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1 years ago Dec 4, 2014 With no public comment received, Cheney City Council closed its 2015 budget hearing and proceeded to unanimously adopt the city’s just over $23.37 million budget. Stage West Community Theater hosted “It’s a Wonderful Life” by taking the audience back in time to the radio station SWCT for the classic Christmas radio drama. News of groundbreaking on a proposed $26 million shuttle loading grain terminal near Four Lakes Nov. 14, surprised City of Cheney officials – and they are hoping project proponent...
1 years ago Nov. 27, 2014 Eastern Washington University football celebrated their third consecutive Big Sky Conference title after beating Portland State 56-34. Cheney vehicles targeted in theft wave as police investigate a rash of thefts from motor vehicles that struck two residential areas in the city this past week. Between Nov. 19-22, 19 incidents of third-degree theft, one third-degree theft and one second degree theft that were reported. Medical Lake City Council passed an ordinance that prohibits the production,...
1 years ago Nov. 20, 2014 Cheney City Council unanimously approved a pair of ordinances at their Nov. 12 meeting, setting annual increases to the city’s regular property tax and emergency medical services levies. Medical Lake Citizens Deer Advisory Committee took a couple of steps toward addressing the city’s deer population at ts Nov. 12 meeting. Cheney High School graduate, Benjamin Newkirk, 39, died last week while climbing the 10,047-foot middle sister mountain in Oregon’s Three Sisters Wilderness west of Bend. 20 years...
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...
1 years ago Nov. 6, 2014 Joe Noland, City Light Director, has a list of eight projects, totaling an estimated $710,000, included in his $8.73 million budget that he’d like to see accomplished next year. Some projects, such as a $50,000 replacement of old wooden street light poles along State Route 904 from Vine to 2nd streets, have either been cut from previous budgets or delayed due to funding. Airway Heights at their city council meeting, Airway Heights City Manager Albert Tripp presented the preliminary budget for 2015. O...
1 years ago Oct. 23, 2014 Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, Spokane County Fir District 3 and the Washington State Department of Transportation responded to a power pole fire on State Route 902 and Welcome Road, two miles east of Medical Lake, Oct. 14 at 11:10 p.m. Cheney Police units were first o the scene of an accident involving four vehicles, two of which were motorcycles, on Interstate 90 early Sunday morning, Oct. 19. The Cheney girl’s soccer team earned its first winning streak of the season, albeit briefly, with bac...
