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OTHELLO — State officials say they have linked an E.Coli outbreak to contaminated yogurt from a local dairy farm. The state Department of Health said the outbreak is connected to yogurt produced by Pure Eire Dairy, owned and operated by Richard and Jill Smith, and sold at PCC Community Market stores. State health officials said Monday that at least 11 people, including six children younger than 10, have been sickened by the contaminated yogurt; seven have been hospitalized. The cases are in King, Benton, Snohomish and W...
In the NE2B culminating league track meet Thursday, May 13, Liberty’s Ellie Fisk of Spangle wins her heat in the girls 200 meter with a time of 29.49 seconds, her personal record....
Masks are coming off. Most residents wanting a coronavirus vaccination have gotten one. Sports are on and students are back in the classroom. It’s not a coronavirus emergency that’s keeping Washingtonians from going back to work. Over the past several weeks, I’ve had numerous conversations with owners and managers trying to get their small businesses back on solid financial ground. Given residents’ frustration of being pent up for more than 14 months, you’d think that would be...
EASTERN WASHINGTON — The lowland lakes fishing season opens Saturday, April 24, with trout being the most sought-after species. Opening day also marks the opening day of the statewide trout derby, where fishermen can win more than 1,000 prizes totaling more than $38,000. While some lakes are open for fishing year-round, the state closes a number of lakes through the fall and winter while it stocks millions of trout and kokanee. About four miles out of town alongside state H...
CHENEY - Through three quarters of their game with Eastern Washington on April 10 at Roos Field, the Idaho Vandals ran, ran - and ran some more. The ground game had been good to Idaho with 278 yards on the day and helped them earn a 31-24 lead on the red turf through the halfway point of the third quarter. Sure, they used the pass too, but pretty sparingly considering their quarterback Zach Borisch had not taken a "live-fire" collegiate snap since graduating from Kamiakin...
A fisherman trolls for trout in his kayak Friday, April 9, on Medical Lake. The lake is a popular place for fishermen to try to catch rainbow and brown trout....
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee is expected to sign a bill today that would begin the process of removing statues of perhaps the state's most prominent figure from the Capitol building and the National Statuary in Washington, D.C. The governor has called an 11:30 a.m. signing ceremony, where he will sign House Bill 1372 into law. The bill would replace the statues of Pacific Northwest pioneer, teacher and missionary Marcus Whitman. They will be replaced with statues of Billy Frank Jr., a Nisqually tribal fishing rights activist. T...
OLYMPIA – Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday, April 8, that moving a county backwards for at least three weeks in his phased reopening plan may provide the impetus to improve vaccination rates. During his press conference, the governor said there has been a recent increase in coronavirus cases in some counties. And as a result, he’ll be looking at the “numbers” Monday to determine which counties should be bounced backward toward closure. “This is not judgment day Monday,” he said. “The score is the score… The numbers will be...
A herd of elk cross Cheney Spangle Road, near Jennings Road, early morning on Mar. 25....
CHENEY - It was a great day to wear Eastern Washington red; it was not at all a good day for a group of Cal Poly coaches who once wore those colors. Jump started by scoring four first-quarter touchdowns and using just 3 minutes, 59 seconds off the clock to do so, the Eagles performed their own stampede on the way to a 62-10 victory over the Beau Baldwin-led Mustangs at sunny Roos Field. Along with Baldwin, who spent nine seasons as Eastern's head coach (2008-2016) and four as...
Medical Lake’s Owen Stevens (51) pursues Deer Park quarterback Chaz bird during action last Friday night. The visiting Stags played a dominating game, with Bird throwing for three touchdowns and running for another score, in winning 35-0 as the Cardinals made their winter/spring season home football debut at Holliday Field. The Stags held the Cardinals to just two first downs and outgained them 360-12. Medical Lake visits Lakeside on Friday, March 19 for a 7 p.m. kickoff in S...
Clay Irgens, 7, and sister Camille Irgens, 4, of Cheney, brought the first buttercups of the season to the Cheney Free Press office on Monday, March 15. The children’s parents are Timothy and Jessica Irgens. The siblings found their buttercups while visiting uncle and aunt, Tim and Kelley Walker, along Cheney Spokane Road on Monday, March 15. The Walker’s 13-year-old son, Levi Walker, has in past years brought buttercups into the newspaper office....
PULLMAN — Washington State University has sold naming rights of the field in Martin Stadium to Tri-Cities-based Gesa Credit Union. The university and financial business have signed a 10-year deal naming the field as Gesa Field. The value of the contract is valued at more than $11 million, officials said. "Washington State University was established 130 years ago to serve the citizens of our state," university President Kirk Schulz said today in announcing the deal. "That commi...
CHENEY – All Blackhawks Season 1 teams – fall sports – were in action last week, some for the first time since fall 2019. Cross country The boys and girls traveled to Central Valley for a double-dual meet with the host Bears and Gonzaga Prep - Cheney's first meet since moving to the 3A classification and into the now 4A/3A/2A Greater Spokane League. Both Blackhawks teams came up on the losing end, with the boys falling 19-42 to CV and edged 27-30 by G-Prep. The girls lost...
CHENEY - Maybe Eric Barriere also caught that notion expressed on broadcast of Eastern Washington's opening week spring football loss to Idaho: That the defenses were ahead of the offenses at this early juncture. Because the Barriere of old emerged, threw for 413 yards on 29-of-49 passes and three touchdowns in a 45-13 Big Sky Conference spring season football victory over Northern Arizona March 6 at Roos Field. It was the first game on the stadium's new AstroTurf installed...
Canada geese rest on a log along Hangman Creek between Latah and Waverly Tuesday morning. The creek weaves its way from Whitman through Spokane County before emptying into the Spokane River west of downtown Spokane....
(Editor's note: The first part of this story dealing with the four options appeared in the March 4 issue of the Cheney Free Press.) CHENEY – Eastern Washington University's Board of Trustees was presented with four options for the institution's struggling Athletics Department by the PICTOR Group consulting firm at the board's Feb. 25 meeting. Those options are: staying put in NCAA Division I athletics and in the Big Sky Conference, remaining in D-I but dropping football and m...
CHENEY - A local man was booked into the Spokane County Jail on Tuesday afternoon, March 2, following a crash that sent a car careening into a building. Stephen Michael Foster, 37, was booked into the jail at 4:36 p.m. after being arrested on probable charges of driving while under the influence, third-degree driving while license suspended and operating a motor vehicle without ignition interlock. According to a police report, witnesses said they saw a Dodge Durango eastbound...
The Medical Lake volleyball team hams it up a bit prior to team pictures on Monday. The Lady Cardinals had their first day of practice March 1, and will host Riverside High School on March 9 in their season opener....
MOSCOW, Idaho - Eastern Washington scored early, but the University of Idaho got its points when things mattered the most to claim a 28-21 Big Sky Conference spring season football victory Feb. 27 at the Kibbie Dome. In collecting their second consecutive victory over Eastern, Idaho slowly recovered from an early 14-0 deficit. The Vandals scored the winning points with just 54 seconds to play on a Mike Beaudry to Hayden Hatten 25-yard touchdown pass. The game was the first in...
Winter took one more stab at the region last Thursday by dumping 2.6 inches of new snow, according to National Weather Service in Airway Heights data. The early morning snow caused problems for commuters, including the driver of this Reddaway semi whose trailer tipped over when the truck jackknifed in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 near milepost 274, about three miles west of Spokane....
It’s a solution in search of a problem. Lawmakers in Olympia appear to be fast-tracking House Bill 1356, which would ban the use of “racially derogatory or discriminatory” American Indian mascots, logos and team names in public schools in the state. Simply put, the bill is political theater, nonsense that kowtows to the politically correct crowd that’s bent on cancelling our culture, heritage and history. The bill is quickly moving through the Legislature even though I think...
CHENEY - Having over a year off and moving up a classification was going to be challenge enough for the Blackhawks volleyball program. Throw in having to face the reigning 3A state player of the year and defending state champions in their first match of the delayed season, and it was a bit too much for head coach Heather Zorrazua's squad as Cheney fell 3-1 to visiting Mt. Spokane and Tia Allen last Thursday, Feb. 18. The Wildcats opened by winning the first two games, 25-12...
Cheney High School cheerleaders Chloe Hewes, Morgan Hayes, McKinley Gerard and Emma Miller (right to left) provide inspiration and an example of proper mask wearing during the Blackhawks volleyball match with visiting Mt. Spokane last Thursday, Feb. 18. Cheney fell to the reigning 3A state champions 3-1....
MALDEN – Mayor Dan Harwood accepted a $20,000 check Tuesday, Feb. 16, on behalf of the Fire Department. The donation from the Washington Fire Chiefs association was presented to the city "no strings attached," organization Executive Director Steve Wright said during a brief ceremony in the temporary City Hall. "These funds will assist us in rebuilding our Fire Department and Fire Station, along with funds from our insurance and FEMA," Harwood said. Both the Fire Station and Ci...
