Andrea Vogt

Plummer-Worley School District officials said this week they will keep Lakeside Middle School open for seventh- and eighth-grade classes next fall.

1. Kim Barnes 2. Robert Wrigley and Kim Barnes work alone when they are writing, but frequently confer on their projects. Photo by Torsten Kjellstrand/The Spokesman-Review 3. Kim Barnes heads down the path to her husband's hut on their land near Lenore, Idaho. Photo by Torsten Kjellstrand/The Spokesman-Review

1. Springtime tradition. Angelica Reyna gets a kiss from 5-year-old nephew Julio on Saturday while waiting for graduation ceremonies to begin at WSU. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Two-year-old Victoria tries on her mother's mortarboard as family members gather to congratulate Angelica Reyna following her graduation from Washington State University on Saturday. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

Renowned sociologist William Julius Wilson encouraged Washington State University graduates to seek common solutions for healing America's racial divide. Speaking at WSU's all-university ceremony Saturday, Wilson urged students to focus discussion on what unites different ethnic groups, not what divides them.

Bicyclists and motorists will honor Deborah K. Budwig Sunday on a Mother's Day memorial ride along the Moscow-Pullman highway. The 39-year-old Moscow mother of three died in a bicycle-automobile accident April 26 as she was commuting home from work.

The crop-duster killed Monday near Rosalia, Wash., crashed after the wheels of his airplane clipped a hillside, causing the plane to cartwheel and burst into flames, authorities said Tuesday. Witnesses reported the plane was flying from west to east at an extremely low altitude before it struck the ridge.

A human skull found near here Monday by mushroom hunters was identified Tuesday as the remains of 74-year-old Hazel Martin, missing since last May. The discovery marks a major development in the suspected homicide case.

It began as a peace picnic in the late '60s - a chance for war protesters to celebrate the first warm days of spring playing Frisbee and music in the park.

Washington State University's senior leadership isn't selling out academic freedom, interim provost Geoff Gamble told faculty here Thursday. "I want to reassure you there has been no coercion factor whatsoever," Gamble told the faculty senate. "There is no question in our mind where we stand."

Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals have been a big hit on college campuses.

A Washington State University subcommittee has for now abandoned a controversial proposal for doling out the shrinking state library budget. After a series of spirited faculty exchanges, the formula subcommittee voted instead to act as an advisory board for the director of libraries during the budget process.

Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River was releasing 174,000 cubic feet of water per second through its spillways Tuesday. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review

The owner of a ranch near Potlatch, Idaho, faces animal cruelty charges after dozens of animals were rounded up by a sheriff's posse and removed from his ranch. Terry Walser has been charged with a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty for not providing proper care and sustenance for the 47 cows, five horses and 25 hogs taken from his farm three miles southwest of Potlatch.

As broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow captivated the nation during World War II with his "This is London" broadcasts, Sam Donaldson was tuning in. Reporting the war from his London headquarters, Murrow inspired Donaldson, then an 8-year-old Cub Scout, to pretend he was delivering the news over an invisible microphone.

Plummer-Worley School District officials say they'll consider options for keeping Lakeside Middle School open, though it may mean sacrificing student programs. "There may be some minor compromises," Superintendent Bob Singleton said Tuesday. But any changes to the school board's plan for saving $475,000 will mean more terminations or cutback of student programs, he said.

FOR THE RECORD (April 19, 1997): Correction Wrong county: Worley is located in Kootenai County, and Plummer is in Benewah County. A story in Friday's newspaper about a joint school district gave the wrong locations.

Scotty Cornelius, a member of the WSU Arboretum Committee, is alarmed by plans to expand WSU's golf course. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review

University of Idaho officials hope the latest outline of a proposed Post Falls research park will ease fears among regents meeting this week in Boise. The State Board of Education will vote whether to give the Riverbend Research and Training Park the green light Thursday at its monthly meeting.

As a girl, Gretchen Bataille sometimes let her imagination wander while she mixed cherry phosphates behind the counter of her father's drugstore in Mishawaka, Ind. She never dreamed serving hot fudge sundaes and managing the soda fountain would lead to overseeing college campuses and multimillion-dollar budgets.

University of Idaho advertising students are hoping they can open the eyes of potential organ donors in Washington and Idaho. A print media class of 30 UI students pitched advertising campaign ideas Thursday to representatives of the Lions Sight Conservation Foundation. The Seattle-based eye bank hopes an ad campaign will reverse a trend of declining organ donations.

It's a story few can resist - scientists from opposite corners of the world uniting to save the world's largest cats from extinction. Since the Moscow-based Hornocker Wildlife Institute's Siberian Tiger Project was featured in February's National Geographic, its media popularity has soared. The phones were ringing off the hook Monday.

1. University of Idaho senior design student Lana Weber works on a pair of suede shoes she crafts as part of a two-week shoemaking workshop. Photo by Andrea Vogt/The Spokesman-Review 2. Shoes made by design students are wearable art.

Robert Hoover

The University of Idaho Foundation accepted a 28-acre land gift from the Jacklin Land Co. Thursday, advancing a proposed Post Falls research park one step further. UI officials plan to construct the 40,000-square foot Riverbend Research and Training Park building using the acreage as collateral. The Jacklin family has set aside 100 acres near the Post Falls Outlet Mall for the park, with the agreement that the UI will get an additional acre for every three acres sold to businesses recruited there.