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The Emeryville, California-based supermarket chain Grocery Outlet has submitted paperwork for a new store to be located on 1st Street in north Cheney. According to a Notice of Application dated March 21, the company is proposing to combine two separate lots, parcel numbers 23072.0096 and 23072.0097, located at 2603 1st Street into one parent parcel. The move would allow for construction of a 16,456-square-foot commercial building between the Verizon outlet to the north and...
“The Mill House” John Mill, birth name John Mills, was born 1837 in Richland County, Ohio, of parents who both immigranted from Scotland where his father was a basket weaver and ditch digger. In 1852 at the age of 15, John, his dad Robert, sister Mary Jane and brother William moved from Bowling Green, Ohio, near Scotch Ridge, Ohio, to the Oregon Territory. In 1872 John, a man named Lee L. Lewis and others rode on horseback to the Cheney-Spangle area in the Washington Ter...
1 Years Ago March 26, 2008 A lack of renovation funding and a failure to reach a maintenance and operations agreement led Eastern Washington University and the Cheney School District to consider closing Reid Elementary, a 50-year-old school. The Cheney library began offering an online tutoring service called Live Homework Help, allowing students and tutors to keep in contact via instant messaging. Cheney sought to formalize its banner policy, setting fees for advertising on local light poles. 20 Years Ago April 1, 1999...
Cheney • March 29, African Inspired Junior Art Class, Cheney City Hall, $8 , children aged 3 - 7 accompanied by an adult, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. • March 30, African Inspired Master Art Class, Wren Pierson Building, $15, ages 8 and up, 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. • March 31, Basoonarama, EWU Music Building Recital Hall, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. • April 1, Roger Ralston’s exhibit Field Research, EWU Gallery of Art, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. • April 1, Swanky Swine Showdown, Cheney library meeting room, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Airway Heights • March 30, Inland Em...
Medical Lake Dollars for Scholars raised over $15,000 at last week’s Spring Thing dinner/dance/auction. This includes $6,000 toward matching grant funds which will provide additional four-year scholarships to be awarded this June. To all the many individuals and businesses that donated goods and services, a sincere “thank you” for your support. And to the dozens of people from the community who attended and were so generous with your bids and purchases, your support is so critical for your sons and daughters future succe...
It an be tempting to write negative letters complaining about the issues we currently face in America. I would much rather share a bright spot in our community and the next generation. Cheney School bands are doing a wonderful job instructing our kids in music, teamwork, responsibility and excellence. We just returned from a very successful trip to the annual Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival in Missoula, Mont. This year, one of our high school students took home an award for excellent musicianship in sax performance, and the...
The Trump administration is working to slow down the implementation of a major international environmental regulation that’s set to take effect in 2020. The administration hopes that the effort will ease the compliance burden on businesses by phasing in the rules gradually, rather than all at once. Counter intuitively, phasing in the regulation could raise costs on American consumers, rather than reduce costs as the administration intends. It’s smarter to let the rules go into effect as scheduled. The regulation was iss...
I would like to thank those who responded and helped my husband at the incident where my husband passed away last Wednesday, March 20. All emergency responders, all at Cheney Middle School, Cheney high teachers Mr. Marsh and Mr. Scarcello; Brad the 911 operator/dispatcher, Sheriff Deputy Truman, Captain Dustin Flock of Spokane County Fire District 3, District 3 Chaplin Ben Hill, Mike Rossey at Cheney Funeral Chapel, Cheney Public School transportation especially Melanie who drives bus route 59 and my sister Esther Hart,...
Before our country, in haste, dives totally into renewable energy, we must carefully evaluate its impacts. By just focusing on eliminating natural gas, liquid fuels (gasoline and diesel) and coal to combat climate change, we ignore the effects of other forms of pollution generated by processes in which renewable energy components are made. Under the Green New Deal, the United States would become 100 percent reliant on renewable energy in a decade and eliminate CO2 producing...
I was tired of shoveling snow the other day and needed some comic relief, so I decided to read the most recent newsletters sent out by my state representative. Finding out what is happening at our state capitol is challenging. I usually start with the newsletters, then Google for more details. If you don’t get these newsletters, you should. Your representative’s office will gladly add you to their email list. Then you, too, will have something to break up the monotony of late winter. As our governor has been reborn as the...
Two-year-old Penelope Beasley and her six-year-old brother Max were the winners of the Cheney Free Press annual buttercup contest to see who can be the first boy and girl to bring in a buttercup. The duo are the grandchildren of Cheney-area resident Shelly Springer, and found the buttercups near her home on South Long Road. It’s the second buttercup for Max, who was a winner two years ago, and third for Springer, who brought in another granddaughter, Ashton, with a first b...
Several Tundra and Trumpeter Swans are migrating north this month and some stopped in for a few days at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. Some ice was left on Middle Pine Lake and that is where an adult Trumpeter and young cygnet stood to preen last Friday, March 22. The cygnet will have all white feathers when it is 1 year old....
Spokane County Library District has a busy spring planned for area library patrons and others in the community. The most recent event is the announcement of the seventh annual Food for Fines event during National Library Week, April 7–13. Donations of food go to the Second Harvest Food Bank and other regional food banks serving Spokane County and reduce library customers’ overdue fees. For every non-perishable food item, $2 will be forgiven from a cardholder’s account, up to $20 per library account. Food for Fines can only...
The new Airway Heights recreation center will soon be open for business, with city workers gearing up for its official grand opening in May. A tentative date of May 1 has been set for a ceremonial ribbon cutting at the new facility, which has been under construction since November 2017, according to guest services and operations supervisor Addam Janke. The long-awaited recreation complex, which cost around $17.26 million to complete, was originally slated to open at the end of 2018, but due to construction delays that...
Cheney police were able to put a successful ending to an Amber Alert issued last week for a mother and daughter reported missing out of Nampa, Idaho. The Nampa Police Department issued the Amber Alert on March 20 for 41-year-old Brooke A. Helmandollar and her 10-year-old daughter Alissa Helmandollar. A department news release stated the pair were last seen at a Nampa-area hotel the previous afternoon, March 19, and that the daughter was possibly endangered due to her mother’s “recent threatening behavior towards Ali...
After a slight hiccup as city leaders focused on local public art projects, Airway Heights’ downtown study is getting back underway, with officials planning to approach property owners within the next three months. The city’s downtown study began in the spring of 2018 and has been slowly ongoing for the better part of a year. The purpose of the study is to identify ways to improve Airway Heights’ “downtown” area — a four-block zone that runs from Yokes on Sunset Highway to the west near the post office on Mullen Street. The...
The Medical Lake group Friends of the Library will be holding their semi-annual book sale at the Medical Lake Library, 321 East Herb Street, on Friday and Saturday, April 12-13 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. All proceeds from the sale go to support the library and its various programs and offerings. Mary Seagrave, long-time library patron and chair of the group’s book sale effort, said the Friends of the Library mission is to encourage reading and literacy in the community. The book sa...
Women of PEO Chapter AJ of Cheney are pictured above proudly celebrating the organization’s 100-year anniversary. PEO is a Philanthropic Educational Organization of women. There are three chapters in Cheney who provide scholarships to students and help support Cotty College, an independent women’s liberal arts and sciences college located in Nevada, Mo....
Eastern Washington University students aiming to pursue a career in the law may have some new opportunities to do so soon thanks to a collaborative agreement signed recently between EWU and the Gonzaga University School of Law, EWU Provost Scott Gordon and GU Law Dean Jacob Rooksby announced on March 8. The Memorandum of Understanding forms the EWU-GU Legal Education Collaboration Committee. The committee will include two representatives from each school who will identify and...
Several West Plains-area students earned Dean’s List honors at their respective universities. Brayden W. Bruess was named to the Dean’s List for the 2018 fall semester at Norwich University. Norwich University, located in Northfield, Vt., was founded in 1819 by Capt. Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army and is the oldest private military college in the United States of America. Norwich is one of our nation’s six senior military colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). The following student...
The Cheney High School jazz band had two successful trips to local jazz festivals in two weeks, one at the University of Montana and the second at Mead High School in Spokane. At the University of Montana’s Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival on March 15, the band brought home the Larry Gookin Outstanding Trombone Section Award thanks to trombone players Sara Nanny, Peter Hampson, Paige King and Colton Foster. Eleven Cheney students received “outstanding musician” recognition, inclu...
Area mayors provided state of the city reports to the West Plains Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, March 20, at its regular monthly breakfast at Hargreaves Hall on the Eastern Washington University campus. The main theme for the assembled elected officials was water availability and conservation and growth. Each municipality had a different take on how to deal with those issues. Airway Heights Airway Heights Councilman Sonny Weathers, sitting in for Mayor Kevin Richey, was...
The only position Cheney Capt. Rick Campbell has not held in the police department is that of dog catcher. There’s a good reason for that. Cheney doesn’t currently have such a position, and only employed an animal control officer from the late 1980s to early 1990s when Campbell was just starting his patrol duties. The veteran of over 30 years with the department is retiring on March 31, but he’s leaving behind a legacy that Cheney Police Chief John Hensley believes will stretc...
Mary Seagrave of Friends of the Library poses for a photo in one of her favorite places — the Medical Lake Library. The group is hosting its semi-annual book sale at the library on Friday and Saturday, April 12-13 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m....
The Medical Lake City Council moved one step closer to asking voters to approve a merger of current city fire and EMS services with the 565-square-mile Spokane County Fire District 3 that surrounds Medical Lake at its regular meeting Tuesday, March 19. With few questions or fanfare, Councilwoman Laura Parsons moved to approve the merger — technically an annexation. Councilman Ted Olson seconded and City Ordinance 1071 was approved on first reading. The merger must ultimately b...
