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RITZVILLE – Pianist Amy Galbreath played "Pomp and Circumstance" as 20 graduates wearing robes of red and black walked down the center aisle Thursday, June 1. The attendees - most of this year's Lind-Ritzville High School graduating class of 25 students - took their seats at the front of the Ritzville Foursquare Church for the annual Baccalaureate service. "Baccalaureate" was coined in the 1600s to describe a farewell sermon to graduates earning bachelor degrees from c...
RITZVILLE – An hour before commencement began on Saturday, June 3, friends and family of 25 Lind-Ritzville High School graduates streamed into Gilson Gymnasium. Students in the foyer handed out programs, and attendees took seats in 14 rows of folding chairs stretched out on the basketball court. Other visitors sat high on bleachers bordering the gym floor. A red carpet extended from the back of the gym to a wooden podium decorated with the signature Bronco icon. Music s...
LIND – The city roars to life Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10, as the 34th annual Combine Demolition Derby Days brings thousands of residents and visitors out for weekend of smashing fun. The highlight of the event is the Lions Club Combine Demolition Derby, in which area farmers, fans and others put their fortified combines to the test in a demolition contest, with the last combine running crowned the victor. But the weekend also includes a car show, barbecue, car and pickup truck racing, grain truck racing, camping, m...
— Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on William ‘Bill’ Sager. Part 3 will publish June 14. RITZVILLE – Barely out of his teenage years, Bill Sager was drafted into the Army in May 1969. “I had a feeling deep in my heart that if I went to Vietnam as an infantryman, I wouldn’t come back alive,” he said. So he joined the regular Army, which required a three-year commitment. He signed up for a seaman course and went to basic training at Fort Lewis. Because of his prior manual labor in the woods, he was a...
A Moses Lake man has been sentenced in the September murder of his wife near Edwall. Charles R. Bergman, 55, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Lincoln County Superior Court on Tuesday, May 30. He was also sentenced to three years of community custody after his prison sentence by Judge Jeffrey S. Barkdull. Bergman was originally charged with first-degree murder, after being extradited from Pennsylvania to Lincoln County by U.S....
WARDEN – A local elderly man was killed late Thursday night, June 1, after apparently jumping in front of a car on state Highway 17. Jose Valencia, 80, of Warden, was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:53 p.m. near Milepost 42 north of Othello and west of Warden, the Washington State Patrol said. His next of kin was notified by the Grant County Medical Examiner’s Office. The patrol said Valencia was standing on the northbound shoulder of the highway and “jumped into the northbound lane” as John K. Sharples, 53, of Moses L...
8 Years Ago Adams County News June 8, 1898 Ten years ago last Monday Ritzville was practically burned to the ground. Since that time it has more than recovered, although it was a severe blow to the town at that time. We hope it will be many a year before such a calamity befalls the town again. Local and Personal Wheat is 58 cents in Ritzville today. Mrs. Dillon is said to be very low with brain fever. Postmaster W.K. Kennedy set the good example on Monday of filling up the...
The deal reached between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to increase our nation’s debt limit was a welcome compromise. It appears to avert our nation’s defaulting on our financial responsibilities and is a step toward bringing government spending under control. However, it is just a start; and the hurdles ahead are much higher. While the federal government operates differently than a family or business, people are starting to realize that if our nation def...
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which allocated $386 billion for clean energy, is a major breakthrough in our nation’s struggle to address climate change. The IRA can decrease our carbon emissions 40% by 2030, putting us within general range of our targeted 50-52% emissions reduction by then. But unless we speed up the permitting process for the transmission lines needed to convey the clean energy, we’ll realize only about 20% of the projected reduction, according to a Princeton REPEAT Project study. It now takes 4.3...
Relying on increased wind and solar is likely to increase electricity costs for residents in Washington and Idaho, and make electricity less reliable. Advocates of wind and solar frequently point to is the claim that the fuel is “free.” That claim ignores the extremely high up-front cost of those energy sources. To account for that, energy analysts create a “levelized cost of energy” to compare between energy that has low costs up-front but has ongoing costs for the fuel ...
RITZVILLE – Two local students has been named officers for the Future Farmers of America district representing Central Washington next year. Lind-Ritzville students Alyssa Williams and Lane Tellefson were elected to the FFA District 9 board during a May 24 meeting at Moses Lake High School in Moses Lake. Williams will serve as district secretary and Tellefson district treasurer for 2023-24. In District 9 leadership, President Levi Kukes and Vice-President Sydney Garza, both of Moses Lake; Reporter Grace Young of Quincy and S...
The St. John-Endicott Class of 2023 graduated Sunday, June 4. After the playing of "Pomp and Circumstance" and the presentation of diplomas, graduates headed outside where they threw their mortarboards in the air....
LIND – The following residents are celebrating birthdays and anniversaries from June 4-14: Anniversaries June 6 – Scott and Lynne Branson June 8 – Oscar and Donna Undeberg and Roger and Annie Smart Birthdays June 4 – Katie Lasen and Michael Gomez June 7 – Makenah Frees June 8 – Dylan Nichols June 9 – Michael Larson June 10 – Jason Sanger and Charlotte Kulm June 12 – Ilona Branson and Connor O’Neill June 14 – Alec Lobe...
RITZVILLE – Dozens of alumni returned to their alma mater over the Memorial Day weekend for a reunion and recognition of classes. This year's Ritzville and Lind-Ritzville Alumni Associations recognized the classes of 1923, 1948, 1973, and 1998. Almuni for several other classes were also president for the May 27 banquet in Gilson Gymnasium. The Class of 1973 had the largest turnout. Alumni celebrating their 50-year class reunion included Gail Burghard Mahoney, Paulette T...
RITZVILLE – Here are the meals being offered by the H.E. Gritman Senior Center in Ritzville and the Lind Senior Center in Lind. H.E Gritman Senior Center The H.E. Gritman Senior Center is serving the following: • Wednesday, June 7 - Egg salad sandwich, salad and chips. • Thursday, June 8 - BBQ spare ribs, baked beans, pea salad and corn bread. • Monday, June 12 - Meatloaf, mashed potat, gravy and vegetable. • Tuesday, June 13 - Grilled tuna, chips and veetable sticks. • Wednesday, June 14 - Fried chicken, potato sald and ve...
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.020, .030 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY No. 23-4-50076-11 Estate of SHIRLEY L. COLLEY, Deceased. George H. Colley has been appointed as personal representative (“personal representative”) of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal rep...
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF VENUE LIND’S TOWN COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING JUNE 13, 2023 – 7:00 P.M. COLUMBIA GRAIN CONFERENCE ROOM 103 N. “L” STREET LIND, WA 99341 IN PART OF REGULAR MEETING – RCAC PRESENTATION WITH CENTURY WEST ENGINEERING PURPOSE: To provide community - members with water efficiency plan Information and to set Town of Lind’s water efficiency goal(s) and to provide Information for a 6-year budget for water rates. PUBLIC COMMENT WELCOMED. Published June 7, 2023...
PUBLIC NOTICE RESOLUTION NO. R-028- 2023 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS County of Adams Department of Public Works Ritzville, Washington Sealed bids will be received by Adams County at the office of the Board of County Commissioners located in the courthouse at 210 W. Broadway, Ritzville, Washington 99169, until 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 27, 2023 and will be opened and publicly read on June 27, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. for the following construction improvements: Hatton Road Safety Project – (CRP-196), M.P 2.13 to M.P 4.63, consists of r...
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Board of Adams County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, in Room 202 of the Adams County Courthouse, 210 W. Broadway, Ritzville, for the purpose of receiving comments on the following: PROPOSED ORDINANCE. O-02-2023 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO THE SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE A copy of proposed Ordinance No. O-02-2023 may be obtained at no cost by c...
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS RESOLUTION NO. R-026-2023 COUNTY OF ADAMS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS RITZVILLE, WASHINGTON Sealed bids will be received by Adams County at the office of the Board of County Commissioners located in the courthouse at 210 W. Broadway, Ritzville, Washington 99169, until 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 13, 2023 and will be opened and publicly read on June 13, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. for the following construction improvements: Deal Road Project #2 – (CRP- 197), M.P 0.00 to M.P 2.80, consists of reconstruction of the road...
SPRAGUE – Want to go fishing at Sprague Lake or on the Snake River but don’t have a license? Well, this weekend you’re in luck as “Free Fishing Weekend” opens state waters for anglers who don’t have a license. But if you don’t have a license, be careful what you catch this Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11. Game wardens will be on the lookout for fishermen catching salmon, sturgeon and steelhead in Eastern Washington waters without a license. That’s because state bureaucrats in Olympia have changed the rules relating to Fre...