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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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News >  Spokane

Saviors Of Old Schade Brewery Now Need Rescuing Themselves

FOR THE RECORD (July 15, 1997): Mall not for sale: The antique mall operating inside the historic Schade Brewery building is not for sale and continues to operate. A Doug Clark column Sunday said the antique mall was for sale. Gailya and Louis Bonzon face losing their huge investment in the Shade Brewery building on Trent unless they can find $1.5 million to renovate the structure's crumbling roof. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Camp Brings Kids Back To Earth

Mars Camp cadets watch the first launch of their soda pop rockets under the supervision of Commander Dave Howe at Bryant Elementary on West Broadway. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Would You Like A Milky Way In The Kitchen?

Like so many Fourth of July weekend campers, I also enjoy quality time under the stars, gazing in awe at the majestic heavens. Has the night sky ever been so gin-clear? The moon, a pale orb, floats a few inches over the horizon. Look, there's the Big Dipper, suspended just above my head.

News >  Spokane

Why Can’t We Recreate In Private?

First came Bloomsday, the world's largest timed road race. That begat Hoopfest, the world's largest three-on-three street basketball tournament. Now Spokane is bracing itself for Slapshot - so far only the state's largest three-on-three street hockey fest.
News >  Nation/World

Rooms With A Spokane View

1. Helen Paulsen stands on the patio of the Paulsen Building, looking east over Spokane at the sunrise. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 2. The Paulsen penthouse is one of the prime pieces of real estate in Spokane. 3. Helen Paulsen works in the kitchen. A painting of her mother, the Countess Annette de Martinprey, hangs in the dining room. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 4. What penthouse would be complete without a built-in bar?
News >  Spokane

Preacher’s Legacy Enriches Lives Of Hampy Campers

1. Promise Sullivan, right, attempts to get a worm attached to a fishing hook so she can try her luck in Liberty Lake on Saturday. She was one of the nearly 100 kids attending Hamp's Camp. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 2. James Hamp, director of Hamp's Camp, helps a small camper down the steps of the dining hall. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Mother Fights Bid To Reduce Killer’s Sentence

It's not easy deciding which enemy Connie Pangallo despises more: The brute who raped and murdered her only daughter, Tammie Jo Baril, nine years ago. Or insensitive U.S. Army bureaucrats who have made this grieving Coeur d'Alene woman's life a hell on Earth. The confessed killer, Lavante F. Pope, had a hearing last month in an attempt to reduce the life sentence he received for murdering Pfc. Baril and raping another soldier. Pope, also a private, and the two women were stationed at Ft. Clayton, Panama, at the time.
News >  Spokane

Endless Case Of Sick Cop Adds Insult To Injury

Julie Russell was a battered, vulnerable wreck the day Leo Freyer entered her life with his badge and his not-so candid camera. The Spokane Police corporal showed up at her North Side home alone. Other officers had already left after arresting Russell's husband for domestic assault. One of Freyer's duties as a corporal was to take evidence photographs of the ugly marks left on victims like Russell.
News >  Spokane

Postal Fiasco Over Tickets Gets Licked

They call Karl Malone the "Mailman," but ol' Doug's the guy who delivers. At least when it comes to Katie and Erik Koeppens' six-month battle with the U.S. Postal Service over the belated delivery of five Seahawks tickets by Express Mail.
News >  Spokane

Teenagers Belatedly Learn Child Rearing

Ben Harris was 14 when his twin sons entered the world. His young girlfriend gave him an ultimatum: Take me and our babies or your gang-banger buddies. You can't have both. Ben chose his pals and was eventually shot in the side by a rival gang. He survived. A different girlfriend gave birth to his daughter a year later. They left, too. Just turned 18, Ben is out of prison. Again.
News >  Spokane

The Tough Love At Kids Inc. Is Paying Dividends

It was the typical teary-eyed crowd you expect to see at a graduation: parents, loved ones, friends, family members. ... They came to the Spokane Opera House on Friday night to watch Ferris High School's Class of '97 step into the future. Steve Kramer was there, too. File him under all of the above.
News >  Spokane

Say It Loud, Scribe Is Not Tiger Woods

I am Tiger Woods. I am Tiger Woods. I am Tiger ... This is my mantra as I step to the tee, a 7-iron in my sweaty hands. Head down. Deep breath. Relaaax. Whoever hits a hole-in-one on this 169-yard par 3 wins a trip for two to Jamaica.
News >  Spokane

Name Change A Worthy Idea, Readers Say

Unpublished correction: The city's name was officially changed from Spokane Falls to Spokane in 1891. Morning light casts a warm glow on the Spokane Falls in Spokane (Falls) on Monday. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Murder Suspect, 17, Adds To Family’s Presence In Jail

The good news is that this Chattaroy family is together again. The bad news is that the reunion is being held behind bars at the Spokane County Jail. Joey Brooks, 17, waits on the sixth floor. The teen is charged with second-degree murder for the May 21 shotgunning of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Dianna Meyer.
News >  Spokane

Clean Out That Garage - And Start A Band!

They blew into Spokane the other day, two strangers armed with saxophones and a trunkload of books. Bill Hargrove and Bob Ratcliff are latterday Blues Brothers on their own offbeat mission: to get the musically timid off their fannies and out tooting their own horns. Or twanging guitars.
News >  Spokane

Car Problems Sure Rotate This Guy’s Tires

Next time this poor guy shops for wheels, he might consider something along the lines of a rusty Ford Pinto. No car-napper would be tempted to swipe an old beater and take it on a wild joy ride to the coast. Unfortunately, Randy Buell's automotive tastes run more to the sleek and supercharged.
News >  Spokane

We Need Lyrics For Our Very Own Spokane March

All great musicians from Bach to Beck know the most artistically satisfying moment of a concert: Unleashing your backed-up spit valve all over the carpet. Sploooooosh! Well, at least that's a big moment for us brass players.
News >  Spokane

Clark Thinks He Knows What Really Happened

Spokane residents are rightfully apoplectic over two 13-year-old punks who went on a $100,000 rampage inside Sacajawea Middle School during the wee hours last weekend. The boy vandals spent 90 minutes smashing windows, trashing computers and splashing paint. They were finally busted, of course, but so many questions remain: What kind of little jerks would do such a thing? Who raised these monsters? Why can't they all get the electric chair? Also on everybody's mind is the inaction of police who began arriving at Sacajawea shortly after the creeps tripped a silent alarm.
News >  Spokane

Zoo Dorks Still Try To Keep Pipe Dream Alive

As proof not every kook left Earth to ride the Hale-Bopp comet, whacked-out Walk in the Wild zoo boosters still are - pause for insane laughter - begging for money. That's just a sample of the mail I've received concerning chicken longevity, mysterious phone bills, Gypsy curse removal and the Mayor's Alimony Fund. Yes, it's time for Reeaaader's Windbaaag - the forum that gives my adoring fans a chance to pop off without being arrested and used as filler in the city's new experimental Jimmy Hoffa pothole repair program.