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WEST PLAINS — According to several local officials, housing availability in the area — and particularly the West Plains — ranges from “grossly inadequate” to even worse. “We have a housing crisis,” Tom Hormel, president of the Washington Association of Realtors told an audience of about 100 attendees at a virtual West Plains Chamber of Commerce update on housing last Wednesday. Hormel contrasted his assessment of the current situation with the last time the country faced a similar economic crisis in 2007, when questionable...
CHENEY — Call them matched bookends — identical victories over the Griz. Eastern Washington’s men’s basketball team moved closer to defending their Big Sky Conference title by not only sweeping the Montana Grizzlies in a home-and-home series last week, but did so by identical scores as well, 90-76. The Eagles capped the week that started Thursday in Cheney at Reese Court with a fast start —they had 49-27 first-half lead — and followed a similar script Saturday morning, Fe...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks girls swimming program kicked off its return to the pool after over a year away due to the COVID-19 pandemic with a pair of wins in a virtual meet on Saturday, Feb. 20. Swimming in their individual pools, the Blackhawks downed Pullman 97-59 and easily topped Clarkston, 116-36. No individuals results were available at press time. Cheney returns four swimmers from the team that finished seventh overall at 2A state competition in fall 2019 — Janie Richards, Jade and Asia Gere and Adelyn O’Dell. Richa...
CHENEY - Having over a year off and moving up a classification was going to be challenge enough for the Blackhawks volleyball program. Throw in having to face the reigning 3A state player of the year and defending state champions in their first match of the delayed season, and it was a bit too much for head coach Heather Zorrazua's squad as Cheney fell 3-1 to visiting Mt. Spokane and Tia Allen last Thursday, Feb. 18. The Wildcats opened by winning the first two games, 25-12...
CHENEY — The Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team completed a month of February they will want to maybe forget with a pair of losses to Montana last week. The Eagles dropped a 65-53 decision Feb. 18 in Missoula and 65-62 Feb. 20 at Reese Court in their final home game of the season. Eastern went winless for the month and extend their losing streak to six. “I’m proud of our kids for being resilient and continuing to battle throughout the course of the game an...
CHENEY — With a pair of rallies from 0-2 set deficits, Eastern Washington’s volleyball team posted a sweep of Montana with 3-2 match wins Feb. 21 and 22 at Reese Court. After losing 25-18 and 25-22, to open their Feb. 22 contest, the Eagles, behind a career-high 22 kills from Maya McClellan, rallied for 25-18, 25-22, 15-9 set wins that produced their first sweep of Montana since 2016 following their Sunday win (25-14, 12-25, 25-21, 25-22, 15-7). Eastern has won its last fou...
Cheney High School cheerleaders Chloe Hewes, Morgan Hayes, McKinley Gerard and Emma Miller (right to left) provide inspiration and an example of proper mask wearing during the Blackhawks volleyball match with visiting Mt. Spokane last Thursday, Feb. 18. Cheney fell to the reigning 3A state champions 3-1....
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Citing the inability to come to an agreement to negotiate a different lease term, Spokane County Raceway operator Craig Smith will step away from the facility leaving both the 2021 season, and the track’s future up in the air. Neither Spokane County Commissioners, nor officials with Spokane County Parks who oversee the facility returned requests for comments by deadline time. They were asked on Monday to address the rampant social media chatter that the tra...
Tonia Carruth 1975 – 2021 It is with great sadness that the Carruth family announces the passing of Tonia Carruth, 45, on Feb. 15, 2021. Tonia was born on Aug.21, 1975 to Eddie Dixon and Debra Chalmers in Talmage, Calif. Tonia decided to serve our country and went into the Air Force right after high school. She was an Information Management Specialist for the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Airforce Base in Spokane. During her tenure in the military, she received numerou...
Phyllis Elizabeth Wilkerson 1925 -2021 Phyllis Elizabeth Wilkerson, 95. Born June 12, 1925 in Chicago Ill. to Edward and Kathryn Sayler. Went to be with our Lord on Feb. 16, 2021. She is survived by her daughter Diana (Daniel) Thew, and son Wayne (Wanda) Wilkerson; grandchildren Jason (Mikayla), Jody (Emily); great-grandchildren Brady, Willow and Wren. Preceded in death by her parents, husband Bill, brother Stan and grandson Joshua Wilkerson. She went to high school in A... Full story
Ione Nita Behm (1926-2021) Ione Nita (Howe) Behm, 95 of Cheney, Wash. passed away peacefully in her sleep on Feb. 14, 2021, surrounded by her loving family. She was one of nine children born to Clifford Rudolf Howe and Veronica (Paddock) Howe in the small town of Houghton, South Dakota. There she attended elementary school and later graduated from Hecla High School. As a student at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, she majored in early childhood edu... Full story
James Goodrich (1943- 2021) James Goodrich (77) peacefully passed away at the Cheney Care Center in Cheney, Wash., on Feb. 3, 2021. He was born June 23, 1943 in Vernal, Utah to Merrill and Agnes Goodrich. He was the third of four children. The family moved to Moses Lake, Wash. in 1950 where James grew up working on the Goodrich Brothers farm. He worked in the automobile rental business in Seattle and San Francisco in the 1960s. He was then introduced to truck driving, where... Full story
Cheney Congregational Church Greetings, Cheney friends! Our congregation continues to worship online for the time being. We have live Sunday morning services on Zoom at 10 a.m. followed by a virtual coffee hour. You can request a Zoom link through our website, www.cheneycongregational.org and you can also find copies of the sermons on our website. During Lent our sermon series will be “Annual Spirituals.” Each year we go to the doctor for our annual physical to see how our physical health is, but how often do we get our...
M. James Kintschi 1930 - 2021 It is with joy in the promise of our Lord's gracious gift of eternal life that we announce the passing of our Dad, Morris James (Jim) Kintschi, into the presence of the Lord. He died at the age of 90 on Feb. 17, 2021 in Spokane Valley, Wash. Dad was born on July 19, 1930 in Cheney, Wash. to Morris and Anna (Tanner) Kintschi. He had three older sisters, Irene, Bernice and Marie, and two younger sisters, Shirley and Deanna. He loved being the only... Full story
The Feb. 11 article in the Cheney Free Press entitled “Occupancy, water conservation ordinances head to council,” brings the following question to my mind: How can the city check to see that occupancy rules are being followed? The street below us is often jammed with cars as well as overflowing trash cans that don’t get taken in after the trash has been picked up. This implies to me that there are more people living in these dwellings than is allowable, but how can the city monitor how many people are really living at any pa...
The dominant view of China in both Washington and in American public opinion is that the United States faces an increasingly ruthless Chinese leadership, requiring that U.S. policy restrain if not contain China’s malevolent influence. Biden will have to craft a China policy that will convince Americans, and Chinese leaders, that he can both compete with and where necessary confront China, relying on diplomacy rather than on threats and bluster. China will be a severe test for a new administration whose highest pri...
Monday marked an event I never dreamed I would see in my lifetime. Somewhere in the late morning, the United States crossed the threshold of 500,000 of our fellow American men and women killed by the coronavirus. If you had told me even five years ago, let alone 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago that we would experience a loss of American lives of that magnitude attributable to one cause, I would have thought you were talking about some kind of armed conflict. 500,000 lives gone. And as you read this, that number is marching steadily...
MEDICAL LAKE – After first meeting for 10 minutes in executive session, City Council members voted returned to open session at their Feb. 16 meeting and voted unanimously to name Chad Pritchard to the vacant council Position 7 seat. Pritchard replaces former council member Jessica Roberts, who won reelection this past November but stepped down on election night because of moving out of the city limits. Pritchard told the council at its Feb. 2 meeting that he and his family moved to Medical Lake from Spokane 6-7 years ago, a...
SPOKANE COUNTY — Library district officials have announced that all libraries in the county will re-open buildings to the public on Monday, March 8. “We are looking forward to opening and assisting library customers in person with our services, resources, and programs,” district officials said in a Feb. 23 news release. “The re-opening requirements are a challenge that our libraries will adhere to while still offering as many services as possible.” Libraries are going to look a little different on March 8. Facilities...
CHENEY – Eastern Washington University has received a $500,000 donation from the McKinstry Charitable Foundation that will help drive faculty and student research at the new Catalyst building on the South Landing of the University District in Spokane. The donation will enable the new Catalyst Faculty and Student Research Fund to support students and faculty who conduct research or experiential learning projects using the new facility. “Eastern is very grateful for this significant gift form our partners at McKinstry,” EWU i...
CHENEY — Eastern Washington University interim President David May has announced a target date of July 1 for the return of university staff to the Cheney campus. The university has already announced it is planning for the possibility of returning to mostly in-person student instruction this fall. Like the in-person instruction plans, May says everything will depend on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic and the progression of vaccine administration as the university follows public health guidelines. Remote instruction c...
CHENEY — If you want to learn more about your house, the land it sits on or some other dwelling or parcel in the city — and more — that information is only a couple computer clicks away. The city of Cheney has created an Interactive Zoning Map that is now available online at the city Planning Department’s home page. The map is a composite of information from the county and city that has been accumulated over the past 10-plus years via the city’s geographic informati...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — There’s homework aplenty for members of the Airway Heights City Council — even the new ones — following a Feb. 22 study session. In a lengthy 2-hour session, the deliberative board for the city’s government actions will be dealing with things like a sewer connection with the city of Spokane, the adoption of a 2020 zoning map, the future of public safety, sale of some park property and whether to engage with governmental affairs professionals. Assignmen...
Eastern Washington University grounds crews plow new snow at Roos Field last Friday, Feb. 19, in order to prepare the red turf for football practice. The Eagles open their winter/spring six-game schedule this Saturday, Feb. 27, against Idaho in Moscow....
MEDICAL LAKE — City Council members voted unanimously at their Feb. 16 meeting to turn down an offer by national retailer Dollar General to purchase the former Ball and Dodd Funeral Home property at the southwest corner of the West Brooks Road, North Lefevre Street and East State Route 902 intersection. Immediately after doing this, the council took a step to make sure it wouldn’t come up for sale again — at least in the foreseeable future — by removing the 43,475-square-foot parcel from the city’s surplus property roll. Ech...
