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CHENEY – After a 12-year absence, Cheney is home to a bookstore once again. Paperbound Books, 107 F Street Suite B, owned by Kate MacDonald, opened last month, offering a selection of used and new books, along with puzzles and some textbooks for college students. "I had a collection of 300 books when I was just twelve," MacDonald recalled. "Most of them came from thrift stores because we didn't have many bookstores around." After moving to Cheney, MacDonald noticed the town l...
CHENEY - Eastern Washington had just battled back to earn a 28-28 tie with the second-ranked Montana State Bobcats, Nov. 2 at Roos Field on back-to-back touchdowns from Tuna Altahir as the third quarter wound down. The momentum they gained lasted all of 19 seconds when 'Cats quarterback "Touchdown Tommy" Mellott dashed 76 yards on the first play from scrimmage following the kickoff to remain the lead. Montana State added insurance with 3:15 to play on a 61-yard pass play from...
The Cheney boys cross country team came into the 2024 season driven by both experience and history. And on Saturday, Nov. 9 in Pasco they'll reach the finish line at the state 3A championships. "They have aspirations to be the first (Cheney) state champion team since 1989," head coach Derek Slaughter said prior to the season. The Blackhawks arrive with that goal within reach following what might be considered an upset team title Nov. 2 in the District 6 championships at Vetera...
CHENEY - Rain turned Tom Oswald Field into a muddy mess and seriously slowed down offenses in a Nov. 1 Greater Spokane League season-ending game between Cheney and Mt. Spokane. And the result was as might be expected with the Wildcats enduring for a 7-3 win over the Blackhawks. The win allowed Mt. Spokane to earn a 3A state playoff berth. "Obviously very adverse conditions for both teams, a couple of real missed opportunities in our passing game that could have changed the o...
CHENEY – More than 1,200 children roamed the "Field of Dreams" neighborhood on Halloween night, gathering treats and thrills alike. The main attraction was "Field of Screams," a haunted castle set between two Victorian homes, drawing eager visitors from across the community. The castle featured ghostly figures drifting inside, while flashing lights illuminated the eerie decor outside, setting a spine-chilling scene. Kids navigated the haunted passages in pursuit of their u...
Medical Lake will return its girls cross country team and several athletes on the boys side to the state championships Nov. 9 in Pasco. The Cardinal girls finished fourth as a team at the Nov. 2 1A District 5 Championships at the 3-mile Apple Ridge XC Course near Yakima. Medical Lake's Northeast A League rival Lakeside won the team title with 54 points while the Cardinals collected 109. Kaylee Dennler's time of 18 minutes, 38:40 seconds landed her another individual win....
The Spangle community hosted its annual Trunk-or-Treat Halloween celebration on Thursday, Oct. 31. Dozens of rural youth turned out to take in spooky fun and treats offered by residents and businesses in the parking lot of Spangle Foods and Fuel, 315 W. Jennings Road....
CHENEY — Cheney made the most of having just one allocation to the girls 3A state meet winning eight events. Two Blackhawks each qualified for a pair of events. O’Dell went solo from here team duties to collect victories in the 100 Butterfly in 59.74 and then clocked a 1:01.64 in the 100 backstroke. Lauren Howe qualified in a pair of events. Her win in a time of 24:54 in the 50 Freestyle and a 54.51 in the 200 Freestyle. Madi Bauman’s 2:01.60 earned her a spot in the 200 Freestyle. In team efforts, the 200 Medley Relay went...
COLFAX - Incumbent Republicans Mary Dye of Pomeroy and Joe Schmick of Colfax are leading in their Nov. 5 general election bids to retain their 9th Legislative District House seats. In early returns districtwide, Dye is leading in the Position No. 1 race with 37,107 votes (66.29%) Challenger Patrick Miller had 18.747 (33.49%) at press time. In Spokane County, Dye leads with 16,065 votes (64.21%). Miller had 8,892 (35.54%). "It was a wonderful campaign, and I am really looking...
Airway Heights AIRWAY HEIGHTS — The Police Department reported the following arrests from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4: Oct. 29 Nikolaus A. Stiles was arrested in the 800 block of South Garfield third-degree rape. Nov. 1 Mitchell D. Hyams was arrested in the 1700 block of South Hayford Road for violating a domestic violence order of protection. Shannon M. Garcia was arrested in the 1200 block of South Hayford Road for first-degree criminal trespassing. Uriah M. Grossglauser was arrested in the 13600 block of West Sixth Avenue for s...
COLFAX – Michael Baumgartner is the heir apparent to the 5th Congressional District seat held by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. As of press time on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, Baumgartner is was looking to defeat Democrat Carmela Conroy. The 5th Congressional District spans 11 counties including Ferry, Pend Oreille, Lincoln, Stevens, Whitman, Walla Walla, Garfield, Asotin, Columbia and sections of Franklin and Adams County. The seat has been held since 2004 by McMorris R...
OLYMPIA — Voters statewide are saying enough to government overreach on natural gas. In a preliminary tally in the Nov. 5 general election, Initiative 2066 was passing with 2,515,296 supporting votes (51.22%) and 1,227,068 opposing votes (48.78%). In Spokane County the measure had 121,278 (59.52%) votes in favor and 82,445 (40.46%) opposed. The initiative would prohibit the state Building Code Council from discouraging the use of natural gas in any building. It requires gas and utility companies, cities or towns that p...
COLFAX – A citizen’s initiatie to repeal the state’s capital gains tax appears to have failed. At press time on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, Initiative 2109 only had support from 923,017, (36.68%) voters statewide. There were 1,593,095 votes (63.32%) opposed. Initiative 2109 would have repealed an excise tax on the sale or exchange of long-term capital assets by individuals who have annual capital gains of more than $250,000. Some of those gains could come from the sale of homes and businesses, among other capital asset...
Fernandez overseeing refuges CHENEY — Juliette Fernandez has been named as the new chief of the National Wildlife Refuge System in Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and the Pacific Islands. Fernandez’s district includes Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge; she was previously the project leader at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge complex, which includes four refuges along the Columbia River near Vancouver. City seeks for preservation grant CHENEY – The city moved is applying for a $6,500 grant to update the city’s historic...
CHENEY – The Planning Commission met on Oct. 14 to examine the potential impact of Washington State’s Missing Middle Housing Act, also known as House Bill 1110 (HB 1110), on local zoning laws and specifically discussed the possibility of tiny homes within the city. Commissioner Bill White asked, “It is my understanding that we have a new state code for provisioning three single-family housing units on a single lot. Are we trying to address that with our code?” Cheney City Manager Mark Schuller clarified that Cheney is curr...
CHENEY – The fire and police departments presented their budgets for 2025 to City Council during its Oct.22 meeting. Other city departments are scheduled to present their budgets at the Nov. 12 council meeting. In 2024, the Police Department operated on a $4.3 million budget. The department is asking for a slight increase to approximately $4.307 million for 2025. Meanwhile, the Fire Department is asking for a budget increase from just over $2.9 million in 2024 to around $3.1 million in 2025, reflecting a $202,500 increase. P...
Washington’s agriculture is a $12.8 billion business with 33,000 farms — and it runs on gasoline, diesel, and natural gas. The hundreds of big rigs hauling crops and food products are not electric. Even though new trucks have reduced CO2 and other pollutants, some politicians are hastily charging ahead to replace fossil-fueled trucks with unproven technology. According to 2021 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data, transportation was responsible for 30 percent of gre...
Were the Seattle legislators who said that farmers could afford to pay the state’s new CO2 tax right after all? A recent report from the Washington State Department of Licensing shows just 6.5 percent of funds set aside for farmers to collect a rebate on fuel taxes assessed by the Climate Commitment Act have been accessed. State Senator Joe Nguyen (D-Seattle) mentioned the low number of farmers applying for the rebates recently, highlighting it as evidence that the impact of the CO2 tax was small. It is, however, a bit glib...
Suicide has rocked my family. In memory of my child, Katie Thew, who battled chronic pain and died by suicide on Oct. 6, 2022, I offer this article to help other families avoid this grief. Rampant mental health challenges including depression, with more and more communities recognizing they lack adequate resources to help, inspired the creation of a month (September) devoted to suicide prevention which recently passed. Now our family is mourning another milestone, the two-year anniversary of Katie’s death. Each of us can l...
James "Jim " Wendell Cogswell passed away Sept. 25, 2024. He was born in Spokane, Wash., on Sept. 15, 1941 to Jack and Elsie Cogswell. He grew up on the family farm in Espanola, Wash., where he had many great memories with older brother, Warren, and younger, brother, Darrell, and sister, Janice. Jim and his brothers spent much time as young men working on cars out on the farm. Jim had a '69 Ford Fairlane and Darrel had a Ford Mustang. The boys used those cars to race against...
1 years ago Nov. 13, 2014 Cheney Parks and Recreation Department was one of 15 organizations in King, Pierce and Spokane counties recently honored by the Raikes Foundation for providing “high quality out of school time programs by young people as part of its Youth Program Quality Initiative.” Westwood Middle School students, staff and guests honored almost 100 men and women of U.S. armed forces veterans for their service at the school’s annual Veterans Day program on Nov. 10. Medical Lake cross country team won 1A state...
Who was she and why is she acting to weird? First impressions are important, and she makes an indelible one. The clothes are astonishing. She is not one to wear subdued hues, no gray, pastels or beiges for her. And she didn’t tiptoe around. No, she went everywhere taking giant strides as though she was heading to the finish line of a race, and coming in first, of course. In the same way, she greeted every day with gusto and curiosity, jumping out of bed and into whatever colorful costume brought her joy that day. For some p...
As we wrap up our last Halloween and homecoming in high school, let’s look back at these memories. Cheney High School had its football homecoming game Oct. 18 versus Mead High School, unfortunately losing 0-42. Following the Blackhawks, the Medical Lake Cardinals played the Kodiaks from Leavenworth for their homecoming football game Oct. 18, losing 14-42. My home team — the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves — played the Waistburg Cardinals and losing 6-14, we almost won but in the last minute the Cardinals scored. We are also exper...
MEDICAL LAKE – During its last meeting, the School Board conducted a second reading of school improvement plans and parental input policies. They will be addressed on the third reading in its next meeting. The first policy under review, Board Policy 3241, focused on student discipline. The district removed references to alternative forms of discipline that had been considered or attempted in the past. Additionally, it was decided that principals and certified staff at each school would no longer be responsible for d...
Cheney 3A State Qualifiers Boys Fin. Name Time 6. Samuel Hilton 15:37.88 7. Cameron Frenk 15:50.01 8. Holland Hurd 15:59.91 11. Brayden Martin 16:04.20 20. Andrew Ward 16:26.43 22. Lucas Matos 16:27.96 31. Liam Frantzich 16:54.85 Girls Fin. Name Time 3. Hannah Ward 18:53.83 15. Abigail Scharosch 19:42.15 17. Isabella Adaszewski 19:48.23 25. Kiera Lanier 20:30.56 33. Clara Silvers 21:23.30 41. Maggie Boggs 22:04.78 51. Reese Randles 22:54.24 Medical Lake XC 1A State Qualifiers Boys Fin. Name Time 2. Nakai Ornelas 16:03.80 4....
