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RITZVILLE — Spokane Regional Transportation Management Center announced a left lane closure for crack sealing on Highway 395 southbound, from milepost 86.5 to 81, Paha Packard Road to Lind Coulee. The closure began at 7:30 a.m. August 14, and will continue until 5 p.m. Travelers should expect slow-moving traffic....
The Reardan-Edwall School District’s first day of school will be September 1 pending approval from the board. Previous plans indicated that school would start August 26, but that week is now reserved for staff in-service days (August 24-25) and waiver days (August 26-27). The district will continue to offer three learning options: onsite, remote and online....
EDWALL – The Christian Heritage School in Edwall is planning to begin the 2020-21 school year, with in-person classes that include students wearing masks and 6 foot social distancing between desks. The private school will start seventh-12th grade students Aug. 31 with the first- through sixth-grade students starting Sept. 3. The school schedule is from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Kindergarten is Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The school that participates in the Mountain Christian sports league will not be o...
RITZVILLE - City Hall is completely closed to the public due to a positive COVID-19 test. The closure will last until Friday, Aug. 21. City Hall office employees will not be available during this time. For emergencies, residents are asked to contact the Ritzville Police Department at 509-659-1313. For non-emergency city issues that need immediate assistance, City Clerk-Treasurer Julie Flyckt is available at [email protected] or by calling 509-660-0966. Bill...
ALMIRA - An Aug. 10 wheat fire burned 50 acres near the intersection of Williams and Old Coulee roads, resulting in the total loss of a combine. Three fire districts - Lincoln County No. 8 from Almira, Lincoln County No. 7 from Wilbur and Grant County No. 6 from Hartline, as well as a plane from Greg's Crop Care, responded to the incident. Almira Fire Chief Dennis Pilar said actions taken by the farmer helped get the fire quickly under control. "There was a concern that the...
DAVENPORT – Students attending the Davenport School District later this month will have a “phased start” that breaks the school day into two parts. Some students will attend during a morning session of 8:00am to 10:30 and others will attend in the afternoon from 12:15 to 2:45pm. Students will be taught in groups of 10 with one adult and groups will not commingle. The split schedule will be for Monday to Thursday with Fridays being a distance learning day. Mandatory Coronavirus precautions mean students must wear masks and s...
RITZVILLE – Lind-Ritzville School District is choosing to start the 2020-21 school year Aug. 31 with all students engaged in distance learning. Superintendent Don Vanderholm said the decision was based on the "strong recommendations" from the governor, and state and county health departments. "Our primary goal is still to open our campuses for student learning as soon as possible. Even so, we may have to operate schools under these restrictions for the entire school year, o...
EASTERN WASHINGTON -- The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for the region, with residents warned to expect "dangerously hot" hot temperatures from Sunday -- Tuesday. Temperatures are expected to climb into the 90s and even low 100s before dropping back into the 80s and 90s by Wednesday. The extreme heat can lead to significant increases in heat-related illnesses, and residents are advised to stay hydrated and seek air conditioning inside or shade...
RITZVILLE – A local rancher found a silver lining around clouds of COVID-19 restrictions, and is spinning it into gold. Peyton Curtis, 20, was studying animal science on a pre-veterinary track at Cal Poly in San Louis Obispo when the campus sent everyone home in mid-March. "I remember sitting in biology class with my roommate, and we were saying, 'There's no way they're going to send us home. This isn't going to get bad,'" recalled Curtis Wednesday, Aug. 5. "And then, w...
I’m not sure where to start, or if it even matters anymore. For those of you keeping track, the Stanley Cup playoffs are on the air. The NBA is playing their games in Florida. They will be entering the playoffs soon but since I haven’t been paying that much attention to it as usual…oh well. The NFL is getting ready to gear up and start practicing but then a fair amount of players have decided to be safe and take a year off. So what would you do with a year off? Depen...
August 1 Traffic Accident – North Batum Road and West Rosenoff Road Ritzville Report of a vehicle in a collision. Deputies contacted the driver who advised he failed to negotiate a curve and left the roadway. The driver was cited with an infraction. Agency Assist – 1000 block East Cedar Street Othello Report of an unresponsive subject at the location. Deputies assisted with providing emergency first aid. The subject was transported to a medical center. Suspicious – 600 block South Thacker Road Othello Request for law enfor...
Jonathan Childress from Sacramento and Vanessa Kennedy from Portland were traveling from Spokane back to Oregon last week when they stopped by to check out The Journal's old Linotype machine....
Vote Dan Blankenship for general election I see that Dan Blankenship will be running for Adams County Commissioner in the November 4 General Election. Adams County voters will be fortunate to have such a qualified person serve on the Board of Commissioners. Dan is an Adams County native son. Over the years he spent time teaching me, an inexperienced state representative from the Olympic Peninsula, about production agriculture, water issues and what it takes to make a living in eastern Washington. He understands the issues...
That actually happened in the course of the last month. The result would undoubtedly please the legendary U.S. Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA) - the master problem solver. In March, President Trump signaled he supported legislation that would fund the backlog of National Parks and natural resources maintenance work. The money would come from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) which was established in 1964 when Jackson, a prominent Democrat, sponsored legislation...
Dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers provide an appropriate balance between the economic needs of Eastern Washington and fish protections. While we already knew that here in Eastern Washington, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers came to that conclusion, too, after completing yet another environmental study this spring. The results of that new study were released last Friday, and they support keeping things essentially the way they are on our rivers. The dams will stay, for...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times August 12, 1920 Local People Figure in Lind Shooting Scrape A shooting occured at Lind last Sunday night. It seems that some man came to the home of Mrs. Deaton in Lind and asked to see her son Howard. According to Mrs. Deaton he threatened the life of her son, and when she refused to admit him and told him her son was not there, he claimed that he was and added, "I'm going to kill him before sunrise." Mrs. Deaton then seized a...
RITZVILLE – City council members Mark Weigand and Dede Boyer motioned to re-open city hall at the Aug. 4 board meeting. Boyer said she was hearing about City Hall being closed from city residents. “Why is City Hall closed?” Boyer asked. “Grocery stores, drug stores, hardware stores, pet stores are open. You guys can put up a shield just like anybody else. People want to be able to come in to City Hall, ask a question, pay their bills or whatever. I’ve gotten a lot of flak from people about it being closed.” Council mem...
RITZVILLE – Council members approved a request for additional funds from the Transportation Improvement Board after City Engineer Scott Yeager presented changes needing to be made to the City Preservation Project, currently funded by the state agency. Yeager said funding was received last year to remove and rebuild 22 ADA ramps between Palouse and Jackson Streets. Yeager said the ramps needed replaced due to the city putting in chip and slurry seal. The original request did not include costs for mobilization and traffic contr...
RITZVILLE – A man charged with murder in the first degree is being held in Adams County Jail following extradition from the State of Oregon. Grayson Douglas Wrae Morris is charged with the shooting death of his father, Doug Morris, at his home in Ritzville May 14. The shooting occurred around 5:30 a.m., and Morris was apprehended near Portland, Oregon, later that day following a high-speed chase. He was held in Multnomah County Jail on charges including first-degree robbery with a firearm, attempting to elude by vehicle, u...
RITZVILLE – The second count of Adams County ballots in the August 4 primary election was posted Friday, Aug. 7, by Elections Administrator Jacque Laird. Laird said after a final count, the election will be certified August 18. Dan Blankenship, challenging two-term incumbent John Marshall for the County Commissioner, District 1 position, maintains his lead from the Aug. 4 count, with over twice as many votes as Marshall. Blankenship currently has 1,016 votes for 56.89% of v...
Trucks line up to dump their loads of soft white wheat Wednesday, Aug. 5 at the Templin Terminal in Ritzville. During this peak of the season, the terminal can see as many as 400 trucks in a day, according to Ritzville Warehouse CEO Brian Gordon. "To allow farmers to keep bringing it in to the satellite elevators, we bring on hired-on trucking," said Gordon. The Ritzville Warehouse owns over 30 elevators in the region. At the Templin Terminal, four of the seven piles hold two...