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Four cats have been killed and two more injured by a pair of dogs that also might be responsible for a similar attack in Cheney in June. According to reports from several residents in the area of Avalon Place, Golden Hills and Centennial Park, a pair of dogs described as “one large black and white and one black medium” have been seen in the neighborhood where residents’ dead cats began being reported Sept. 12. One resident said she witnessed two dogs attack kill a cat on the corner of Sunrise Drive and North Eighth Street. Th...
Eastern Washington University quarterback Gage Gubrud visited Salnave Elementary School on Sept. 19 to read to third-graders. Prior to reading book, Gubrud answered a variety of questions from the students including what his favorite color is and if he had any hidden talents. Gubrud is coming off a successful weekend with a 56-21 win over Fordham, earning him Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Week for EWU....
Two years ago the Montana Grizzlies laid a real licking on Eastern Washington, 57-16 at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula. With the momentum of a huge non-conference win on the road in New York City against Fordham, 56-21 last Saturday, plus an offense that finally came untracked and a defense that stifled the Rams in the Bronx, the Football Championship Subdivision's No. 11-ranked Eagles would like to deliver a little payback in the Big Sky Conference opener. Kickoff is...
Combine having to play one of the Northeast A League's top teams along with the emotion that the Freeman Scotties brought to the field last Friday night and an already uphill battle quickly became a climb up Mt. Everest. Freeman (1-0 NEA, 2-1 overall) bottled up the energy from students and fans who packed their field following the Sept. 13 shooting on campus, which resulted in the death of one student and the wounding of three more, and rolled to a 49-0 NEA football win over...
Spokane Valley deputies were searching for a Geiger inmate worker who walked away for his work detail at approximately 2 p.m., Sept. 19, in the 9500 block of East 8th Ave. Duncan P. Mead, 22, was in custody for violating a no contact order when he ran away from his cleaning detail. Mead was last seen wearing a blue jean jacket, orange T-shirt, maroon over-shirt and blue pants but has had time to change his clothing. He is described as 5 foot, 5 inches tall, 150 pounds with short brown hair, brown eyes and a goatee. Anyone...
CHENEY Sept. 10 Assault was reported on the 1800 block of First Street. A computer was found on the 1000 block of West First Street. Sept. 11 Trespassing was reported on the 1500 block of Fourth Street. Sept. 12 Fourth-degree assault was reported on the 700 block of West First Street. Residential burglary was reported on the 200 block of North Eleventh Street. Sept. 13 A missing person was reported on the 600 block of Union Street. Individual has returned. Jacob A. Walter, 24, Daniel D. Taylor, 24, and Michael A. Flores, 24,...
Natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey over Labor Day weekend and most recently Hurricane Irma usually create an outpouring of support from individuals throughout the country. Unfortunately, they also create an outpouring of groups and/or individuals using fake charities to take advantage of that generosity and scam people out of their money. The Internal Revenue Service and local law enforcement officials want residents to be aware of these schemes and take steps to safeguard their personal finances. Cheney Police Chief...
One hundred years ago in 1917, Mrs. Otto Turk took over the photography studio formerly owned by A.A. Ames. Mrs. Turk installed a large camera for portraits, as well as handling Kodak photo finishing for customers. Learn more about our area’s history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
Cheney book group meets on Sept. 26 The Book Discussion Group of the Friends of the Cheney Community Library will meet on Sept. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the library reading room. The book “Lab Girl,” by Hope Jahren will be discussed. Special guest speaker is Robin O’Quinn, an associate professor of biology at Eastern Washington University. A complete list of books to be discussed this year is available at the library front desk. These books can be checked out of the library. The group is open to anyone, and we hope to see you o...
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 • Sept. 24, Mushroom Foraging, community library, 2 – 3 p.m. • Sept. 26, September Produce Swaps, community library 1 – 5 p.m. • Sept. 26, Cheney Book Club: “Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren with presenter Delphine Phillips, community library, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. • Sept. 26, Flightless Bird Running Club, Barrelhouse Pub and Pizza, 6 p.m. ...
Cheney Community Church Cheney Community Church is hosting a women’s Bible study fellowship satellite group. Women from Cheney and the West Plains are invited to attend. They meet Tuesdays, 6:45 p.m. in the fellowship hall, lower level at the Second St. entrance. This year’s study is in the book of Romans. These studies are nondenominational and anyone looking for a deeper understanding of God’s word is welcome to attend. Bible study fellowship is a national and even international outreach with groups in countries aroun...
What is going on with the door? To find out come to one of StageWest’s performances this weekend of the Gregg Kreutz’s comedy “Academia Nuts,” directed by Harry Schafer and produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Performances are Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 and 23, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 24, at 3 p.m. All performances at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 639 Elm St. in Cheney. Ticket prices are adults $12, seniors $10 and students with valid school ID $5. The dinner theatre show is Saturday Oct. 7, at 6 p.m....
1 Years Ago Sept. 20, 2007 One re-running, longtime councilman and first-time challenger were in the race for Medical Lake City Council Position 6. Twelve-year Councilman Sam Julagay and local business owner John Paikuli, both Medical Lake residents, filed for candidacy. Cheney’s Zips officially started delivery service for all orders of $10 or more. The city of Cheney was reviewing 40 applications for the open city administrator position 20 Years Ago Sept. 25, 1997 When Eastern Washington University students returned to cam...
It was perhaps appropriate that the release of Hillary Clinton’s book, “What Happened,” came in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Harvey. The tour to promote the tale of arguably the most astonishing political defeat in this nation’s history in Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump last Nov. 8 skipped across the nation like the tornadoes spawned by the recent spate of terrible tropical storms. Except the difference between the twisters and the book tour was that on Clinton’s...
If not for the quick thinking of a school custodian, and a jammed rifle, the Sept. 13 shooting at Freeman High School could have been worse — much worse. Not to lessen the impact of one student killed, three others wounded and dozens of lives traumatized forever, but as these types of incidents go, a possible bloodbath was avoided. And once more, we find ourselves asking the same questions we’ve asked after every school shooting from Moses Lake to Columbine to Sandy Hook. Why did this happen? How could this have been prevente...
Cheney police and firefighters, along with Cheney High School administrators, assist a 17-year-old male who was struck by a car while crossing North Sixth Street as school got out Monday afternoon. He was transported to a local hospital for medical attention. Police officials said the 18-year-old female driver of the vehicle was cited for failure to provide due care and caution....
Fairchild Air Force Base concluded its celebration of a 75th birthday in grand fashion Saturday, Sept. 16 with 850 guests in attendance at the 2017 Air Force Ball. The event packed three banquet rooms at the Spokane Convention Center for an evening of remembrance that also honored the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force. The vast majority of the crowd were service members, all in some formal dress blue, but sprinkled in were members of the civilian side with whom Fairchild...
Cheney resident Tina Rassier's home at 320 Buena Vista Drive has been selected the September Yard of the Month by the Cheney Garden and Kiwanis clubs. Rassier receives a $25 gift certification from Jarms Ace Hardware in being selected Yard of the Month. Pictured above left to right are Tina Rassier, Kiwanis Club representative Pat Isbell and Cheney Garden Club representatives Sandra and Ralph Laws....
New works on display at EWU gallery Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art is displaying new works by artist Garrick Simonsen beginning Sept. 27 and running through Oct. 26. Simonsen will give a lecture on Sept. 27 at the gallery, located in the Art Building in the university’s Fine Arts Complex, at noon, with a reception immediately following. According to a university news release, Simonsen is a fourth-generation Washingtonian, artist and musician. His artworks draw from a large collection of family history, d...
At the Sept. 13 Planning Commission meeting in Airway Heights, the board was presented information on the current Transportation Circulation Plan details just like the City Council received a few days prior on Sept. 11. The commission held a public hearing about the plan and two people from the public observed but did not comment on the information. The biggest concern from the board was the lack of current pedestrian and bike accident prevention in the six year plan. “The reality is that we have up to six years to install th...
Windsor Elementary School and Westwood Middle School students combined to celebrate Partners Advancing Character Education’s (PACE) Worldwide Character Day. Schools, families, businesses and organizations were invited to take part in a variety of ways in the Sept. 13 event. Windsor students marched to the Westwood track in the afternoon and separated into different groups, where they were then joined by Westwood students carrying banners listing the 12 PACE characteristics acknowledged monthly throughout the year. Once g...
Cheney’s Planning Commission is sending a recommendation to the City Council for making changes regarding residential parking in the city. Those changes mainly affect multifamily development, although the original draft proposal included single-family residential locations as well. Those requirements were deleted as part of a public hearing the commission held during its Sept. 11 meeting. The changes also center on off-street parking, an issue Cheney senior planner Brett Lucas said was brought up by citizens during the r...
An interlocal agreement with Cheney to provide police department data service was the main topic of discussion by the Airway Heights City Council Sept. 18 meeting. Since 2008, the city has been using the service through Cheney. In 2016, there was an amended agreement to exclude warrant maintenance associated with the Kalispel Tribe Police Department and the contract rate increased to $17,000. At that time, Cheney proposed using a future fee calculation that was based upon the processing time of documents. Now the rate will...
The man who shot and kidnapped an employee of a marijuana shop in Cheney on Sept. 10 has been captured, and the body of his alleged victim found off a street in Four Lakes last Friday. Yakima Police Department arrested Donovan Culps, 36, after a chase that ended in Culps' vehicle going off the road in Goldendale, Wash. last Thursday, Sept. 14. According to a Cheney Police Department news release, Culps was arrested and charged with first-degree kidnapping and first-degree...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Recently at a Medical Lake City Council meeting, City Administrator Doug Ross informed the members that in all likelihood they were about to jump into the big fish pond. As the city approached, and actually surpassed the 5,000 plateau in population, it was also going to be forced to move out the “Small Cities” category for what is known as Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) street funds. “Right now we’re in the small cities account,” Ross said, meaning they compete with other municipal...
