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Updated Nov. 8 at 9:50 a.m. CHENEY -- Cheney School District's $4.274 million capital facilities levy was narrowly passing after two more days of ballot counts. With another count of the remaining 33,000 ballots coming today (Nov. 8), the levy winning by a margin of 179 votes, 3,276 -- 3,097. The levy was receiving 51.40 percent of the vote. There were no other significant changes in other races, other than candidates and measures winning increased their margins. CHENEY – I...
CHENEY – There's been a slight increase in the number of wolves reported in southern Spokane County this year. According to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife's wolf tracking map, only three wolves were reported by residents in the county south of Spokane last year. So far in 2019, the number of sightings reported to the state has doubled. The most recent sighting reported on the online map at https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/at-risk/species-reco...
ODESSA -- The Odessa Tigers remain the top-ranked team in Class 1B football this week, the last week of the regular high school season. But after the 92-6 spanking last week, league rival Almira/Coulee Hartline slipped to No. 3 in the same poll as Naselle moved up to second. Here are the rest of this week's Associated Poll rankings for high school football teams in Washington state: Class 4A 1. Lake Stevens 2. Kennedy Catholic 3. Camas 4. Graham-Kapowsin 5. Puyallup 6. Chiawana 7. Woodinville 8. Eastlake 9. Bothell 10....
SPOKANE – It's a tale of the state's two largest cities, one in Eastern Washington and the other west of the Cascades. While Western Washington's largest city (Seattle) continues to push for an income tax, Spokane voters are soundly rejecting the idea. Spokane is largest city in Eastern Washington and the second largest in the state, second only to Seattle. The preliminary tally in the Nov. 5 general election show Spokane Initiative No. 2019-2 banning any income tax in the cit...
CHENEY Oct. 21 Fourth-degree assault was reported on the 400 block of Elm Street. Trespassing was reported on the 2300 block of 1st Street. Taking motor vehicle without owner’s permission was reported on the 500 block of 4th Street. A gray 2004 Honda Acura was taken. It was later recovered after a crash on Oct. 21 in Spokane. Oct. 22 Confiscated property was reported on the 400 block of North 6th Street. A vaping device was taken. Shawn S. Struck, 49, was arrested on the 800 block of West 1st Street on a Department of C...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake girls soccer squad closed out their season on Thursday, Oct. 24, with a loss to Deer Park in a winless season in which fate seemed to conspire against the young, inexperienced team. The Cardinals hosted the Colville Indians on Tuesday, Oct. 22 in a Northeast A League 7-0 loss, followed by a road game in Deer Park where they endured a 16-0 beating at the hand of the Stags. Medical Lake went 0-11 in NEA play and 0-13 overall in an i...
CHENEY – While not dead yet, the Blackhawks football playoff hopes are definitely on life support, put there by a 33-27 league loss on Oct. 25 at West Valley. After a scoreless first quarter, West Valley quarterback Matthew Allen threw the first two of four touchdown passes, 29 yards and 15 yards strikes to Alyjouah Rollins for a 12-0 Eagles lead. Cheney responded to cut the margin in half at the intermission with a Dylan Straley nine-yard TD run. From there, the teams essenti...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake volleyball crew closed out their regular season with at least one loss last week to the visiting No. 3 Colville Indians (7-4, 9-5) on Tuesday, Oct. 22 in a straight sets 25-17, 25-15, 25-14. Scores, coaching comments and statistics for Colville match and the Cardinal’s final match of the season against fifth-ranked Deer Park on Thursday, Oct. 24 were unavailable by press time. Medical Lake closed the regular season at the bottom of the Nor...
CHENEY – The Lady Blackhawks slow pitch softball team’s inaugural season came to an abrupt end last Wednesday with a 7-3 loss to visiting East Valley in the first round of the Great Northern League playoffs. Cheney took an early 2-0 lead on a first-inning RBI single by Isabella King, who eventually came around to score on a fielder’s choice. The Lady Blackhawks scored another run in the second to go up 3-0, but from there it was all East Valley. The Knights got on the board...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school, club or facility websites to confirm.) College football Saturday, Nov. 2, EWU vs. Northern Arizona, 1:05 p.m. College men’s basketball Tuesday, Nov. 5. EWU vs. Portland Bible College, 6:05 p.m. College women’s basketball Tuesday, Nov. 5. EWU at Stanford, 7 p.m. College soccer Wednesday – Sunday, Nov. 6 – 10, EWU vs. TBA, Greeley, Colo., time TBA College volleyball Thursday, Oct. 31, EWU at Portland State, 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. EWU at Sacramento State, 1 p.m. Thursda...
MEDICAL LAKE — It was another lopsided game for the Cardinals when they faced the Northeast A league second-seed Colville Indians at home in a 49-8 rout. Colville, now 4-1 in league play and 6-2 overall, pushed the Cardinal offense back to negative eight yards of total rushing, and forced Medical Lake to punt nine times, converting only three first downs and gaining only 94 offensive yards to the Indian’s 340. Colville owned Holliday Field all night, scoring on the ground in...
CHENEY — The Lady Blackhawk volleyball squad added two more to the win column last week when the beat both Clarkston and West Valley as the season winds down. Cheney traveled south to Clarkston (2-9,8-13) on Tuesday, Oct. 22, where they took it to the Bantams on their home wood in five sets 25-14, 21-25, 24-26, 26-24, 15-10. “Clarkston was not pretty,” assistant coach April Stark said. “But we ended up beating them down in Clarkston.” Junior Sara Graham led the Blackhawk...
PULLMAN – The Cheney High School girls swimming team wrapped up a perfect Great Northern League/Central Washington Athletic Conference swimming schedule with a 90-77 win over Pullman at Washington State University’s Gibbs Pool on Oct. 26. Asia Gere and Janie Richards led the Blackhawks with a pair of first-place finishes each. Gere won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2 minutes, 7.62 seconds and finished first in the 500 free with a time of 5:38.31. Richards was first in the 50 free in 26.22 and first in the 100 bac...
Should college athletes be allowed to profit from their names, images and likenesses? The National Collegiate Athletic Association apparently thinks so, according to a Tuesday, Oct. 29 press release in which the governing board announced it had unanimously voted to allow athletes to “benefit” — read profit — “in a manner consistent with the collegiate model,” from personal endorsements, and directed each of its three divisions to begin the process of updating their bylaw...
CHENEY – Led by three top-10 finishes, the Blackhawks boys cross country team captured the District 7 title in competition at Mead High School last Saturday afternoon. It was the first district title since 2015, and the first time the boys are advancing all seven varsity runners to regionals since 2016. Cheney finished with 43 points, seven points ahead of runner-up and Great Northern League regular-season champion Pullman and 22 points ahead of West Valley. Pullman’s Eli...
MEDICAL LAKE - The Cardinal boys varsity cross country crew remains the top ranked 1A classification team according to the state coaches poll, and they proved why when both the Cardinal boys and girls cross country teams swept the visiting Freeman Scotties in a decisive 15-50 victory for both varsity squads on Wednesday, Oct. 23. "Nearly everyone ran faster this week on our home course than they did a week ago," head coach Gene Blankenship said via email, comparing this...
CHENEY – A senior-dominant Lady Blackhawks soccer team used that experience to hold off a talented West Valley squad 3-1 last Thursday — thus earning Cheney girls soccer its first Great Northern League regular-season title in 10 years. Makenna Benson provided Cheney the offense it needed. The junior forward dribbled her way inside the penalty area just left of the goalie box to right foot a shot into the net past West Valley goalkeeper Madison Maloney for a goal in the 30th mi...
Please vote! It is not required that you know everything about everything on the ballot. If you know something about an issue, then vote. If you do not then you can leave it blank. If you are disgusted with all of it then send in a blank ballot. At least you are participating in democracy and you send a message. If you see some position with only one person running you can leave it blank. It will encourage someone to run next time. If you don’t get what an initiative, referendum, advisory, amendment to the constitution or c...
My kids caught me reading a book. An actual book, printed with ink on real paper. I was lectured about my abuse of the planet and was told how many trees went into making paper. Paper that would likely line the bottom of our birdcage and eventually be discarded. I argued that I own books I have treasured for many years. They ignored my nostalgic argument and went on to demonstrate how easy it is to dial up an electronic copy of whatever I wanted to read. Instead of a traditional newspaper, my kids get an abbreviated version...
During his campaign for president, Donald Trump said that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” without losing voters. Now, in a case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (and probably when appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court), the president’s attorney William Consovoy told the three-judge panel that immunity would also temporarily shield Trump from prosecution for that act. “This is not a permanent immunity,” Consovoy said, when asked by U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin to respond to a police...
Buried in the back of your voter’s pamphlet is a little discussed vote on Senate Joint Resolution 8200. The measure cleared both the state Senate and House with comfortable, bipartisan approvals. What is SJR 8200? Its text is pretty simple – a proposed constitutional amendment to add the phrase “catastrophic incidents” to the specified times of emergency where the Legislature can take immediate actions to ensure the continuation of government and governmental operations in areas impacted by these incidents. That applies...
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