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POMEROY – A kill order has been issued for wolves in the Grouse Flats pack following repeated attacks on cattle. State Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind authorized killing wolves in the pack this morning, Sept. 24. The order goes into effect eight court hours after issuance, officials said, noting state sharpshooters will use "humane lethal removal methods consistent with state and federal laws." State officials say the Grouse Flats pack is responsible f...
FOUR LAKES - Spokane photographer Ryan Rowe will be spending 3,500 minutes fishing from a float tube on Sliver Lake this weekend to raise money for Family Promise of Spokane's Open Doors 24/7 emergency shelter for children and families. The 3,500 minutes represents the number of homeless children in Spokane County, according to the fundraiser's Facebook page. The goal is to raise $35,000 during the 58-hour event. Other fisherman are invited to join either in real-time or...
RITZVILLE – Westbound Interstate 90 will close for two, 36-hour windows in the coming weeks for an overpass demolition and replacement. According to the state Department of Transportation, the closures are planned for: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, until 6 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 3 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, until 6 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 17 Westbound I-90 drivers will be detoured at the Tokio interchange around the Danekas Road overpass, officials said. Detours for the Danekas Road overpass begin Sept. 30. The overpass was damaged by an o...
CHENEY — Three weeks into their inaugural season, the Cheney High slowpitch softball team is still in search of its first win — and there are signs they are getting closer. The Lady Blackhawks opened their season with a 15-3 loss at Greater Spokane League 4A powerhouse Mead on Sept. 10. The Panthers (4-0) opened a 15-1 lead through the first three innings en route to the win. Cheney had eight hits, including a triple from Isabella King. The Lady Blackhawks also suffered defensively with six errors. Two days later the Lady Bla...
Traditionally, media coverage of the Paris Air Show focuses on the battle between Boeing and Airbus over market share for newer large commercial jets. However, this year Mitsubishi shared the spotlight with its state-of-the-art "SpaceJet." SpaceJet is not the latest aircraft to join British billionaire Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic suborbital space fleet. It is a new regional passenger aircraft designed to compete head-to-head with Brazil's Embraer E-175 for routes...
MEDICAL LAKE - The state Department of Transportation has revised the detour scheme of its planned 10-day Medical Lake interchange closure. Project Engineer Mark Allen announced Wednesday that state Highway 902, between Craig Road and the interchange, will be limited to local traffic only during the interchange's north half closure. The previous detour plan gave motorists the option of traveling Highway 902 through a portion of a newly constructed roundabout to Geiger...
Update as of 12:56 p.m. Sept. 24. Cheney School District officials have announced they have made an identification of a subject in conjunction with a threat of violence made at Cheney Middle School on Monday, Sept. 23. At press time the subject was listed as a sixth-grade female, who officials said they would not name. Cheney School District officials are going through video to figure out who made a threat of violence at Cheney Middle School on Monday, Sept. 23. The threat led to an increased police presence at the middle...
SUNNYSIDE – State officials want farmers and ranchers to notify them before shutting off irrigation for the winter. On Monday, state Department of Fish and Wildlife employees requested 2-4 weeks advance notice of irrigation shutdowns so they could “rescue fish” in irrigation canals. "We are available to help people shut down their irrigation systems in a way that protects fish," agency Fish Screening Manager Danny Didricksen said. "We work with diking districts, irrig...
It was an enthusiastic Medical Lake varsity volleyball squad that began their 2019 season with a 0-3 loss against visiting Lakeside on Thursday, Sept. 12, in the teams first Northeast A League game year, going 13-25, 11-25, 11-25 in three sets. “This was the best we have competed against Lakeside since I have been coaching at Medical Lake,” head coach Todd Harr wrote in an email. “We had an amazing crowd and the ladies were very scrappy throughout the night.” The 5-foot-...
BThe Cheney High School volleyball team started their regular season on shaky ground with a Sept. 9, 3-1 loss against Northwest Christian, but followed it up with two wins in rapid succession. Against East Valley on Thursday, Sept. 12, the Lady Blackhawks took no prisoners, emerging victorious in three sets over the visiting Knights 25-21, 25-12, 25-12. Cheney’s Sara Graham had 16 kills with three assists, with Blackhawk Shelby Drapers delivering seven aces. Sophomore Abbie Scott and junior Avery Stark had eight blocks b...
By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor Medical Lake High’s cross country team opened its 2019 season with competition at the multi-team Highlander Invitational last Saturday, Sept. 14, producing a variety of results across the seven races on the 2.5-mile course at Shadle Park in Spokane. “The day went much better than expected,” head coach Gene Blankenship said. “We had several athletes ribbon in their races.” The Cardinal girls varsity turned in the highest team finish, taking th...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school, club or facility websites to confirm.) College football Saturday, Sept. 21, EWU at University of Idaho, 12:09 p.m. College soccer Friday Sept. 20, EWU vs. North Dakota State, 4 p.m. College volleyball Thursday, Sept. 19, EWU at North Dakota, 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, EWU at Akron, 9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 20, EWU at Lamar, 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, EWU vs. Sacramento State, 6:05 p.m. College tennis Friday – Sunday, Sept. 20 – 22, men host EWU Fall Classic, all day High sch...
Medical Lake’s girls’ soccer team started the season struggling, going scoreless in their first two games, out-gunned and out-maneuvered on the pitch. The Cardinals dropped their first game to the North Central Indians (2-0) on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Merkel Sports Complex, an 8-0 rout in non-league soccer action. On Thursday, Sept 12, the Cards hosted Lakeside, taking a 14-0 shellacking against the Eagles superior ball-handling, leaving the teams only club player, goa...
I don’t know what was more frustrating, Eastern Washington University’s fourth-quarter collapse last Saturday at Jacksonville State or the subsequent reactions to it on social media. Granted, we’ve grown accustomed to the Eagles football team taking over in the final 15 minutes of play, whether it’s rallying to win or putting the foot on the gas and sealing the another victory. So blowing a 17-point lead and getting shutout down the stretch is a bit unsettling. But to read some of the posts on various Eagle fan pages,...
Cheney High School’s cross country teams have a lot of positives to point to coming out of their first meet — last Saturday’s multi-team Highlander Invitational at Shadle Park in Spokane. “Great effort by the whole team,” head coach Derek Slaughter said in an email. “We can really tell that the team put in over 6,000 miles of running this summer.” The Blackhawks senior boys finished fourth out of 26 schools with 99 points and trailed only Greater Spokane League teams Mt. Spo...
The Cheney High School girls soccer team kicked of the season on the right foot, snapping up two wins in less than a week. First, the Lady Blackhawks took on University High School in a non-league match on Tuesday, Sept. 10 in a fierce battle that pushed into overtime. Neither team managed to score in the first half in a back and forth game that ultimately saw the Titans and the Blackhawks both take 10 shots at the goal. University’s goalkeeper made eight saves, while Cheney’s relatively new, underclassman goalkeepers spl...
The Okanogan Bulldogs (1-1) brought their big boys to Holliday Field in Medical Lake to dominate on the ground under the Friday night lights on Sept. 13, in a 33-6 loss for the smaller Cardinal football squad. “They’re big, but they’re not that good,” was how one Cardinal player assessed the Okanogan players in the middle of the first quarter. Maybe, but the Caribou Trail League Bulldogs were good enough to continue jacking-up the score as the contest wore on against the agg...
Cheney High School scored on their first two drives of Friday’s home opener with Rogers and never looked back in a 35-0 drubbing of the visiting Pirates. Dalton Harriett scored the first of his three rushing touchdowns on a 16-yard run for a 7-0 lead at the 8:17 mark in the first quarter. The Blackhawks made it 14-0 less than two minutes later on an 11-yard Alex Long to Ryan Rieckmann TD pass. After failing to make a first down on its first three possessions, Rogers finally f...
Chip, chip, chip away. Do you notice the chipping away of human rights of migrants and reduction of total number of refugees by the present administration? Day after day, it creates an even more cruel way to block asylum-seekers; the latest being the denial of refuge for Bahamians fleeing the ravages of Hurricane Dorian, and people living here sometimes for years, who require advanced medical care. This of course includes children being sent back to their countries of origin where there is limited access to medical care, a...
“Cigarette butts, the most littered items in the world, are proving to be an intractable trash problem for regulators and tobacco companies. Throwing them on the ground is a firmly entrenched habit for many smokers.” This statement published in the Wall Street Journal was sent to me recently. It goes on to say “Regulators are taking a tougher stance on cigarette filter pollution amid concerns about the environmental impact of single use plastic. For decades, butts have been made from cellulose acetate, a form of plast...
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