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SPANGLE — The Broncos track and field struggled Wednesday, April 10, to gain traction as a team at a league meet at Liberty High School, but several local athletes put in solid individual performances. Valley Christian won both the boys and girls team titles, with the boys scoring 99.5 points and the girls scoring 122. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague was fifth in both, with 43 points in boys and 38 in girls team scoring. In individual results, junior John Stromberger won the boys javelin with a flight of 134-07.5, and the boys 4...
SPOKANE — Five grapplers from the Lind-Ritzville Marmots club reached the championships at the Jason Crawford Memorial Wrestling Tournament on Saturday, March 30. Four brought home a title in what is considered the youth wrestling’s “state” tournament across Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Marmots winning their weight classes include 7-8-year-old girls Reece Glisson at 51-53 pounds and Quinn Glisson at 60-62 pounds. Local boys winning their weights are Javier Villa in the 126-132-pound class in the ages 9/10 divisio...
RITZVILLE — A Kennewick woman and Othello man are in jail after being arrested in connection with burglaries and car thefts. Miyah Marie Lancaster, 22, of Kennewick, and Dexter Eugene Wallace, 38, were both arrested March 26 and remained in jail at press time. Lancaster was booked into the Franklin County Jail on charges of second-degree arson, five counts of theft of a motor vehicle, four counts of possession of a stolen vehicle, three counts of first-degree burglary and four counts of first-degree trafficking stolen p...
RITZVILLE — Police are trying to identify suspects who slashed the tires on multiple vehicles on the south side of town Saturday, March 30. “There have been approximately 30 separate incident of tires being slashed,” the police department posted on its social media on Sunday. Residents have provided police with several leads, with two juvenile suspects having been identified, police said. Investigators are also looking for social media accounts of the suspected perpetrators. “Search warrants are being requested for social...
OLYMPIA - Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill into law to allow for water right modifications in the Columbia Basin Project area. Authored by Rep. Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy, House Bill 1752 authorizes the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to apply and obtain approval for water-right modifications and provides farmers flexibility as new pumping systems are developed to save the Odessa Aquifer. The new law goes into effect June 6. According to Dye, efficient use of federal water would assist i...
RITZVILLE - Following the Tuesday, March 12, primary in Washington and other states, its appears that voters will see a rematch in the race for U.S. President. Both former President Republican Donald J. Trump and current Democrat President Joseph R. Biden Jr. secured enough support to become the presumptive nominees for their parties. In Washington state, 1.25 million voters cast ballots in the primary election. Trump received 442,048 votes statewide, or 73.8% of Republican...
LAKE ROOSEVELT - The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a "rapid response" plan to take extraordinary measures to kill northern pike found in waterways like Lake Roosevelt. Released last week, the plan would allow state officials and tribes to draw down reservoirs, using Rotenone to poison the fish, netting and seining, quarantining waterways and more after declaring a northern pike emergency. State Aquatic Invasive Species Policy Coordinator Justin Bush...
LIND — A stolen vehicle and a crossbow led to the arrests of two women and a man Thursday, Feb. 22. David Scott Douglas, 54, and Ashley Lovonne Hendrickson, 36, both of Lind; and Sabrina Marie Myers, 46, of Washtucna, were all arrested by Adams County Sheriff’s Office Deputies. Douglas was booked into the Franklin County Jail on a first-degree assault-domestic violence charge, records show. Hendrickson was booked in the Benton County Jail for possession of a stolen motor vehicle. Myers was arrested for allegedly making fal...
Let’s take a few words that should be on the minds of all Eastern Washingtonians concerned over efforts to breach Snake River dams — agreement, restoration and sovereign, to name a few. Last Thursday in the White House, President Joe Biden signed onto the “Commitments in Support of the Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative and in Partnership with the Six Sovereigns” agreement. The so-called “sovereigns” refers to the states of Washington and Oregon, and four tribes — th...
OTHELLO — Three Warden residents were killed in a crash Thursday, Feb. 15, on state Highway 17 a mile east of the city. Manuela Franco Huerta, 44, Daniel Gama Perez, 14, and Brini Moran Flores, 44, all died of injuries they sustained in the crash, the Washington State Patrol reported. Flores was pronounced dead at the scene; Huerta and Perez were pronounced dead at Othello Community Hospital. All three were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash, the patrol reported. Neither drugs nor alcohol was a factor. The crash o...
TACOMA - As Mat Classic XXXV wound down Saturday evening, Feb. 17, one Lind-Ritzville wrestler found himself among elite company as a state champion. Gabriel Smith, wrestling at 215 pounds, earned the gold medal in his weight class before a crowd of thousands in the Tacoma Dome. Smith alone scored 27.0 team points for the Broncos, which finished tied for 14th place with Kettle Falls. Both teams finished with 44.0 team points. Tonasket won the 1B/2B division with 217.0 team...
SPANGLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys finished fifth as a team Saturday, Feb. 10, at the 1B/2B Region 3 wrestling tournament at Liberty High School. Jenkins (Chewelah) won the tournament with 146.5 team points, followed by Reardan with 124, Northwest Christian (Colbert) with 105 and Liberty with 102.5. The Broncos scored 101 team points. Nearby St. John-Endicott finished 18th with 11 team points. The Broncos had three individual champions – Carson Kubik at 144, Gabe S...
WARDEN — The Washington State Patrol is looking for information on the driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal crash early Sunday morning, Feb. 4, on state Highway 17. Jeremiah T. Gregg, 36, of Moses Lake, was killed in the crash at 1:53 a.m. near Milepost 41 north of Othello, the Washington State Patrol reported. The driver of the second vehicle fled the scene. According to the state patrol, Gregg was northbound in a 2021 Ford F150 pickup on the highway when he rear-ended a 1989 Toyota Camry. Gregg’s pickup went onto the...
HATTON — A Portland, Ore., man was arrested shortly after noon Sunday, Feb. 4, after leading law enforcement on a high-speed chase in excess of 150 mph. Issac D. Burks Jr., 33, of Portland, Ore., was arrested near the intersection of U.S. Highway 395 and state Highway 26 at about 12:20 p.m. after crashing his vehicle, records show. He was booked into the Franklin County Jail. Burks is facing possible charges of felony eluding, driving while under the influence and two counts of hit-and-run, records show. According to the A...
COLFAX - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys basketball wrapped up its regular season play with a win and a loss last week. On Monday, Jan. 29, the Broncos tamed the winless Upper Columbia Academy Lions, 54-49, on senior night in Gilson Gymnasium. Then on Tuesday, Jan. 30, they traveled to Colfax, where the undefeated Bulldogs dominated the Broncos, 71-48. Against Upper Columbia (0-13), the Broncos matched the Lions basket for basket, with the first quarter ending tied at 14. In...
SPOKANE - Eight Bronco boys placed in the Top 4 at districts Saturday, Feb. 3, and will advance to regional wrestling. Broncos bringing home district gold medals include Alexander Bonner at 132 pounds, Carson Kubik at 144, Gabriel Smith at 215 and Brock Tracy at 285. Local silver medalists include Octavio Paredes Martinez at 115 and Pete Spain at 150. No Broncos struck bronze, but Wyatt Rossman finished fourth at 138 to qualify for regionals, as did Turner Slack at 144....
SPOKANE – One St. John-Endicott wrestler is headed to the regional tournament Saturday, Feb. 10. Cameron Mathia finished third at the district tournament last Saturday at 113 pounds in the Spokane Convention Center. The Top 4 in each weight class qualified for regionals in Spangle. Mathia had a tough road to regionals, after losing his opening bout by pin in 3:30 to David Phillips of Northwest Christian (Colbert). In the westlebacks, he received a bye and then pinned his n...
SPOKANE - A shoulder injury may mean the end of the wrestling season for Lind-Ritzville's Emmy Klewin. Wrestling at 170 pounds in the girls 1B-2A subregionals, Klewin finished fourth and qualified for regionals. But she exacerbated a shoulder injury in the process and injury defaulted from her final match in the tournament Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Spokane Convention Center. Klewin, the No. 2 seed, received byes to the semifinals, where she would face Danika Bretz of Reardan....
RITZVILLE - Before a packed Gilson Gymnasium on Senior Night, the Bronco girls put on a scoring exhibition with multiple team members putting points on the board in a 61-23 rout of the Upper Columbia Academy Lions on Monday, Jan. 29. The Broncos led the girls from Spangle start to finish, scoring 17 points in the first quarter and 23 in the second to take a 40-16 lead into the break. They added 14 to the margin in the third and players came off the bench to hold the line in...
Two years ago, Washington State Parks bureaucrats in Tumwater hatched a plan to address so-called “overcrowding” at Palouse Falls. The plan was to close and relocate the campground to Lyons Ferry, require permits to visit Upper Palouse Falls and to end hiking and exploring in and around the main Palouse Falls basin. The effort also eliminated kayaking access on the upper Palouse River. And to make the effort sound legitimate, those city-dwelling bureaucrats called Palouse Fal...
RITZVILLE – A day after the Bronco girls fell a point short to Liberty, Lind-Ritzville/Sprague bounced back to top St. George’s. The Broncos (10-7, 7-5 in league) used a second and third quarter rally to top the Dragons, 61-54, on Jan. 24. Trailing 15-9 after one quarter, the Broncos outscored the Dragons by 6 points in the second quarter and 8 in the third to take a commanding 44-36 lead going into the final stanza. They then held on as the Dragons (3-11, 3-6 in league) closed the margin by only a single point. Bronco Zoe...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos boys basketball team split last week, edging Liberty but losing a heartbreaker to St. George’s. St. George’s (13-5, 10-2 in league), edged the Broncos (8-10, 5-7 in league) 50-47 on Jan. 24. The loss came a day after the Broncos edged the Lancers (8-9, 5-6 in league) 39-36 on Jan. 23. Both games were back-and-forth battles. Against St. George’s, the Broncos took an 11-10 lead after the first quarter, but trailed 24-22 at the half. After three, they retook the lead 35-34. But St. George’s rallied i...
OLYMPIA – For the second time in a week, an effort to remove former President Donald J. Trump’s name off of the March 12 primary ballot has been tossed out of court. Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Bassett refused to hear the case in his court on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Then on Thursday, Jan. 18, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Mary Sue Wilson tossed the challenge. The lawsuit was filed by eight Kitsap County residents who alleged the former president isn’t eligible to run for federal office, citing Section 3 of th...
RITZVILLE — Voters in nearly every community of Adams County will be getting Feb. 13 special election ballots in the mail this week. Voters will have a choice on a number of school levies, including the Endicott. North Franklin, Odessa, Benge, LaCrosse, Warden, Lind and Ritzville school districts. A Park and Recreation District No. 4 levy is also on the ballot. That levy is designed to collect $65,000 in property taxes — based on a collection of 15 cents $1,000 of assessed valuation — to pay for repair and maintenance of th...
RITZVILLE - The Broncos boys wrestling team finished third in the Bronco Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 20, in Gilson Gymnasium. The local boys scored 106.5 team points; Okanogan won the team award with 286.0 points and Jenkins (Chewelah) was second with 138. Four local wrestlers finished in the Top 3 on the podium, including Octavio Paredes Martinez at 113 pounds, Carson Kubik at 144, Gabe Smith at 215 and Brock Tracy at 285. The Broncos also had several fourth-place...