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The Lady Broncos faced two doubleheaders in the past week and were unable to cinch a victory against two league competitors. Their first match up was against the Northwest Christian Lady Crusaders on March 29. The Lady Broncos did their best to face the Lady Crusaders offensively but were unable to turn their hits into runs and fell 3-11 and 4-18. In the first game of the series the Lady Broncos stepped to the plate strong and brought in two runners in the first inning. Emily...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague baseball team is partway into their season and is in the midst of facing the top teams in the Northeast 2B league. They started last week by facing the Northwest Christian Crusaders in a doubleheader on March 29. They were 10-runned in both games, 13-3 and 10-0 but were able to gain the experience needed to continue on in the season versus tougher competitors. This was the team’s first game on the road and they took a few innings to get settled o...
The March 22 Lind Town Council meeting began with discussion about the claims approval as the amounts listed did not balance. Town Clerk/Treasurer Denise Snead looked into the issue and stated she would be unable to fix this until the next day when she could access the file to balance the funds. The council agreed to sign an adjusted copy the following day at each council member’s convenience. Mayor Jamie Schmunk then took the floor to discuss the True Colors training the council expressed interest in participating at the p...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague fastpitch team’s first doubleheader of the season was postponed from March 22 to March 26 due to rain. On March 26 the team took on the Wilbur-Creston Lady Wildcats for their season opener. The Lady Broncos were able to take the win in both games by ten running the opponent, 17-7 and 16-6. Emma Aldrich pitched the all five innings of the first game and held the Lady Wildcats to three hits and six walks, while bringing down three strikeouts. D...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos baseball team played their first two doubleheaders of the season and are now more comfortable with their positions on the field. The Broncos took on Wilbur-Creston for their opening doubleheader of the season on March 23 here in Ritzville. They split the series starting off with a 5-4 win over the Wildcats and ending with a 6-18 loss. In this first game Wilbur-Creston took an early 2-1 lead after the first inning, but in the bottom of the thi...
The City of Ritzville received a large donation from the Springer Family to erect a memorial in the Ritzville City Park in the Spring of 2015. Since then the Tree Board has been working to secure pillars for this memorial. The memorial includes three rock pillars of various sizes and will include a 20-foot lighted flagpole, as was requested by the family. A few bronze plaques will also accompany the pillars. One plaque will give information on the Springer Family, another...
The Ritzville City Council met on Tuesday, March 15, for their regularly scheduled meeting. An executive session was held for the hour prior to the meeting with discussion of the Well No. 9 project but no decisions were made. The meeting began with the discussion of Ordinance No. 2095, which is in regards to adopting a procedure for fence permits within the City of Ritzville. There have been many discussions in regards to fences being built outside the specifications the city...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos golf team stepped onto the Ritzville Municipal Golf Course for the first match of the season on Tuesday, March 15, at 2 p.m. and hosted the Colfax Bulldogs and the Inchelium Hornets. There were six Broncos participating in this match with Head Coach Nick Weishaar present for this league nine-hole match. Colfax was the only team with enough boys to qualify for a team score. They won this by default with a team score of 228. The boy’s m...
The meeting of the Lind Town Council occurred on Tuesday, March 8, at 7 p.m. beginning with the council hearing updates from Alan Gay from Stantec. Gay advised he has not heard back from the Department of Ecology (Ecology) and has been advised to not move forward with the excavation of the culverts within the Town. As of now the bid process for the culvert cleaning could take place, but it is contingent on the project in its entirety being approved by Ecology. The project will be at a stand still until it is approved. Gay...
The Ritzville City Council met on Tuesday, March 1, for their regularly scheduled meeting. The first topic discussed was Resolution 2016-03, a request to name Highway 395 after Thomas Stephen Foley. Foley was a Washington native and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1995. He was the first Speaker of the House of Representatives from a state west of the Rocky Mountains. Foley worked to change Highway 395 to a four-lane highway from the Tri-Cities to Ritzville. The resolution proposes the naming...
The City of Ritzville will be distributing an income survey to the approximate 800 residents within the service area of the City’s utilities. The purpose of the survey is to establish the percentage of low to moderate income levels within the city. These levels are required for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) application. The City has invested money into the research of the back up in the sewer lines, which occurs on Columbia Street near Pete’s lift station. The pipes do not have the capacity needed and can oft...
The Washington State University (WSU) Extension Office located in Ritzville has recently set up telecommunication equipment in the office thanks to numerous donors in the community. County Director Aaron Esser stated they have been attempting to get a system such as they one they recently acquired set up since they moved into their current building in April of 2014. Esser continued by saying the group wanted to implement it while they were still in the Courthouse building but...
The Lady Broncos finished their season over the weekend with a 19-9 record in regular play and a 10-4 record for league play. Head Coach Gary Kelly said he was very pleased to see how his team grew over the season. “We were obviously disappointed to be so close to the State Tournament but the thing I keep coming back to is what a great season we have had. We had a huge amount of wins and a huge amount of success.” Their final game was in the Regional Tournament versus St. Geo...
Lind Elementary School’s third grade class, under the direction of Jennifer Anderson, received a $225 mini-grant from CF Industries to learn about water pollution. Anderson applied for this grant in October of 2015 and has been preparing her class for this opportunity since then. The grant will specifically pay for the publishing of a book penned by the third grade class. The class has been studying the different ways water can become polluted as well as learning how w...
The Ritzville City Council met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. with a 15-minute executive session with Milton Rowland who represents the City for the ongoing Well No. 9 project. The meeting began with the approval of Resolution 2016-01, which outlines the specific uses of the consent agenda procedure. This resolution was brought to the council’s attention in the prior meeting in order to assist with the flow of the meeting. All items on the agenda in which a motion and no discussion is n...
The Bronco mat squad traveled to Tacoma this past weekend to compete in the 28th Mat Classic State Tournament at the Tacoma Dome. There were 24 mats set up and non-stop competition happening across all of them. The three wrestlers were guaranteed to wrestle twice on Friday, Feb. 19, and would need to win one of these matches to continue onto the second day of competition. Karl Hawks secured a sixth place finish and returned home with a medal. Matthias Ferderer made it to the...
The season will continue for the Lady Broncos team this weekend at Mt. Spokane High School for the Regional Tournament. It has been a tough road but the team ultimately pulled through and now can say they are one of the top 16 teams in the state. The Lady Broncos will now face the St. George’s Lady Dragons for the fourth time this season on Saturday, Feb. 27, at 12 p.m. The Lady Broncos first game was against the Dayton Lady Bulldogs on Friday, Feb. 19, at Mead High School. H...
Thirty years ago Jake and P.J. Jacobsen started a store by the name of ‘Babikis’ in Seattle, which sold natural fiber clothing. At this time there was a very small section of clothes for mothers and the remaining stock was geared towards babies. The Jacobsen’s then added a second store with older children’s clothing called ‘Kinderkis.’ Babikis and Kinderkis is Africana for “little baby” and “little kid”. When the recession hit the two decided to downsize to just one store w...
The Lind Town Council met for their first meeting of the month on Tuesday, Feb. 9, and discussed the ongoing stormwater project phases as well as the codification of the Town’s ordinances. The meeting began at 6:30 p.m. with a 30-minute Executive Session with the Town’s attorney present via phone, followed by the regular meeting. Alan Gay from Stantec was not present during the meeting but had met with Mayor Jamie Schmunk earlier in the day. Upon drilling a test pit at one of the locations to be used for the stormwater pro...
On Monday, Feb. 15, the Ritzville Fire Department hosted a hands on training to practice extracting victims from vehicles. An estimated 20 members of the Ritzville Department participated along with the Ritzville Volunteer Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT). The EMT and Fire Departments from surrounding districts were also invited to participate making this a Regional Training event. Five members of the Washtucna Fire Department attended along with five from the Sprague...
The Lady Broncos basketball team fought through a few tough games to continue their post-season play in the Sub-Regional Tournament. The LRS team faced the Liberty Lady Lancers in their first match of the week on Wednesday, Feb. 10. According to Head Coach Gary Kelly this proved to be the team’s worst game of the season. Tessa Jantz, Peyton Curtis and Tommi Swannack all suffered from injuries or sickness. The Lady Lancers put on a full court press the Lady Broncos did not h...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos wrestling squad traveled to Reardan High School for the Regional Tournament where 14 weight classes took to the mat to battle for the top five spots in each class. The top five head onto the State Tournament, which takes place Feb. 19-20 at the Tacoma Dome. Four Broncos wrestlers fought for these spots and three of them will head to Tacoma to compete for the state title. Head Coach Jason Hilzer said the team wrestled well and were able to...
The Ritzville City Council met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. The meeting began by discussing changes to the regular agenda to streamline the meeting and encourage more attendance from community members. The agenda will now include all of the reoccurring approvals, which takes place at the beginning of each meeting. This includes the approval of previous meeting minutes, acceptance of the agenda and the claims and payroll. The discussion of any new business or old business will also occur towards...
The Bronco wrestling squad traveled to Liberty for the South League Tournament on Saturday, Feb. 6, where they fought for their spots in the Regional Tournament. Wrestling that day were Matthias Ferderer, Alex Whitman, Karl Hawks, Joe Benedict and Tucker Guiles. In Ferderer’s first match the opponent was injured and he was defaulted to the next round of competition. The second round held a competitor from Colfax High School. Ferderer has matched up versus this wrestler prior and performed better in this match than p...
The Lady Broncos began their District Tournament run on Saturday, Feb. 6, as the number three seed in their district. The competition began with a 5 p.m. game versus the Northwest Christian Lady Crusaders in Reardan High School’s main gym. The game started off as a battle between the two teams with an even 9-9 score at the end of the first quarter. The second quarter allowed the Lady Broncos to take the lead heading into halftime with a 26-23 score. Head Coach Gary Kelly s...