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OLYMPIA — Convicts working in a “Gentling Program” to help calm wild horses? That’s what Washington Ninth District Rep. Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy would like to see. Dye, whose Ninth District includes Adams County, introduced House Bill 2579, which unanimously passed the House of Representatives last Wednesday. It now heads to the Senate. The bill would establish a study to be executed by the state Department of Corrections to evaluate and report on the feasibility of implementing wild horse training at the Coyote Ridge Correct...
With undiminished joy for life, eternal youthfulness and love for his family, Clarence Lenhart went home to his Savior on February 24, 2020. As was his way, Clarence was making new friends right to the end. Born the 7th of 10 children to Jacob and Anna Lenhart, Clarence arrived at the family farm, side-by-side with his twin brother, on New Year's Eve 1924. Clarence loved the farm. After graduating from Odessa H.S. in 1943, he worked alongside his father until drafted to serve...
RALSTON — The Ralston Grange is hosting a Going Away Potluck/Party for Deloris Allert at their hall on Thursday, March 5. The party starts at 5 p.m. and the potluck starts at 6 p.m. Those attending are asked to bring a potluck dish to share. The Grange will provide beverages and table service. This event will be a chance for Allert’s friends and neighbors to show their appreciation for all she has done for the community before she moves to Spokane later this month. Call Barb at 509-499-7007 for questions....
RITZVILLE - Less than a half -year into his second term, Mayor Gary Cook has decided to resign. His last day will be March 31. Mayor Pro Tem pore Dennis Chamberlain will assume mayoral duties on a temporary basis beginning April 1. Under city statutes, the council will then have 90 days to assign someone to finish out the first two years of the term. Then, in 2021, a new mayor will be elected to serve the final two years. This will allow a new four-year term to start in 2023...
RITZVILLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls basketball team may have been eliminated from the Northeast 2B district tournament last week, but they still have a state-wide award to celebrate. The Broncos won the WIAA 2B Academic State Championship for girls basketball by having the best GPA at their classification. But their success doesn't end there. Their combined GPA of 3.98 was higher than all of the other winter-sport state champions of every classification, of any gender...
SPOKANE --- The Lind-Ritzville boys basketball team saw its season come to end last Thursday with a loss to Kettle Falls after a desperate full-court shot at the buzzer just missed. The Broncos lost 52-49 in the consolation bracket of the Northeast 2B district tournament. The Broncos were playing in the loser-out game after falling to St. George's in the semifinals. "Obviously we are disappointed," LRS head coach Dustin Arlt said. "Being that close to making it to regionals,...
SPOKANE - "We just couldn't shoot the ball." That's how Lind-Ritzville/Sprague head coach Steve Wellsandt summed up his team's struggle at the Northeast 2B district tournament. The Broncos' season came to an end after losing to Northwest Christian Thursday 39-30 at West Valley High School in Spokane.. On Monday morning, Wellsandt was still struggling to adjust to his team's elimination. "I'm still not over it, really," Wellsandt said. "After the season we had, we just didn't...
LIND --- Code enforcement continues to come up at Lind Town Council meetings. The council has taken the last several weeks to review town ordinances 11-01 and 11-02, which deal with what role a code enforcement officer would play. Councillor Jim Dworshak said he’d like discussions to progress so that the council could start to take action at the next meeting on Feb. 25.. “I do not think that things as we are doing them now are effective at this point,” Dworshak said. “We need to carry it further to start eliminating distrac...
COLVILLE — An Adams County Superior Court judge has found himself amidst a legal battle over so-called “red flag” laws that may be headed to the state Supreme Court. Judge Steve B. Dixon presided over a hearing, as a visiting judge in the Stevens County Courthouse, earlier this month before siding with the State Attorney General’s Office in a lawsuit brought against the state over a law that went into effect last July. Under the law, mental health counselors can direct law enforcement to remove firearms from the home of a pa...
RITZVILLE - Katie Teachout has been named editor of The Ritzville Adams County Journal. Teachout, 58, replaces Brandon Cline, who recently resigned to return to his childhood home west of Goldendale to work as a reporter at the Chinook Observer. "Katie will be a fantastic addition and leader at The Journal," Publisher Roger Harnack said. "Her experience will be key to improving the coverage of news, events and people of Ritzville and Adams County." "I came here from the...