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CHENEY — With a fire comes the need for a command post and camp to house firefighters and their support crews. For the Gray Fire, Northwest Incident Management Team No. 7, a Southeast Washington response team, set up operations at Cheney Middle School, 740 Betz Road, where it replaced state Department of Natural Resources managing the emergency. The team will be moving later this week due to the back-to-school timetable. Spokeswoman Heather Gibsen said Monday, Aug. 21, that the team is charged with managing the daily logistics in c...
SPRAGUE — The School District will receive $5 million to upgrade aging systems. The funds will come from the state biennial capital budget. The grant funds are earmarked for repairing the roof as well as the heating, ventilation and air conditions systems at Sprague High School. “We received legislative approval for a $5 million grant,” Superintendent-Principal Ray Leaver said last week, noting the grant request itself was written by the previous superintendent. “We are waiting for the governor to sign it and we should be receiving access...
OLYMPIA — The governor’s proposed 2023-25 state capital budget, which included a nearly $2.5 million funding ward for the Palouse to Cascades Trail from Malden to Kenova, passed April 22. According to the Office of Financial Management, the Kittitas railroad depot has structural problems that require a new foundation and other improvements. This funding will provide for the renovation of the depot and provides American’s with Disabilities Act-accessible amenities for visitors and provides facil...
MALDEN - Volunteers of Masonic lodges from Waverly and Spokane helped a resident set her new manufactured home on its foundations on April 29. Professionals from two contracting companies donated their time to detach the manufactured home from its transport trailer and set it on its concrete foundation. Roxanne Hartman, woman 60, was one of the many residents of Malden and Pine City who lost her home in the Babb Road Fire of 2020. Hartman and her Husband Rick applied for a loan from the United...
EWAN – The remains of a human male were uncovered off Gene Webb Rd. near Ewan and Rock Lake by Spokane County Major Crimes detectives, Jan. 15. According to Spokane County district court documents, the remains are those of Chase Catelli, 35, according to the medical examiner's office. The cause of death has been determined by the coroner to be multiple gunshot wounds. According to a Spokane County Sheriff's office press release, investigators were led to the remains by Catelli's mother, C...
You’ve heard it said in the Pacific Northwest that, during the winter, we see a long stretch of bleak weather followed by a temporary rise in temperatures around mid-January, a “false winter” as it is sometimes called. Well, according to the Farmer’s Almanac for 2022-2023, the unusually warm weather we’ve been experiencing the past few weeks may just be the herald of real, honest-to-goodness spring. Granted, meteorological predictions aren’t perfect, but Farmer’s Almanac’s prediction for Novembe...
As the dawn of a new year approaches, it is important to pause and take stock of ourselves, and of the many mercies and comforts we enjoy. After all, “Gratitude,” Cicero said, “is not the greatest of the virtues, it is the parent of them all.” Of course, much has been lost in our society, and even more has been changed by the passage of these last few years. But not all that undergoes a sea-change in the wake of a storm is unsalvageable; in fact, some of the most precious and useful lessons...
FARMINGTON – Cryptocurrency exchange company FTX has filed for bankruptcy, and its stake in Farmington Bank may be redistributed. In March of 2022, an FTX entity, Alameda Research, made an $11.5 million equity investment in Farmington Bank, 103 N. First St. FTX has since declared bankruptcy. But that filing may not have a local impact, Farmington Bank Director of Business Operations Josey Booth said. “The challenging thing is that FTX is actually about 140 separate entities, one of which made an equity investment in our holding company, FBH Cor...
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest – forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” The above quote is taken from a book first published in 1951, by Hannah Arendt, regarded by some today as an influential political theorist. The excerpt appears in the opening of The Origins of Totalitarianism, written in the wake of Wo...
It it not enough for a mode of disseminating information to be free from governmental oversight, or to be nearly completely unfettered by law; it must be inspired, if not wholly instructed by and reliant upon individuals of some intellectual and moral integrity. This integrity, such as I will describe it, is answerable to an authority not contaminated by private interest and the unchecked motivation toward capital gain. Albert Pike, writer and scholar, once wrote that "When public misfortunes...
