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Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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Top row: #7 Hunter Dinkins, #13 Nick Labes, #30 Hayden Melcher, #15 Chase Galbreath, #56 Hayden Stone. Bottom Row: #72 Michael Fortin, #55 Blake Esser, #22 Seth Miller, #20 Cooper Miller Not pictured Peyton Norton....
I was certainly in my element this weekend as high school and college football took off with a full slate of games. On Friday night the Broncos hosted the Colfax Bulldogs in a Northeast 2B opener. There was a time when you had a chance to play a nonleague opponent to test how good the team was but the schedule is what it is. And each year it rotates so the last team you played in the previous season is now the first team you play this season. Colfax is a well-coached team and...
KENNEWICK – Professional Bull Riders will buck into town for the Sept. 9-10 Tri-Cities Classic. The Toyota Center event will include some of the best bull riders in the world and the sport's rankest bovine athletes in the ultimate showdown of man versus. beast in a new series . In last year's Kennewick debut, Washington's own Cody Casper captured the victory courtesy of a flawless 3-for-3 performance at the inaugural performance. The newly launched PBR Challenger Series w...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos boys football team handled the Colfax Bulldogs, 35-12, in a Northeast 2B league season-opener Friday night, Sept. 2, on Jimmie Snider Field. The win was the first for Broncos Coach Brian Bermea, who assumed the lead role on the senior-laden team in July after Greg Whitmore was hired as superintendent of the Entiat School District. Prior to this season, Bermea was an assistant coach for the Tonasket Tigers. "I feel like the guys came out and performed we...
RITZVILLE - Last October Rich Tucker, 62, relocated from Spokane to this small rural community, and he's glad he did. Tucker was born in Newport, Washington, but "we lived all over the country while my dad was in the Navy," he said. Tucker's father worked on nuclear submarines as the "COB" (Chief of the Boat), the senior enlisted advisor to the Commanding Officer officer (CO) and Executive Officer (XO). "My dad started buying land outside Newport in 1969," he said. By the...
In Washington, this year we’re fortunate to have escaped the historic droughts plaguing other parts of the world. The Columbia River basin water system has been at normal levels which is good for our agriculture, hydropower generation, barging, local water supplies, and fish and wildlife. However, 20 years ago we faced the same severe drought that is afflicting the world’s major river drainages including the Colorado, Rhine, and Yangtze. That water scarcity is forcing factorie...
RITZVILLE – A new labor report by economist Donald W. Meseck shows agriculture remains the backbone of the economy in Adams County. According to the report, dry-land wheat, potatoes and orchards account for most of the economy in the county. Several other industries, like French fry production, are also attributed to agriculture. Because of that agricultural backbone, Adams County is poised for growth over the next seven years, the report shows, even if a recession hits. T...
I recently had the opportunity to review all 50 state constitutions and confirmed an important fact for the current capital gains income tax litigation in Washington. Although most state constitutions mention how real, personal, tangible or intangible property should be taxed, the vast majority don’t define those terms. Of those that define property, Washington’s constitution has the broadest definition. This is why our state supreme court has repeatedly ruled that in ord...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Sept. 7, 1922 County officers destroy contraband liquor and stills Destroying a hundred quarts of contraband liquor which had been confiscated in raids by the sheriff's force and ordered destroyed by the court, the sheriff's force put in a busy morning last Monday. A layout of the stuff was made on the steps of the courthouse for public inspection. There were rows of bottled goods, jugs and other containers of moonshine and in the...
RITZVILLE – Several years ago, Bernie Williams and his daughter were returning to Missoula, Montana, from a gymnastics tournament in Seattle. They happened to stop in Ritzville. After spending a night at a local hotel and enjoying breakfast at Jake's Restaurant, Williams began scanning classified ads in The Journal. "I was just blown away by property prices here," he said. Eventually Williams and his wife, Dawn, purchased property on Hickory Avenue and later bought the d...
LIND – During the town’s August 23 city council meeting, Mayor Paula Bell listened to additional resident concerns about the town’s water supply and watering mandates. In sometimes contentious interactions, the mayor laid out her position on the issues. She later addressed specific inquiries by Journal staff. When asked whether Lind’s risk of fire damage was greater this year than prior years, the mayor noted that Lind and other communities are always alert for fire and damages that may ensue. “Because of the recent fi...