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Jesse Tinsley

Jesse Tinsley

Current Position: photojournalist

Jesse Tinsley joined The Spokesman-Review in 1989. He currently is a photojournalist in the Photo Department covering daily news and shoots drone photography.

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Highlights

  • Keeping memories alive: Greg Jensen stands and salutes as taps is played Monday during military honors offered at the chapel nearby at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake. Jensen, a Vietnam-era veteran of the Air Force, goes to the cemetery almost every day with his lawn chair and a Bible to visit the grave of his wife of 42 years, Estrella. “It’s been 16 months and I miss her every day,” he said. Indoors, a handful of veterans and a few family members read the names of veterans who died without a military funeral, said prayers and folded a flag, followed by a gun salute and taps.

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  • Ross Welburn of Hayden rides his shark cycle in the parade at Kinetic Fest, a daylong celebration of moving sculpture and human-powered transportation Saturday at the Riverstone development in Coeur d'Alene Sunday, July 12. Welburn created the frame from wood and plastic pipe and covered it with plastic.

  • Baseball great George Brett meets with Mike Redmon before the Northwest League-Pioneer League All-Star Game.

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  • Rogers players celebrate after beating West Valley. The Pirates have two victories – back to back – for the first time since 2011.

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  • Lewis and Clark receiver Leo Haghighi, left, hovers over the goal line and makes a diving touchdown catch past the outstretched arms of Mead's Beau Skinner, right, the LC's first score of the game in the first half, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Joe Albi Stadium.

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  • Eastern Washington standout receiver Cooper Kupp scampers for a few more yards while straight-arming Northern Arizona’s Eddie Horn (7) in the first half Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 at EWU’s Roos Field.

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  • Matt Van Vleet, who lives on 18th Ave., east of Bernard, surveys the damage to his garage and two cars from a neighbor's tree, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. Another car now shown, a Subaru, was purchased only a week ago.

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  • South Arthur Street between 27th and 28th avenues remained blocked Saturday by fallen power poles, lines and trees.

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  • Michele and John Barron stand quietly after laying a paving stone inscribed with their son's name in the walkway surrounding the new memorialoutside the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. Josh Barron, a U.S. Marine, was killed in the crash of a V-22 Osprey aircraft in Hawaii in May 2015.

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Most Recent Stories

News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Spokane Interstate Fair

Spokane has had various organizations putting on annual fairs. The first was put on by the Washington and Idaho Fair Association in 1886 in Corbin Park. These continued in 1887 and 1888.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Piggly Wiggly warehouse

The 1920s were a turbulent time in the world of grocery stores across the country. Self-service grocery stores were new, originating with the Piggly Wiggly chain that began in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916, founded by Clarence Saunders. The new style store was called a “groceteria,” a play on the word “cafeteria,” a self-service restaurant that was also new at the time.
News >  Washington

Then and Now: Dishman fire of 1951

Early on Thursday, July 19, 1951, a fire broke out in a line of business buildings in Dishman, an unincorporated business district a few miles east of the Spokane city limits.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Medical Center Building

Construction on the Medical Center Building at 9th Avenue and McClellan Street near Sacred Heart Hospital began in 1946 but wasn’t fully completed until 1948. Plans by architect George M. Rasque were for 52,000 square feet of floor space to house 60-70 physicians and about 12 dentists. The $500,000 structure, often called the Southside Medical Center Building to distinguish it from similar names, was equipped with air conditioning.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: West Valley High School

Though the city of Spokane grew rapidly from its founding in the 1870s, the Spokane Valley area was mostly rural with unincorporated settlements at the turn of the 20th century. As the rural areas expanded, small school districts were formed to build schools that focused on lower grade levels. The first two districts were Trent and Vera, quickly followed by Orchard Park and Otis Orchards. Before the 1910, none of them went beyond the eighth grade.
News >  Washington

Then and Now: Interstate 90 through Spokane

The federal government began funding roads as early as 1916, with states providing most of the funding. Standards for road design varied widely and many long highways were only two lanes wide. But the Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration led the proposal to create a nationwide system of limited access, multi-lane highways to promote commerce and for national defense. This became the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. The northern East-West highway, Interstate 90, would connect Seattle to Boston.

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