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RITZVILLE – The Bronco boys football team will head to Asotin this week after taking a one-week off. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington team heads to Asotin to take on the Panthers at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29. Asotin has yet to win a league game this season. Meanwhile, the Broncos boast a 6-1 record and a No. 3 state ranking in Class 2B football. At 5-1 in league, the Broncos are currently tied for second with Jenkins (Chewelah) in the Northeast 2B league. The Broncos edged Jenkins 25-18 on Oct. 7, but p...
RITZVILLE – Two area girls volleyball teams have received rankings nods from the Washington State Volleyball Coaches Association. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington Broncos were ranked earlier this week at No. 6 in Class 2B. League rival Colfax was ranked No. 5. Colfax and Lind-Ritzville were scheduled to face off Tuesday night in Colfax; the newspaper went to press before the game started. Others in the Top 5 included No. 1 Kalama, No. 2 La Conner, No. 3 Mason and No. 4 Goldendale. The Northeast 2B’s Lib...
SPANGLE – The Broncos girls volleyball team topped the Liberty Lancers, 3-1, in a Northeast 2B matchup Thursday, Oct. 13. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington won the first set, before dropping the second then coming back to win the next two. Set scores are 25-17, 18-25, 25-23 and 25-22. In the game Saturday at Liberty, Saige Galbreath and Taylor Galbreath each had 14 kills for the Broncos. The duo also combined for 11 digs each. Zoe Gabreath had 22 assists and 5 aces. Saige Garbreath also had 3 blocks. The win f...
HARRINGTON – The Lind-Ritzville/Washtucna/Harrington cross country team competed Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Harrington Golf Course. Junior Caleb Heater led the Broncos, finishing in 46th overall in the boys varsity 5,000 meter with a time of 21:29. Bronco sophomore Brix Curtis was 51st overall with a time of 21:52. In the girls division, freshman Maeve Korthuis was the lone Bronco in the field. She finished 30th overall in 29:33. The Broncos did not have enough runners to be s...
REARDAN – It took all of 14 seconds for the Lind-Ritzville, Sprague, Washtucna and Harrington Broncos to show why they are one of the top 2B schools in the state. That is how long it took for Brock Kinch to return the game's opening kickoff 86 yards for a touchdown. The Broncos went on to defeat the Screaming Eagles 46-7 in NE2B action on Oct. 14. After Kinch's score the Broncos unveiled a hard-hitting defense by forcing a Reardan fumble on their first play from scrimmage. S...
RITZVILLE – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington girls varsity volleyball team celebrated Homecoming by sweeping Northwest Christian (Colbert), 3-0, during a Northeast 2B matchup Thursday evening, Oct. 6. While the local Broncos swept the Crusaders, the sets were close, "way too close," Coach Cari Galbreath said. Set scores were 25-18, 25-23 and 28-26. "It was way too close," the coach said of the final game. "Kudos to Northwest." The win came shortly after the j...
RITZVILLE - A late, come-from-behind effort lifted the Broncos boys football team to a Homecoming victory over the Jenkins (Chewelah) Cougars on Friday, Oct. 7 in a Northeast 2B matchup. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington boys (5-1) grabbed a 25-18 victory after scoring on an 11-play, 97-yard drive in the fourth quarter. Senior quarterback Chase Galbreath scored a TD on a dive play. Senior running back Brody Boness added a 2-point conversion for the final score...
Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harringon students celebrated Homecoming last week, with spirit week, volleyball, football a parade and a dance. Alumni turned out to show support for their alma mater....
REARDAN - The Broncos girls volleyball team remains undefeated in league sweeping rival Reardan on Sept. 27. The local Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington team topped the Screaming Eagles, in straight sets, 25-19, 25-21, 25-20 Sept. 27. The loss dropped Reardan to 1-2 in league and 4-2 overall, with the other loss coming to undefeated-in-league Colfax. LRS is now 3-0 in league and 5-1 overall. A trio of Galbreaths led the way for the Broncos. Taylor Galbreath had 15...
COLBERT – The Broncos boys football team improved to 4-1 on the season Saturday, routing Northwest Christian, 35-7. The Crusaders came out tough and held Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington scoreless in the first quarter. But they themselves couldn’t put any points on the board either. In the second quarter, the Crusaders (1-4) notched one touchdown and added the point-after to take a 7-0 lead to the locker room at halftime. That was the end of the Crusaders reign. In the third quarter, the Broncos put up 21 una...
SPRAGUE – A Moses Lake man has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder after the dead body of 53-year-old Theresa Bergman was found 12 miles northwest of the city off Stolp Road around 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. 54-year-old Charles R. Bergman of Moses Lake was charged Friday, Sept. 23 and arrested by the U.S. Marshal Service in New Stanton, Pennsylvania later that day. According to an affidavit filed in Lincoln County Superior Court last Friday that includes a...
RITZVILLE – After a nearly a week off the court, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington volleyball team returns to the court this week. The Broncos (4-1) were scheduled to travel to Reardan (4-1) on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to take on the renamed Screaming Eagles. Game time was at 6:30 p.m. The newspaper went to press before game time. Then on Thursday, Sept. 29, the Bronco girls host St. George’s. The 6:30 p.m. matchup with the Dragons (3-2) is a non-league game....
PASCO – It was never a contested game. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington boys football team cruised to an easy win Friday, Sept. 19, over Tri-Cities Prepatory. The Broncos (2-1) led the Jaguars (2-1) from start to finish in the 48-7 non-league win over the Pasco-based private school. Broncos quarterback Chase Galbreath passed for four touchdowns in the win. Running back Brody Boness rushed for two. Lind-Ritzville got on the board in the first quarter on a 36-year run by Boness. Galbreath added the PAT to take a...
RITZVILLE – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington girls volleyball team remained unbeaten after sweeping the Columbia (Burbank) Coyotes and Asotin Panthers last week. On Saturday, Sept. 17, the Bronco girls (3-0) topped visiting Asotin (3-3) in three straight sets. Set scores were 25-13, 25-9 and 25-14. Taylor Galbreath had 11 kills and five aces and five digs in the non-league matchup. Galbreath also helped the local girls to victory Sept. 14 in three straight s...
SPANGLE — The Northeast 2B’s top-ranked Broncos boys football team was stunned Friday night, Sept. 9, in a 27-26 loss to the Lancers. It’s the first regular season loss for the senior-laden Broncos since the 2020 season. With the win, the Liberty (Spangle) Lancers (2-0) moved into a first-place tie in the NE2B with the undefeated Davenport Gorillas and the Jenkins (Chewelah) Cougars. Meanwhile, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington (1-1) boys dropped to the league’s No. 4 spot, tied with Reardan. In the game at...
SPOKANE VALLEY – Several Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington runners competed Thursday, Sept. 8, at the Valley Christian School Jamboree. Broncos middle school runner Bryce Fannin, a sixth-grader, won the boys 1-mile in a time of 6:26.08. Teammates Graham Christianson and Isaiah Busby, both sixth-graders, finished 29th and 30th with times of 8:37.56 and 8:58.82. In the girls 1-mile, Faith Lind, a Broncos eighth-grader, finished 11th with a time of 8:22.12. And in the high school girls varsity race, a 2-mile event, M...
ST. JOHN – Two area men were remembered following the Saturday, Aug. 26, sprint boat races at Webb's Slough. The ashes of Richie Baltierra of St. John were spread on the waters after the racing. Baltierra passed away two years ago. The ashes were spread by local sprint boat racers Michael Thomas and Clint O'Keefe, who drive and pilot the Dangerous Curves boat. "His wife asked us to spread just a little bit," Thomas said, noting his boat also sported a memorial for local r...
I was certainly in my element this weekend as high school and college football took off with a full slate of games. On Friday night the Broncos hosted the Colfax Bulldogs in a Northeast 2B opener. There was a time when you had a chance to play a nonleague opponent to test how good the team was but the schedule is what it is. And each year it rotates so the last team you played in the previous season is now the first team you play this season. Colfax is a well-coached team and...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos boys football team handled the Colfax Bulldogs, 35-12, in a Northeast 2B league season-opener Friday night, Sept. 2, on Jimmie Snider Field. The win was the first for Broncos Coach Brian Bermea, who assumed the lead role on the senior-laden team in July after Greg Whitmore was hired as superintendent of the Entiat School District. Prior to this season, Bermea was an assistant coach for the Tonasket Tigers. "I feel like the guys came out and performed we...
RITZVILLE – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington Broncos boys football team tuned up for the regular season Saturday, Aug. 27, hosting a jamboree. Visiting teams included the Medical Lake Cardinals, Jenkins (Chewelah) Cougars, Warden Cougars, Colfax Bulldogs and the Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack. Each team's offense had multiple opportunities to run offensive plays, beginning at the 35-yardline against rotating defenses. The gridiron tune-up traditionally kicks off t...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos boys football team heads into the Class 2B season ranked as the No. 3 team in the state by ScoreBook Live. The Broncos only graduated one player from its 9-1 squad, which reached the playoffs last year. This year, the Broncos team sheds Kahlotus, but adds Harrington to the sports combine that includes athletes from Lind-Ritzville, Sprague and Washtucna high schools. Brenda Bermea will coach the team with Mike Lynch at his side. Bermea is in his first ye...
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...
RITZVILLE – In 2016 when Earl Wash contemplated leaving his home in the Tri-Cities to be closer to Spokane siblings, he investigated several towns including Davenport, Sprague, Harrington and Lind. Ritzville wasn't in the running. "I was trying to avoid Ritzville," the 91-year-old man said. "The pictures I saw of the homes in Ritzville... You had to climb 100 steps to get up to the front porch. I didn't want any part of that." But when his real estate agent showed him a r...
JAIL LOG RITZVILLE – The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reported the following jail bookings on July 13-18: Rafael Mares-Mireles, 38, fourth-degree assault-domestic violence, second-degree burglary, second-degree malicious mischief and a warrant for violating a burning permit. Armando Lopez-Correa, 29, fourth-degree assault. Jacquline Becktold, 37, driving while under the influence. Dayven Quezada, 19, details not reported. Oscar Guerro-Lopez, 23, fourth-degree assault-domestic violence. LAND TRANSACTIONS RITZVILLE – The A...
HARRINGTON – The weather didn't damper the Country Vintage Fair. The fair returned for its second year on June 18. Vendors were lined up on Third Street in Harrington. Vintage trucks and tractors were also on display. The Harrington Golf Course offered hand dipped jumbo dogs for the event. There were over 100 quilts on display at the Harrington Opera House. Laura Estes of Odessa presented and gave demonstrations. Geri Sauter, owner of Stitch! had a wide variety of fabrics, n...