor's Office announced that areas moving to "Phase 2" can do so Sunday, Feb. 14, to allow restaurants, bars, taverns and theaters to be open for indoor service on Valentine's Day. CHENEY — Spokane County will move ahead to Phase 2 of Gov. Jay Inslee's newest coronavirus reopening plan beginning Monday. In a press conference today, Thursday, Feb. 11, Gov. Jay Inslee announced that 92 percent of all residents will be in Phase 2...
WEST PLAINS — Cheney and Medical Lake school districts’ Educational Programs and Operations levies were passing with comfortable majorities on Tuesday night — but not quite as comfortable as similar levies three years ago. According to Feb. 9 special election results from the Spokane County Elections Department, Cheney Public Schools’ Proposition 1 EP&O levy was passing with a 55.21 % yes vote, while Proposition 2, a Capital Facilities Levy, was receiving 57.68 % of the vote. In Medical Lake, Proposition 1 was ahead by a 56...
LEWISTON, Idaho - Junior Carter Ledwith won the men's race to highlight performances for the Eastern Washington University men's and women's cross country teams as the Eagles opened their 2020-21 season at the Idaho Orchards Cross Country Invitational in Lewiston, Idaho. The Eastern men finished third and the women were fourth among the NCAA Division I teams at the event. Sophomore Kaylin Sheley was the top finisher for Eastern's women with a 19th-place finish. A 2018...
CHENEY Feb. 1 Child abuse/neglect was reported on the 2400 block of University Lane. Determined to be unfounded, referred to Child Protective Services. Domestic violence/verbal dispute was reported on the 700 block of West 1st Street. First-degree theft/online scam was reported on the 100 block of North 9th Street. Feb. 2 Mental health issue was reported on the 1000 block of Betz Road. Subject was involuntarily committed. Eric L. Puentes, 35, was arrested for obstructing a law enforcement officer on the 1200 block of 1st...
CHENEY — Including a reunion of brothers, two new coaches with extensive coaching experience in the Big Sky Conference and beyond have joined the Eastern Washington University football program and were officially announced by head coach Aaron Best on Feb. 8. Joining the Eagles as linebackers coach is Justin Ena, whose brother, Eti Ena, is EWU's defensive coordinator and defensive ends coach. The other hiring announced is Jeff Copp, who will coach EWU defensive tackles. They have a combined 33 years of coaching experience, a...
CHENEY – A sweep of regional rival Idaho not only extended the Eastern Washington University men's basketball team's winning streak to five games but – with a little help – propelled the Eagles into first place in the Big Sky Conference. Balanced scoring and a 13-5 second-half run helped push the Eagles past the host Vandals on Thursday, Feb. 5, 89-75 while hot second-half EWU shooting led to a rout of the visitors, 90-64, on Saturday. Coupled with a Weber state sweep of fo...
SPOKANE — County Treasurer Michael Baumgartner has announced a one-month extension for paying the first half of property taxes in 2021. Taxpayers now have until May 31 to pay their assessed property taxes, rather than the usual due date of April 30, without accruing any interest or penalty charges. In a Feb. 3 news release, Baumgartner said the move was made to “provide tax relief resulting from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.” State law provides county treasurers the authority to grant property tax exten...
The AARP Free Tax-Aide assistance program will look quite a bit different this year due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. While county libraries remain closed, the Spokane District AARP Tax-Aide staff has come up with an alternative way to continue to help those who rely on the Tax-Aide program. The Spokane District Tax-Aide sites which include the Cheney Library, Argonne Public Library, Medical Lake City Hall, Spokane Public Library, Moran Prairie Library, Spokane Valley Library and Northeast Community Center will be combining...
Floyd Allen Cook passed peacefully in his sleep following complications from a massive stroke on Feb. 5, 2021 at Hospice House, Spokane, Wash. Allen was born on July 2, 1938 to Floyd and Emelia Cook. At the age of 2 his family moved from Ellensburg, Wash. to Cheney, Wash. where his father taught at Cheney High School. In high school Allen participated in football and track setting track records in 1957. Allen worked at gas stations as a "gas pump jockey" (according to Diane's... Full story
Cheney Congregational Church We have made the decision to suspend in-person Sunday morning worship for the time being. This is a difficult decision, and we make it with the whole Cheney community in mind. We will continue to host live Sunday morning services on Zoom at 10 a.m. You can request a Zoom link through our website, www.cheneycongregational.org. You can find copies of the sermons on our website. We are also hosting outdoor “Fireside Chats” with groups of five to create social connection and combat the isolation of...
Treat that someone special in your life to a floral Valentine. You will have them smiling within seconds and feeling happier throughout the week ahead. Ensure your gift of cut flowers will look its best and provide many days of enjoyment with proper selection and care. You will also enjoy a bit of floral relief when taking time to select the freshest flowers possible. A whiff of the water will let you know if the flowers are fresh and have been properly tended. Look for upright and perky flowers with lots of firm buds that...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact in America. This devastation, in my opinion, is a direct result of a lack of resources. As good folks have been losing jobs and small businesses while waiting for a stimulus check that feels like it’s never coming, security has never felt more fragile. The thing is, pandemics have no borders. Meaning, if we as one of the wealthiest countries in the world are struggling, others in impoverished countries are barely surviving. We mustn't forget about them. While our people n...
People are manipulated through fear. Fear of Saddam Hussein. Fear of terrorism. Fear of climate change. Fear of the corona virus. The politicians and the media, with the help of academia and other recipients of money from the government, fan the flames of fear. People react to this fear by doing what the so-called “experts” tell them to do: Destroy Iraq, bombing them into the Stone Age and killing hundreds of thousands of people. Hang humanity on a “Cross of Iron” by spending trillions of dollars on the militar...
The meltdown at the state Department of Employment Security ought to teach us a lesson. It’s easy for government to create problems, not so easy for the Legislature to come back in and clean up the mess. We ought to keep this in mind as the Legislature debates some of the big, bold ideas our liberal colleagues are bringing to the table this year — for an income tax, big increases in gas prices, greater government control of industry, and many, many more. Many of these policies are so big and so sweeping we can be sure they wo...
Why would any company spend $5.5 million for a 30-second Super Bowl ad which leaves viewers perplexed as some glitzy and abstract commercials did? After production costs are tacked on, you’d think advertisers would want their messages clearly understood especially in difficult times. Some prominent advertisers, such as Coca Cola, Budweiser and Pepsi, traditional large buyers, skipped Super Bowl LV; however, Weather Tech did not. After game, the list of best and worst ads was r...
CHENEY — Back in late September of 2020 when the first pages of fall had been turned, Bob Quinn went out on his usual limb and suggested some near certainties loomed for the months ahead. The decades-long experience the now retired Eastern Washington University meteorology professor called upon — along with careful study of his go-to statistic of North Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures — suggested that a significant La Niña pattern had emerged. This is the first fully...
CHENEY — The Planning Commission is advancing two ordinances, one dealing with residential occupancy and one with water conservation measures including landscaping limitations, to the City Council for consideration at upcoming meetings. Both ordinances were subjects of several meetings and public hearings held in 2019 and 2020, but tabled after COVID-19 pandemic health and safety protocols limited public governmental meetings. Occupancy has generated the most repeat complaints from Cheney residents. These stem mostly from the...
ATLANTA, GA — Taylor Cannon of Medical Lake, Wash. made the Dean's List for the Fall 2020 semester at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have earned a 3.0 or higher academic average for the semester. One of the nation's leading research universities, the Georgia Institute of Technology has an enrollment of nearly 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and is ranked in the nation's top 10 public universities by U.S. News & World Report. For more information, v...
MEDICAL LAKE - The long-awaited effort to return more students to in-person learning in the Medical Lake School District took another step on Feb. 1. On that Monday students with last names beginning with letters A-K at both the middle and high schools stepped foot inside their respective buildings for the first time in some 10 ½ months. The following day students L-Z repeated that exercise, reconnecting with classmates for the first time since COVID-19 closed school bu...
MEDICAL LAKE – Four candidates vying for a vacant seat on the dais introduced themselves and described what they expected to bring to council to current members at the Feb. 2 meeting. Health Wilbur, Howard Griffith, Chrystal Ortega and Chad Pritchard are hoping to be selected during to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation last November of Jessica Roberts. Roberts had just been re-elected to the position, and gave her resignation at the meeting on election night because she was moving outside of the city limits. H...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — On Feb. 1 the Airway Heights City Council learned about the 13 candidates who had tossed their names into consideration to fill a pair of openings on their panel. Later in executive session that list was down to six finalists. And on Feb. 8 council got to officially meet — via Zoom that is — and get to know a little more about Hank Bynaker, Dave Malet, Jonathan Schrock, Arthur Bubb, Davin Perry and Paula Randall. Each had identical 15-minute sessions where...
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