Sixty-four years ago, the Rogers High School class of 1961 received its diplomas and left high school behind. But that doesn’t mean the graduates abandoned the friendships they forged when they roamed the halls as Pirates.
Spokane County is putting nearly a million dollars toward a local nonprofit’s efforts to expand treatment and recovery services, as part of a partnership intended to curb local impacts of the opioid epidemic.
From 1975: World-class pianist Byron Janis was in Spokane to perform with the Spokane Symphony, but in a preconcert interview, the subject turned to ESP (extrasensory perception).
Lawrence “Dutch” Groshoff was born around 1903 and grew up in Spokane’s Catholic schools, showing a talent for music at a young age as he learned piano, guitar and banjo. He would become friends with classmate Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby.
From 1975: A 900-page draft environmental statement grappled with the question: What has been the impact of the “most colossal change of the environment man has ever engineered?”
A nonprofit that assists refugees who come to the Spokane area to escape war, persecution and natural disasters has issued layoffs to all 15 members of its staff who assist the newly arrived.
The family that ran a former private resort and once battled Spokane County over operations of a public park at Fish Lake is selling the last of its adjacent property for park expansion.
A tire salesman, who twice got within a few percentage points of beating Tom Foley in races to represent Spokane in Congress and later challenged attempts all over the state to raise funds for schools, died last week.
Recent rainfall and snowmelt highlighted why residents of Spokane Valley’s Painted Hills neighborhood are in opposition to a developer’s plan to convert a defunct 100-acre golf course into housing.
