Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• City mulls street fixes

  February 11, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 The need to pay for street preservation ran headlong into the Spokane Valley City Council’s often-stated opposition to new taxes during the council’s winter retreat on Tuesday. No one argued …

• Spokane Valley mulls library land deal

  January 12, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 The Spokane County Library District is proposing that the city of Spokane Valley join it in purchasing 8 acres of land to be split between the two entities. The district …

• County hosting library finalists

  November 29, 2011 in City on Page A9 Candidates from Arizona and California will be in Spokane this week as finalists for the job of executive director of the Spokane County Library District. The district will hold a …

• Trustees to narrow library chief hopefuls

  November 5, 2011 in City on Page A6 Eight applicants will be scrutinized today as replacements for Mike Wirt, who will retire Feb. 24 as director of the Spokane County Library District. Trustees will meet in a closed …

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  Unique summer programs at libraries to entertain

  July 7, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V1 It’s summertime and your kids might be complaining of boredom. To keep them busy, check out some of the children’s activities going on in the Spokane County Library District.

• Book Notes: Black set to star in film version of Walter’s ‘Poets’

  May 22, 2011 in Features on Page D7 Spokane novelist Jess Walter’s latest book, “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” has been picked up as a movie vehicle for Jack Black, retitled “Bailout.” This news came out of …

• Library District buys house, property off Argonne

  March 24, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V8 Last week the Spokane County Library District board of trustees voted to purchase a piece of property next to the Argonne Library for future expansion. An expansion of the library …

• Library trustees seek exemption from SEC requirement

  March 6, 2011 in City on Page B1 As part of its plan to prevent another economic meltdown, the federal government is cracking down on library trustees. Spokane County Library District trustees recently joined library boards around the … 4

• Book Notes: Chinese massacre in 1887 focus of Nokes’ story

  September 19, 2010 in Features on Page D9 R. Gregory Nokes, a former reporter for the Associated Press and the Oregonian, will tell a fascinating story today at Auntie’s Bookstore. Nokes is the author of “Massacred for Gold: …

• North Spokane library branch to start kids’ book club

  September 9, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page N4 The Spokane County Library District’s North Spokane Branch, 44 E. Hawthorne Road, will start a book club for children in grades 4 through 6, beginning Sept. 21. The club will …

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  City, county library directors see host of obstacles

  June 22, 2010 in City on Page A5 An informal study shows consolidation of the Spokane and Spokane County library systems would face big financial, logistical and political obstacles. That may explain why no one so far is …

• Libraries compare notes on merger options

  June 21, 2010 in News, City An informal study shows consolidation of the Spokane and Spokane County library systems would face big financial, logistical and political obstacles.

• Failed Valley library bond has ripple effects

  March 27, 2008 in Voices on Page N4 A failed March 11 bond measure to build and expand libraries in the Greater Spokane Valley area would have benefited residents of northern Spokane County as well. The $33.4 million …