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• Spotlight: Northern Quest lands Crosby, Stills and Nash

  May 6, 2012 in Features on Page D7 The events calendar for this summer is filling up quickly. Over at Northern Quest Casino, they’ve added another show to its entertainment lineup. Legendary rock group Crosby, Stills and Nash …

• Clark: Like freeway, I’m sky high over Wallace

  May 8, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B1 (Last in a two-part road trip adventure.) WALLACE – You always remember where you were when you first hear news of a mind-blowing nature. 3

• Former longtime Silver Valley coach Norm Walker dies at 83

  May 6, 2011 in Sports on Page B3 Norm Walker was pound for pound one of the toughest men to come out of the Silver Valley. A longtime football and boys basketball coach at Mullan and Wallace, Walker …

• Clark: Queue up organ, refueling tankers for Depot Day

  May 5, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page A5 (Today’s column is the first of yet another two-part* road trip adventure.) (*Presuming the home equity loan I applied for goes through in time to pay for the fuel, that … 1

• Wallace girls coach Krulitz dies

  January 22, 2011 in Sports, City on Page C5 Wallace girls basketball coach Kirby Krulitz died Thursday afternoon of an apparent heart attack. He was 63. Krulitz, who also was the Wallace School District transportation supervisor, was on a …

• Wallace HS girls basketball coach dies

  January 21, 2011 in Sports Wallace girls basketball coach Kirby Krulitz died Thursday afternoon of an apparent heart attack. He was 63.

• Truck dumps into creek at Wallace

  January 5, 2011 in City, Idaho A semi truck carrying a load of apples has crashed in the vicinity of the viaduct on Interstate 90 at Wallace this afternoon. 3

• Clark: A frighteningly good time at the center of universe

  October 19, 2010 in City on Page A5 We’ve reached that time of year when we all start getting our fright on. And it seems like this Halloween season is offering more scares than ever to choose from. …

• Meeting to cover basin cleanup

  October 19, 2010 in City on Page A6 Proposed Superfund cleanup plans for the Upper Coeur d’Alene Basin will be discussed Wednesday at a town hall meeting in Wallace.

• Wallace restaurant can’t withstand Big Burn crowds

  August 29, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I5 Maggie the Ghost needs to get busy throwing plates and shattering coffee cups. Legend has it that a woman named Maggie checked into Wallace’s Jameson Inn decades ago and never … 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 …

• Forest fire, the largest in U.S. history, left stories of awe, tragedy

      August 15, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 Today, we can imagine the smoke – thick and suffocating. We can fathom the flames – causing mountains and towns to glow red at midnight. We can even imagine the … 1

• Fire put Wallace on the map, nearly destroyed it

    August 15, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 For three days in August 1910, the mining town of Wallace, Idaho, was at the epicenter of national news. 1

• Residents fear cleanup will hinder Silver Valley economy

  August 10, 2010 in City on Page A1 KELLOGG – Too far-reaching, too costly. Another knock for the Silver Valley. That was the consensus of public testimony Monday evening at a town hall meeting on the U.S. Environmental … 10

• Hecla stakes its claim in Wallace with new office

  July 11, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I6 After an absence of 26 years, Hecla Mining Co. has moved an office back into Wallace. The 119-year-old company had an office in Wallace from about 1917 to 1984, when …

• Hecla Mining opens Silver Valley office

  July 7, 2010 in Business on Page A10 Hecla Mining Co. is opening an office in Idaho’s Silver Valley to keep local residents abreast of future expansions at the Lucky Friday Mine and the company’s role in environmental …

• Burning Memories

  May 15, 2010 in Features on Page E1 Spot fires flared in the streets as families fled Wallace. For days, the city’s residents thought they might escape the forest fires blazing in the mountains around them. But by … 1

• Wallace woman dies in car crash

  March 31, 2010 in Idaho on Page A7 A 63-year-old Wallace woman was killed Monday night when her vehicle went off Prichard Creek Road and rolled.

• Wallace woman dies in rollover crash

  March 30, 2010 in Idaho A 63-year-old Wallace woman was killed Monday night when her vehicle went off Prichard Creek Road and rolled.

• Forest Van Dorn

  February 22, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 Next August marks the 100th anniversary of the 1910 Fire, which swept across 3 million acres in Idaho, Washington and Montana during a two-day firestorm. At least 85 people – …

• Magnuson had vision for region

  January 26, 2009 in City on Page A1 People called Harry F. Magnuson “Mr. Wallace,” but his reach stretched far beyond his hometown. He saved historic buildings from wrecking balls and helped rescue Gonzaga University from financial collapse. …

• Colorful history surrounds Silver Valley

  June 9, 2008 in City on Page A6 Hercules. Galena. Lucky Friday. Star. Sierra. They sound like the names of racehorses, but in North Idaho’s Silver Valley everyone knows these are the mines that have shaped the area’s …