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Travelers using the State Route 902 and Craig Road intersection near Medical Lake will want to allow extra travel time starting the evening of Thursday, July 19, due to a weekend-long closure for roundabout construction. In a July 12 news release, Washington State Department of Transportation officials said the intersection will be closed for 72 hours and signed detours will be available. When it reopens, travelers will use a single-lane compact roundabout to negotiate the intersection. The roundabout is designed to improve...
Editor’s note: Last week the Cheney police reports contained the right dates, but the wrong reports. Due to a technical glitch, the reports for Jan. 25 were mixed with the dates for June 19-25. We are rerunning the correct reports this week, along with reports for June 28-July 2. CHENEY June 18 A runaway was reported on the 800 block of West First Street. The 15-year-old male has returned home. A mental health issue was reported on the 300 block of Erie Street. A mental health issue was reported on the 700 block of West F...
Medical Lake’s American Legion Post 196 baseball team heads into the Wood Bat tournament on a roll with three consecutive wins through June 29. Those victories include a June 28, 8-7 league win over Rogers, plus a pair of victories over the independent Cheney Summerhawks, 17-10 and 16-5 June 29. Medical Lake had 14 hits against Rogers, rallying to score three runs in the sixth and another in the top of the seventh to hold on for the win. Joe Griffey, Pete Richardson and T...
What are those old axioms: “Once bitten, twice shy,” or “Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me?” They came to mind as I was trying to figure out what to write in this space. I was racing to get a week’s worth of writing — plus a string of stories for the Cheney Rodeo — completed so I could have yet another week of vacation, after just returning from one. When you read this, I’ll hopefully be on the home stretch of another “bucket-list” check-off, running the Rog...
When Hank Frame sunk his long putt and Mike Roters did not answer on the second hole of a sudden death playoff at the 2012 Lilac City Invitational golf tournament at The Fairways Golf Course, it seemed to set the stage for some frantic finishes. Frame, at the time an amateur and a member of the Washington State University golf team, nailed a 15-foot putt from the fringe to complete a four-day, 14-under par 274 and then watched Roters miss his eight-footer to win the title....
All that John Durgan, son of Lilac City Invitational Tournament founder Joe Durgan recalls of the 1960 event won by Bob Duden, is "I was 8 years old." Pat Keegan was Durgan's high school classmate and fellow golf team member at Gonzaga Prep in the late 1960s and 1970s. His teenage recollections are more vivid. "Where were you when we landed on the moon?" Keegan has been asked. At 16, he was a caddy at the Lilac, founded and then held at Spokane's Downriver Golf Course. "I...
Spokane Teachers Credit Union wants consumers to be aware of a regulatory change that went into effect on July 1, adding a step to the process of depositing a check from cellphones while helping prevent fraud. In a June 26 news release, STCU officials said that with the advent of convenient and efficient banking mobile apps and other “remote deposit capture” technology, the nation’s check collection system is quickly converting from all-paper to electronic. Remote deposit capture allows consumers and businesses to quick...
