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Here are the Eastern Washington high school football scores reported last night, Oct. 4: Almira/Coulee-Hartline 74, Entiat 36 Asotin 38, Reardan 0 Cascade (Leavenworth) 21, Cheney 14 Chiawana 48, Hanford 7 Clarkston 50, West Valley (Spokane) 49 Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) 35, Central Valley (Spokane) 13 Connell 46, Naches Valley 0 Colfax 39, Lind-Ritzville/Sprague 13 Cusick 66, Columbia (Hunters) 20 Deer Park 21, Colville 20 Eastmont 23, West Valley (Yakima) 20 OT Ellensburg 27,... Full story
MEDICAL LAKE -Spokane County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested a motorist in connection with a hit-and-run incident. Dustin J. Williams, 27, was arrested for felony hit-and-run at a local store at about 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. He allegedly failed to stop and render assistance after he struck a jogger near the intersection of South Stanley and East Campbell streets, the Sheriff's Office reported. Williams was identified with the help of witnesses who described a blue or gr...
Here are this week's Associated Press high school football rankings: Class 4A 1. Lake Stevens 2. Woodinville 3. Kennedy Catholic 4. Camas 5. Graham-Kapowsin 6. Central Valley 7. Union 8. Puyallup 9. Chiawana 10. Mount Si Class 3A 1. Eastside Catholic 2. O'Dea 3. Lakes 4. Lincoln 5. Mount Spokane 6. Mountain View, Kelso and Bellevue (tie) 9. Bethel 10. Kamiakin Kennewick, Marysville-Pilchuck, Peninsula and Garfield all received votes. Class 2A 1. Tumwater 2. Lynden 3. Archbishop Murphy 4. Hockinson 5. Steilacoom 6. Liberty... Full story
CHENEY – Now that Medical Lake’s fire service has been annexed into Spokane County Fire District 3, are there other fire agencies in the region considering the same scenario? That was a question posed by the Medical Lake City Council at its Sept. 17 meeting to District 3 Deputy Chief Don Crawford. Crawford told the council the city of Cheney has been watching the district’s model for years, prompting Medical Lake City Administrator Doug Ross to ask if they might be the next...
I bought my first electronic calculator several years ago when I was in grad school. It was made by Texas Instruments and was a little bigger than a deck of cards. It could add, subtract, multiply, and divide much faster and more accurately than I could with my old slide rule. I paid $100 for it. After a couple weeks, I put my slide rule away and never used it again. Today you can find smaller calculators with more power at the Dollar Store. As manufacturers skill increased, the price went down. The fancy economic term for...
The proverbial bovine fecal matter has been piling up recently. According to columnist Frank Watson, in his Sept. 26 piece, the minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage, but an income for “untested, unskilled labor.” Meanwhile, Don Brunell complained in his Sept. 12 column about the skyrocketing national debt, blaming it on so-called entitlement programs and government overspending, noting “taxes must be affordable.” Both perspectives are patently misguid...
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University has released the names of students who have made the Scholastic Honor Roll for the university’s summer term. Named to the honor roll from Cheney is Molly E. Jarrells, a senior majoring natural resources. A total of 182 students earned straight-A (4.0). Another 532 earned a B-plus (3.5) or better to make the listing. To be on the Honor Roll, students must carry at least 12 graded hours of course work....
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake School District is working to develop a variety of methods and programs to “change the narrative” of the educational experience for it’s students and staff, and at least one of those programs is getting considerable attention. The district’s innovative mental health program called “Mind Your Health” recently began offering free mental health and other services to the Medical Lake community. Leading that program is Student Services Director Tawn...
For the second consecutive year, Eastern Washington University has been nationally recognized for its outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. EWU is the recipient of the 2019 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the HEED Award, EWU will be featured in the November 2019 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. “As an office that has been in existence for just two y...
CHENEY – Cheney Public School officials thought they had a good plan for installation of new boilers at the district’s high school this month — until a freakish winter storm arrived about three months too early. The snow and cold that invaded the Inland Northwest this weekend and lingered into Monday forced district officials to advise parents Sunday night to have their high school students dress warmly as the building was without heat for the first part of this week. Superintendent Rob Roettger said the original plan was t...
It’s opening weekend of StageWest Community Theatre’s production (and West Coast Grand Premier) of “Stranger in the Attic,” written by John Kaasik. This play is a Hitchcockian thriller involving a writer, a lawyer, wives to the writer and lawyer, a detective and a man with many personalities and moods who is offering an exclusive story about a murder that has not yet happened. You will be on the edge of your seat many times, and love every second of it of this PG-13 rated production. Opening night is Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 p....
Janice V. Pittmann (age 72) Passed away Sept. 26, 2019 in Spokane. She was born in Colfax, Wash. on Nov. 29, 1946 and was a graduate of Cheney High School, class of 1965. From there, her studies took her to Eastern Washington University and higher learning universities including time in California and Phoenix. She enjoyed teaching drama, speech, and English at Oakesdale School District where she met the love of her life Stephen Pittmann, a local farmer. Together they enjoyed t...
While jogging Sunday morning, Cheney resident Dave Cook snapped some shots of the damage from last weekend’s wind, cold and snow event....
One hundred years ago years ago in 1919, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company introduced the dial telephone. Now, who remembers those? Learn more about our area’s history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
It’s opening weekend of StageWest Community Theatre’s production (and West Coast Grand Premier) of “Stranger in the Attic,” written by John Kaasik. This play is a Hitchcockian thriller involving a writer, a lawyer, wives to the writer and lawyer, a detective and a man with many personalities and moods who is offering an exclusive story about a murder that has not yet happened. You will be on the edge of your seat many times, and love every second of it of this PG-13 rated production. Opening night is Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 p....
Medical Lake is holding a public hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 6:30 p.m. during its regularly scheduled City Council meeting to discuss and receive public comment on the city’s 2020 current expense budget and a possible increase in the Emergency Medical Services levy and regular property taxes, according to a legal notice. The council chambers are on the second floor of City Hall at 124 S. Lefevre St....
Cheney Congregational Church Sunday, Oct 3 is Communion Sunday at Cheney Congregational Church. As usual, on the first Sunday of each month, our communion table is open to everyone who is old enough to understand. One need not be a member to share the sacrament. The sermon text will be Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7. God speaks a word of hope to those who feel they are living in exile, cut off from a life of joy and wholeness. Join us to hear this word of hope! Children are welcome in our congregation. Young children can play in a...
1 Years Ago Oct. 1, 2009 Medical Lake fifth grade teacher Darrell John was awarded the KHQ Teacher of the Month award. The Blackhawk football squad narrowly escaped a loss to the Cardinals in a 14-13 win on a late touchdown by Daniel Igbinoba. The Eastern Washington University Eagles rushed for 190 yards and a 56-30 win over Sacramento State. Cheney FFA and 4-H clubs brought home numerous awards from the Spokane Interstate Fair. 20 Years Ago Sept. 30, 1999 Medical Lake resident Sharon L. Curry confessed to stabbing to death...
Among other weather records that were set last week, we just might have seen our shortest fall ever. Just five days into the autumnal equinox - the fancy Latin term for the swing from summer to fall - much of the Inland Northwest got belted by winter, or at least a distant relative. The area's summer, which in itself was significantly cooler than normal, drifted into history on Monday, Sept. 23. And then, bang, here comes the first measured snowfall in September since 1926 on...
CHENEY — Spokane County Fire District 3 is now offering free car seat checks to help parents ensure they are installing and placing children in car seats correctly. Benefits include ensuring the proper installation of the car seat and the safety of the child in it, making sure the child is in tight, but not too tight, which direction the seat should be installed and to check that the car seat fits the child correctly. Although people are invited to stop by the district h...
County property taxes collected at Spokane Valley City Hall SPOKANE VALLEY – The Spokane County Treasurer’s Office will begin collecting tax payments for Spokane County property tax bills this Friday, Oct. 4, at Spokane Valley City Hall, located at 10210 E. Sprague Ave. As previously announced by the Treasurer’s Office and Spokane Valley, property tax payments will be accepted every Friday in the month of October from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at City Hall leading up to the Oct. 31 payment deadline. Currently, taxpayers making...
MEDICAL LAKE — Fall may have arrived based on the calendar and the shift of the Earth on its axis, but conditions remain dry enough for wildfires. Case in point, Medical Lake experienced two in as many days last week. On Tuesday, Sept. 25, an approximately five-acre stubble fire, possibly caused by a tractor hub, ignited a field north of the city and about a quarter mile west of the Fairchild Air Force Base border. The fire was extinguished quickly, according to Spokane C...
CHENEY — The West Plains will soon have a host of new firefighters to serve on the area’s four fire departments, and for the first time, all are being trained together in one location. Firefighter recruits from Airway Heights, Cheney, Spokane County Fire District 10 are all learning the firefighting trade with recruits from Spokane County Fire District 3 at its training facility on Presley Drive in Cheney. They are undertaking a major commitment: three months of intensive eve...
CHENEY – Cheney police had a busy afternoon last Thursday, Sept. 26, dealing with a variety of transportation issues. The first involved a Washington Eastern grain train that was reported stopped on the tracks in the north part of the city. According to a police report, the train, fully loaded with grain from the Highland Grain LLC’s transloader facility near Four Lakes, became disabled around 12:45 p.m., blocking the intersection of State Route 904 and Betz Road along with the crossings at Cheney-Spokane Road, Pine Str...
"White out" night left students covered in colorful powder Friday in Cheney High School's Tom Oswald Field. Cheerleaders handed out cups of powder to fans attending the Blackhawks vs. Cashmere Bulldogs football game. The students launched the powder into the air at kickoff, creating a colorful cloud....
