Carolyn Lamberson

Again they took to the ice and dazzled with their athleticism and grace. And again, the spectators inside Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena cheered, clapped and tossed trinkets.

Christina Abrahamson’s journey to high school graduation began in 2003, when she started at Lakeside High School in Plummer. After nearly two years of struggling to fit in, she dropped out of Lakeside and transferred to an alternative school in Spokane Valley. Eventually, she moved in with her grandparents on the Spokane Indian Reservation and attended Alliance Alternative School in Wellpinit, Wash., for her junior year.

For many students, high school is all about drama. For Stephen Sloniker, a Post Falls High School graduate, school was where he could leave the drama of his family life behind and find success. Sloniker, 18, was born in Eastern Washington but spent most of his childhood in Missouri. He relocated to Post Falls two years ago to be with extended family after his father was convicted of burglary and sentenced to five to eight years in a Kansas prison.

An apparent barroom altercation turned deadly early Saturday morning in Coeur d’Alene. Timothy I. Williams, who went by the name Timothy Wolfe, of Worley, Idaho, was shot in the head about 2:15 a.m. Saturday as he and a group friends were walking near Third Street and Indiana in downtown Coeur d’Alene.

Near the corner of Seltice Way and Greensferry Road in Post Falls, there are a bank, a tire store, a pawnshop. There’s also a one-acre residential lot dotted with towering cherry trees and apple trees in serious need of pruning.

Crews from Spokane County Fire District 9 rescued a climber who fell partway down a cliff Sunday morning at Minnehaha Rocks in John Shields Park. The climber and his friend were doing some lead climbing Sunday morning when the accident occurred, said Deputy Fire Chief Jack Cates.

When you’re young and uninsured, a sudden and devastating medical diagnosis can seem like the end of the world. For one Coeur d’Alene woman, however, a community of caring individuals is coming together to lend a hand.

Downtown Coeur d’Alene’s Garden District is about to boast one more garden. A big one. Three vacant lots at the corner of 10th Street and Foster Avenue will be transformed this spring into Coeur d’Alene’s first Shared Harvest Community Garden.

Google the words “Idaho child care standards” and up pops the top response: “Idaho child care worst in the country.” A group of North Idaho care providers remains hopeful the latest child care licensing bill co-sponsored by Rep. George Sayler, D-Coeur d’Alene, will become law, thus improving Idaho’s child care image. In the meantime, they’ve taken it upon themselves to improve the quality and professionalism of family, or in-home, child care.

The 40 school buses in the Lakeland School District drive a total of 3,300 miles a day. The buses warm up for about 15 minutes, putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A group of district fifth-graders put their minds to the question: How can we reduce the carbon emissions from district buses? Their solution earned them a trip to Denmark in May to present their idea at the European Children’s Climate Call.

With the imminent arrival of St. Patrick’s Day, our attention turns to all thing Irish. Soda bread. Potatoes. Corned beef. The role of corned beef in Irish cuisine is up for debate. According to the Web sites europeancuisines.com and irishcultureandcustoms.com, corned beef was the food of kings, as beef was too expensive for average folks, and thus never really part of the cultural fabric.