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RITZVILLE – A local man was arrested early Friday evening, September 10, after allegedly trespassing at Ritzville Golf Course. Brian Massey, age 33, of Ritzville, was arrested on a probable cause of trespassing at the Ritzville Golf Course and numerous warrants issued by Adams County District Court. The warrants stem from a July arrest and a Sept. 7 arraignment, records show. The warrants involve alleged harassment, malicious mischief and possessing a dangerous weapon, r...
DAVENPORT--The hometown Gorillas marched the ball up and down the field in Friday night's contest against the No. 9 ranked Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos, being stopped from scoring on just two drives. Despite this fact, an 80-yard kickoff return touchdown by LRS freshman running back Brody Boness gave the visitors the lead with 2:11 left and, ultimately, the win. Davenport fell to 1-1 with a 25-24 loss at the hands of the Broncos, while LRS improved to 2-0 to start the 2021...
PALOUSE – Two people were injured when a small plane crashed at a private airfield near Palouse on Sept. 15. The plane crashed at Schoepflin Airport on Ringo Road at around 11 a.m., according to Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers. “Initial reports indicate the student pilot, accompanied by his flight instructor, attempted to make a landing when the plane made a hard touchdown causing the landing gear to malfunction,” said Myers. “As a result, the plane flipped and came to...
SPRAGUE – A local civil leader and businesswoman has been named grand marshal of the Sprague Days parade. Dorothy Giddings, 90, will lead the parade on Saturday morning, Sept. 11. The theme of the event is "Remembering 9/11." Local veterans are invited and expected to join the patriotic event. Giddings fell in love with the area in the early 1980s when she and her husband, Gary, visited on weekends to help his cousin operate Four Seasons Resort. The couple was hooked and b...
RITZVILLE – In a defensive battle, the Lind-Ritzville-Sprague Broncos beat the Liberty Lancers 18-7 on Friday night. "These were two evenly matched teams", said LRS head coach Greg Whitmore. Ashton Strobel #2 scored a Liberty touchdown in the first quarter and the Lancers took a 7-6 lead to the locker room at halftime. But the Lancers were shut out by the LRS defense in the second half. With 35 seconds to go in the third quarter LRS scored on a 10 yard pass from #15 Chase Galb...
RITZVILLE – The girls high school volleyball season was scheduled to get under way here Tuesday, Sept. 7. The local Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos will host Class 2B perennial powerhouse Colfax. Gametime was 6:30 p.m. in the gym at the high school, 209 E. Wellsandt Road. Results of the matchup weren’t available at press time. “It is a big league match,” Lind-Ritzville Athletic Director Greg Whitmore said in an email Monday. Colfax is coming off an undefeated spring season, a season that was delayed due to coronavirus shutdow...
Gail Lynnette (Franz) Hudson, 66, peacefully passed away on Aug. 20, 2021. She was born in Spokane, Wash. on July 6, 1955 to Earl and Helen Franz. She is survived by her three daughters, Jamie Brault, Meghan Johnson and Jessica Hudson and her seven grandchildren. She is also survived by her two sisters, Yvonne Redelfs and Jeanette Filan and her father Earl Franz. She is preceded in death by her mother Helen Franz. Gail was born in Spokane, and spent the majority of her...
When thinking of England’s fabled Sherwood Forest, the medieval images of Robin Hood and his band of archers and swordsmen hiding in the woods giving the sheriff of Nottingham a hard time comes to mind. Who would envision a crew of young American oil workers concealed among the giant oaks drilling oil wells? However, the crude production from those wells was essential in helping fuel the D-Day invasion launched from English shores in 1944. Until Guy Woodward and Grace Steele Woodward published “The Secret of Sherwood Forest ...
Aging - Is only a matter of mind, if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter, this according to Mark Twain. Aging begins at conception and only accelerates as we grow older, the concept of which is often lost on some. Something most of us don’t want to acknowledge. And who can blame us? The focus is on beauty, youth and productivity. Our society adores the young and often times ignores the aging process. We soon forget why we came to earth in the first place so lose our focus. The older we get the more invisible we become, almos...
WASHTUCNA – A Kennewick man was taken to a Spokane hospital after crashing his car on state Highway 26 about seven miles west of the city near Milepost 76 on Sunday afternoon. Mugtaba Y. Kori, 23, of Kennewick, was westbound at about 3:15 p.m. when he lost control of his 2002 Acura MDX, according to the Washington State Patrol. The vehicle left eh roadway to the right, went down an embankment and flipped several times, the patrol said. The vehicle came to rest on the drivers side in a field nearly 50 yards off the h...
Sept. 11, 2001 – a day that no American who lived to see will ever forget. I was recently asked about where I was that day, and I remember it keenly, deeply. I think it’s a question every American has an answer to—a moment engraved in time. Since it was early September, it was right in the middle of hop harvest. My cousin and I were working to unplug the picking machine, a more-than-common occurrence for hop farmers, when his wife called, crying. Those first moments that morning were ones of disbelief. Then, justification—it...
Jodi Goodrich of Hermiston, Ore., ropes her calf in 13.48 seconds in breakaway roping during the Saturday evening performance of the Wheat Land Communities' Fair and Ritzville Rodeo....
RITZVILLE - A nonprofit railroad group is pushing to restore passenger service to several communities across the state. Two weeks ago, All Aboard Washington leaders stopped in Ritzville and Cheney, among other communities, in their effort to solicit input on restoring passenger rail service linking Seattle, the Tri-Cities and Spokane. The "2021 Train Trek" team presented a project that would renew daily rail travel across Stampede Pass to the Kittitas Valley, Yakima and into...
The Seattle Seahawks' Blitz Kicks 4 Kids scooter tour stopped at the Best Western Bronco Inn in Ritzville last Tuesday, Aug. 31, as it headed from Spokane to Seattle. The road trip is designed to collect 3,000 pairs of shoes to support indigent children in the Seattle-Tacoma area, and around the U.S. During the stop at the Bronco Inn, Blitz, the Seahawks mascot, posed for a photo with General Manage Nichole Thiel. The hotel was also presented with a "12th Man"...