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• 5,000 businesses later, column comes to an end

  January 2, 2011 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Well, this is it – my last work for The Spokesman-Review. Although the exact date isn’t available, this business column first was published in 1985, the same year I became …

• Handle on Business: Star’s Pet Grooming opening this week

  December 26, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 Oh. How does a person write something for the day after Christmas without it being anti-climactic? To avoid that, I’ll try to keep this dull today. However, Star Belcher won’t. …

• Big R store will bring jobs to Ponderay; off-road vehicle store expected to reopen

  December 12, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 The Ponderay area just north of Sandpoint this spring will become the home of Big R’s largest store. With the “R” standing for “ranch,” Big R has six stores in …

• Growing realty group gets into bigger space

  November 28, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 We’ve gotten some clues for interesting big business news for the near future, but they aren’t absolutely confirmed – so we’ll just hint at them within the tidbits down below. …

• Handle on Business: Hayden has new option for Mexican

  November 21, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 The name of the place is Tequila Joe’s, and it has plenty of standard Mexican foods and beverages. However, it also has pastas, burgers, steaks, sizzling skillet-plates, lunch specials, a …

• Handle on Business: UGM plans to build women’s facility

  November 14, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 Some long empty, weedy acreage north of Dairy Queen in Coeur d’Alene will become a women’s and children’s shelter and recovery center through the Union Gospel Mission. The Spokane-based group …

• Labor department plans party at new facility in Post Falls

  November 7, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 With more room inside, more parking outside and a central location, the Idaho Department of Labor this past week opened its new facility at 600 N. Thornton Ave., north of …

• Thrift store Trader Tots planning grand opening

  October 31, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I5 The grand opening for Trader Tots is this Saturday. Formerly the home of Post Falls Insurance, a consignment shop for children’s clothing, baby gear and maternity clothing opened in mid-October …

• Toni & Guy Hair Academy moving to larger facility

  October 17, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 A major change involving 13 employees, about 100 students, hundreds of customers and two key Coeur d’Alene locations will occur in early January. The Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy will …

• Travel center in Post Falls something new to love

  October 10, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I5 The business news this week is big news – maybe not so big as far as billions of dollars and hundreds of employees, but more so in the physical size …

• New restaurant cooks up homegrown Italian recipes

  October 3, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 Hoping to fittingly open on Columbus Day, Oct. 12, since Christopher Columbus was an Italian, Lucca’s Restaurant will be at 1801 E. Sherman Ave. The 44-seat location most recently was …

• Handle on Business: Wine Cellar has new owners

  September 19, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I4 The Wine Cellar Restaurant at 313 Sherman Ave. is back under local ownership. Tom and Patricia Power, longtime loyal customers and members of the Wine Club, bought the business and …

• Handle on Business: Franklin’s Hoagies will carry on after longtime owners retire

  September 12, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 After 42 years in the restaurant business, including nearly 23 in Coeur d’Alene, Larry and Pauline Anderson have retired. The pair recently sold Franklin’s Hoagies at 501 N. Fourth St. …

• Handle on Business: Discount store to offer overstocks

  September 5, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 A wide variety of items at as little as half the retail prices will be available at Coeur d’Alene Discount when it opens in mid-September at 1515 Northwest Blvd. The … 1

• Sherman Junction delivers home-style meals

  August 22, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 Home-style made-from-scratch Idaho favorites are the promise of the Sherman Junction Restaurant. This all-meal, 99-customer capacity place will open soon at 819 E. Sherman Ave. The building started as a …

• Indians and Outlaws opens on Fourth

  February 14, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 Authentic reproductions of Native American and Old West artifacts are the specialty of Indians and Outlaws, a new shop at 120 Fourth St. in downtown Coeur d’Alene. “Authentic,” in this …

• Blondie’s salon making move to Syringa Center

  January 31, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 Two businesses are joining two existing places in Syringa Center in February. The new, 12,000-square -foot building is in the northwest corner at the intersection of Third Street and Locust …

• Two new Liberty Tax Service locations

  January 24, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I3 Aaaargh! It’s tax season again. (Note that sentence ends with a period and not an exclamation mark.) Fittingly, Liberty Tax Service is in new locations in Coeur d’Alene and Post …