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MEDICAL LAKE - Water continues to be interrupted for some city residents after contractors punctured a 6-inch watermain early today. The break, on South Pineview Drive between East Stanley and East Evergreen drives, initially affected water pressure across the entire city in varying degrees before city crews were able to isolate the break and limit impacts to the South Lake Terrace area, according to city officials. As of about 2 p.m. between 50 and 60 homes remained impacted...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Cardinal girls dropped their fourth game 53-44 when they faced St. George’s (4-2) on the home wood Thursday, Dec. 12. It was a close, back-and-forth game with the score in Medical Lake’s favor 30-25 going into what head coach Kyle Lundberg called the team’s “best half of the year.’’ “Our girls came out in the first half and really played well on the offensive side,” Lundberg said. “Unfortunately, in the second half we struggled to make shots.” The Dragons...
SPOKANE VALLEY — The Cheney High School wrestling team continues to plow through the opposition after nearly nailing the number one spot at the West Valley Wrestle-Rama on Saturday, Dec. 14. The Blackhawks dominated in the first four matches, beating West Valley-Spokane 54-27, including eight pins. Next on Cheney’s menu was Lakeside, who the Blackhawks destroyed 57-16 with six pins and three decisions. In the third match the Blackhawks steamrolled Quincy 64-9, followed by a m...
SPOKANE VALLEY — Head wrestling coach Matt Leenhouts wasn’t really looking for anything more than some challenging wrestling opportunities and a chance for his wrestlers to eat some humble pie against larger, 4A-type schools. But his wrestlers surprised him. “We had three placers,” Leenhouts said. “The most I’ve ever had was one.” He may have had five, he said. But its education first, and Jared Pendell, who wrestled on Friday, had to bow out to take his SATs on Saturday. Las...
MEDICAL LAKE — It’s been said it’s the sweaty, tired men in the arena that count. And you’d have experienced that first-hand if you had been in the Medical Lake gym on Thursday night, Dec. 12, to watch the Cardinal boys basketball team’s amazing 15-point comeback thriller that ended with Ashton Hamilton-Becker’s clutch 3-pointer in the final seconds of the game that notched the 58-56 Cardinal win. The win, according to head coach Jordan Starr, was in part due to a team double...
Scenes from last weekend’s Winter Festival in Medical Lake...
MEDICAL LAKE — The City Council formally adopted its new 2020 budget, a 3 percent across-the-board pay increase and a new union contract with its employees for the next two years at its regular Dec. 3 meeting. Without discussion the council approved on a 5-1 vote a $2.648 million general fund expense budget for the 2020 fiscal year that begins Jan. 1, 2020. Councilman Don Kennedy voted in opposition to the budget. Councilman Tony Harbolt was absent for medical reasons. The n...
MEDICAL LAKE — The high school girls basketball squad kicked off the season with a trio of non-league losses as they work to bring their younger players up from the JV squads to the more physical and competitive varsity level. Medical Lake at Davenport The Lady Cardinals fell 37-44 in their first game of the season against Davenport on Tuesday, Dec. 3, on the Cardinal hardwood. Medical Lake took an initial 15-9 lead in the first quarter until the Gorillas settled down and w...
Medical Lake head basketball coach Jordan Starr lays down the law of the game to his players during a Saturday, Dec. 7 59-57 home victory against the Okanogan Bulldogs....
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake wrestling crew had plenty of mat moves to make last week as they took both a win and a loss at a double dual and took third at the Davenport Invitational tournament in their first matches of the new season. Double Dual On Thursday, Dec. 5, the Cardinals traveled to Idaho where they went 1 ¬– 1 at Lake City High in Coeur d’Alene, first topping West Valley 63-12. But then Lake City got their paws on them and took the Cardinals out in a 51-18...
CHENEY —Blackhawk grapplers worked the kinks out in their first two non-league events of the season, first in a 58-15 dual beat-down against Deer Park, followed by a fifth place showing at the Deer Park Invitational the next day. Cheney at Deer Park “We were missing some varsity wrestlers from the lineup,” head coach Jason Connor said via email about the dual. “Deer Park was also missing some wrestlers from their run in the football playoffs so it’s hard to judge how good...
MEDICAL LAKE — It’s a new season with a new coach, and the Cardinal boys basketball team are demonstrating a new enthusiasm and energy on the court. After three games they are 2-1 in non-league play and showing a competitiveness and determination to win. “We’ve been bringing that enthusiasm and energy into practice,” head coach Jordan Starr said. “I’m just glad it’s transferring over to the games.” Medical Lake vs. Davenport The Cardinals took on the Bi-Country League...
It seems life imitates art. In the big screen adaptation of the seminal Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien there is a scene where a council of the various inhabitants of Middle Earth — elves, dwarves, men and hobbits — are debating what to do with the troublesome One Ring of Power. Meanwhile, a former ally, the powerful White Wizard Saruman, has jumped ship and taken up with the evil Dark Lord Sauron, who is intent upon getting his ring back, taking over Middle Ear...
MEDICAL LAKE — Re*Imagine Medical Lake’s Winter Festival event is weekend, complete with bevy of contests and activities. The festivities kick off tonight, Thursday, Dec. 12, with a 6 p.m. free special showing of the movie “Breakthrough” at the Medical Lake High School auditorium. The movie dramatizes a Missouri boy, John Smith, who falls through pond ice in 2015 and drowned — and returned to life after his mother’s fervent bedside prayers in an incident some call a miracle....
MEDICAL LAKE — The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is warning people to keep their vehicles locked. According to a Monday press release, the Sheriff’s Office acknowledge recent reports of vehicle prowls in and around the city of Medical Lake, and asked citizens to report suspicious activity and to ensure their vehicles are locked after all valuables have been removed. “Almost all of the reported thefts in the last few weeks occurred on vehicles that were unlocked,” Spokesman...
MEDICAL LAKE — The City Council received an overview of city crime statistics from Spokane County Undersheriff Dave Ellis at its Dec. 3 council meeting. “This should give you guys more information about what is going on in Medical Lake,” Ellis said. A report, developed by the Sheriff’s Regional Intelligence Group 9, included a variety of year-over-year crime data, plus three-year averages. The statistics included 14 different crimes against people, society and propert...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is warning people to keep their vehicles locked. According to a Monday press release, the Sheriff’s Office acknowledge recent reports of vehicle prowls in and around the City of Medical Lake, and asked citizens to report suspicious activity and to ensure their vehicles are locked after all valuables have been removed. “Almost all of the reported thefts in the last few weeks occurred on vehicles that were unlocked,” Spokesman...
MEDICAL LAKE — Employees of Bruchi’s restaurant made an unfortunate discovery when they entered the restaurant Thursday morning. “Our safe was gone,” Manager Roy Garcia said in a telephone interview Friday. The burglary was conducted through the restaurants drive-up window based on the shattered glass Garcia found on the restaurants floor. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Department was contacted, the building checked and an investigation launched according to Sheriff’s...
Washington State head football coach Mike Leach sat behind the podium at the post-game press conference after his Cougars lost — for the seventh straight year — to the University of Washington in the annual Apple Cup rivalry between the two state universities. And there, in front of the world, Leach showed his underlying character, calling local sports columnist John Blanchette a “sanctimonious troll,” and telling the journalist to “live your meager life in your hole and...
We seem awash in political and moral polarization in the world today. Elected officials, sports figures and coaches, actors and other high-profile public figures are caught lying, cheating, becoming entangled in webs of betrayal, malfeasance and sexual scandals of every sort, or simply being rude in a continuous cycle. The new norm is pundits talking over one another, even yelling to get their points across. Cyber bullying has become commonplace. World leaders use words like...
MEDICAL LAKE — When she first saw the space at 104 E. Lake St. in Medical Lake — the trees in the courtyard, the apartment, the offices and the old tavern space — Jessica Glenn wondered why a space with so much potential was sitting vacant and unused. “I’m a sucker for potential,” she said. After her mother, Mary Isabel, or “Bell,” passed away in 2018, Glenn was full of undirected energy, so she bought the building and began to change it. And after over a year of work, the tr...
MEDICAL LAKE — While the Multicare Rockwood Medical Lake family medicine clinic isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, the physical therapy clinic will soon be closing. Rockwood spokesman Kevin Maloney verified the closure. “It makes a lot of business sense to have one central location where you can still offer the patients that were in Medical Lake the same services,” he said during a telephone interview Monday. He verified that the family practice clinic located at 725 North S...
WEST TERRACE - Engineers were on-hand at an open house at Snowden Elementary School on Wednesday, Nov. 20, to receive input and answer questions from residents about their experience with storm drainage issue for a county study. Called the West Terrace Stormwater Study, the goal is to develop a plan to improve drainage on the West Plains, even as development in the area begins to accelerate, and is intended to complement a similar effort by the West Plains Public Development...
MEDICAL LAKE — The school board passed a variety of updates to district policies and received a number of updates from administrators at its regular Tuesday, Nov. 26, meeting. For one board member, it was the last. Outgoing board member Felicia Jensen, who lost her seat on the board in last month’s election, said farewell. “This community is so great,” Jensen said with emotion, commending incoming board member Laura Parsons who won the seat in a tight race. “It makes me...
GEIGER — Various records on the West Plains are seemingly being broken on a regular basis these days as commercial and residential growth expands. On Tuesday, Nov. 26, a different kind of record was broken when atmospheric conditions resulted in a perfect commuter storm that caused chain reaction collisions across the area. While roadway surface temperature remained above freezing, snow began to fall around 2 p.m. on Interstate 90 around the Geiger Interchange. The snow melted...
