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Three school districts have closed school for Thursday - Lind, Ritzville and Washtucna after initially calling for a two-hour delay. As of 6:30 a.m. Thursday, schools were starting late today. LaCrosse, Lind, Ritzville and Washtucna schools are running two hours late. There is no preschool for Ritzville students. Washtucna will not run kindergarten, preschool or offer breakfast....
Superintendent of Ritzville and Lind School Districts, Rob Roettger, will be the guest speaker at the next monthly general meeting of the Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce. The chamber meeting is a no-host luncheon on Thursday, Jan. 19, beginning at noon at Casuela’s Grill, located on West Main Avenue in downtown Ritzville. The membership will also have an opportunity to confirm the 2012 board of directors for the chamber of commerce, an annual action item. General meetings of the chamber are open to the p...
Once again, school administrators in area districts have made the decision to affect school attendance on Friday, Jan. 20. The LaCrosse School District is running two hours late on Friday while Lind, Ritzville and Washtucna schools are closed.... Full story
The Lind Grange Hall is hosting a luncheon on Sunday, Jan. 22, for Lind community member, Ray Jenkins. Jenkins continues to battle cancer, and over the holidays, began chemotherapy again. The luncheon begins at 12 p.m. and runs until 3 p.m., with the funds benefitting the family by hopefully allowing Glenda Jenkins, Ray’s wife, to be home with Ray to care for him. The luncheon is authentic Mexican food made by local Hispanic families including chicken or beef fajitas, rice, beans, dessert and a drink. The prices are $10 f...
The Lind and Ritzville school boards start combined school board meetings on Jan. 23. The first meeting is in the library at the Lind High School on Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. The two school boards plan to discuss goals for the upcoming academic cooperative of Lind and Ritzville school districts....
There will be a meeting on Monday, Jan. 23, at the Ritzville High School Library regarding this year’s Distinguished Young Woman of Ritzville Scholarship Program. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. The DYW program is open to all high school junior girls. This will be an informational meeting for all parents and/or guardians and the girls to learn about the program and sign up to participate. This year’s DYW program will be held on Friday, March 16, 2012. If you are unable to attend this meeting, please call Janet Manke at 659...
A new, nondenominational, eight-week women’s Bible study class will begin the first week in February and conclude the last week in March. The discussion follows topics from the book entitled Discerning the Voice of God; How to Recognize When God Speaks by Priscilla Shirer. The classes begin on Mondays from 7-8:30 p.m. and also Tuesdays from 1-3 p.m. with a childcare provided during the Tuesday class. The classes are at the Nazarene Church, located at the corner of Fourth and Washington, beginning Monday, Feb. 6, and c...
The hours at the Ritzville Library changed to eliminate the hour in the evening the library is usually closed for on weekdays. The Library hours are now Monday to Thursday from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. The Library continues to be closed on Sundays.... Full story
Pheasants Forever will be hosting a hunter education and firearms safety class in Lind during the month of February. There is no fee to participate in the class and everyone is welcome. Any children under the age of 12 years old must have a parent or guardian attend with them. Classes will be held at the Lind Gun Club on Monday, Feb. 20, from 5-8 p.m. and continue all week at the same time. The class finishes with a field course and range day live-fire on Saturday, Feb. 25, starting at 9 a.m. Hunter education classes are...
The National Weather Service forecasts snow is expected to continue falling in the region through Friday morning. The first significant winter storms are arriving late this year, as December was one of the driest on record in Adams County. Snow fell briefly in Ritzville on Tuesday afternoon, accompanied by hail. Wednesday morning residents in the area were greeted by the first measurable snowfall of the year. Early Wednesday morning, Greg Galbreath reported two-tenths of an...
Scratching and clawing their way back into league contention has not been easy for the Broncos, but the local basketball team has made progress since the start of the New Year, winning four of five contests. Tuesday, the team enjoyed a bit of redemption, knocking off the Reardan Indians 63-59 in Reardan’s gym. Last Saturday night, the Broncos almost upended Davenport, but came up two points short in overtime, 56-54. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague is 7-7 overall and 4-6 in Bi-County League play. They lost to Reardan and Davenport i...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna boys’ basketball team ended the week with a win after playing in three games last week and suffering two losses. The Tigercats played Odessa-Harrington, Rosalia and Garfield-Palouse all in regular season games. The Tigercats lost to Odessa-Harrington after making a tremendous come back in the fourth quarter, bringing the final score of the game to 43-46. At the end of the third quarter, the Titans led the game with a score of 40-26. “In the fourth quarter, we did a better job attacking the rim and mov... Full story
The LaCrosse-Washtucna girls’ basketball team continues to struggle to get a win in the second half of the season, after losing all three of their games last week. The Lady Tigercats played a competitive game against Odessa-Harrington, but lost by a large margin against both Rosalia and Garfield-Palouse. The Lady Tigercats fell to Odessa-Harrington after a closely matched game on Jan. 10. The game ended with a score of 33-25 in favor of the Lady Titans. Kadie Whinery led the Lady Tigercats in scoring with a total of eight poi... Full story
Saturday night revenge was sweet. The Lady Broncos delivered Davenport an upset loss, 50-41, in Gilson Gymnasium. The win was particularly sweet, having fallen to Davenport earlier in the year, 53-37. Head coach Randy Heidenreich knew the key to a win was containing the Davenport offense, or at least most of it. Miranda Mielke is a scoring machine and delivered 28 points Saturday for Davenport, but was frustrated many times in the second half by a swarming LRS defense. “We h... Full story
The Broncos hosted their one and only home match of the season for wrestling on Thursday, Jan. 12, bringing together a host of different teams for a league match. Making the trip to Ritzville were Tri-Cities Prep, Warden, White Swan, St. John-Endicott, Liberty, and Waitsburg-Prescott. Keanu Niezwaag started the action for LRS at 138 pounds. He wrestled Hugo Barajas of White Swan and won convincingly by a score of 10-0. He then wrestled Cameron Fox of TCP and won by pin. His...
Caring Neighbors, a non-profit entity established by Big Bend Electric Cooperative, recently donated $500 to the Washtucna School District Reading program. The Reading program is designed to help promote independent reading by immersing each student in books. This is the 20th consecutive year that this program has been in place. Big Bend Electric Co-op members donated funds for Caring Neighbors....
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague junior high girls’ basketball season has ended. The last two games were against Liberty and Odessa-Harrington (OH). The “B” team barely lost both games, but played well. The season ended with the “B” teaming winning four games and barely losing six other games. The “A” team beat Liberty by one point in overtime! It was an amazing win! Then the “A” team lost to OH only by a couple of points. After the game, the girls said that they played a very flat game because of how much energy they put out agai...
ts deciding to home school their children, a home school support group began in Ritzville to create more opportunities for the students in the area. The support group hosts meetings once a month, giving the students a chance to socialize and learn about a certain topic together. The support group began when a group of mothers who home schooled their children decided to begin a group that allowed the students to meet each other. It also gave the parents a chance to exchange...
Lexi Whitaker, a senior at Lind High School, plans to host an anti-bullying assembly in the high school gym on Jan. 26. Whitaker decided to create the assembly for her senior project after witnessing firsthand the effect that bullying can have on an individual. Whitaker’s younger brother became victim to bullying because of his stutter, creating an unfortunate opportunity for his peers to tease him. Whitaker saw how the teasing and bullying hurt her younger brother and refused for bullying to go unnoticed. “It really hur...
As the 2012-2013 academic year quickly approaches, proposed staffing schedules and class lists show the initial plan for the upcoming academic cooperative. Slight changes continue to be made to staff schedules, since department staffing meetings with the administrative staff are ongoing. The proposed staffing schedule became public during the second week of December, allowing the staff to have time to see and understand their new responsibilities for the upcoming year. Overall, the staff at both school districts seems...
A resolution of the Board of Directors for both the Lind and Ritzville school districts submitted a proposition of a tax levy that will appear on the Feb. 14 ballot. The levy replaces the Maintenance and Operation Levy that is currently in place at both school districts. The proposed levy increase that will be on the ballot for the Lind School District is for two years, beginning in 2012 that will tax $3.06 per $1,000 assessed value, which will collect an estimated $688,573 for the district during the years when the levy is... Full story
Leland M. Woodard, who built custom homes in Everett, died from two gunshot wounds to the head, Jan. 11, 2012, at the age of 52. The family says he was a very proud father, a first time grandfather and a gifted carpenter. Woodard was born on Easter Sunday, March 29, 1959, in Ritzville, first born son of Leland C. Woodard and Sharon K. Jensen. He grew up on a 168-acre farm in the foothills of Mount Spokane and attended Riverside High School. As a young boy he was bucked off of...
William Earl Snyder, formerly of Washtucna, died Jan. 6, 2012, in San Francisco. His ashes will join those of his wife, Mary, in the Pacific Ocean. He was born in May of 1925. He was 86 at the time of his death. He was known as “City Bill.” He is survived by two daughters, Ruth and Marjorie, of San Francisco; a son, David, of Vancouver, Wash.; a sister, Ann, of Spokane and five grandchildren. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, in San Francisco. The family would like stories of him that shows his cha...
Even though it wasn’t the most watched National Championship game in the BCS era, I still watched it. That is what I like to do, and I do it very well. Who did I want to win this game really doesn’t matter. I was leaning both ways at times and in the end I was cheering for Alabama offensive coordinator Jim McElwain. Now, if you have a question mark over your head right now, I can understand why. So here is the answer to your question. McElwain quarterbacked the Eastern Was... Full story
Okay, I managed to scare up enough leftover stuff from 2011 to fill this space until the Legislature gets down to work and provides some copy. One of my favorite stories was the purse-snatcher who was nabbed when his pants fell down while he was running away from his victim. The would-be thief was a 43-year-old Everett man who ripped the woman’s handbag off her shoulder at the Bremerton ferry terminal and ran to a nearby taxi to make his getaway, when his pants suddenly descended to his ankles he tripped and fell down. A p...