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Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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Remember last summer when the state was acting like Oprah and giving away prizes to people for getting vaccines? “You get a game system!” “You get tuition!” “You win the lottery!” My teenage boys were disappointed it didn’t work out for me. It did for others. Washington state gave away more than $2 million in prizes as incentives for Washingtonians to get COVID-19 vaccines before the state’s “reopening.” It included a $1 million grand prize called the “Shot of a lifetime...
DISPATCH LOG RITZVILLE – The Adams County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls for service from Aug. 8-14: Aug. 8 Elderly resident with possible dementia made suspicious call in the 100 block of South Highway 17, Othello. Illegal burn in the 700 block of Sanson Road, Othello. Assist jail staff with taking a violent inmate to court, Ritzville. Complaint about juveniles in the 2900 block of West State Highway 26, Othello. Small grass fire in the 1000 block of East Second Street, Lind. Landlord tenant dispute rep...
COLFAX – The St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse-Washtucna swim team took second place overall in the annual Tri-County Swim Meet, also known as the Clucky Cup, on Aug. 6. The host Colfax Bullsharks won the event with 329 team points. St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse-Washtucna was second with 321.5 points. The Pullman Barracudas were third with 283 points and Garfield-Palouse-Oakesdale-Plummer was fourth with 228 points. Pomeroy finished fifth at 214.5 points. In girls action, St. J...
There is something in the air this time of year. The baseball season is heating up, pro football is starting its preseason, college football has been practicing for a week and the Washington high school football teams are practicing for the first time today (Wednesday). For baseball the excitement for the most part is in the wild card races. A majority of the first place teams are running away with their division titles by double digit games. But the wild card races make...
OTHELLO – The Glen Williams Access Area at the Potholes Reservoir will be closed for construction until Dec. 15. Construction on the estimated $800,000 boat launch improvement project began Monday, Aug. 15. Boat launch improvements include installing a new ramp, an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant loading area, and paving and striping of the launch area. New concrete vault toilets and a board float will be installed at a later date when supplies and materials are available. The renovations will double the boat l...
When Mayor Kadlec asked me if I would like to take care of the flower boxes on Main Street, I said, “Sure, why not? I’d much rather be outside in the sunshine than in the stuffy indoors.” I’m here to tell you that this project has been both an entertaining and a learning experience. Let me explain what I’ve seen and heard every day on Main Street as I’ve been watering the flowers: Monster semis with trailers thundering through town with their loads of grain headed for the elevators. All kinds of vehicles including speed demon...
Looking around at all the yard signs and hearing politicians tell us on television what a lying crook their competition is, I have to admit I miss Guv Reeve. Guv had a real first name, but I sure don’t recall it now, because this was back in the 1960s and 1970s in the high desert of California. He had his first name legally changed to Guv so everyone would know what he was all about. Every four years, he ran for governor. I worked for the Victor Valley Daily Press in Victorville, which is just 30 miles from Barstow, where e...
When Brendan Bermea applied to teach social studies at Lind-Ritzville middle school, he didn’t expect to become the high school’s head football coach. Last spring, Bermea talked to Greg Whitmore (long-time football coach and athletic director at Ritzville) about filling an assistant coaching slot. That was the expectation. But after Whitmore accepted a job in Entiat, Bermea was offered the head-coaching assignment. “When someone calls and asks … sometimes you just have to...
Implausible as it may seem, gasoline powered vehicles can be part of reducing carbon emissions. They need to be part of the solution and not brushed aside. Take for example, Glacier National Park in northwest Montana, there is a fleet of 33 tour buses powered by gasoline engines. Each year, they transport 60,000 visitors mainly across Logan Pass---the park’s famed “Going to the Sun Highway.” Without them, congestion would be much worse and fewer people would enjoy Glaci...
Increase funding for lab grown meat Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell have the opportunity to help alleviate a tremendous amount of nonhuman suffering by increasing funding for cultivated-meat research. For those who aren’t aware, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. We can start to put the era of killing sentient beings for food behind us. The private sector has made excellent progress developing this revolutionary protein, but public money is necessary to help bring it to market as fast a...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Aug. 17, 1922 Cut county budget nearly 50 per cent A straight-across slash of over 45 per cent is made in the budget for Adams County for the ensuing year, according to the estimate which is now in the hands of the county auditor. Nearly every county office is asking for less money than the last year. But the big cut comes in the amount of money levied for roads. No levy at all is to be made for the Road and BRidge Fund. 75 years ago...
OTHELLO – Incumbent Dan Newhouse appears to have eked out a narrow primary election win in the contest for the 4th Congressional District seat. But he only had the support of two counties - Benton and Franklin - in the district that includes portions of eight counties. The remaining counties went to political newcomer Doug White or former gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp. As of Friday, Aug. 12, Newhouse, running as a Republican who has been censured by most Republican c...
BRUCE — With the end of the growing season looming, the South Columbia Irrigation District will be shutting off water Friday, Oct. 21. The announcement made Friday, Aug. 12, also came with the announcement that ditchrider services will drop from six days per week to five effective Sept. 17. Irrigation officials said the reduced service comes as the end of the irrigation and growing seasons loom. The final day the district will deliver irrigation water to Franklin County and southwestern Adams County will be Friday, Oct. 2...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will award up to $12 million to increase the use of conservation practices on grazing lands. Ranchers and farmers can apply for the grants through Sept. 22. “Privately owned grazing lands cover nearly 30% of the national landscape, which means we have a tremendous opportunity to address climate change and conserve natural resources through voluntary, private lands conservation,” the USDA's Terry Cosby said Friday, Aug. 12. "These partnerships will also help us expan...
ODESSA – Lincoln County firefighters and volunteers were there to assist with a wildfire the Aug. 4 Lind Fire that prompted evacuation notices Aug. 4. "We sent 11 guys," Lincoln County District No. 3 Chief Stephen Walter said. "Three brush trucks and two water trucks from Odessa." Walter said it was a team effort to stop the blaze from spreading. "Our hearts go out to the families who lost their homes," Walter said. The fire destroyed six houses and eight other structures a...
BLUESTEM – Entering the missile site owned by Peter Davenport just north of Bluestem Road between the city of Davenport and Harrington requires unlocking two gates and wandering down old roads largely overgrown by sage brush. To the untrained eye, the site, which is one of six in Lincoln County, appears to be a bizarrely oversized storage site for a farmer or person looking to get off the grid, but the history of the sites goes much deeper than that. Site stores many UFO f...
OTHELLO – A Franklin County resident is being held on $2 million bail in connection with the death of a former Othello School District teacher. Chiloe LaRae Chervenell, 49, was booked into the Franklin County Jail on Aug. 11 on charges of second-degree kidnapping and second-degree murder, court records show. He is accused of killing Kathleen Chervenell-Brinson, 54, a former Othello teacher who was found dead at her Mesa home on Aug. 4. Her body was found under a pile of bicycles, records show. According to the court r...
WARDEN — Officials believe they have found the body of a missing rural Othello man. The Grant County Sheriff’s Office reported Friday that it had recovered a body near the Warden Outfall fishing area off State Highway 262. Although identification was still pending confirmation at press time, authorities believe the body is that of Audel Espinoza-Duenas, 45, who went missing Aug. 4. He was last seen at his home near his home in the Othello area close to the Potholes Reservoir. "Detectives found the body at about 10:30 a.m...