Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Sorted by date Results 201 - 225 of 236
Members of the Ritzville VFW and American Legion Honor Guard participated in the Missing in America Project (MIAP)/Forgotten Heroes Ride when it stopped at Love’s Travel Stop on Aug. 30. Love’s was one of many stops for the MIAP Forgotten Heroes Ride, which saw veteran riders from across the state converge to Ritzville before they rode 50 miles to the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake. According to the MIAP website, the program’s purpose is to locate, ident...
Several residents met and engaged with local farmers and food producers during the Sept. 8 My Farm, Your Table event in downtown Ritzville. Sponsored by the Washington State University Lincoln-Adams County Extension Office and the East Adams Library District, the event provided people the opportunity to learn the process of how farmers grow and produce the food they sell. Local growers, producers and businesses answered questions about their products. Dusti Kissler,...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Lady Broncos volleyball team opened their season with a 3-1 win against Columbia-Burbank on Sept. 5, followed by a 3-0 sweep against Davenport. The Lady Broncos also went 2-1 in the annual Bronco Invite on Sept 9, with a loss to Saint George’s and wins against Odessa and Selkirk. Head Coach Cari Galbreath felt the team’s campaign is off to a good start, and the players showed maturity and steadiness on the court in their first week of competition. At...
The Ritzville Downtown Development Association will celebrate the Ritz Theatre’s 80th anniversary with a fundraiser on Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. The admission for the event is $10 for all ages and includes a beverage. Concessions, as well as beer and wine for patrons 21 years and older, will be served. The Ritz Theatre opened in 1937. Seattle architect Bjarne Moe, who specialized in movie theaters, designed The Ritz. It is one of few theaters in the Pacific Northwest from Moe’s des...
One of the new attractions at this year’s Wheat Land Communites’ Fair was the Lego Barn. The barn previously housed sheep and goats during the annual fair, but was converted into a play area for children. During the fair, several children went into the barn and created structures out of Legos as well as particpated in activites sponsored by the East Adams Library District. The barn was created in memory of Cole Melcher, who loved playing with Legos. The building was located ne...
Five new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Charlie Moffet, Kate Gantz and Morgan Walker currently teach at Ritzville Grade School. Allyssa Barnett joined the staff at Lind Elementary School and Christina Heater was hired at Lind-Ritzville Middle School. Christina Heater teaches sixth-grade and seventh-grade math classes, and Algebra. Heater, who grew up in the Tri-Cities, attended Columbia Basin College in Pasco where she rece...
Five new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Charlie Moffet, Kate Gantz and Morgan Walker currently teach at Ritzville Grade School. Allyssa Barnett joined the staff at Lind Elementary School and Christina Heater was hired at Lind-Ritzville Middle School. Allyssa Barnett, who teaches fifth-grade, grew up in Walla Walla with her family, and currently lives in Spokane with her fiance. Barnett attended EWU where she received her...
Five new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Charlie Moffet, Kate Gantz and Morgan Walker currently teach at Ritzville Grade School. Allyssa Barnett joined the staff at Lind Elementary School and Christina Heater was hired at Lind-Ritzville Middle School. Morgan Walker, a fifth-grade teacher, grew up in Raymond, Washington. After she graduated high school, Walker earned a degree in elementary education from EWU. Before she...
Five new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Charlie Moffet, Kate Gantz and Morgan Walker currently teach at Ritzville Grade School. Allyssa Barnett joined the staff at Lind Elementary School and Christina Heater was hired at Lind-Ritzville Middle School. Kate Gantz, who teaches second-grade grew in Eagan, Minnesota. After high school, she attended Concordia University in St. Paul where she acquired her degree in music...
Five new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Charlie Moffet, Kate Gantz and Morgan Walker currently teach at Ritzville Grade School. Allyssa Barnett joined the staff at Lind Elementary School and Christina Heater was hired at Lind-Ritzville Middle School. Charlie Moffet, who teaches kindergarten, grew up in Odessa. Moffet said she became a teacher because she loves working with kids, and both her father and grandmother were...
The Adams County Fire Protection District No. 6 in Benge is having an eventful 2017, including the addition of a new vehicle to its fleet. At the end of February, the department acquired a surplused 1997 Stewart Stevenson military truck from Colorado Springs Air Force Base with the help of the Department of Natural Resources. According to Chair Commissioner Jerry Whitman, the department only had to pay to haul the truck from Colorado Springs, to Ritzville where the department...
A student’s first year in high school can be a tough transition, especially in the first several weeks. While new students are adjusting to their classes and homework, they are also learning their school’s rules and policies, and meeting their teachers and classmates. This year, Lind-Ritzville High School began implementing the Link Crew program, which will help freshmen and transfer students transition into life at a new school. Developed by the Boomerang Project, Link Cre...
are curious about where their food comes from will have an opportunity to speak with local farmers at the Sept. 8 My Farm, Your Table event. My Farm, Your Table will take place in downtown Ritzville, on Main Street between Washington and Adams streets from Sept. 8, from 3:30-6:30 p.m. The event is a partnership between Lincoln-Adams Washington State University Extension and the Ritzville Public Library. During the event, attendees will learn where their food comes from, and the process the product takes to go from the farm...
A new logo, seal and ordinances were not the only orders of business at the Aug. 15 Ritzville City Council meeting. During the meeting, council approved the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) grant applications for road improvement projects. Public Works Director Larry Swift reviewed the projects on the grant applications. These projects are not related to the emergency road repair projects from the winter weather storms. Two of the project applications were submitted to the TIB 2017 Small City Arterial P...
During their Aug. 15 meeting, the Ritzville City Council unanimously approved a new logo and seal for the City. The approval of the City’s new logo and seal came six days after the unveiling of Ritzville’s new branding system. The City of Ritzville’s logo will utilize the same colors and fonts as the logo for the Ritzville branding system. Above the words “City of Ritzville,” will be the seal, which includes the wheat sheaths and Ritzville, Washington, 1881. Clerk/Tre...
At their Aug. 14 meeting, the Adams County Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution renewing a county-wide marijuana moratorium for another six months. The moratorium prohibits the establishment or siting of state-licensed recreational and medical marijuana retail outlets, production and processing facilities within residentially-zoned areas. It also prohibits licensed marijuana businesses to be within one-mile of a residentially-zoned area and areas within two miles of incorporated community boundary within...
At their Aug. 8 meeting, the Lind Town Council authorized Mayor Jamie Schmunk to enter into a master services agreement with Century West Engineering regarding the town’s potential road repair projects. During the July 25 meeting, Century West’s Steve Nelson informed the council Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) obligated $942,225 in grant money to Lind for repairing streets sustaining damage from winter weather. Lind was the first jurisdiction in the state to have their FEMA grant money obligated for these rep...
Ritzville resident and local writer E. Hank Buchmann, known under his pen name as Buck Edwards, held a reading at the Washington State University Extension Office, Aug. 11. He then attended the Liquid Lit Book Club as the featrured artist of the month at Memories Diner in the evening. Buchmann read a chapter from his first novel “Dead Woman Creek,” which was the Liquid Lit Book Club’s selection for August. Set in 1880, “Dead Woman Creek,” follows the aging U.S. Marshal B...
After months of waiting and planning, the first components of Ritzville’s new branding system were unveiled during the Aug. 9 Launch Harvest Party in Pioneer Plaza. One of these components was the tagline “Harvest the Legacy,” which plays to the City of Ritzville’s agricultural heritage, as well as a united community working together. Local organizations and entities, including the City of Ritzville, the Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Adams County Development Council...
People across the United States, including folks in Ritzville, will have an opportunity to view of one of nature’s most inspiring events. On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will be visible from the United States for the first time in 38 years. During the event, the sun will disappear behind the moon, causing daylight to turn into twilight, as well as a drop in temperatures in different areas across the country. The eclipse will last for 94 minutes, beginning around 10:15 a...
The Lind and Ritzville fire departments kicked off August with four fires in a span of three days. On Aug. 1, the Lind Fire Department responded to a stubble fire on Roloff Road. Lind Fire Chief Kevin Starring said the blaze, which stemmed from a combine, burned 200 acres. The fire threatened one structure, but crews put it out before it reached the building. The Ritzville and Warden fire departments provided mutual aid with a total of 12 vehicles on the scene. A crop duster...
During the Aug. 1 meeting, staff presented the Neglect of Historic Buildings” ordinance draft to the Ritzville City Council. The purpose of the “Neglect of Historic Buildings” ordinance is to provide the city with adminsitrative measures it can take to protect historically desginated structures and properties from being demolished because of a property owner’s failure to maintain them. The city will collaborate with property owners to maintain, protect and enhance historical a...
A good portion of the July 25 Lind Town Council meeting was once again the Steve Nelson show. Nelson, who works with Century West out of Spokane, informed council, Mayor Jamie Schmunk and residents in attendance, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has obligated $942,225 in grant money to the Town of Lind to repair streets damaged during the storms in January and Feburary. Nelson said the grant money would go toward fixing portions of Third, Fourth and Seventh streets, as well as repairing virtually all of...
Several overlay projects are about to be underway in Adams County, including a couple outside of the City of Ritzville. Two of the projects will be done on Danekas and Schoessler roads. Adams County Public Works Director Todd O’Brien explained that the Danekas Road project is from the city limits to Schoessler Road. The Schoessler Road project will begin from where the Danekas Road project ended and go to Klein Road, which is a 1.37 mile stretch of roadway. Crews will also work on Taylor Road Urban Overlay Projects No. 1 a...
Lind Assistant Fire Chief Mike Doyle summed up the week best when he said, “mutual aid is a good thing.” Local fire departments had another busy week of putting out blazes. On the morning of July 26, the Lind and Ritzville fire departments responded to a wheat fire on property north of Lafayette Road. Lind Fire Chief Kevin Starring said the department received the call at around 9:30 a.m. The Ritzville Fire Department received the mutual aid call minutes later. Both dep...