Adrian Rogers

As a person with COPD, Peggy Clymore catches the air-quality reports on the early-morning news and adjusts  accordingly. On dirtier-air days, she tends her flower and vegetable gardens soon after rising or in the evening, when she finds it easier to breathe outdoors than during midday. But under recent smoky skies in Spokane as a massive wildfire raged in north-central Washington, Clymore, 71, stayed indoors all day, windows clamped shut and swamp cooler running. For someone with COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – or asthma, emphysema or other respiratory ailments – smoky air can lead to serious complications.

Tanning beds in Washington are now for adults only. A state law that took effect in June prohibits people younger than 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices such as tanning booths and beds and sunlamps without a doctor’s prescription. The law aims to protect children from the harmful effects of UV radiation.

The Spokane Art School is getting a permanent home – the space occupied by the Tinman Gallery in north Spokane.

Writing about her decision one night to sleep with her dog instead, author Bailey White described her mother’s snoring in disturbing terms. “Her blood-curdling snoring,” Bailey wrote, “with its gargling and squawking and its terrifying pauses, is like the sound the devil might make if he were alternately relishing and strangling on a pound of human flesh.”

Jessica Ley leaned close toward the 5-year-old sitting opposite her in a child-size chair, and she had his full attention. “Spell ‘at,’ ” she said.