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  Then and Now: Empire start

  February 13, 2012 in City on Page A5 When the office block was built on the southwest corner of Lincoln Street and Riverside Avenue in 1900, it was named the Empire State Building in honor of New Yorker …

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  Then & Now: Lisa Comstock-Schultz

  February 7, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 When Eastern Washington University’s diminutive point guard Chene Cooper this year became the women’s basketball all-time assist leader at the school, she broke a record that had stood for more …

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  Then and Now photos: Legion Building

  February 6, 2012 in City on Page A5 It’s been called the Metals Building, the Assemblee Building and the American Legion Building. Spokane industrialist F. Lewis Clark built the elegant Renaissance Revival structure at West Riverside Avenue and …

• Former Eagle Tony Brooks stars in commercial

  January 30, 2012 in Sports After his days as a standout wide receiver at Eastern Washington, Tony Brooks has built a successful career as a State Farm Insurance agent, which in turn allowed him to …

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  Then and Now photos: Historic hub

  January 30, 2012 in City on Page A5 The dusty town of Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, was booming with railroads, timber and mining in the late 19th century as black settlers came looking for opportunities and a place … 1

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  Family resemblance

  January 24, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Just from their experience in Spokane it might seem as if success came easily to Kirsti and Soren Olson. They had the charmed lives of standout students and athletes at …

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  Then and now: Kirsti and Soren Olson

  January 23, 2012 in Sports Siblings Kirsti and Soren Olson have followed a similar path in life from high school standouts to college volleyball and now to the same profession as orthopedic surgeons.

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  Photos Then & Now: Corner of Riverside and Wall

  January 23, 2012 in City on Page A5 Edward Herbert Jamieson, an attorney who settled in Spokane in 1882, founded Spokane Abstract Co. and built a two-story brick building on the southwest corner of Riverside Avenue and Wall …

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  Photos Then and Now: Bright city night

  January 16, 2012 in City on Page A5 When a Spokane Chronicle photographer made a nighttime photo of South Stevens Street curving into West Ninth Avenue in 1966, Spokane was a bustling business center. Aluminum, timber products, chemicals, … 2

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  Staying involved

  January 10, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 The piece of paper is weathered, dating back to the 1984-85 Greater Spokane League basketball season. The crude chart by this sportswriter was discovered recently and provided a week-by-week update … 1

• Then and Now: Bill Ames

  January 9, 2012 in Sports University High’s Bill Ames, class of 1985, finished second in GSL scoring all-time behind Terry Kelly with nearly 1,200 points. Ames also set the GSL career rebounding record. Today, he …

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  Public transit turned Spokane into urban center

  January 9, 2012 in City on Page A5 The streetcar parade of 1936 marked the end of an era and showed that Spokane held its lumbering streetcars in great affection even as the public bus, more versatile and … 8

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  Then & Now photos: Millwood, oldest city in Valley

  December 26, 2011 in City on Page A5 The town of Millwood was orignally named Woodard Station for a train stop on the Coeur d’Alene Spokane Railroad at the edge of Joseph and Seth Woodard’s land. The Woodards … 7

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  Then & Now: Interstate 90 transformed a region

  December 19, 2011 in City on Page A5 The interstate highway is something baby boomers and younger people take for granted. And though President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation to fund an interstate highway system June 29, 1956, … 3

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  Then & Now: Armory building

  December 12, 2011 in City on Page A5 The cavernous state armory building at 202 W. Second Ave. in downtown Spokane, built in 1909, once housed the Washington National Guard. Historian Carolyn Hage Nunemaker writes that it was … 2

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  Then and Now photos: The Clocktower

  December 5, 2011 in City on Page A5 The iconic Riverfront Park Clocktower was completed in 1902 as the centerpiece of the Great Northern Railroad depot. For decades it cast its shadow over Spokanites rushing to board trains, … 6

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  Historic stretch near courthouse still bustling

  November 28, 2011 in City on Page A5 Despite the Great Depression, Spokane was growing and building to the north, up the corridors of Monroe, Washington, Howard and Division streets. The last of Spokane’s streetcars was retired in …

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  Idaho’s oldest building remains a sacred place

  October 31, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page A5 In the early 19th century, the Native Americans who lived in villages along the St. Joe River, Coeur d’Alene Lake and the Spokane River heard stories from passing travelers that … 1

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  Photos Then & Now: Cougars’ playing field

  October 24, 2011 in City on Page A5 Washington State University’s Martin Stadium first took shape as Soldier Field in 1892 and became Rogers Field in 1902. In 1970, some of the football stadium’s 1930s-era wooden bleachers were …

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  Then & Now photos: Priest River

  October 10, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page A5 Most people see the town of Priest River, Idaho, population 1,750, while en route to cabins and campgrounds on Priest Lake. But the town has a rich timber and railroad … 1

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  Then & Now: Lake CdA has long been airport to motorized birds

  August 22, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page A5 Although Coeur d’Alene’s Weeks Field was among Idaho’s first airports, seaplanes have long been common on Lake Coeur d’Alene. They have been used for commercial purposes such as scouting timber …

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  Tracking a new career

  May 10, 2011 in Sports on Page B1 Early in what passed for spring this spring, Danielle Ayers- Stamper returned to her old stomping grounds. The former three-sport star for LaCrosse- Washtucna was at track practice, where little …

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  Happy on bench

  April 26, 2011 in Sports on Page B1 As an assistant coach with the NBA’s Boston Celtics, Kevin Eastman’s typical work day consists of very little that is typical. Long sessions in the film room, daily practices, game …

• Eastman happy on the bench

  April 25, 2011 in Sports Long sessions in the film room, daily practices, game preparation, scouting and red-eye charter flights between NBA cities are all part of the drill for former WSU men’s basketball coach …

• Real world? Basketball

  January 11, 2011 in Sports on Page B1 After a long and successful career in basketball, Andrea Lloyd entered the real world, as the former Moscow High School star put it, only to find out she liked basketball …

• Then and Now with Doug and Darci Wellsandt

  November 15, 2010 in Sports Back in the day it was all sports all the time for Doug and Darci Wellsandt, mixed in with helping on the family farm. It worked out pretty well since …

• Career first

  October 25, 2010 in Sports Back when he finished a stellar high school football career as the second all-time rusher in the Greater Spokane League and first at Mead, Scott McGlocklin was the strongest athlete … 1

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  Former U-Hi standout wins world grappling championship

  June 15, 2010 in Sports on Page B1 Proficiency in judo led Scott Garcia to a stellar University High wrestling career. Since graduating in 1995, the globetrotting Garcia has expanded his grasp of martial artistry and parlayed it … 1

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  Sports gave Missy Blackshire tools to succeed

  June 9, 2010 in Sports on Page B1 Follow the bouncing ball. After an abbreviated stay at Washington State, former Ferris volleyball and track star Missy Blackshire finishes her volleyball career at UC Santa Barbara. 1

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  It was all worth it

  February 9, 2010 in Sports on Page B1 MOSCOW, Idaho – The morning after his first University of Idaho basketball practice, Orlando Lightfoot entered his coach’s office and said he’d had enough. It was all too much – … 1

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