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  • West Plains Police News

    Updated Aug 15, 2019

    CHENEY Aug. 6 A wallet found at the Gorge Amphitheatre near George, Wash., was turned in to the Cheney Police Department. A 31-year-old female was arrested on a Spokane misdemeanor theft warrant on the 200 block of Washington Street. A 43-year-old male was arrested on a Department of Corrections felony escape warrant on the 100 block of Pineview Place. An argument was reported on the 700 block of Salnave Road. Aug. 7 Police assisted the Department of Corrections with a welfare check on the 200 block of Oak Street. A...

  • Fire prevention is equally as important as fire fighting

    Updated Aug 15, 2019

    Spokane County Fire District 3 and the city of Cheney co-hosted a 40-hour week long Fire Inspector 1 class last week (July 29–Aug. 2) that incorporated 29 firefighters from 12 different agencies within the state of Washington and as far as Whidbey Island. These 29 students had one of the best classes around! They had a variety of different occupancy classifications from Eastern Washington University academic facilities to the newly constructed Amazon warehouse that they were able to walk through and gain knowledge of d...

  • Battery-operated locomotives are coming to a track near you

    DON C. BRUNELL, Contributor|Updated Aug 15, 2019

    More battery operated cars and trucks are making their way on to streets and highways, so why not trains? That may not be too far off if Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) tests are successful. BNSF and Wabtec (formerly GE Transportation) are developing a battery-electric high-horsepower road locomotive — the type that moves freight trains between Seattle and Chicago. Once all the equipment and support systems are in place, the plan is to run tests between Stockton and B...

  • Climate change: time to rethink our food system

    KATHLEEN ROGERS and Dr. SHENGGEN FAN, Contributors|Updated Aug 15, 2019

    The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is clear from the newly released UN climate change report which warns that we must rethink how we produce our food — and quickly — to avoid the most devastating impacts of global food production, including massive deforestation, staggering biodiversity loss and accelerating climate change. While it’s not often recognized, the food industry is an enormous driver of climate change, and our current global food system is pushing our natural world...

  • It's time to have a real discussion about guns in American society

    FRANK WATSON, Contributor|Updated Aug 15, 2019

    I realize every writer with a second-hand computer will sit down at their keyboard this week and write about the shootings in El Paso and Dayton. I hope you read them all. Some will be emphatic that the only way to stop the shootings is to eliminate all guns in America. The other extreme will be just as emphatic, “Arm everyone so the people can protect themselves.” Others will be somewhat less fanatical, but you will find a near vacuum in the middle. Both sides are ready to fight for what they believe is right for Ame...

  • Eastern soccer picked to finish fifth

    Updated Aug 15, 2019

    After finishing sixth in the regular season last year, the Eastern Washington University soccer team was picked to finish fifth in the Big Sky Preseason Poll on Tuesday. “Preseason polls are what they are and I respect where we have been selected. It’s coaches guessing and looking at what happened last year. We were ranked first last year and snuck in to the tournament the last weekend. We were ranked low the two years before and won three championships,” said head coach Chad Bodnar. “We have a strong group of players...

  • EWU begins search for new tennis coach

    Updated Aug 15, 2019

    The Eastern Washington University athletic department will be moving to quickly fill the men’s tennis head coaching position after Steve Clark resigned from his post, EWU Director of Athletics Lynn Hickey announced Friday, Aug. 9. Hickey said EWU will move as expediently as possible to find a replacement, with classes beginning at EWU on Sept. 25 and fall competition starting shortly after that. The last day on staff for Clark will be Sept. 5. He spent five seasons as EWU’s head coach, giving him over 30 years of coa...