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MALDEN – Local leaders called for unity and cooperation Tuesday in the "arduous" task of rebuilding the community in the wake of the Babb Fire. More than 150 people turned out Tuesday afternoon for a post-fire planning meeting at the makeshift Town Hall on a grassy field next to Mayor Chris Ferrell's home. Whitman County commissioners, Mayor Ferrell, Town Council members, residents and volunteers attended. Endicott pastor Fred Tribble led the discussion on recovering from t...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS—Council approved a letter to be sent by Mayor Kevin Richey to the Kalispel tribe concerning mitigation payments the tribe has reportedly withheld at its Sept. 8 legislative session. According to city documents provided in the meeting agenda, the city entered into a Memorandum of Understanding in 1996 and an Intergovernmental Agreement in 2006 with the tribe. “The Kalispel Tribe agreed to make payments to the City for impacts of Class III gaming services and for the provision of City services including uti...
Jean Marie Staley Morton passed away tragically on Aug. 3, 2020, in Castle Rock, Colo., from loneliness and a broken heart. Jean was born May 17, 1951 at Larson Air Force Base in Moses Lake, Wash. Jean was an honor graduate from the Medical Lake High School class of 1969, Medical Lake, Wash. She went on to graduate from Spokane Falls Community College in 1971. She then married Jerry A. Morton in June of that same year. They moved to Longmont, Colorado and Jean worked at a...
Dennis Boardman, 60, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Aug. 22, 2020 at home in Caldwell, Idaho. Dennis was born in Panama City, Fla. to Arthur and Laverne Boardman on April 2, 1960. After graduating in 1978 from Cheney High School, he attended and graduated Eastern Washington University. Dennis was a journeyman electrician. He owned and operated Moonlight Electric in Oregon. He also worked in Spokane, Anchorage, Boise and Quincy. He was a proud member of IBEW Local Union...
Cheney Congregational Church Greetings! Cheney Congregational is currently hosting outdoor Sunday worship services in our parking lot at 10 a.m. We have developed a Covid-19 safety plan that is in compliance with guidelines set up by the state. Masks are required and we are using social distancing among other safety precautions. We will be meeting outside in our parking lot for the foreseeable future. We encourage you to bring your own lawn chair, and we will have chairs provided. As the weather gets colder we invite you to...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Private Jeremy Robert Blom, 18, of Cheney, Wash graduated from United States Marine Corps boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on Sept. 11, 2020. Blom successfully completed 13 weeks of intensive basic training at MCRD San Diego in Alpha Company Training Platoon 1014. He will immediately report to Camp Pendleton for a month at Marine Combat Training and then to Military Occupation Specialty school....
CHENEY – Despite winds, fires, smoke and a pandemic, work on relocating Cheney’s Northern Pacific Railroad Depot continues. The heavy lifting part of the project, which began in 2014, took place June 18 when crews from Mt. Vernon, Wash.-based movers DB Davis transported the structure from its former location along the railroad tracks near ADM Mills to its present and permanent home along 1st Street. Since then, the Cheney Depot Society’s project general contractor, Walker Construction, has been busy building the found...
CHENEY Sept. 8 Domestic violence/verbal abuse was reported on the 2200 block of 1st Street. Second-degree theft was reported on the 2400 block of University Lane. A purse was stolen from a vehicle. A cellphone was found on the 2200 block of North 6th Street. A firearm was reported stolen from a vehicle on the 700 block of West 1st Street. Trespassing was reported on the zero hundred block of 1st Street. Second-degree theft was reported on the 1000 block of West 1st Street. Hunting equipment was stolen from a vehicle....
NASHVILLE, TENN. – Born in Brazzaville, Congo to a white father and black mother, Karen McCormick has often found herself facing a decision when filing out employment forms. Particularly the part that asks about race. "OK, I don't fit in all the way here and I don't fit in all the way here," McCormick said of the selection boxes. "Where is the box for me?" The 2013 Cheney High School and 2018 Eastern Washington University graduate and aspiring country music artist has r...
Airway Heights/Reardan resident Aaron Inman loads donations from Airway Heights citizens into his truck to take to victims of the Malden fire. Inman has taken three truck and two trailer loads’ worth of surviving goods down to Malden residents. He plans to continue the effort when the smoke clears....
From MALDEN -- Access to the towns of Malden and Pine City continues to be restricted as crews continue to mop up Babb Fire hotspots. The fire grew to 15,266 acres and was 90% contained, according to Northwest Interagency Incident Management Team No. 10, which was managing fire operations until 6 p.m. Monday evening. At least 110 firefighters and 26 engines remained in the area. Local fire officials have since assumed control of the wildfire the swept across southern Spokane...
Gun owners anticipating the fall hunting season or hoping to get in some target practice are having more difficulty than normal acquiring the ammunition necessary to operate their firearms. Fox Business reported in early August that gun sales in 2020 had already surpassed sales in 2019, but the available ammo stock wasn’t keeping pace. There are several possible reasons for an ammo shortage. Mainly, the COVID-19 fallout caused a spike in gun sales (a July Recoil Magazine article likened the spike to the toilet paper h...
By Drew Lawson Staff Reporter SPOKANE—A banking company with 24 locations in Eastern Washington and North Idaho may be expanding even further. STCU is seeing approval to acquire four new Umpqua Bank locations, including the banks in Medical Lake and Ritzville. “(We) were looking for opportunities, and this presented itself,” STCU strategic communications manager Dan Hansen said. The other Umpqua branches STCU is seeking to acquire are located in Othello and Coulee City. The Ritzville and Othello locations would be STCU...
OTHELLO — MarDon Resort will host a bass fishing tournament Oct. 3 on the Potholes Reservoir. The Northwest Berkley Big Bass Tournament is open to a single fisherman or a team of two. Boats are allowed and there is a $300 entry fee. Fishermen are required to use Berkley baits; bass will be weighed in every hour for seven hours in the one-day tournament. To register, log onto https://nwberkleybigbass.profishingtournaments.com/. Officials say 100 teams are already registered....
ALMOTA — Sections of the Snake River are now open for fishermen to catch and keep fall Chinook salmon and steelhead. The Chinook fishery opened Tuesday, Sept. 1, and will close Oct. 31, state Department of Fish and Wildlife officials said. Chinook salmon may be caught and kept from the Burbank-Pasco railroad bridge near the mouth of the river to Lower Granite Dam, which connects Whitman and Garfield counties. The fishery is being opened because of an expected healthy salmon run, officials said. The 2020 fall Columbia River r...
Seven months pregnant, Jess Warwick of Finley, took her first deer Saturday north of Davenport. She shot the buck with a bow just off State Highway 25....
The pandemic may have put an axe in many sporting activities this fall, but nothing is stopping hunters in Eastern Washington from enjoying the outdoors and trekking down some wildlife as the season gets underway. Some hunting seasons have already begun, while others kick off soon. Below runs a guide to each season by animal and weapon type, with an emphasis on opportunities for youth. Information is obtained from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife relative to Spokane District 2, which include Game Management Unit...
“Are you guys OK?” It’s the first thing we say to each other in the Malden/Pine City area these days. Once that question is answered, it is immediately followed by “Is your house OK?” We lost so much on Labor Day. Our community’s heart got burned up. Malden and Pine City are more than a collection of buildings. They were where we fought for years to get a library and finally got one. It was where we met, all of us for miles around. The Masonic Lodge Hall that burned held every bit of history from Eastern Star chapters fr...
After reading and watching the news online and on TV, it appears that our country is divided into those who care about property and those who care about people, and most astute observers could easily identify which political party caters to each group. Since I have traveled and lived in many different countries of the world — some “developed” and some “developing,” which President Trump called “shithole countries,” — I have never seen such wretched living as some people experience in certain parts of the United States....
Replanting the millions of acres scorched by wildfires in our western woodlands will be herculean task priced in the hundreds of billions. Thankfully, many businesses, such as Bank of America, Microsoft, and Salesforce, have joined with conservation organizations to fund planting a trillion trees in our public forests by 2028. BofA pledged $300 billion to fight climate change by planting young seedlings. Salesforce plans to “conserve and restore 100 million trees,” acc...
MALDEN - Don't call them wildfires. Call them "climate fires." That was the message Gov. Jay Inslee gave reporters during a brief appearance about noon today, Thursday, Sept. 10, in one of two cities nearly wiped out by the Babbs Fire. That press conference followed a presentation he made to town residents and leaders only minutes before, a presentation in which he requested all media be excluded from. Inslee arrived in a black SUV via Pine City-Malden Road, passing numerous...
CHENEY—A chlorine leak in a room within the Archer-Daniels Midland facility at the 600 block of 1st St forced haz-mat response and an employee evacuation before the chlorine dissipated Sept. 9. Within that room lies a 150-pound chlorine tank that is swapped out daily, according to Cheney Fire Department Chief Tom Jenkins. “They do this almost 200 times a year,” Jenkins said. Employees went to close the tank during this routine, thinking it was empty. “Based on their log and based on the gauge, (which) read zero, they thought...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS—Two fires near the city that began to burn on Labor Day are 100% contained over a week later. A fire that burned off North Old Trails Road northeast of Northern Quest Casino, now known as the Euclid Track Fire, is 100% contained and 100% trailed after burning through 260 acres, according to D.J. Green of the Department of Natural Resources. “We will continue to send resources out there for the next several days to monitor it and check on it, and basically check for any heat,” Green said. Six structures were...
SPOKANE COUNTY – Consider it two records we would just as soon have not set. Due to smoke from fires in California, Oregon and Washington that blew in beginning late Friday night, Spokane County set back-to-back records for the highest air quality contamination in record keeping going back at least to 1999, according to information from the Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency. On Sunday, Sept. 13, a one-hour reading at the agency's reporting station on Monroe and Wellesley r...
CHENEY—Jay Day spent the early 1990’s trying to shut down opposing receivers on the Eastern Washington University football team as a defensive back. Nearly 30 years later, he’s taking over for retiring EWU Police Department Chief Tim Walters. But being a cop wasn’t even on his radar coming out of college. “It was just kind of one of those lucks of the draw,” Day said. “I didn’t even know, at the time, that it would grab hold of me like it did.” Day originally enrolled at EWU in 1991, where he quickly met his now wife, Esp...
