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On Jan. 10 five athletes from the Broncos wrestling team made the trek to compete in the Springdale Tournament. The team was short a few athletes, with one injured, another out after having their tonsils removed and with some athletes ineligible to participate because of grades. Josh Yow wrestled in the 145-pound bracket at the tournament. His first opponent was from Rainier. The match was very close, in the second round Yow went to turn his opponent but went too high. The Rainier athlete was able to reverse onto Yow and pin...
Despite a good start against Northwest Christian on Tuesday, Jan. 6, the Lady Broncos fell behind their opponent, losing the game 73-47. After the first quarter the LRS team trailed the Lady Crusaders 23-16. However, they struggled to match Northwest Christian’s scoring in the second and third quarters, putting up 14 points to the Lady Crusaders’ 36. In the fourth quarter, the Lady Broncos regained their composure but were unable to make up the deficit scoring 17 points to the...
After a slow start last week, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos picked up their game and rattled of an impressive streak of wins. They took down Northwest Christian after intense competition on Tuesday, Jan. 6. “That was, I think, the start of us playing a lot better last week,” head coach Dustan Arlt said. At the half the Crusaders led the game 35-27, but in the third quarter a switch in the Broncos defense shut down the Crusaders’ scoring attempts. The Broncos held their...
The Lind Town Council approved the town’s budget for 2015 at their regular meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 9. With a total of $1,775,178.85 in revenues and expenditures the council voted 4-1, Councilmember Paula Bell opposed, for its approval of the final budget with final corrections noted at the meeting by council members. The total of the final budget did not change drastically from the preliminary budget. For the majority of changes, council members requested for certain items to be moved into different funds. The largest c...
On Dec. 22 the Adams County Board of Commissioners Jeff Stevens, Roger Hartwig and John Marshall adopted the final 2015 budget for the county. The commissioners said this year’s budget was relatively simple to organize and that they were able to accommodate nearly all of the department requests this year. “It went really well this year,” Commissioner Stevens said. “Nobody asked for things that we really couldn’t do.” With a grand total of $28.8 million budgeted in spending this year, the commissioners appropriate...
On Sunday, Jan. 4, nearly three inches of snow fell in Ritzville and the surrounding areas. The snow created difficult driving conditions for local commuters, as well as travelers on the interstate. Emergency services scrambled throughout the evening to locate accidents while dispatch sorted through incorrect and confusing reports. Adams County Fire Protection District No. 1 responded to six crash reports during the day, according to Fire Chief Scott Kembel. Fortunately none...
After taking a break from games for a week, the Lind-Ritzville/ Sprague Lady Broncos returned to the hardwood to face opponents from the other half of the league. On Friday, Jan. 2, they traveled to Dayton to face the Lady Bulldogs. After battling out the game for the first three quarters, the Lady Broncos had a nine-point advantage over their opponent. The fourth quarter proved to be the most difficult. Head Coach John Galbreath said the effort from the team dwindled and by...
After more than a week off from games during the winter break, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos picked back up into league play, facing the Dayton Bulldogs and the Kettle Falls Bulldogs over the weekend. For their first game back, the Broncos traveled to Dayton to face a team that has been struggling this season. The Broncos defeated Dayton 53-29. Head coach Dustan Arlt said he did not expect the game to be the best for the Broncos, since it was the first game after the...
The Lind Town Council met to settle the last of the 2014 business on Tuesday, Dec. 23. During the meeting, council members also received an engineering update for Alan Gay of Stantec. He reported the town has a successful bid opening for the Lind Well Rehabilitation Project and he recommended awarding the contract to Shannon Industrial Contractors, Inc. out of Coeur d’Alene who had the lowest bid of $354,783.80. The bid covered the removal of the existing Well Seven pump and well column, the installation of a new pump with a...
After seating Dede Rawlings as the newest member on the Ritzville City Council, the council members turned their attention to the rest of the evening’s agenda. Mayor Linda Kadlec reported she would retain everyone on their appointed committees for the 2015 year and added Rawlings to the Public Safety; Health and Sanitation; and Law and Justice committees. She also appointed Ben Cross of the Mayor pro-tem for 2015. During the meeting the council addressed the Adams County Interlocal Agreement for Dispatch, Jail and P...
During their regular session on Dec. 16 the Ritzville City Council voted to approve Ordinance 2083 amending the 2014 Budget. The ordinance addressed the additional revenues and expenses in six funds, which were not anticipated at the adoption of the 2014 Budget. The first fund amended is Current Expense with an additional $157,000 in revenues and expenses. Of that, $140,000 came from grant money received by the city and $17,000 from miscellaneous revenues. The council set $156,000 in capital outlay and $1,000 allocated into...
The Ritzville Public Development Authority (RPDA) work is continuing on the proposed business park and ag discovery center. With the Ritzville City Council and the Adams County Commissioners both signing off on the interlocal agreement the next step, according to RPDA President Erika Hennings, is to survey the land. As of Thursday, Dec. 18, surveyors were already working to measure the parcel of land. After the legal description of the parcel is completed the RPDA will be able to enter into negotiations with the landowners....
During the spring the horse barn at the Wheat Land Communities’ Fairgrounds burned beyond repair. The barn could not be rebuilt in time for the 2014 Wheat Land Communities’ Fair so temporary pens were set up with panels from Bronco Farm Supply. Construction on the permanent replacement is now underway. Erika Hennings is organizing the work on the structure for the WLCF. The new structure will be an improvement upon the old one, with 20 stalls for horse exhibitors to uti...
The Broncos mat squad hit the road this week, traveling to Pasco twice to take on opponents from as far away as Idaho. On Tuesday, Dec. 16 five members of the team made the trip to the league, mix and match hosted at Tri-Cities Prep. Caeli Ulrich wrestled against two opponents from White Swan at the evening tournament and pinned both of them in the first round. Micheal Wheeler also wrestled twice in the tournament. His first opponent was from Colfax who had a lot more experience in wrestling. He managed to compete with his...
After the second full week of basketball the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Lady Broncos are 6-1 for the season. Winning two out of the last three league games, they currently sit at the top of their league. They hosted Tekoa-Rosalia on Tuesday, Dec. 16, where they defeated the Timberwolves 71-54. Head coach John Galbreath said the girls played an excellent game, with five players scoring double-digit figures. In the third quarter Tekoa-Rosalia made a run and took the lead from the...
In their second week of play the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos took down two of their three opponents, beating Tekoa-Rosalia and St. George’s at home and losing to Colfax on the road. In Tuesday, Dec. 16, night’s game against the Timberwolves the Broncos beat one of their weaker league opponents, according to head coach Dustan Arlt. The Broncos took the lead early against their opponent. “I liked our start, we jumped out ahead 20-6 in the first quarter,” Arlt explain...
Juvenile problems affect each member of the community. However, despite the problems, there are available resources to reach out to the low and moderate risk youth before they are subject to more severe forms of punishment and become connected with high-risk individuals. That is where Strengthening Families fits, as a detention alternative for troubled youth who have not yet committed a serious crime. Laz Martinez, the coordinator for the program and the Community Service Coordinator and Probation Officer for the Adams...
Six members of the LRS Broncos mat squad made the trip to Spangle on Saturday, Dec. 13, for the Liberty Tournament. Matthais Ferderer started the day facing a Liberty wrestler who was a state tournament participant from last year. He lost his first match of the day 7-3. In his next match he faced an athlete from Republic, who he pinned. Ferderer then faced off against an athlete from Newport and was pinned. Michael Wheeler in his first-ever wrestling match was able to pin a member of the Republic mat squad. Wheeler was...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos got their season off to a rough start after losing to the Medical Lake Cardinals, 68-52, and then to their first league opponent Liberty, 67-40, during the first week of basketball. During the Medical Lake game number three for the Cardinals, Cory Wagner, put up 31 points against the Broncos and made five out of five three point attempts during the game. “I don’t think any of them he was wide open, but they were all contested and the las...
After taking down the Medical Lake Cardinals on Tuesday, Dec. 9, The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Lady Broncos traveled to Odessa to face the Titans, another non-league opponent, before hosting their first league game of the season against Liberty on Dec. 12. The Lady Broncos played pretty well for their first road game, head coach John Galbreath said. They may not have played with the defensive intensity that Galbreath would have liked to see, but they did come out with a win. “I t...
At the Nov. 18 meeting of the Ritzville City Council, members voted to approve the allocation of the city’s 110 Funds for the 2015-year. This year’s requests for funds totaled $118,625. The council voted to approve allocations of $73,500 out of the total requests with $5,000 kept in reserve to cover the expense of re-installing the metal structures that were removed during work on the intersection at the entrance to the city. Another $5,000 was reserved to reimburse the fund that paid for the new public restrooms and $8,000 w...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Lady Broncos took to the court for their first game of the season on Saturday, Dec. 6, against Columbia-Burbank in a game where they showcased the abilities of the relatively young team. After a slow start the Lady Broncos would take the game 60-53 over the Lady Coyotes. “They had their first game the night before so I kind of figured they’d be a little more polished than we were and it showed, “ head coach John Galbreath explained. “We had some go...
The LRS Broncos varsity team started their basketball season on Saturday, Dec. 6, against the Columbia-Burbank Coyotes. After four quarters of play, the Broncos would come out on top, beating their opponent 62-40 after an impressive second half. At the beginning of the game the team had a difficult time getting points on the board. “It started a little rusty and a little rough, but when you’ve practiced five times together you don’t expect it to be perfect at the start...
With John Anderson stepping down as CEO of the Ritzville Warehouse Company, the board of directors looked to employees already working within the company to fill the position. After the interview process, the board selected Brain Gordon to serve as the new CEO for the company. Gordon is excited for the opportunity to step into the leadership role at the company and, when he started working for the warehouse, thought the opportunity would be available. “It’s a very good company...
Adams County Public Works Director Todd O’Brien and Adams County Engineer Scott Yaeger presented the commissioners with the county’s Six-Year Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) for 2015-2020. Funding has been secured for five projects extending into the 2018 year. Starting in 2015 the project priorities are as follows: Priority One: The reconstruction of the McManamon Bridge. Total cost for the project is estimated at $2,112,000 with funding secured through the Bridge Replacement and Advisory Committee (BRAC) and thr...