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MEDICAL LAKE — Keeping the city’s parks and trails clean was the subject of two discussions at the City Council’s first meeting of the month, held March 2. Councilwoman Heather Starr returned to a subject from the previous meeting during council members report about dog feces begin left in city parks and along the lake trail. Starr said it should fall to the animal’s owners to clean up after them, but that it wasn’t the case. City workers are already stretched thin in other areas, and in order to keep parks safe and clean...
In last week’s story on Cheney High School football’s win over University the player scoring touchdowns on defense was incorrectly reported. Senior Karl Barsness returned a Titans fumble for a touchdown early in the second half, and then sealed the Blackhawks win with an interception return for a score in the game’s final minute....
FARMINGTON, Utah – The 2021 Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year is an Eastern Washington Eagle. Maisie Burnham, who was also an All-Big Sky Honorable Mention selection, is just the fifth EWU women’s basketball player in school history to earn the award and the first since 2015. Burnham showed consistency all year long, playing in 21 games and starting 17. The Spangle, Wash., native who ended her career at Liberty High School as a 2B State Champion and state tournament MVP, led the Eagles with 14.3 points per game at the...
MEDICAL LAKE — In years gone by Medical Lake head cross country coach Gene Blankenship might have gotten himself in trouble with a haughty boast on how his team would fare in the coming months. “Normally I could tell you the league is going to do this, this and this,” Blankenship said March 8. But not this year. But as we all know there’s nothing normal about this 2020 fall sports season that is being contested in winter/spring 2021. Thanks COVID-19 for steering the coach w...
Spokane’s Shadle Park grad, junior Tanner Groves becomes yet another Eastern Eagle to be named Big Sky Conference MVP announced March 8. Groves becomes the second Eagle in a row to win and fourth in the last five seasons after Mason Peatling collected the honor a year ago. Groves’ stats sheet seems most worthy of the nod with top-10 numbers in the conference in a variety of categories. He is fifth in scoring (16.5 points per-game), eighth in blocked shots (1.0 p/g) and eighth in free throw percentage (.798). Groves is current...
MEDICAL LAKE — A variety of standpoints made the Medical Lake Cardinal football team’s first game of the 2021 spring schedule hardly an envious task. For starters the contest was on the road at perennial Northeast A League power Colville where the Indians have been the dominant force since joining the league in 2014, dropping from 2-A play. Then consider the Cardinals had not played a down of football since November of 2019 and a roster featuring just one senior with game exp...
CHENEY — If Eastern Washington didn’t have to do things the hard way it just might not be the same. So that might be the approach the Eagles take as they pursue the Big Sky Conference men’s basketball tournament this week in Boise. No. 2 seed Eastern will tip off Thursday at 4 p.m. at Idaho Central Arena vs. the winner of the game featuring No. 7 Portland State (9-12, 6-8) and No. 10 Northern Arizona (5-15, 4-10). It could have been an easier road, perhaps, back to their first...
CHENEY – All Blackhawks Season 1 teams – fall sports – were in action last week, some for the first time since fall 2019. Cross country The boys and girls traveled to Central Valley for a double-dual meet with the host Bears and Gonzaga Prep - Cheney's first meet since moving to the 3A classification and into the now 4A/3A/2A Greater Spokane League. Both Blackhawks teams came up on the losing end, with the boys falling 19-42 to CV and edged 27-30 by G-Prep. The girls lost...
CHENEY - Maybe Eric Barriere also caught that notion expressed on broadcast of Eastern Washington's opening week spring football loss to Idaho: That the defenses were ahead of the offenses at this early juncture. Because the Barriere of old emerged, threw for 413 yards on 29-of-49 passes and three touchdowns in a 45-13 Big Sky Conference spring season football victory over Northern Arizona March 6 at Roos Field. It was the first game on the stadium's new AstroTurf installed...
Canada geese rest on a log along Hangman Creek between Latah and Waverly Tuesday morning. The creek weaves its way from Whitman through Spokane County before emptying into the Spokane River west of downtown Spokane....
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 spiri...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS – Spokane County Fire District 10 and the Sunset Volunteer Firefighters Association hosted their annual member awards appreciation banquet on Feb. 27. District officials said in a news release that while all members commit to a tremendous amount of time and effort, special recognition was bestowed on the following award winners: Chief’s Award – Lt. Justin Skinner Officer of the Year – Lt. Rob Sayers Firefighter of the Year – FF Torin Lehmann Rookie of the Year – FF Alex Knapp Support Services of the Year ...
What a jarring image of a shackled Black man on the ground on the front page of last week’s Cheney Free Press (March 4). I can’t help but wonder if a white suspect would have been similarly depicted. Kristin Mansfield Cheney...
On Friday, March 5, my friend texted me and asked what I thought of the picture on the front page of this week’s (March 4) Free Press. I had not gotten the paper yet, so had to wait to respond. Cheney cops standing around while an obviously handcuffed black man lay on the ground met my eyes. Surely, the headline would clear up the mystery as to why this man was laying on the ground. But the sterile headline read: “Crash damages building, vehicles.” A poor headline that does not give any idea of how combative the man must...
I was disappointed by the picture chosen for the front page of last week’s Free Press (March 4). In the current climate and awareness of Black Lives Matter, I felt the picture was in very poor taste. I don’t question the man’s innocence, guilt, or involvement. What I question is the selection of a picture showing a black man prone on the ground with four white male officers standing nearby. Had the crash involved a white male in a business suit I wonder how the reporting and photo might have been different. Carol Krieg...
Ever since COVID-19 reached America a year ago, we’ve seen heroic acts performed by many, especially health-care workers helping those afflicted with this contagious and life-threatening virus. As the pandemic has spread to the point of claiming half a million lives in the U.S. so far, doctors, nurses and other health-care workers in hospitals and medical clinics have put their own lives at risk to care for COVID-19 patients. When the pandemic was raging in New York City last spring, nurses from Washington and other states t...
At 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 14, daylight saving time for 2021 will begin, clocks will spring forward an hour, and Washingtonians will once again ask themselves how this annual ritual is even still a thing we all must do. The supposed reason for daylight saving time is for us to make better use of natural daylight during the spring and summer. However, the practice of shifting back and forth between daylight saving time and standard time has proved to be a dangerous and altogether useless exercise that ultimately does more...
OLYMPIA — As the end of an emergency eviction moratorium looms over thousands of Washington renters, a bill requiring landlords to have just cause for evicting a tenant passed the House of Representatives in a 54-44 vote March 7. “Stopping evictions means preventing homelessness,” Rep. Nicole Macri, D-Seattle, told the House as the bill’s primary sponsor. HB 1236 puts an end to “no-cause evictions,” which some described as yet another way for landlords to practice discrimination against tenants. The bill defines reasons lan...
ROSALIA - Repair work is scheduled for the Rosalia trestle in March. Whitman County Public Works Director Mark Storey gave a report to county commissioners on Monday. Storey attended a pre-construction meeting last week, which set a date of March 15 to start the project. It's expected to last two to three weeks. During construction, one road lane will be closed under the trestle leading from US 195 to Rosalia. The project includes removal of loose concrete, debris and temporar...
OLYMPIA — On a 25-24 mostly party-line vote, the Senate approved SB5096 on March 6, setting a 7% capital gains tax on profit realized from the sale of non-inventory assets such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds and even boats or artwork set to take effect in 2022 if it also clears the House and is signed by Gov. Jay Inslee. Depending who you talk to, Saturday’s vote is either a historic move to create more fairness with the state’s tax code or the first steps towards destroying Washington’s business climate. For those arguing...
CHENEY – Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art presents In the Air and Underground, featuring the work of Mariah Boyle, March 17 through April 23, 2021. Boyle received her bachelor of arts from Eastern Oregon University in La Grande in 2009 and a master's of fine arts from Washington State University in 2012. She makes mixed-media drawings that are based on the interactions, intersections and interconnectedness of people and the natural world. Most of Boyle's works are...
Cheney High School officials have released the names of students making the Term 2 honor roll. To make the honor roll, students must have attained a grade point average ranging from 3.5 – 4.0. The first part of the honor roll listing seniors and juniors was published in the Feb. 25 issue of the Cheney Free Press. Sophomores Audey Abbey, Thayne E. Acedo, Elijah J. Aguilera, Dawson J. Athos, Elijah D. Axtell, Elizabeth S. Bae, Elliana G. Barden, Jonathan G. Barrales, Sawyer D. Bartels, Tenaya M. Belsby, Austin L. Benson, Tyler...
(Editor's note: The first part of this story dealing with the four options appeared in the March 4 issue of the Cheney Free Press.) CHENEY – Eastern Washington University's Board of Trustees was presented with four options for the institution's struggling Athletics Department by the PICTOR Group consulting firm at the board's Feb. 25 meeting. Those options are: staying put in NCAA Division I athletics and in the Big Sky Conference, remaining in D-I but dropping football and m...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — The road map to help guide what is sometimes referred to as the sleepy little town of Airway Heights moved yet another step closer to enactment following its review by Airway Heights City Manager Albert Tripp at a March 8 City Council study session. Subtitled “Awaken Airway Heights 2020” Tripp introduced the topic with what might have been a puzzling analogy asking members if they had ever changed their own oil in their vehicles? And if so had they used a fun...
CHENEY – The Historical Preservation Commission is looking to apply for a state grant to “jazz up” its walking tour brochure — jazz up in a way that some people may not even need to use it. At its March 4 meeting, commissioner members discussed possible ideas for submitting for a Certified Local Government Grant Project from the state Department of Archeology and Historic Preservation. One idea floated as a possible redrawing of the city’s national historical district now that Cheney’s former Northern Pacific Railroad Depot h...
