April 18, 2024
April 18, 2024
RALSTON — Complaints about speeding along state Highway 261 have local officials and the Adams County Sheriff’s Office taking action to slow down motorists. “The Sheriff’s Office has been receiving numerous complaints regarding speeding trucks and vehicles passing through Ralston,” Sheriff Dale Wagner wrote on social media. “In response to these concerns, we have taken action to address this issue and ensure the safety of our community.” To help curtail the speeding problem, the Sheriff’s Office has placed a...
RITZVILLE – Without a cadre of folks willing to invest their time and skills to keep clubs, churches, school-sponsored programs and not-for-profit organizations running smoothly, many would languish. Others might disappear entirely. During the week of April 21-27, dubbed "National Volunteer Appreciation Week," volunteers will receive a measure of recognition for their efforts. President Richard Nixon began the tradition 50 years ago with an executive order, and successive...
RITZVILLE — Sen. Mark Schoesler is following a gun case in Western Washington closely. On Monday, April 8, Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Gary Bashor ruled that the 2022 state law banning high-capacity magazines is unconstitutional. “As you might guess, Attorney General Bob Ferguson did not take this news well,” Schoesler, R-Ritzville, said in an email. The case involves Gator Custom Guns in Kelso, which was sued by the state in an effort to stop the business from selling magazines capable of holding more than 10...
Jail Log The Adams County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office reported the following individuals in custody from April 9-15: April 10 Jeffery Eugene, 49, felony harassment. Booked into the Franklin County Jail. April 11 Krystal Hofstee-Hernandez, 34, fourth-degree assault-domestic violence. Booked into the Franklin County Jail. April 12 Noel DeLeon, 39, two Department of Corrections warrants. Booked into the Franklin County Jail. Land Transactions RITZVILLE – The Adams County Assessor’s Office reported the following land...
125 Years Ago Adams County News April 19, 1899 The Twentieth Century Electroscope Co. will show at the opera house tonight. The celebrated baritone, Mr. Wm. Clark, formerly connected with the Columbia Opera Co., will sing the latest eastern success, introduced by himself, entitled, "Just for the Sake of Her Daughter." This song, as all others, are beautifully illustrated by the electroscope. The moving pictures are very interesting including war scenes and many others. Local...
SPANGLE — The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls fastpitch softball team fell one run short in each game of a doubleheader Friday, April 9, against the undefeated Northeast 2B league rival, Liberty. The Lancers (11-0, 10-0 in league) edged the Broncos, 5-4 and 4-3, in a doubleheader. In the opener, both teams remained scoreless until the bottom of the third inning, when Liberty got a runner home. The Lancers would add for more runs to lead 5-0 at the bottom of the 6th. A 7th inning rally brought four Broncos in for a score, but...
Bronco high jumper Carson Kubik attempts to clear the bar for a team score at the Moscow Invitational on Friday, April 12. He was unable to clear the minimum height for a score. For more on track, see Pages...
MOSCOW, Idaho - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys finished mid-pack as a team at the Moscow Invitational on Friday, April 12. With 26.5 points, the Bronco boys finished the highest of any Washington state team. The Broncos were 10th out of 19 teams; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, won with 156 points. Meanwhile the Lind-Ritzville girls finished 17th with 11 points; Moscow won the girls division with 152 points. The Bronco boys were strongest in the 400-meter, where sophomore Damon...
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...
CHEWELAH — The Jenkins Cougars were tough to beat on their home court last week. In Northeast 2B tennis action, the Bronco girls struggled to get a win, meanwhile, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys faired a little better. In boys singles, Jeffrey Christianson topped John David, 6-4, 6-2; and Drank Gloyn edged Alex Backman, 6-6, 7-4, 6-3, for Bronco wins. Noah Dockery fell to Dylan Deitwai, 1-6, 2-16. In girls singles, it was all Jenkins. Carlie Loop fell to Avi Sahota, 2-6, 0-6; Liberty McClanatha dropped two sets to Simi...
SPANGLE — Following spring break week, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys baseball team returned to the diamond Tuesday, April 9, at Liberty High School. But the Lancers were ready for the visiting Broncos, sweeping the doubleheader, 19-9 in the opener and 19-2 in the closer. Liberty set the tone of both games from the beginning. In Game 1, the Lancers jumped out to a 4-0 first quarter lead and expaned to to 8-1 after two innings. The Broncos had a strong fourth inning, with bats bringing 6 runs home. But the Lancers kept...
PASCO – The state lowland lake fishing season is set to open Saturday, April 27. And if fishing isn’t enough, the state has tagged more than 800 trout and released them into lakes around the state. Fishermen landing a tagged trout will be eligible for prizes in the state’s derby. While none of the lakes in Adams or Grant counties were stocked this year, a couple nearby Franklin County lakes have received fish from the Lyons Ferry Hatchery. Dalton Lake and Marmes Pond both have been stocked multiple times from Feb. 26...
There have been a lot of changes in NCAA basketball. UConn won its second championship in a row — in case you forgot. Coaches moved to different challenges, replacing coaches who were fired or took a successful season and received a bigger paycheck somewhere else. I guess we could call it the coaching transfer portal. Eastern Washington University head Coach David Riley moved onto WSU. I like Riley, but I wish he hadn’t said this was his dream job because a lot of dream...
In a backwards approach to helping tenants, the Federal Government is capping rent increases on subsidized housing at 10% in a bid to reduce the cost of rental properties. The result, should the measures be adopted, will be exactly the opposite and rents will go up. When you place caps on rent, instead of letting the market drive the pricing, the supply of rental property declines and the result is higher demand and higher prices for rent. There is a short-term impact to...
This week, from April 14-20, we join the nation in celebrating National Telecommunications Week. This important occasion gives us the opportunity to recognize and appreciate the vital contributions of our dedicated dispatchers in law enforcement. Our dispatchers play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and effectiveness of our operations. They are often the first point of contact during emergencies, handling calls with professionalism, empathy and efficiency. Their ability...
Carmela Conroy gives Eastern Washington voters the unusual, important opportunity to elect a foreign policy expert as their U.S. Representative. As a foreign service officer for 24 years, she served in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Norway, New Zealand and Tom Foley’s Japan office. Voters must weigh foreign policy experience much more than usual in their 2024 voting decisions. Foreign policy expertise is also prerequisite for ending the tragic Israeli-Palestinian conflict that Trump has accepted uncaringly. Like retiring Rep....
Four seasons of weather all happened in one day this past week. Sometimes meal preparation is like the weather. Life throws out multiple tasks and responsibilities each day and cooking must happen in between. Several easy to prepare recipes came my way and they are a nice change from slow-cooker dishes. Barb Schlimmer of Odessa shared the recipe for Sloppy Joe Casserole, a dish she brought to a recent potluck dinner. She found the recipe on all-recipes.com. Chop the...
LIND — The following residents will are celebrating birthdays from April 17-24: Birthdays April 18 — Vernon Shepard April 19 — Dick Davis April 20 — Shannon Davis April 21 — Hadyn Suchland Reynolds and Hailey Morgan Ecker April 22 — Melissa Knodel and Theresa Longmeier April 23 — Cassandra Branson, Dale Stevenson, Bradley Wills, Yumi Branson, Lance Williamson, Abigail Reid, Sean Crow and Oliver Greenwalt. April 24 — Tammy...
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No WA07000288-23-1 TO No 230516409-WA-MSI PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER 61.24 ET. SEQ. Grantor: ADOLPH ENRIQUEZ AND EVA ENRIQUEZ, HUSBAND AND WIFE Current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust: Finance of America Reverse LLC Original Trustee of the Deed of Trust: FNTG-CHICAGO TITLE Current Trustee of the Deed of Trust: MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps Current Mortgage Servicer of the Deed of Trust: Celink Reference Number of the Deed of Trust: Instrument No. 298455 Parcel...
RESOLUTION NO. R-024- 2024 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS County of Adams Department of Public Works Ritzville, Washington Sealed bids will be received by Adams County at the office of the Board of County Commissioners located in the courthouse at 210 W. Broadway, Ritzville, Washington 99169, until 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 8, 2024 and will be opened and publicly read on May 8, 2024 at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, for the following construction improvements: Danekas Road Overlay #2 Project – (CRP-199), M.P 3.20 to...
CIVIL SUMMONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADAMS No. 23-2-00117-01 AVAIL 1 LLC, Plaintiff, vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS & DEVISEES OF MILTON EIDAHL; UNKNOWN HEIRS & DEVISEES OF DONNA EIDAHL AKA DONNA C. EIDAHL AKA DONNA CLAIR EIDAHL; TERRY EIDAHL; CINDY EIDAHL AKA CINDY ALEXENKO; JAMES EIDAHL; SUMMERSET WEST WATER ASSOCIATION; STATE OF WASHINGTON; JOHN AND/ OR JANE DOE, UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS/CO-HABITANTS OF THE SUBJECT PREMISES Defendants. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO: Unknown Heirs & Devisees of...
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Adams County Public Hospital District No. 2 will be held on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 5:30pm. The meeting will be held at East Adams Rural Hospital in the conference room downstairs and via Zoom. The information to call in is listed below. Dial in +1-253-215-8782 USA Toll Meeting number (access code): 880 2863 6262 Meeting password:145356 John Kragt, Chair Board of Commissioners East Adams Rural Healthcare Posted Time: 9:00 a.m. Date:...
NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Adams County Public Hospital District No. 2 will be held on Wednesday, April 24 at 4:45 pm. The purpose of the meeting is to do a Lab department tour. The meeting will be held in the Lab department. John Kragt, Chair Board of Commissioners East Adams Rural Healthcare Published April 10, 17 and 24,...
TAKE NOTICE: STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE/ TRANSFER OF WATER RIGHT UNDER ONE (1) GROUND WATER CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE That Washington State Department of Transportation of Olympia., WA, has made application for change/transfer of water right in order to change the point of withdrawal as granted under Ground Water Certificate of Change No. G3-CV2-3P7. That G3-CV2-3P7 authorizes the withdrawal of 75 gallons per minute, 24-acre feet per year from February 1 to November 30, each year...
NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF BENTON No. 24-4-00159-03 In re the Estate of: CLYDE C. ANDREWS, Deceased. The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal...
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Board of Adams County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing to receive comment on the following ordinance on Tuesday, April 23 at 1:30 p.m., in Room 202, Adams County Courthouse, 210 W. Broadway, Ritzville, Washington To join meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. h t t p s : / / m e e t . g o t o . com/159539765 You can also dial in using your phone. (For supported devices, tap a one-touch number below to join instantly.) United States: +1 (571)...
TOWN OF HATTON, WA 2024 OTTA SEAL PROJECT INVITATION TO BID The Town of Hatton, Washington (Owner) is requesting bids for the 2024 Otta Seal Project. Bids will be received via electronic submission only, through the Horrocks Planroom at www.horrocksplanroom. com, until 2:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, April 18, 2024. That same day, all received bids will be opened virtually and read aloud at 2:15 p.m. via Microsoft Teams. Bid opening information will be sent out to all Contractors on the plan holders list by Wednesday,...
