Mike Prager

Congestion in downtown Spokane is likely to get a little worse today and Thursday with the closure of major intersections for paving work on West Second Avenue. Monroe and Lincoln streets at Second will be closed today until late afternoon while a construction crew lays down a base layer of asphalt as part of the reconstruction of Second.

The Howard Street corridor in Spokane from Fourth Avenue to Buckeye Street is being turned into a bicycle route. In addition, a bicycle loop is being marked off in the downtown area west of Howard.

When John R. Rogers High School was built in the early 1930s, the school board ordered old desks to be refinished and all of the new building materials to be purchased locally. Even though the country was in the midst of the Great Depression, school officials and voters recognized the need to replace the cramped old Hillyard High School, but with an eye toward providing jobs and saving money.

A 21-year-old man arrested for arson at the badly gutted office of the Shoshone News-Press in Kellogg apparently “was just mad at the town,” Kellogg’s fire chief said Thursday. The newspaper at 401 S. Main St. lost a portion of its archives as well as archives from the former Wallace Press that date back decades.

A 21-year-old man arrested for arson at the badly gutted office of the Shoshone News Press in Kellogg apparently “was just mad at the town,” Kellogg’s fire chief said today.

Spokane International Airport will open its new runway extension this morning after months of major construction. The improved runway is now 11,000 feet long, up from the old length of 9,000 feet.

Leaders in the Spokane Preservation Advocates organization have come up with a novel way to restore old buildings. They are going to do it one brick at a time by giving the public a chance to attend a free, hands-on workshop Saturday.

When John R. Rogers High School was built in the early 1930s, the school board ordered old desks to be refinished and all of the new building materials to be purchased locally. Even though the country was in the midst of the Great Depression, school officials and voters recognized the need to replace the cramped old Hillyard High School, but with an eye toward providing jobs and saving money.

The National Carousel Association returns this week to Spokane – home of a 101-year-old Looff Carrousel – for the group’s annual convention to promote and protect carousels around the country. Wendy Kirbey, of Albany, Ore., is attending her first convention as chairwoman of a community effort to rebuild a carousel in her hometown. Community volunteers there are building new figures for a historic carousel frame, and they hope to have the ride running in their historic downtown south of Portland four years from now.

Folks living along the U.S. Highway 395 corridor north of Spokane are going to get a new choice for transportation. The state of Washington has launched bus service between Kettle Falls and three locations in Spokane through a private operator.

Several generations of the Huetter family turned out for an open house Thursday in the Spokane mansion at Gonzaga University where their family took root. The Georgian Revival home was built around 1897 by family patriarch John T. Huetter, who along with his wife raised eight children there.