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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....
RITZVILLE – The scoring came early and the scoring came often for the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos when the Davenport Gorillas paid a visit. The scoring was nonexistent on the other side, resulting in a lopsided 40-0 win for LRS Friday, Sept. 23. Sophomore Brody Boness put LRS in the scoring column with a 49-yard touchdown run after Davenport was forced to punt on its opening drive. The signs of disaster became apparent for Davenport on the ensuing kickoff, when the ball t...
SPRAGUE – The annual Sprague Days celebration here was held Sept. 10-11. The weather was nice, and the parade was one of the longest in years for the event sponsored by the city and local Chamber of Commerce. The car & bike show brought many from out of town. there were many vendors who offered a great variety of products for sale. The style show included several locals and past royalty to entertain the pleased crowd. Live music kept toes tapping and the free games for kids h...
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...
OTHELLO – Eric Logan received the all-around cowboy honors from the Othello Rodeo on Oct. 16-17. Logan took home a total of $1,039 in prize money after taking second in steer wrestling and sixth in team roping. Overall, $35,269 were paid out to cowboys and cowgirls competing in traditional rodeo events; an additional $6,674 was paid out to women in breakaway roping. Logan wrestled his steer to the ground in 7.4 seconds, good enough for $839 in prize money. In team roping, he partnered with Tex Sutfin to rope their calf in 9...
Robert “Bob” Walter Schoessler passed away peacefully at the Hospice House of Spokane on Sept. 2, 2022 at the age of 79 after a long and difficult road with Alzheimer’s. Bob was born on Nov. 16, 1942 in Ritzville, Wash. to Walter and Ann Schoessler joining older sister Marva. He grew up on the family’s wheat farm north of Ritzville, but he developed a passion for animals and being a cowboy. At an early age, he was riding horses and learning to rope. Bob and his friend Gary Tem...
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...
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...
Rodeo events on tap Friday, Saturday RITZVILLE – It's rodeo time. The Ritzville Rodeo takes over the fairgrounds arena on Friday and Saturday nights, Sept. 2-3. Grand entry starts at 7 p.m., with rodeo action to follow. Cowboys and cowgirls will be competing for buckles and $500 in added cash for a number of events. On tap this year are bareback, saddle bronc, ranch bronc and bull riding; breakaway roping for boys and girls ages 14 and younger, calf and team roping, steer wres...
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...
DISPATCH LOG RITZVILLE – The Adams County Sheriff’s Office answered the following calls for service from Aug. 21-27: Aug. 21 Landlord-tenant dispute in the 100 block of South Barton Road, Othello. Custodial interference reported in the 600 block of South Andes Road, Othello. Suspicious vehicle in the 2100 block of West Bench Road, Othello. Assist Othello police with contacting a resident in the 600 block of South Andes Road, Othello. Aug. 22 Assist Moses Lake Regional Tactical Response Team with a possible barricaded sub...
1 years ago The Ritzville Journal-Times Aug. 31, 1922 Summer stages hot come back When people were looking at the calendars and seeing how close September 1st was upon them, and wondering about their fuel supply and the winter woolens and such like, Old Sol swung the weather into reverse and put over a week of downright hot weather. The temperatures tell part of the story. Saturday, 101; Sunday 97; Monday 101. But on top of that some of the days were close and sultry. 75...
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...
RITZVILLE – A local man has joined the staff of The Ritzville Adams County Journal as a part-time reported. Dale Brown, 67, began work earlier this month. He'll be covering news in the Lind, Ritzville and Washtucna areas. Brown also hopes to write more human interest stories via profiles of area residents. "Dale has already hit the ground running," Publisher/Owner Roger Harnack said. "Given his life experiences and love of Ritzville, he'll bring more in-depth coverage of l...
SPRAGUE – A local couple will share honors as the 2022 Sprague Days grand marshals. Dick and Claudette Sharp were selected to lead the Sept. 10 town celebration, which includes a parade, Renegade Restorations' car and bike show, a beer garden and more. The fun will last all day, organizers said, noting there is also a back sale, vendors in the park, family activities planned by Future Farmers of America students, a 3 p.m. raffle and music by The Old Dogs from 11:30 a.m. to 2...
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...
DISPATCH LOG RITZVILLE – The Adams County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls for service from July 26 to July 31: July 26 Vehicle prowl in the 2000 block of West Bench Road, Othello. Possible burglary at a church in the 100 block of West Seventh Street, Lind. Deputies determined juveniles were looking in the windows. Suspicious vehicle in the 1100 block of North Paha-Packard Road, Packard. Driver ran out of gas. Suspicious man walking in the 1000 block of North Paha-Packard Road, Packard. Man was asking for...
With love and sadness, we announce the passing of Mary Ann Holloway on Aug. 2, 2022 due to complications from a medical procedure while in the hospital. Born Mary Ann Coleman June 17, 1935 in Spokane, Wash., the middle of three daughters of Pauline and Everett Coleman. She grew up in a happy solid family home with a strong stay-at-home mom and working dad who valued hard work, personal strength and integrity, doing the right thing, and treating others with respect. In 1948 at...
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...
OLYMPIA – As if high fuel prices were not enough, it’s now more expensive to drive or get an official state identification. As of July 1, motorists and residents were hit with numerous fee increases as a result of Senate Bill 5974. The following fees increased: · New license plate fee – Increased from $10 to $50; a 400% increase. · Replacement license plate fee – Increased from $10 to $30; a 200% increase. · New motorcycle license plate fee – Increased from $4 to $200; a 400% INCREASE. · Replacement motorcycle license plate...
LIND – With names like "General Lee," "Let's Go Branden" and "The Bandit," politics were on full-display Saturday along state Highway 21. Dozens of "Trump Country," Trump 2024" and patriotic flags flew along the highway as motorists honked and waved entering town. Anti-President Joe Biden flags waved from high atop farm combines, pickups and campers. But it wasn't the anti-Biden sentiment that brought thousands of people to town, it was the 33rd annual running of the Lind C...
RITZVILLE – Despite record high fuel prices, Adams County motorists are spending less money on gasoline and diesel than across much of the state. This morning, GasBuddy.com reported the average price for a gallon of gasoline in Washington state at a new record level of $5.51 per gallon. That’s the fifth-highest price in the nation. Drivers in Washington state are paying an average of 53 cents more per gallon than the rest of the country. Washington state’s fuel tax is 49.4...
LIND – The combined Lind and Ritzville school boards unanimously approved adding the Harrington to the existing Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna athletic combine during a meeting Monday, May 23. Earlier in the month the Harrington School Board voted to accept an offer to join the combine, by a 3-2 vote. In other business, Lind-Ritzville Superintendent Don Vanderholm reported the combined school district currently has five open positions, including athletic director, which could be filled in one of three possible c...