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By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter As the last remnants of snow melt away in Cheney, city leaders are asking residents and businesses to band together for some spring cleaning. The fourth annual Cheney Clean Sweep will be held throughout the city April 23. The event, started by the Cheney Police Department to clean up streets and yards post-winter, this year aims to bring neighbors together to pick up garbage, get rid of their junk and beautify public areas in the city. Cheney's Community Development and Solid Waste departments...
Four Lakes family opens ambitious new business next week By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Over the past seven months a local couple has transformed a long-vacant Airway Heights bowling alley into their dream – a family restaurant and activity center that will offer everything from Foosball to southern cooking. Four Lakes residents Robert and Stephanie Brasefield said it's taken a lot of work to clean and remodel the 1950s-era building behind Zip's Restaurant at 1500 S. Russell St., which six years ago was home to the Trade-A-...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Two Medical Lake businesses are closing this week – the Wagon Wheel Tavern and Stone Cottage Collections – but the owners of both say they'll retain a foothold in the West Plains business community. Citing the slow economy and an exceptionally hard year, Wagon Wheel owner Amber Duell chose to shutter the iconic local watering hole this Wednesday, March 23. In the spring of 2009 she and business partner Steve Herndon resurrected the tavern at the corner of Lake and Lefevre streets, but les...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Due to a low member turnout at their March 16 meeting, the Spokane Transit Authority board of directors deferred a final decision on service changes scheduled to take effect in September. “They felt that this is an important issue and they wanted all the members present before making a decision,” STA communications manager Molly Meyers said. Meyers said four of the board's nine members were absent last Wednesday, all excused, including Medical Lake City Councilwoman Brenda Redell, Spokane Val...
CHENEY March 14 Jonathon M. Cantu, 19, was arrested at the 300 block of Betz Road on a local warrant for possession of stolen property. Cody E. Gilliams, 22, was arrested on the 700 block of West First Street for violation of a no-contact order. Prescription medications were stolen from a vehicle on the 700 block of West First Street. A fence post was stolen from the 2200 block of First Street. Damage to a vehicle was reported on the zero hundred block of North Sixth Street. A wallet was stolen from Cheney High School....
From March 4 through April 16, Eastern Washington University's Get Lit! Programs is hosting “The 2011 Big Read for the Inland Northwest,” thanks to the Spokane Public Library, Spokane County Library and Fairchild Air Force Base Library. The point of the Big Read is to draw communities together around a single book through a month of related literary events. Get Lit! Programs selected Tim O'Brien's “The Things They Carried” because it exemplified this year's festival theme of “Telling the American Story.” This award-winni...
CHENEY Feb. 21 Financial fraud—unauthorized use of a debit card—was reported on the 100 block of West First Street. Feb. 22 Tires were slashed at Cheney High School. Feb. 23 Sarina M. Walker, 21, was arrested for shoplifting at Cheney Trading Company. A one-vehicle collision with minor injuries occurred on the 500 block of First Street. A one-vehicle non-injury collision occurred on the 100 block of Paradise Road. A one-vehicle non-injury collision occurred on the 1100 block of Oakland Street. A two-vehicle non-injury col...
National League of Cities president James Mitchell, Jr. announced the appointment of Airway Heights Mayor Patrick Rushing to the NLC 2011 Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Advocacy Committee. This committee has the lead responsibility for considering NLC federal policy positions in the areas of energy, clean air, solid and hazardous waste, water quality and supply, national wetlands and endangered species. In a press release Rushing said providing clean air, solid and hazardous waste disposal and building...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter After a brief hiatus the Spokane County Sheriff's office has again stationed a detective in the city of Medical Lake. Thirteen-year Sheriff's Office veteran Marty Pannell now has an office next door to Medical Lake City Hall, where he focuses primarily on property crimes investigations in west and south Spokane County. Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told the Medical Lake City Council last month that he'd been working to get a detective back into the post since it was vacated by Detective Richard...
City plans to inject $8 million into local projects this year, ranging from street reconstruction to reclaimed water distribution infrastructure By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The city of Airway Heights has kicked off a plan to stimulate the local economy over the coming year by encouraging development, expanding city infrastructure and providing new jobs. Last year Airway Heights City Council began looking at ways to spark development and now federal, state and local funding sources have been identified for several project...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Cheney police continued investigating a string of local burglaries last month. A search warrant turned up some stolen items, and detectives plan to issue warrants for the suspects. “We know who these people are,” Cmdr. Rick Campbell said of the suspects in several burglaries that occurred late last year. “Right now they're in the wind. They know we're looking for them.” According to the department's monthly accountability review, the burglary investigation along with an effort to restruc...
Major changes are unlikely at both Medical Lake institutions, which are sure to see funding impacts over the next biennium By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter While the 2011 state Legislative session may not hold the same closure threats as last year for Medical Lake facilities, both Lakeland Village and Eastern State Hospital are still likely to see funding cuts this year and beyond. Last Friday Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law a supplemental budget that reduces projected state spending by about $236 million between now and...
Faculty and staff newsletter undergoes format and name changes EWU's Marketing and Communications Department is transforming the Good Morning Eastern (GME) online faculty and staff newsletter into a new internal website that will be continuously updated with the latest campus news. The new Eastern 24/7 (http://blogs.ewu.edu/Eastern247) will be easier to navigate and will provide content updates daily. The most notable change will be the visual design of the page. Feature stories will be accessible without having to scroll up...
Local department holds fundraising carwash Feb. 26 before heading west to take part in a race that benefits Leukemia-Lymphoma Society By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter On Sunday, March 6 five Medical Lake firefighters will join 1,500 others to race up the Columbia Center Tower in Seattle wearing about 45 pounds of gear and breathing equipment. Billed as the largest individual firefighter stair climb in the country, the annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb is a mad dash up 69...
Local tax preparers offer info on new changes By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter As spring approaches, a sense of anxiety hovers over the West Plains like the threat of a late winter snowstorm: it's tax season. People across the country are sitting down, at their kitchen tables or with their accountants, to deal with taxes. And with the continued slow economy, the federal government has made some changes to the tax code since last year. Some of the changes will help local individuals and businesses, while others will require...
Fire damage limited to living room in early morning blaze, fireplace was reported to be in use at the time By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter The cause of a Cheney home fire is under investigation. The fire, reported at 2:30 a.m. Monday from the 700 block of West Fifth Street, likely began in or near the fireplace on the main floor of the home, Cheney battalion chief Gary Hartford said. “The fireplace was being used at the time,” he said. “The fire was still going when they went...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The West Plains Chamber of Commerce annual Best of the West awards ceremony was held last Thursday, Feb. 4 at The Cozy Concept in Four Lakes. The event honors outstanding educators and members of the West Plains business and civic community. Current chamber president Teresa LeGate said award recipients were chosen based on nominations by chamber and community members, and there was a “definite increase” in nominations this year, the eve...
EWU police officer will jump into Medical Lake once an hour for 24 hours to kick off this year's Polar Plunge fundraiser By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Every February for the past four years a rising number of people have gathered at Waterfront Park to take turns running down the beach into the frigid winter waters of Medical Lake. On Feb. 26 at high noon, hundreds will once again turn out for the annual Polar Plunge to support Special Olympics of Washington, earning...
