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CHENEY -- Police and Fire Department personnel are currently onsite of a rollover accident near Oak and North 5th streets. Roads in the area have been blocked off. This is a developing story, with more information to follow when available. UPDATE 11:25 a.m. -- Cheney Police Department Capt. Nate Conley said the accident was a low-speed, T-bone collision at an uncontrolled intersection. The vehicle that rolled "barely" did so onto its side. No injuries were...
CHENEY -- Changing zoning in the city's Industrial and Commerce Park, how to fund public safety and how to spend almost $3.5 million in American Recovery Plan Act money will be the subject of a June 15 special City Council meeting. The meeting will take place at 6 p.m. in the Wren Pierson Community Center multipurpose room, the first in-person meeting since March 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions. The meeting will be limited capacity, and will also be available online via a Zoom link. The city is proposing changing the zoning...
CHENEY - Eastern Washington University has switched gears and is now requiring students, faculty and staff to get a Covid-19 vaccination. The revised policy and reasons behind it were highlighted in a June 3 email from interim President David May to the campus community. May previously announced in a May 6 email that the university would not be requiring vaccinations - allowing students, faculty and staff to make a personal decision about receiving one of the three shots...
CHENEY — The city’s drinking water has received the federal Environmental Protection Agency seal of approval when it comes to allowed level of contaminants contained with in the system’s eight wells, five reservoirs and 40-plus miles of piping. According to the city’s annual Consumer Confidence Report for 2020, there were no violations in any of the 13 areas tested, with 11 elements within acceptable ranges. The only two elements outside the “maximum contaminant level (MCL)” — the highest level of a contaminant allowed in dr...
CHENEY - The Blackhawks Unified Sports team held its first ever track and field competition under sun-drenched skies and temperatures in the 90s last Thursday, June 3. Cheney competed along with teams from Mead and Mt. Spokane. "It was a big hit," Cheney Unified coordinator Brian Baxter said, noting it was the first time for track and field. The program has previously instituted a basketball league and earlier this spring a soccer league. Cheney fielded 14 members on its not,...
CHENEY - Perhaps it's Kaye Aucutt who best summed up retiring Windsor Elementary School Principal Vince Songaylo. "Mr. Area," Windsor's principal prior to Songaylo hiring there in 2010 said. A couple of minutes of discussion later, she expanded upon that. "Mr. West Plains," Aucutt said. "He knows it like the back of his hand." Songaylo is set to retire after a 35-year career spent entirely with Cheney School District. But it goes further back than that. Songaylo was born in...
CHENEY — The Lady Blackhawks slow pitch softball team continued its success in its Greater Spokane League inaugural season, winning three of four games over the past week to stay in the middle of the pack. Cheney is currently seventh in the 12-team league, one-half game back of University with two games remaining. Boys basketball With the season wrapping up on June 10, the Blackhawks are still searching for the win column. Cheney dropped three games last week, 80-41 on June 1 to Ferris, 65-55 to Mead June 3 an 81-37 to C...
SPOKANE COUNTY — Acknowledging that the local wildfire season is “off to a strong start,” area fire chiefs joined together to issue a burn restrictions order last Friday. The order began June 4 and remains in effect indefinitely. The chiefs took the steps due to lack of precipitation this past spring — the driest since 1926 and fourth driest over the past 130 years of record keeping. They also pointed to hot weather last week, with temperatures climbing into the 90s, and a forecast that indicates temperatures remaini...
CHENEY — It may seem strange to be reading about basketball, wrestling and gymnastics when it’s 80 degrees and sunny outside rather than 20 degrees and snowy, but such is the high school sports world of Covid-19. With that, Blackhawks winter sports teams finally got into their Season 3 action on May 18, opening their inaugural Greater Spokane League competition with varying degrees of success. Boys basketball The Blackhawks are still in search of their first win as of June 1. Cheney opened with an 85-63 loss to Central Val...
SPOKANE COUNTY — Construction along Interstate 90 recently shifted a bit more towards the city of Spokane as crews wrapped up work at the I-90/Medical Lake interchange and began reconstruction earlier this spring of the I-90/Geiger Boulevard interchange. Work on the $6.15 million project at exit 276 began April 12, and includes construction of three roundabouts along with revised on/off ramps, better illumination and erosion control, pavement markings, permanent signage and traffic control. The three roundabouts will be b...
TYLER — After a one-year hiatus — like most events impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic — Tyler Daze is back. The annual, one-day community celebration just over 11 miles west of Cheney on State Route 904 takes place — rain or shine — as it always does on the first Saturday of the month, which this year is June 5. The community flea market runs from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. with numerous activities taking place in between. “It’s a great get together for the community,” organizer Bob Shea said. Tyler Daze begins with a community breakfast...
CHENEY — The proposed rezone of the city’s Industrial and Commerce Park could head to an upcoming City Council meeting — but without an approval from the city Planning Commission. At a May 10 public hearing, the city proposal to change the 36-acre park from its current Business Park (BP) zoning to Light Industrial (I-L) failed to receive a vote after none of the members offered to second to Commissioner Dan Hillman’s motion to vote on the proposal. Some of the issues that likely led to the none-vote were impacts to surroun...
CHENEY - Senior Ryan Rieckmann swept to wins in all three of his track and field events while the Blackhawks baseball team ensured it wouldn't have to wait until next year to earn its first Greater Spokane League win as spring sports teams concluded action last week. Baseball The Blackhawks got an offensive explosion to get into the win column in their final game of the season. Carson Jefferies went 3 for 4, scoring three runs and driving in two more as Cheney shellacked...
WEST PLAINS - Candidate filing week takes place May 17 – 21, and a quick glance at the seats up for election suggests the possibility for wholesale changes among some cities and districts. Nineteen out of a total of 34 seats are up for election this year in Airway Heights, Cheney, Medical Lake and both school districts. The largest number of these is Medical Lake with five council members and the mayor's office up for election. Incumbent council members Don Kennedy (Position 1...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks boys and girls track and field teams wrapped up their first regular season in the Greater Spokane League at Ferris High School in Spokane last Thursday. The boys downed the host Saxons 76-69 while the girls just missed an upset, losing 80-70. The boys won eight of 10 events on the track, including 1-2 finishes in five of them. Senior Ryan Rieckmann won both the 100 and 200-meter dashes with times of 11:36 seconds and 22.96 while junior Braxton Hinton was right behind in second with times of 11.83 a...
SPOKANE — Bias and racial justice, especially when these become intermixed with law enforcement, are two of many hot button issues of our times — topics that require more than just one setting to adequately discuss. To that extent, the People for Effective Government (PEG) are providing two community forums addressing both — with the first through insights provided by a pair of experts and the other through discussion from a community panel of individuals dealing directly with each topic. “It is an understatement to say that...
Family matters, illnesses led to Holy, Volz missing Senate and House roll calls By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor CHENEY — Our world is made up of lists, and of all those lists, probably one of the ones you would prefer not to be on is one compiled by WashigntonVotes.com — especially if you’re an elected official. Nevertheless, two 6th District state legislators are atop the website’s annual “Missed Votes Report” for the recently concluded 105-day legislative session. Sixth District Sen. Jeff Holy (R-Cheney) leads the way in...
Cheney High softball players Lindsey Hagreen (2) and Isabella King (12) exchange a light-hearted moment as the senior duo were honored as part of University High School’s Senior Day prior to the game between the Lady Blackhawks and Titans last Thursday, May 6....
CHENEY — The Police Department recently upgraded its eyes in the sky watching over anything taking place downtown. The department has replaced its four pole-mounted cameras with new devices manufactured by Security Lines US that are not only more efficient from a maintenance and service stand point, but also more powerful. Three cameras — called Portable Observation Devices (P.O.D.s) — are mounted at intervals along 1st Street on Light Department power poles from G Stree...
CHENEY — City Council members hope they have sent a strong message to Eastern Washington University interim president David May and the Board of Trustees that when it comes to the pending decision on the status of athletics, the council is 100 % in support of remaining in Division 1 and the Big Sky Conference. So much so that at least on council member wished to confirm the vote tally of resolution E-911 at the April 27 meeting. “Can I confirm that was unanimous so we can say that it was a unanimous decision?” Councilwoman Te...
CHENEY – After winning their first four games, the Blackhawks softball team has done the reverse – lost their last four games in this year’s shortened Greater Spokane League season. The three latest setbacks came last week, a 9-4 loss at home to Central Valley April 27, then a pair of losses to Gonzaga Prep, 7-2 at home April 29 and 1-0 on the road the following day. The latter may have been the toughest as the Bullpups and Blackhawks engaged in an old-fashioned pitcher’s duel, with Cheney’s Isabella King giving up no runs w...
CHENEY – On paper, last Saturday’s track and field matchup between the Blackhawks and visiting University Titans boys was a 72-all tie. That’s on paper. On the track and in the field, a tie is settled with places. “A couple no heights (by Cheney) in high jump and pole vault gave them enough to tie,” head coach Derek Slaughter said. “But it is broken by fourth-places and we have more of those. So we win by tie breaker.” The girls meet was much more straightforward, with the Blackhawks earning their first win of the season by...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks boys tennis team is still looking for some success in its first season in the Greater Spokane League 3A/4A classification. First-year head coach Dan Estock attributes part of that to the size of Cheney’s team. “We have six boys total and going up against teams that have 3-6 times that in numbers,” he said. “We have yet to win a contest, but they are continuing to battle and improve.” The Blackhawks missed entering the win column in three matches last week, losing by 7-0 scores to Central Valley, Mea...
CHENEY — The Blackhawks soccer team returned to the win column, notching a victory over visiting Mead on Monday, May 3. The baseball team is still searching for that elusive break, losing three games including two to Greater Spokane League leading Gonzaga Prep. Baseball The good news for Cheney is it managed to score against the Bullpups. The Blackhawks Jamel Taudin-Chabot had two hits, including a double as Cheney three runs on eight hits in the 13-3 loss on April 30 at G-Prep on April 30. At home on April 29, the B...
CHENEY — Uncertainty over how best to repair a downed pump could leave the city without the use of one of its main reserve irrigation wells at a key point in time as the weather begins to warm and an unusually dry spring continues. At its April 27 meeting, the City Council deferred a decision on a nearly $29,538 change order to a contract with Specialty Pump of Spokane to replace the existing pump and motor at the city’s Well 6, which is located just off State Route 904 towards Tyler. The city had originally entered into a s...
