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The online criticism of the Coeur d’Alene Albertsons stung, especially coming from a longtime customer who wondered if the store was going downhill. But Albertsons corporate executives responded quickly, promising to address the customer’s concerns.

The next meeting of the Marmot Lodge has been postponed.

As an organization that uses a lot of energy and emits pollution, the city is squarely within its purview to identify and adopt ways of saving gas, using less energy and reducing carbon emissions.

And now a reading from the refrigerator magnets.

Remember Eagle? Then this jaunt back in time is for you.

Some of the Hired Hands at Kellogg City Hall were concerned recently when a couple pulled into the parking lot, grabbed their camping chairs, and sat down in front of the door. In Idaho, you can jump to conclusions about a situation like this.

Lee Sorenson of Post Falls enjoys reading Ammi Midstokke’s adventures in the S-R Outdoors pages. It reminds him of “the years of commutes, winters, and Mother Nature’s jokes” in the Spirit Lake and Blanchard Valley areas – and a troublesome woodpecker that interrupted sleep.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will hold actual hearings on health care next month, focused on trying to find ways to stabilize insurance markets and bring down costs.

Joe Paisley, the former KVNI-AM morning co-host with Kerri Thoreson, was stuck in commuter traffic in the fast lane behind a slow-moving truck recently. He’s always wondered what it would be like to call another driver who was causing traffic problems. He found out on the way home from KHTQ-FM recently.

New school year presents students with another chance to meet a great teacher.

July 31 comes and goes each year in Coeur d’Alene, without much remembrance of the terrible train accident that killed 17 and badly injured more than 100. On July 31, 1909, two trains collided head-on at or near the Gibbs station (the approximate entrance to today’s Riverstone development).

We’re calling pass interference on summer, pushing us back 15 days.

Raymond Davidson won the world pinball championship this summer in Denmark.

Campaign finance reports in Idaho state races are due on Monday – which is when we’ll find out who’s providing the initial funding behind the 2018 campaigns for governor, lieutenant governor and more. But GOP gubernatorial candidate Tommy Ahlquist sent out a news release on Thursday touting his fundraising, saying his campaign raised nearly $575,000 between March 1 and June 30, with more than half of the donations below $100.

Near nature, quite friendly.

When my neighbor’s cat was in her prime, we had law and order in my backyard. Or perhaps a better way to describe it would be to call it frontier justice.

We like the spontaneous combustion idea.

Nick Smoot and wife, Kenna, are light years ahead of the pack when it comes to dreaming big dreams. Nick, founder and CEO of Innovation Collective, is a mastermind behind the startup scene in Coeur d’Alene. To use a chamber of commerce term, everything about him is proactive. And that includes his marriage.