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• One dead, two wounded in two New Year’s Eve shootings in North Spokane

  January 1, 2013 in City Spokane Police were kept busy on New Year’s Eve and into this morning with two North Spokane shootings, one of them fatal. 82

• Happy hangover

  January 1, 2013 in Health on Page C1 If you’re a little fuzzy on the details of last night’s celebration, imagine the poor caveman. Oooh, jackpot, he thought, following his nose to a pile of fermented fruit. Little …

• Children’s hospital celebrates New Year’s Eve with patients

  January 1, 2012 in City on Page B1 Madeline Cumbie and her family have a special reason to celebrate the New Year. In June 2012, Madeline, 4, will finish cancer treatment. She was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia …

• Hope reigns as Americans prepare to ring in 2012

  December 31, 2011 in Nation/World, News NEW YORK (AP) — Times Square was awash in hopeful sentiments as it prepared to welcome hordes of New Year’s Eve revelers looking to cast off a rough year and … 2

• Don’t be afraid to ring in 2012 with 30,000 close friends

  December 29, 2011 in Features on Page C1 First Night, a party in downtown Spokane on New Year’s Eve, can be intimidating for a first-timer. How do you choose among 150 performances in more than 40 venues? How …

• Religion Notebook: Services ring in new year

  December 29, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S2 Sunday begins a new year filled with new possibilities. Area churches are starting the year with special services. • St. David’s Episcopal Church, 7315 N. Wall St., will hold a …

• Senior center plans New Year’s Eve dinner

  December 22, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S4 The Southside Senior and Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave., will host a New Year’s Eve celebration from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.. The fun will include gourmet delicacies from …

• Ringing in the year with touch of class

  January 8, 2011 in City on Page B1 Among the many things I loved about how I spent New Year’s Eve, here’s what I enjoyed the most: Imagining what people from, for instance, Seattle might have to say …

• Front Porch: There’s a first time for everything

  January 6, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V1 I don’t like change. It’s hard for me to let go of the familiar and embrace something new. Perhaps that’s why New Year’s Eve has always been my least favorite …

• ‘A night of pure joy’

  January 1, 2011 in City on Page B1 The New Year’s wishes of Henry Groenen, 5, and his brother Jakob, 8, seemed completely attainable at Friday’s 10th annual First Night Spokane. Jakob wished for “more fireworks,” and Henry, …

• Cold doesn’t stop First Night revelers

  December 31, 2010 in City Hundreds of children and their parents packed into the Spokane Convention Center to launch First Night with face painting, hat making and the writing of New Year’s resolutions on a … 2

• Weather service predicts bitter cold

  December 31, 2010 in City New Year’s Eve will be frosty, with the National Weather Service’s Spokane office saying conditions throughout the region will be “bitterly cold.”

• Thousands will jam downtown for family-friendly First Night

  December 30, 2010 in Features on Page C1 On Dec. 31, 2001, Spokane grappled for the first time with a concept called First Night. It proved an instant hit. About 14,000 revelers jammed downtown streets. 1

• Ring in 2011 with symphony, ballet

  December 30, 2010 in Features on Page C5 First Night isn’t the only way to celebrate the arts in Spokane on New Year’s Eve: • For a second year, the Spokane Symphony will follow German tradition by performing …

• Oysters Rockefeller can help ease transition to new tradition

  December 29, 2010 in Food on Page C1 It’s often said eating a raw oyster is like kissing a mermaid, but I prefer to think of the experience as catching a perfect wave on a boogie board. It’s …

• Country, be-bop, resort-style offerings for New Year’s Eve

  December 26, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I4 Fashion wise, different cultures bring in the New Year in a variety of different ways. For example, fancy panties are de rigueur for folks in Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela; …

• Spokane’s First Night packed with entertainment

  December 31, 2009 in Features on Page C1 With 200 performances taking place in 40 venues downtown, First Night Spokane is, essentially, one giant variety show. Yet one of those 200 events is, in fact, a true “Variety …

• First Night holds much fun for kids

  December 28, 2009 in Features on Page C1 It’s a New Year’s Eve bash designed for the whole family. There’s something for everyone at First Night Spokane, downtown Spokane’s annual community celebration. 1

• First Night director can’t imagine Spokane without annual bash

  December 28, 2009 in City on Page A5 Spokane’s First Night celebration marks its ninth year on New Year’s Eve, with its now well-known range of events for adults and kids around downtown Spokane. But Chris Martin, the …

• New Year’s Eve has more than just First Night

  December 24, 2009 in Features on Page C1 If you go Theatre Ballet of Spokane, Ballet and Bubbly

• Thai club owner to be charged

  January 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 BANGKOK, Thailand – The owner of a Thai nightclub where at least 62 revelers perished in a New Year’s Eve fire will face criminal charges over the blaze, which was …

• World bids adieu to rocky 2008

  December 31, 2008 in Nation/World NEW YORK — Americans are having no problem saying goodbye to 2008 today, but the nation’s economic troubles made many of them less interested in giving it an expensive send-off.

• A night for kids

  December 29, 2008 in Features on Page B1 New Year’s Eve doesn’t have to be an adults-only affair. At First Night, downtown Spokane’s annual community celebration, children are very much a part of the festivities.

• Event rings in the new year by shredding the old

  December 29, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 NEW YORK – Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Or maybe shredded? In an event that organizers hope will become a New Year’s tradition, New Yorkers and tourists were invited to …

• First Night revelry spreads eastward

  December 28, 2008 in Features on Page D1 Bubbles are a fitting New Year’s Eve symbol – champagne and all of that – but they’ll play a particularly key role in this year’s First Night Spokane celebration. Among …

• Some churches change schedules

  December 27, 2008 in Washington Voices on Page V7 The celebration of Jesus’ birth has passed, but a few Spokane Valley churches are planning changes to the usual schedule to mark the celebration of the new year. • The …

• Ring in 2009 with a bash around town

  December 26, 2008 in Features on Page D4 If you’re brave enough to fool with the snow (or fool enough to brave the snow), you’ve got plenty of options to gather with friends and ring in the New …

• First Night Spokane

  December 26, 2008 in Features on Page D3 What: The annual family friendly New Year’s Eve celebration returns with a half-dozen dance parties, an expanded Rail Jam Snowboard Competition and plenty more, from classical music to comedy. When: …

• If you go: Spokane Opera’s New Year’s Eve gala

  December 26, 2008 in Features on Page D3 What: Spokane Opera’s annual New Year’s Eve gala, with auctions, dinner, dancing and arias by renowned Seattle soprano Jane Eaglen. When: Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

• Visual arts warm things up for First Night

  December 25, 2008 in Features on Page D1 There’s magic and promise in the air in the days between Christmas and New Year’s. From Friday through New Year’s Day, Art Fusion – a sparkling new addition to the …