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CHENEY – Leaders from Eastern Washington University and Gonzaga University School of Law recently signed a joint agreement that creates a pathway for students to earn their bachelor's degree along with their juris doctor in six years, one year less than it would traditionally take to complete. In an April 14 news release announcing the agreement, EWU officials said the program, which permits concurrent enrollment at both institutions, allows students to apply to Gonzaga Law during their junior year after they have c...
FOUR LAKES – A passenger riding in the bed of a pickup truck was injured in a one-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon, April 17. According to a Washington State Patrol press memo, a 1997 Toyota pickup driven by 18-year-old Daniel J. Martinez of San Jose, Calif., was eastbound on Interstate 90 near the Medical Lake interchange just after 2 p.m. when it veered off the road to the left. Martinez apparently overcorrected to the right, causing the pickup to leave the roadway again and roll, ejecting 23-year-old Elan A. M...
CHENEY -- A trio of high school players from the Pacific Northwest will join the Eastern Washington University men's basketball program next fall when classes resume on the EWU campus in Cheney. They include All-State selection Mutdung Bol, pronounced "muh-doon bowl," a 6-foot-3 guard from Edmonds-Woodway High School in Seattle, and Isaiah Amato, pronounced "ah-ma-toe," a 6-5 guard from Portland, Ore., and Central Catholic HS. The third is Victor Radocaj, pronounced "rad-doh-chuh-eye-yuh," a 6-9 forward from Richmond, B.C....
CHENEY -- Second Harvest and Cheney Public Schools are partnering to help families in need by providing free produce and frozen food goods. The distribution will take place on Tuesday, April 21 from 11 a.m. -- noon in the front parking lot at Cheney Middle School. All families are eligible to receive food through Second Harvest. Cheney Middle School is located at 740 Betz Road, Cheney. Please practice social distancing while picking up food items....
CHENEY – Eastern Washington University head women’s tennis coach Dustin Hinson has announced another addition to the 2020-21 roster in Scout Mathews. Mathews inked her National Letter of Intent on March 12, prior to the NCAA recruiting freeze due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m very excited to welcome Scout to EWU and to the Eagle tennis program,” Hinson said. “She is a very talented and experienced national-level athlete with outstanding results. She will immediately strengthen our team from a tennis perspective...
Eastern Washington University student-athletes recently concluded the winter quarter with a collective 3.35 grade point average, marking the 38th-straight quarter the Eagles have combined for a 3.0 average. Eleven of 12 Eastern programs had at least a 3.32 GPA, led by women’s soccer and women’s golf at 3.72. Eastern’s 283 student-athletes included 37 posting a perfect 4.0 GPA (13 percent). An additional 99 had from between a 3.5 and 3.99 GPA, and 49 had between a 3.0 and 3.49. That’s 48 percent having at least a 3.5 GPA and...
SPOKANE – Greater Spokane Inc. (GSI), Avista, Inland NW Partners and other organizations supporting the regionwide business recovery efforts under the umbrella initiative InlandBizStrong, are hosting a Telephone Town Hall on Friday, April 17 at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. The call is a live question and answer format where participants can ask questions directly to the leaders of two important Washington State agencies – the Department of Commerce and the Employment Security Division – engaged in the economic recovery of our regio...
SPOKANE -- The Inland COVID-19 Response team is hosting a community conversation on Wednesday evening to discuss how the region is handling the public health and economic emergency. Dr. Bob Lutz, health officer for the Spokane Regional Heath District, Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward, Spokane Valley Mayor Ben Wick, Spokane County Commissioner Al French, and Washington State Senator Andy Billig, will co-host the telephone town hall beginning at 6 pm. Speakers will deliver brief opening remarks. The rest of the time will be...
Gov. Jay Inslee will hold a news conference Thursday, April 2, at 5 p.m. via streaming video and telephone to provide an update on the state's COVID-19 response. The news conference will be televised live on TVW, and many commercial stations around the state. The governor will be joined by Dr. John Wiesman, secretary of health, Dr. Kathy Lofy, state health officer and Vice Admiral Dr. Raquel Bono, director for COVID-19 Health System Response Management. The governor's two-week order for people to stay in their home except... Full story
SPOKANE VALLEY – The suspect in a March 8 shooting has been released from the hospital and has been booked into jail. According to a news release from the Spokane Independent Investigative Response team (SIIR), the suspect, 49-year-old Lanz E. Zeppa is in custody at the Spokane County Jail. The news release also stated the team had received statements from the deputies involved in the incident that took place at 12111 E. Cataldo in Spokane Valley. According to the original report, Spokane Valley deputies responded to a r...
CHENEY – Cheney High School winter sports teams posted 11 selections to All-Great Northern League teams. Wrestling led the way with nine selections, including five first-team picks, with head coach Jason Connor being named the league’s wrestling Coach of the Year. First-team picks were senior William Seeberger (113 pounds) and juniors Jackson Showalter (152), Blake Seubert (160), Anthony Aguilera (170) and James Whiteley (195). Second-team picks were sophomore Joe Showalter (120) and juniors Hunter Despino (138), Dylan Str...
MEDICAL LAKE -- St. John’s Lutheran Church in will be providing a sack lunch for school age children this week Thursday and Friday, March 19-20, between 11 a.m. -- 1 p.m. One lunch per child and children must be present to receive a meal....
CHENEY -- As part of its COVID-19 response, the Cheney School District is seeking information regarding child care needs for children of essential military personnel, first responders and medical providers in the school community. A survey can be found on the district’s *Coronavirus (COVID-19) webpage or at https://forms.gle/65DGt3jaTrF8SyZs7. The survey deadline is Thursday, March 19 at 2:00 p.m. Child care services will begin once all of the necessary information is gathered, analyzed and plans can be created. The d... Full story
CHENEY — Eastern Washington made fellow Big Sky Conference coaches look good and the media not so much in the pool of experts. The Eagles broke away from a 59-all tie near the midpoint of the second half with a 10-0 run and outscored Weber State 19-10 down the stretch Feb. 7 to earn a 78-69 victory and win the outright Big Sky Conference title on Senior Day at Reese Court. Back in October, conference coaches predicted the Eagles had the necessary horses to battle their way to...
CHENEY - The third-year Eastern Washington University men's basketball coach Shantay Legans was announced Tuesday, March 10 as the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year from balloting by the league's 11 head coaches. "I'm so humbled to receive the Big Sky Coach of the Year Award, especially among the group of outstanding coaches in this conference," Legans said. "But make no mistake, this is a team award. Coaches are only as good as their players and staff, and I have an amazin...
WEST PLAINS – Improving weather conditions invariably leads to the resumption of construction projects, and state Department of Transportation work on Interstate 90 is keeping with that saying. Improvements to the I-90/State Route 902 interchange at exit 272/Medical Lake resumes March 9 with work on the bridge overpass. Work outside of the bridge is ongoing. The $15.855 million project involves reconstruction at the eastbound and westbound ramp terminals, with work on new roundabouts at the intersection of SR 902 and G...
CHENEY — The Big Sky Conference season ends the way it began. Picked to win the Big Sky Conference and in a great position to accomplish that task, the Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team closes out the regular season by playing Idaho State tonight (Thursday, March 5) and Weber State on Saturday, March 7 at Reese Court. Both are rematches of games played back in December to open the league schedule, and now EWU finds itself 14-4 in the league and tied with Montana with two league games to play for each tea...
CHENEY — Tickets are on sale for the 39th annual Killin Dinner, Dance and Auction on April 18 at Eastern Washington University. Tickets are $100 per individual and $700 for a table of eight. More information and a registration link to order tickets.is available via: goeags.com/killin. The registration deadline is Tuesday, April 14. This year’s dinner will be plated and not buffet style as in the past. The cost will include salad, steak and lobster dinner, dessert and four drink tickets. Killin takes place at the EWU Sports an...
CHENEY — The most dynamic decade in Eastern Washington University football history officially came to a close on Saturday Feb. 29 with the awards ceremony honoring the 2019 team. The team, which finished 7-5 overall and 6-2 in the Big Sky Conference in a three-way tie for third, missed the postseason, but racked up some impressive statistics in head coach Aaron Best’s third season. Eastern also closed with its 13th-straight winning season and went undefeated at home on the...
Eastern Washington University men’s basketball senior Mason Peatling — a leading candidate for league MVP honors this season — has been honored as the Big Sky Conference Ready Nutrition Player of the Week for the second-straight week, the league office announced March 3. He was also announced as the winner a week earlier on Feb. 25, earning the same honor from College Sports Madness. He has now been honored four times by the Big Sky this season and in his career, and CSN h...
County property taxes collected at Spokane Valley City Hall SPOKANE VALLEY – The Spokane County Treasurer’s Office will begin collecting tax payments for Spokane County property tax bills this Friday, Oct. 4, at Spokane Valley City Hall, located at 10210 E. Sprague Ave. As previously announced by the Treasurer’s Office and Spokane Valley, property tax payments will be accepted every Friday in the month of October from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at City Hall leading up to the Oct. 31 payment deadline. Currently, taxpayers making...
Public comment requested on Cheney changes The Cheney planning department is asking for public comment on a proposed property split in north Cheney near Eastern Washington University. The property is located at 423 N. 10th St. The project applicant, Wayde Burnett with Chatburn Estate, is proposing to split the existing 80,462-square-foot-lot into three smaller lots: Lot 1 at 16,337 square feet, Lot 2 at 15,430 square feet and Lot 3 at 48,704 square feet. The property is zoned R-1, single-family residential and is bordered by...
Christmas Gifts for Cheney Kids taking sign ups The Cheney Outreach Center is signing up families for “Christmas Gifts for Cheney Kids,” the annual gift-giving assistance program for those who need help providing Christmas gifts for their kids. Registration deadline is 11:30 a.m., Dec. 12. Required documents are photo identification, Social Security cards for everyone in the household, proof of address and proof of all income. Those who complete their paperwork will also be eligible for assistance from the Cheney Food Ban...
Enrollment is open for Washington’s GET Program Olympia—The state’s GET program is now open for a new enrollment period, providing Washington families an opportunity to start saving for future college costs while their children are young. The 2018-2019 enrollment period runs through May 31, 2019. Since it’s opening in 1998, The Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program has distributed over $1 billion to more than 50,000 students who have used their GET accounts to attend college in all 50 states and 15 foreign countri...
Input needed on people with transportation special needs The Spokane Regional Transportation Council (SRTC) is looking for input on a plan that addresses the transportation needs of some of the area’s most vulnerable citizens. The Spokane County Coordinated Public Transit – Human Services Transportation Plan (CPT-HSTP) has recently been updated in collaboration with Spokane Transit and feedback is needed on the transportation needs, gaps in service, strategies, and projects identified in the plan. The purpose of the CPT...
