Feb. 10 initial election results
CHERYL SCHWEIZER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 2 months AGO
Polls closed Tuesday evening in Grant and Adams counties after several education-focused measures and some health items were voted on by locals. Initial results below indicate tentative results with more votes left to be counted before the election is certified.
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Senior Reporter Cheryl Schweizer is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience serving small communities in the Pacific Northwest. She began her post-high-school education at Treasure Valley Community College and enerned her journalism degree at Oregon State University. After working for multiple publications, she has settled down at the Columbia Basin Herald and has been a staple of the newsroom for more than a decade. Schweizer’s dedication to her communities and profession has earned her the nickname “The Baroness of Bylines.” She covers a variety of beats including health, business and various municipalities. | February 10, 2026 8:36 PM
EPHRATA — Voters were asked to approve or reject educational programs and operations levy requests from a number of Grant and Adams county school districts in Tuesday’s special election. Voters in the Ephrata School District and East Adams Rural Healthcare decided the fate of specific proposals. Unofficial results released Tuesday night are listed below with additional votes coming in via mail over the next few days. Mailed-in ballots must have been postmarked by Feb. 10, 2026, to be counted.
Election results will be certified Feb. 20.
Grant County
Coulee-Hartline School District
Two-year EP&O levy:
Yes: 239
No: 98
Ephrata School District
Construction bond
Yes: 1,147
No: 1,261
Quincy School District
Four-year EP&O levy:
Yes: 933
No: 500
Royal School District
Two-year EP&O levy:
Yes: 292
No: 170
Wahluke School District
Four-year EP&O levy:
Yes: 261
No: 222
Warden School District
Two-year EP&O levy:
Yes: 167
No: 123
Two-year capital levy, safety and technology:
Yes: 169
No: 107
Wilson Creek School District
Two-year EP&O levy:
Yes: 43
No: 33
Adams County
East Adams Rural Healthcare:
EMS levy lid lift:
Yes: 466
No: 379
Healthcare levy lid lift
Yes: 411
No: 432
Lind School District
Two-year EP&O levy:
Yes: 122
No: 71
Two-year capital levy, technology and facility upgrades
Yes: 125
No: 68
Othello School District
Four-year EP&O levy:
Yes: 564
No: 348
Ritzville School District
Two-year EP&O levy:
Yes: 315
No: 224
Two-year capital levy, technology and facility upgrades
Yes: 342
No: 197
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ID still pending on body found along Crab Creek
BEVERLY — An autopsy is pending to help determine the identity of a dead person found along Crab Creek Saturday night and recovered late Sunday afternoon. “A kayaker found the body in the water Saturday evening about 3.5 miles east of state Route 243 near Beverly in southwestern Grant County,” said Kyle Foreman, public information officer with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, in a release issued Sunday night. “Deputies used a drone to pinpoint the body. For safety reasons, they returned at dawn on Sunday to begin the recovery. Access to the remote site was hindered by dense overgrowth.”
Data centers, including Sabey, play crucial role
QUINCY — A lot of work and thought has gone into making online access as easy as possible for consumers. Pick up the phone or open the computer, and it’s possible to connect with anyone almost anywhere in the world. It seems easy. In reality – as anyone knows who’s dealt with a tech failure knows – it’s a complex network of connections and reconnections that must move fast and without interruption. At the base of it all is the machine that coordinates all of that electronic activity. Ryan Beebout, western vice-president for Sabey Data Centers, said the servers that power the system are the equivalent of the electrical grid. “Almost everything you do on your phone runs through a data center,” Beebout said. “People want their phones to be small and lightweight, and they want their batteries to last a really long time. A lot of the things that you do are very computationally intensive. You can’t do that on a device like (a cell phone).”
Autopsy pending on body found along Crab Creek
BEVERLY — An autopsy is pending to help determine the identity of a dead person found along Crab Creek Saturday night and recovered late Sunday afternoon.