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CHENEY – The City Council approved a pair of construction projects and authorized signing a joint agreement to get a third underway at its meeting last Tuesday, April 14 — held via Zoom. The council approved projects totaling $26,825 — the first a $13,500 contract with Five Star Concrete, Inc. for sidewalk repair work and the second a $13,325 contract with Inland Asphalt Company for repair work associated with some water main leaks earlier this year. Public Works Director Todd Ableman said the city received two bids for b... Full story
CHENEY – Eastern Washington University officials announced that they will continue with the current online instruction format created about seven weeks ago in response to measures imposed to slow the spread of the acute respiratory disease COVID-19. “Eastern is moving forward with an online first approach to the fall terms,” EWU Provost Dr. David May said during a Tuesday, May 5, morning telebriefing. “We want to keep our students, faculty and community safe.” May outlined four operating principals for fall instructi...
Editor's note: This story has been updated on May 13 at 11:01 a.m. to add "state appropriations" to Athletics Director Lynn Hickey's statement on the estimated loss of revenue sources. CHENEY – Eastern Washington University’s Athletics Department is eyeing an estimated $2.1 million loss in revenue, Athletics Director Lynn Hickey said during the weekly “Lunch & Learn” show on the department’s Facebook page. Hickey told host Larry Weir on Tuesday, May 12, that the estimated loss comes from an anticipated reduction in state app... Full story
CHENEY -- Eastern Washington University officials announced today (May 8) that it had recorded its first case of COVID-19. In a statement on its website, the university said it had been contacted by Spokane Regional Health District officials that "a member of our campus community tested positive for COVID-19." The individual was apparently not on campus during the time they were contagious and is currently in stable condition at their home, with EWU officials offering assistance. The Regional Health District has contacted... Full story
CHENEY – One of the elements of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is that it has brought the special needs of local communities more into the light. Needs that while always present, aren’t readily seen under normal circumstances. The most pressing of those is food. Many organizations and groups have taken up the responsibility to make sure people who need help are getting fed, including most area school districts, with Second Harvest teaming with Communities in Schools and the...
So, what is this thing called Mother’s Day? For me, it was a reminder of several things, one of which a fact my mom never let me forget that I was supposed to be born on that day, but came into this world a day later. So much for being a Mother’s Day gift. Mom also liked to tell me that I was supposed to be a girl. Oh, well. This Sunday, which is Mother’s Day by the way, has an interesting history, harking back to celebrations of mothers and motherhood by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Closer to our timeframe, “Moth...
CHENEY – Public Works officials have reopened the city’s Recycling Center, sidelined in late March due to restrictions enacted to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The city announced on May 1 that it was reopening the center from 8 – 11 a.m. Tuesdays – Saturdays to allow residents to get rid of the products previously filling up the city’s yard waste bins and regular garbage collection. There is a caveat in that residents will not be able to leave their vehicles, but must wait in line at the center’s entrance until one o...
CHENEY – Eastern Washington University officials announced that they will continue with the current online instruction format created about seven weeks ago in response to measures imposed to slow the spread of the acute respiratory disease COVID-19. "Eastern is moving forward with an online first approach to the fall terms," EWU Provost Dr. David May said during a Tuesday, May 5, morning telebriefing. "We want to keep our students, faculty and community safe." May outlined f... Full story
CHENEY – Public Works officials are taking steps to restart the city’s recycling program, sidelined in late March due to restrictions enacted to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The city of Cheney announced on May 1 that it was reopening its Recycling Center from 8 – 11 a.m. Tuesdays – Saturdays to allow residents to get rid of the products that had previously been filling up the city’s yard waste bins and regular garbage collection. There is a caveat in that residents will not be able to leave their vehicles, but rathe...
WEST PLAINS – Like everyone else, the Spokane and Kalispel tribes have been feeling the impacts of COVID-19, physically and economically. Particularly the latter, where shutting down of casinos and retail outlets has drastically reduced the revenue streams supporting essential services such as police and medical facilities. Spokane Tribe of Indians Chairwoman Carol Evans told West Plains Chamber of Commerce members during a virtual stakeholders meeting April 22 that the state’s orders on March 16 required “special actio...
MEDICAL LAKE – While the Food Bank has been serving the community for years, volunteers at the city’s resource for low-income residents are concerned many people may not know where it is located. Volunteer Terri Cooper said she did a recent Google search of the facility and said it produced the location on Lefevre Street of Care and Share, the local thrift store that sells second-hand goods and clothing. Care and Share revenue help support the Food Bank, Cooper said, but it is not the location. “The problem is the Care and S...
CHENEY – The Police Department is investigating a report of 17-year-old female who has been missing since January 2020. Cheney High School student Kasandra Kuuipo Cabarloc is 4-feet-9-inches tall with dark hair and brown eyes. Her family reported her as a runaway in January, and since that time she has been in communication at times with family and friends via social media, according to an April 28 departmental press release. Police Capt. Rick Beghtol said at one point they h...
CHENEY – With any luck, the Mayfest celebration may coin a new phrase this year — “May-tember.” Or maybe not, but the if all goes well with efforts to reopen the state amid the coronavirus pandemic, organizers hope Cheney’s eighth-annual celebration of community will take place this fall. Originally scheduled for the second weekend in May, Cheney Merchants Association secretary Douglas LeBar said they are moving the festival to Sept. 25-26 — which would coincide with the opening of instruction at Eastern Washington...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS -- Citing entertainment and hospitality as essential businesses needed to run their government, the Kalispel Tribe of Indians announced today (April 29) that they will be reopening all of their facilities on May 5 -- including Northern Quest Resort & Casino on the West Plains. The announcement came just before Gov. Jay Inslee said in a press conference that similar restrictions that have closed Washington businesses such as restaurants, movie theatres and other entertainment facilities would likely be extended...
CHENEY – The Police Department is investigating a report of 17-year-old female who has been missing since January 2020. Cheney High School student Kasandra Kuuipo Cabarloc is 4-feet-9-inches tall with dark hair and brown eyes. Her family reported her as a runaway in January, and since that time she has been in communication at times with family and friends via social media, according to an April 28 departmental press release. Police Capt. Rick Beghtol said at one point they h... Full story
OLYMPIA – Gov. Jay Inslee announced that low-risk construction activity could resume in the state as long as contractors follow safety plans at each site agreed to by state, labor and industry leaders. Inslee made the announcement at a news conference this morning, April 24, joined by members of a committee assembled to devise safety recommendations that included Building Industry Association of Washington Executive Vice President Greg Lane and Washington State Building and Construction Trades Council Executive Secretary M... Full story
OLYMPIA -- The Washington State Patrol arrested a Mill Creek man Tuesday night for making threatening messages towards Gov. Jay Inslee and his staff. According to a State Patrol news release, shortly before 8 p.m. April 21 the WSP contacted Shawn C. Rowland at his residence in the north Puget Sound city between Mukilteo and Snohomish. Patrol officials said earlier in the day, a threatening message had been left on the voicemail of the governor's Office of Constituent Services by "someone using a phone associated with the... Full story
CHENEY – Trivia question for you. The Malloy Prairie Howlers are which of the following: A) A one-time attempt at a West Plains football team, B) An a cappella singing group, C) A now defunct automobile club, D) People expressing themselves for a cause. If you answered D, you're pretty much in the know about all things related to COVID-19. While not an official name, residents along Malloy Prairie Road around Mary Ann Cooley - including Cooley herself - have been stepping outside each night at 8 p.m. for the past 18 days a...
MEDICAL LAKE – Long-time nurse at Eastern State Hospital has died due to complications from contracting the disease COVID-19. According to an obituary published in the April 19 Spokesman-Review, 64-year-old Esequiel (Zeke) Cisneros passed away April 13 after first contracting the disease and then being placed in the intensive care unit of a local hospital. Cisneros and his wife Brenda moved to Medical Lake in 2001. Also according to his obituary, Cisneros was born in Texas, moved to California where he graduated from O...
Construction crews pour cement on part of the new parent pick up loop at Cheney High School. Construction has continued through the COVID-19 pandemic, with the remodeled and expanded facility to reopen this fall....
Cheney High School turned on the lights at Tom Oswald Field last Friday night to honor the graduating class of 2020 who had their spring quarter taken from them due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The lights went on for 20 minutes and 20 seconds at 8:20 p.m., with students, staff and families urged to drive by in their vehicles and honk their horns for the class. Many residents along the loop, which wound its way through neighborhoods around the high school, turned out to wave at...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS – Frustration with the economic impacts of Washington’s statewide shutdown of most businesses due to COVID-19 boiled to the surface during the City Council’s meeting Monday night, April 20, with at least one member asking if there was anything the city could do on its own to reopen some businesses. During council reports, Mayor Kevin Richey relayed details to members of a phone call he and other area mayors, including Cheney’s Chris Grover and Spokane’s Nadine Woodward, had last week with Gov. Jay Inslee on...
SPOKANE – Part of the challenge in dealing with the current COVID-19 pandemic is the rapidly changing nature of the outbreak itself. Measures to slow the spread of the respiratory disease, along with testing and treatment attempts have left health providers scrambling at times of meet demands — while losing revenue as a result of other steps taken. To help out, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Health Resources Administration (HRSA) awarded over $36.58 million in funding to health centers in Was...
CHENEY – While a number of high schools in Eastern Washington and North Idaho turned on football field lights last Friday to honor the class of 2020 students and athletes, the lights at Tom Oswald Field remained dark. School district officials said that wasn’t out of disregard for this year’s senior class, who because of the COVID-19 pandemic lost a spring quarter of sports, activities and other memory-creating events. The reason, Athletics Director Jeff Chandler said, was because of safety concerns and a desire to hold a cer...
OLYMPIA – The state Department of Natural Resources implemented burn restrictions on DNR-protected lands in Eastern Washington, beginning Friday, April 10. DNR officials cited a front scheduled to pass through the region creating dry conditions and forecasted gusty winds as a reason for instituting the ban earlier than normal. According to an April 9, news release, all outdoor burning, which includes permit and rule burning (small debris disposal fires), is not allowed in eastern Washington. This includes the following F...
