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MEDICAL LAKE — A young Bronco girls basketball team (1-1) kept pace with Medical Lake for a quarter, but the Cardinals depth helped them prevail, 48-41, on Friday, Dec. 9. Head Coach Bryce Court said he was proud of his team, which only has three seniors with limited experience. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington girls have two freshmen and five sophomores on the varsity lineup. “I’m super ex cited at how we did against a team like that,” he said. “They’re a big t...
SR 904 sidewalks being attended to on December 12 in response to recent snowfall....
Fire Chief Tom Jenkins presents volunteer firefighter Brandon Tillman with the firefighter of the year award....
AIRWAY HEIGHTS – Cleone’s Closet, a food pantry on Sunset Highway, is partnering with the Rec center and municipal court to run a food and toy drive from Dec. 1-16. The toys will be distributed through the facility at their main location at 13114 W Sunset Highway from 12p.m. to 2p.m. on Dec. 21. The food accumulated from the drive will be added to the general supply and distributed at the main facility Mondays and Fridays from 12p.m. to 2p.m. Cleone’s Closet was started as a...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS - City council votes to reduce fire, EMS, and police services in two areas owned or held in trust by the Kalispel tribe. City administrator Albert Tripp said “The Kalispel tribe failed to pay on two separate contracts for service from the city, so we are reducing service proportional to that lack of payment.” One of these contracts, established in 1996, between the city and the Kalispel tribe, was paid annually until 2019. The second contract is a 3-party contra...
CHENEY – Council voted 4 to 3 in favor of Resolution F-092, to apply for an Urban Growth Area land swap of 10 acres from the south of Cheney to the north. Prior to discussion and voting, a presentation was given by representatives of a local developer, Cheney Cohousing, regarding the potential for developing the area. Councilman Vincent Barthels commented on a request received by council that he recuse himself from participating in the voting on this resolution due to an a...
CHENEY – Donna Mann, Dean of the College of Health Science and Public Health at Eastern Washington University, has approved funding for a pilot EMT program partnership between the college and the Cheney fire department. Students can now enroll in a 10-credit class, the first of which will begin on Jan. 9 2023, which Battalion Chief Jeff Anderson and EWU instructor Nate Lawton will teach. The partnership also includes an agreement with with Fire District 3 which entails the u...
LACEY - Today, state regulators approved a settlement agreement for Avista Utilities, incrementally increasing customer rates over the next two years. This is the first rate increase approved by the Utilities and Transportation Commission under legislation passed in 2021 requiring utilities to file multi-year rates plans when seeking rate increases. The approved settlement covers a two-year period beginning Dec. 21. Avista’s electric revenue will increase $38 million on Dec. 21 and $12.5 million next year on Dec. 21, 2023; A...
The $5.4 billion expansion of the Panama Canal is paying off for East Coast and Gulf of Mexico seaports. It is putting pressure on the Pacific Ocean-based terminals to be more competitive. The enlarged waterway opened in June 2016 allowing much larger container ships to transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Ships carrying up to 14,800 containers can now bypass Washington and other West Coast docks and deliver containers directly to cities from Houston to New York. The older canal accommodates ships with 5,000...
Former state senator and current state Director of Commerce Lisa Brown rightly describes the difficulties a small business startup faces in Washington. Brown says the state Department of Commerce is helping small business owners navigate the complicated array of regulations and mandates that the very same government agency had previously imposed. But Brown completely glosses over the underlying problem small businesses face when they first start; that is, over complex government regulations. Instead of pouring money into...
Shipping deadlines according to Copy Junction Cheney Free Press Lucas Walsh CHENEY – If you need your package delivered on Dec. 23, you’ll need to follow these guidelines. Next Day Air: Ship by Dec. 22 Second-Day Air: Dec. 21 Three Day-Air: Dec. 20 According to the representative at the Copy Junction and USPS, if a package is sent out by ground, it is unlikely that it will arrive by Christmas. Cheney public schools lock down The following message was sent out to Cheney public schools by the superintendent. “Out of an abund...
Vern Hopkins Our Montana ranch was on the Valley Creek Road, halfway between Arlee and Ravalli Junction. It laws about a quarter of a mile off the highway and across the Jocko River Bridge to our lane. One day around the middle of December, a few days before Christmas, I went out in the dark as usual, to do morning chores. There was a skiff of new snow on top of a couple inches of the old. I grained the two saddle horses that I kept up to use for the winter, let my milk cow in the barn, locked her in the station and fed the...
This Week in History Cheney Free Press Dec. 13, 1935 Lucas Walsh On a Monday night in 1935, 16 year old Lyn Pierson wandered into the Cheney police station hoping to find shelter and food, a Free Press article of the time opens. Lyn had been living in Genesee, ID with his aunt and uncle before he decided to run away and move to California. After school on that very Monday morning, with 50 cents in his pocket, Pierson hitched a ride down to Moscow. From there he was able to find another ride to Spokane, but was forced to walk...
Cheney Community Church Candlelight Service Four Lakes Community Church and others will be joining us on Friday December 23rd 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM to celebrate the lighting of the Christ candle and hearing a message from God’s word. After the service, please stay for cookies & cocoa. Christmas Day is on Sunday this year. We will have our morning service at the usual time of 10 am. Please feel free to bring the whole family and celebrate the birth of Jesus. Operation Christmas Child Dave and Mickey Smith Thank you to everyone in...
Medical Lake boys’ head basketball coach summed things up in just three words when asked to access his team’s winless week. “Yup, tough week,” Jordan Starr wrote in an email following the Cardinals’ non-league losses to Northwest Christian 61-25 on Dec. 6, and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague’s 69-14 demolition Dec. 9. NWC blew its game wide open in quarters two and three leading just 10-7 after the opening eight minutes. The 1B Crusaders would outscore the Cardinals 43-5 in that spa...
Dalton Taylor of Cheney earned a win in last week's West Valley Duals over Tyson Mogan of West Valley at 160 pounds. The decision came via a fall in a time of 2 minutes, 54 seconds. Host West Valley won in its match vs. Cheney 45-27 but the Blackhawks finished the day with a 2-1-1 record, tying Lake City 36-36 while defeating East Valley of Spokane 43-30 and Ephrata 46-30. Following a Dec. 14 match at Mead, the Blackhawks open the home portion of their Greater Spokane League...
The Travis Peevey era of Cheney basketball launched last week with the Blackhawks’ boys earning a split in a pair of non-league games. Cheney dropped its opener to University, 53-47, Dec. 6 but then topped North Central 58-49 on Dec. 9. A game Saturday at home vs. Wenatchee was cancelled due to effects of a storm with efforts underway to possibly reschedule. In their opener, the Blackhawks led 33-18 at half but U-High dominated third-quarter as the Titan’s raced out of the...
Despite being saddled by sickness, the Medical Lake girls’ basketball team found what it needed to collect at least one win out of two games last week. “It was a crazy week for us,” new coach Brett Ward wrote in an email. “For pretty much the entire week we had three of our nine varsity players out sick.” At one point half of the whole program was out sick Ward said. Despite that, the Cardinals lost to Northwest Christian 43-22 on Dec. 6 on the road but topped Lind-Ritz...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington boys basketball team held Medical Lake nearly scoreless in the first half as the Broncos dunked the Cardinals, 69-14, in a nonleague boys basketball game Friday, Dec. 9. The Cardinals (0-3) could only muster a single bucket in each of the first two quarters of play for a total of 5 points. Meanwhile, the Broncos offense dominated the court, rolling up 41 points before the break. The undefeated Broncos (3-0) s...
While the Cheney girls’ basketball team lost its opening two games of the season at home, 50-30 to University, Dec. 6 and 49-29 to North Central, Dec. 9, the good news is both were pre-season contests for the Greater Spokane League. How the Blackhawks improve to when things count will have a pretty good measuring stick. The same teams meet again for the final two games of the regular season in February at U-Hi and NC. Cheney head coach Ken Ryan assessed the outcomes writing in...
New Medical Lake girls head basketball coach Brett Ward will be bringing some higher-level learning and practices to his job. Ward, who spent the past six seasons as an assistant for the Medical Lake boys, plans to integrate some of what he took in while a student at Washington State University. He worked inside the WSU athletic department. He got to see first-hand and be involved in practices and games what a college program really looks like,” Ward said. In particular, he w...
Technically speaking, this is year-two at the wheel for Cheney girls’ basketball head coach Ken Ryan. But he kind of likes to think of it more as his first season. “I got the job late,” Ryan said, noting he took over not long before the start of the season. “We didn’t have a summer (program) last year. I didn’t know the players or the coaches.” The Blackhawks finished 2-7 in Greater Spokane League play, 7-15 overall. A veteran of having coached previously at Deer Park for...
The following incidents were reported by Cheney police between Dec. 5-10 Dec. 5 Second degree assault, domestic violence. 300 Block N. 6th St. Warrant arrest. 200 Block G St. Warrants: Residential Burglary (Spokane County) and fourth degree assault. Arrested: William W. Wagnon, 40 year old male Verbal domestic violence. 1000 Block Betz Rd. Dec. 6 Third degree theft. 3000 Block Harvest Bluff Dr. Stolen: package from porch Abandoned auto. 100 Block Presley Dr. Impounded: blue 1995 Chevy pickup Violation of court order . 2200...
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