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LIND – The Lind and Ritzville school districts have spent the summer adapting to a number of staff changes and increases in pay and benefits, while enrollment numbers have gone down slightly since 2021. Both school boards met July 25 in Lind and finalized their budgets for the 2022-23 school year, with a general materials, supplies and operating costs allocation of $1,314.52 per student in Ritzville and $1,461.11 per student in Lind. Ritzville schools total budget is $6.3 million; Lind’s is $6.1 million. Budget forecasts pre...
RITZVILLE – The City Council voted last Tuesday to contribute $85,877 in matching funds for its portion of the Adams County Broadband Project. The match will come from the city’s Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery fund. A grant of more than $10 million from the State Broadband Office will cover a majority of the project, which will upgrade fiber infrastructure and provide “last mile connections” to areas of Lind, Ritzville and the edge of Othello. Washtucna is excluded from the plan, as the town has already funded its own bro...
RITZVILLE – The Lind-Ritzville chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America had an eventful trip to its national conference in Chicago, Ill., earlier this month. The theme of the June 29-July 2 conference was "Success Starts Here." After taking home third-place in the parliamentary procedure category at the State FBLA Leadership conference in Spokane earlier this year, the team was one of several from the local area to move on to nationals in Illinois' Windy City. At the...
RITZVILLE -- The City Council amended the nuisance ordinance to provide for more effective enforcement of penalties during its July 5 meeting. Ordinance No. 2159 pertains to the unsightly or unsanitary conditions on property within city limits which might be a detriment to public health or safety. The main change to the code is that if the city incurs costs in abating a nuisance violation and the liable party doesn’t pay in 30 days, it can either send the bill to a collection agency or the city clerk can assess a lien on the...
LIND – An experienced local crop-dusting pilot was killed in a plane crash Saturday, July 2. Pilot Gavin Morse, 38, of Lind, was pronounced dead at the scene in a field west of town, the Washington State Patrol reported. There were no other occupants on board. Lind Fire, EMS and Adams County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to the 300 block of Lind-Warden Road, near the North Roxboro Road intersection, after receiving reports of a downed plane there about 5 p.m., records s...
RITZVILLE – The Police Department may soon have two new officers. During the Tuesday, June 21 City Council meeting, Police Chief Dave McCormick said Ryan Borden and Robert Dew have passed their physical fitness tests and are “on track for the academy.” The officers were introduced during an April meeting, when the chief noted they were on “modified training” duty until they could get into the academy. Borden, 28, of Ritzville served four years in the U.S. Army and has worked at Les Schwab here for two years. Dew, 33, of Li...
RITZVILLE – A local man is being held on $500,000 bail after being arrested in connection with a shooting in Bassett Park on Monday, June 20. Steven Allen Stone, 35, of Washtucna, was booked into the Adams County Jail on charges of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault, possession of a stolen firearm, felony harassment, unlawful possession of a firearm and first-degree criminal impersonation. He was scheduled to be arraigned Monday, June 27; the result of that court appearance wasn’t available prior to pre...
PULLMAN – The Lind-Ritzville chapter of Future Farmers of America closed out this school year with a solid record of achievements, bringing home high marks from Career Development Events at both state and national conventions. Returning state champion teams in Floriculture, Environmental and Natural Resources, as well as Agricultural Communications all went on to place in the Top 10 nationally. At the state level events, which wrapped up in May, Lind-Ritzville teams d...