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RITZVILLE – Longtime Lind-Ritzville Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Greg Whitmore has been named Entiat School District superintendent. Whitmore announced his selection in an email earlier this week, noting he will be leaving his post with the Lind-Ritzville School District at the end of the school year. "It is with excitement, but some bitter sweetness, that I am letting you know that I have accepted the position of superintendent for the Entiat School District," W...
DISPATCH LOG RITZVILLE — The Adams County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls for service from May 1-9: May 1 Disorderly conduct in the 2100 block of West Bench Road, Othello. Deanna Ortiz, 30, of Othello, arrested on two outstanding warrants, booked into the jail and refered for substance abuse, following a trespassing call in the 600 block of South Chain Laine, Othello. Someone baning on windows at a home; location not reported. Verbal dispute in the 1900 block of West Fairgrounds Road, Othello. May 2 Veh...
Last year the NCAA approved student athletes being able to earn money for their name, image and likeness or NIL. I think that a lot of fans thought this was a good idea since colleges and the NCAA were making huge amounts of money from the big time athletes showing off their talent in the playing arenas and stadiums. So if an athlete makes a few bucks doing a commercial, good for them. With the transfer portal in place, certainly an offshoot of the Covid-19 pandemic, there...
VERNITA - More than 1,000 hillclimb racing enthusiasts turned out Saturday, May 6-8, for the Washington Nitro Nationals. Port Angeles native Jake "The Animal" Anstett won four classes Saturday to lead Washington state's contingent of racers. At the Nitro Nationals, riders pit their skill and motorcycles against a 1,000 foot course. Many of the motorcycles are powered by nitrous oxide and methanol. Anstett broke the 20 second mark in the open class. Several Eastern Washington...
RITZVILLE – The hometown Broncos scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 7th and had the tying run at the plate, but it was not enough to knock off the visiting Davenport Gorillas in a Northeast 2B play-in game Monday, May 16. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna girls fastpitch softball team lost the game, 13-10. Davenport's Gorillas earn a berth in the District playoff and for the Broncos the season is over. The play-in game was set up when Davenport and Lind-...
Eagles place in district track RITZVILLE — The St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles had several athletes among the top competitors in the 1B District 7&9 boys meet Wednesday, May 11. Junior Logan Marconi took second in the 800-meter in 2:13.67 and fourth in the 1,600 meter in 5:06.89. Senior Ryan Anderson and junior Rory Maloney fisniehd second and third, respectively in both the 110-meter high hurdles and the 300-meter low hurdles. Anderson's times were 18.08 seconds and 45:67; Maloney finished in 18.40 and 46.01. The four also...
RITZVILLE – Lind-Ritzville senior Sydney Kinch took top honors in girls pole vault and long jump May 10 during the Northeast 2B-South division track and field championships here. Kinch cleared 9-00.00 to win the pole vault and jumped 15-11.00 to take the long jump event. She was also a member of the girls 4x100 relay team, which won that race in 55.79 seconds along with teammates Savannah Carruth, Myra Miller and Claire Wellsandt. Kinch placed second in the 100-meter race w...
About 50 people and a couple of hundred rabbits assembled in the Livestock Building at the Wheat Land Communities Fairgrounds for a rabbit show May 14. The show included rabbit judging and an auction....
Bobbie Wyatt, 83, of Washtucna was called to heaven on Thursday, April 28, 2022. She was born on Jan. 7, 1939, in Bath New York. Bobbie is preceded in death by her husband, mother and 1 sister. She is survived by four sisters, one brother and multiple nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be held at the Washtucna Pioneer Cemetery on May 27, 2022, at 1 pm. Followed by a reception at the Washtucna Lions Club....
As a young lady in her infancy of writing news, and in the process of enlisting in the U.S. Army, my experience while flying with the Thunderbirds last Thursday in advance of Skyfest was unimaginable. A caravan of press arrived at Fairchild Air Force Base on Thursday, May 12. The 0700 - that's 7 a.m. in military time - arrival riddled me with excitement, despite the lack of coffee fueling my usual caffeine addiction. I shook with excitement and chill as the wind blew past all...
Gov. Jay Inslee and Senator Patty Murray have their priorities backward when it comes to rebuilding Snake River salmon and steelhead runs. Instead of focusing on ripping out dams with fish passages and navigation locks, they should find ways to reopen traditional spawning areas up river which are blocked by dams without fish ladders. Breaching Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite dams is costly and counterproductive. Over the last 30 years, northwest...
RITZVILLE – Captain's Cod food truck set up shop at 702 W. First Ave. on May 10, to the delight of local fish lovers. Business was brisk during lunch time as locals lined up for the fresh sea food offerings. The truck serves wild Alaskan cod, and can be found at locations in Washington from Bellingham to Omak to Kennewick to Ellensburg, and many locations between. Each order is served with house-made tartar sauce and a spicy Siracha Aioli sauce. The all-important malt v...
Semi overturns near Lind LIND – A tractor-trailer overturned Friday, May 13, three miles south of the city, blocking U.S. Highway 395 for hours. The crash occured near Milepost 79 just after midnight, according to the Washington State Patrol. Department of Transportation workers set up a detour around the scene using state Highways 21 and 26, while crews worked to remove the overturned truck. By 3 a.m., crews had one lane of the highway reopened and the scene was completely cleared aby 2 p.m. Friday afternoon. No injuries w...
RITZVILLE – The Ritzville Festival Association will dissolve by the end of the year. The remaining five board members reached the difficult decision at their March meeting. “We’re old,” Secretary/Treasurer Debbie Balfe said, referring to herself and fellow board members, John and Janis Marshall and Chris and Vicky Johnson, who are all in, or approaching, their 70s. For decades, the association sponsored the community float, appearing in nearly 20 regional parades each year. T...
HOOPER - A grain train derailed along state Highway 26, west of the town of LaCrosse and east of Washtucna. About four train cars derailed, spilling grain along the railroad tracks. The exact time and date of the derailment remains unknown. The Whitman County Sheriff's Office did not have a record of the incident at press time. And a worker sitting in a white truck near the derailment site Saturday, May 14, declined to comment. Meanwhile, there were five others near the...
RITZVILLE – The rise in tuberculosis cases in Washington state has the Adams County health officer concerned. During a Wednesday, May 11, meeting with county commissioners serving as the board of health, Dr. Alex Brzezny discussed his concerns. Tuberculosis cases are rising in the state, including Adams County, Brzezny said. At issue is the care and handling of patients in the county jail, and also monitoring patients who may not cooperate with treatment, after they are released. Adams County Sheriff Dale Wagner was also p...
HARRINGTON – The Broncos athletic combine appears to be growing, with more athletes joining local teams. The School District annonced that it is joining the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna athletic combine on a one-year trial basis. Lind-Ritzville Athletic Director Greg Whitmore welcomed Harrington to the combine in an email Friday, May 13. “This will be quite a change for Harrington, but I know it won't be long until they are also saying ‘It's great to be a Bronco,’" he said. The change to the athletic combine is awaitin...