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PASCO – Three Cheney Blackhawks competed Saturday in the state cross country meet at Sun Willows Golf Course. In the boys, 5,000-meter race, senior Dylan Thornburg posted the fastest time for the Blackhawks. Thornburg completed the course in 17:21.50, finishing 80th overall in the Class 3A boys event. Teammate senior Luke Hurd ran the same course in 19:06.30, finishing 190th of the 204 runners that qualified for the state meet. Samantha Habegger was the only Blackhawk r...
CHENEY – Three Blackhawks cross country team members have qualified for the state meet Saturday in Pasco. Samantha Habegger is the only girl to qualify from Cheney. Luke Hurd and Dylan Thornbug will represent Cheney boys at the event at Sun Willows Golf Course, 2535 N. 20th Ave., Pasco. A junior, Habegger qualified for the meet with an 11th place finish Saturday, Oct. 30, in the District 8 championship state-qualifier at Wandermere Golf Course in Spokane. Her time on the 5...
ELTOPIA - A local farm girl taking on entrenched Sen. Patty Murray for a U.S. Senate seat has raised almost $2 million in her campaign bid. And Tiffany Smiley added several thousand dollars to her campaign warchest Friday night, Oct. 29, during a gathering of hundreds of anti-Murry, anti-Gov. Inslee residents from Franklin County and nearby communities. "We have a choice," Smiley said, kicking off her speech. "And our choice begins today." Smiley was the keynote speaker that...
CHENEY – Pandemic politics may have cost two incumbent School Board members their seats in the Tuesday, Nov. 2 general election. As of press time, incumbents Marcie Estrellado and Suzanne G. Dolle were trailing challengers spurred on by the way the School District and board handled coronavirus mandates, including school closures, mask requirements, and vaccination requirements. As of press time Tuesday night, challenger Mark L. Scott was leading incumbent Estrellado in the r...
CHENEY – Pandemic politics may have cost two incumbent School Board members their seats in the Tuesday, Nov. 2 general election. As of press time, incumbents Marcie Estrellado and Suzanne G. Dolle were trailing challengers spurred on by the way the School District and board handled coronavirus mandates, including school closures, mask requirements, and vaccination requirements. As of press time Tuesday night, challenger Mark L. Scott was leading incumbent Estrellado in the r...
CHENEY – In a split 4-3 vote Tuesday night, Oct. 26, the City Council rejected a last-minute ordinance that would require employees and volunteers – but not elected officials – to get a coronavirus vaccine or lose their jobs. Council members Vincent Barthels, Ryan Gaard, Dan Hilton and Jill Weiszmann objected to requiring a related inoculation, an effort supported by Councilman Paul Schmidt and backed by council members John Taves and Teresa Overhauser. During the meeti...
CHENEY – The West Plains may have stronger representation in county government under a final redistricting plan developed by the Spokane County Independent Redistricting Committee. On Oct. 21, the commission approved a plan that would replace the current three commissioner districts with five districts. The plan includes keeping the cities of Cheney, Medical Lake and Airway Heights contained within a single district. Under the plan, starting next year, each district would e...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Nov. 2 all-mail general election is underway with voters having to decide a number of important races in the coming days. One of the most important is the faceoff between incumbent Medical Lake Mayor Shirley Maike and challenger Terri K. Cooper. Maike, a longtime Eastern State Hospital employee, has a political career dating back to 1997 when she was first appointed to the City Council. Cooper, a political newcomer, said its time for a change and a r...
A family of moose cross through the wetland in the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge along Cheney Spangle Road last week....
CHENEY – The Cheney boys football team will look for its first win of the season this Friday, Oct. 29, as the Blackhawks (0-8) travel to Ferris to take on the Saxons (2-6). Cheney is coming off a 13-3 loss to the Lewis and Clark Tigers last Friday. In that game, the Tigers (3-5) drew first blood in the first quarter to take a 7-0 lead. Cheney answered with a field goal in the second quarter to make the score 7-3 at the half. After the break, Lewis and Clark added 6 more p...
CHENEY – As Gov. Jay Inslee’s get a shot or get fired vaccine mandate deadline passed Monday, Oct. 18, schools, health agencies started reporting the impact. On Tuesday, the Washington State Patrol was among the first to paint a picture on the separations and terminations stemming from the gubernatorial proclamation requiring all state, education and health care workers to be “fully vaccinated” against the coronavirus, be approved for an exemption or be fired. A total of 127...
Rosalia High School classes took turns putting on various era-theme chapters of an overall Time Machine-themed skit during Homecoming festivities Wednesday night, Oct. 13. Freshman went back to the stone ages, with sophomores stuck in the 1970s and juniors in the middle ages. The senior class found itself in ancient Greece....
CHENEY – The Blackhawks boys junior and senior cross country team finished inside the Top 10 of the 52nd annual Max Jensen Richland Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 9. Meanwhile, the girls junior-varsity team ran to eighth place while the boys freshmen and sophomore harriers topped out at No. 12. The junior and senior boys finished ninth with 210 team points in the 3-mile event. Kamiakin won the event with 19 points, followed by Central Valley with 76 points for second. Hermisto...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks girls volleyball team dropped was swept in nine straight sets over the last week, losing games to Mount Spokane, Gonzaga Prep and Central Valley. Cheney (2-8) fell to the Central Valley Bears (4-6), 3-0, on Oct. 5. Set scores were 25-22, 25-18, 25-7. Individual statistics were not reported. Then, on Oct. 7, the local girls were swept by the Gonzaga Prep Bullpups (7-4). Set scores were 25-13, 25-8, 25-15. Cheney’s junior Kate Palelek, sophomore Lil...
The Cheney High School Marching Band took to the football field during halftime of Friday night's football game against Mead. The performance portrayed a lonely girl who found companionship through music. The halftime show brought the crowd to its feet....
OLYMPIA – Washington State Parks officials have rescheduled a public meeting on a proposal that would end camping and require a hiking permit at Palouse Falls. The rescheduled meeting is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19 online at https://bit.ly/BlueMtnMeeting. The state is also planning to host in-person meetings at 6 p.m. Nov. 8 and 9; the locations have yet to be determined. In addition to rules to prevent “overcrowding” at Palouse Falls, the meeting will include discu...
The last week has not been good for small businesses in our part of the state. The U.S. Postal Service began slowing “snail mail” services. Stores were ordered to stop using plastic bags and required to make their paying customers pay for a paper bag. And the state announced the minimum wage would jump to $14.49 per hour Jan. 1. If you don’t own or manage a business, this may seem overly dramatic. Who cares if it takes an extra day for your mail to arrive, right? It’s only 8...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks boys took fourth-place in the fourth Battle for the 509 cross country meet Saturday, Oct. 2, at Fairways Golf Course. The boys finished with 187 points, behind No. 1 Mead with 74 points, Lewis and Clark with 121 and Coeur d'Alene with 133. Meanwhile, the local girls finished in 20th overall with 447 points in their division. Lewis and Clark won the girls event with 57 team points, followed by Post Falls, Idaho, with 99 and Sandpoint, Idaho, with 147. In...
CHENEY – The two high school boys football teams on the West Plains both lost Friday night, Oct. 1. The Mead Panthers rolled over the Blackhawks, 44-0, in Cheney in a Greater Spokane League matchup. And the Cardinals fell, 49-8, to the Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) Eagles at home in Medical Lake. Mead (2-2) racked up 132 yards on the ground on 33 carries, often running off the right tackle. The Panthers were led on the ground by Schuyler Harkness, who rushed 9 times for 53 yards....
OLYMPIA – A new plan for managing Palouse Falls State Park may end camping and require hiking permits if its approved. Washington State Parks officials will take comments on the plan during a virtual 6 p.m. meeting Oct. 5. The meeting will be accessible online at https://bit.ly/3tYuVAo. According to State Parks' Lauran Moxham, the meeting will also include discussions of agency-planned changes for Lyons Ferry and the Lewis and Clark trail State parks Under the proposal for P...
SPOKANE – It was all Bullpups. A bad snap on the first play from scrimmage cost the visiting Blackhawks 13 yards and set the tone for Friday night's game as Gonzaga Prep rolled over Cheney. Cheney (0-3) heads to West Valley (Spokane) this Friday night to play the Eagles (1-1). Kick off is at 7 p.m. The Eagles opened their season Sept. 3 with a 35-17 win over Class 1A Newport, then fell Sept. 10 to Lakeland (Rathdrum, Idaho), 42-13. Last Friday's West Valley at East Valley (...
PULLMAN – The Washington State University Extension Office is applying the governor’s Wuhan coronavirus vaccination requirement to all 4-H volunteers. In a letter dated Sept. 3, Extension Office Director Vicki A. McCracken gave all volunteers until Oct. 18 to prove they have been vaccinated or be removed from their post. “… WSU is required to comply with Governor Inslee’s recent vaccination proclamation requirement,” McCracken wrote. “This health and safety proclamation that h...
OLYMPIA – Under a revised order by Gov. Jay Inslee last Thursday, Sept. 9, residents and visitors are now required to cover their faces when attending outdoor events that attract more than 500 people. The revised edict applies to sporting events, concerts and fairs. As of Monday, Sept. 13, face coverings are required of all event-goers, even if they’ve gotten a coronavirus vaccine and a booster. During the press conference in which he announced the new mandate, the gov...
Talk about a bureaucrat with delusions of grandeur. On Sept. 3, Washington State University Extension Office Director Vicki A. McCracken took it upon herself to dictate that all 4-H volunteers now have to be “fully vaccinated” to continue in their position or face being “inactive.” She cited Gov. Jay Inslee’s edict that everyone connected to education – from preschool through the university system – must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18. Apparently, neither McCracken nor...
