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News >  Washington Voices

Spokane Valley puts brakes on pot businesses

Spokane County consumers spent more than $1 million on marijuana in November, but that didn’t stop the business-friendly Spokane Valley City Council from passing a moratorium on all marijuana businesses – other than retail, production and processing operations that are already licensed by the state – at its meeting Tuesday evening. The moratorium was not on the council agenda published before the meeting.
News >  Marijuana

Valley puts brakes on pot businesses

Spokane County consumers spent more than $1 million on marijuana in November, but that didn’t stop the business-friendly Spokane Valley City Council from passing a moratorium on all marijuana businesses – other than retail, production and processing operations that are already licensed by the state – at its meeting Tuesday evening.
News >  Spokane

Whitworth students hold diversity rally, poster campaign

A group of determined students used screwdrivers and metal stakes to jab holes in the frozen lawn at Whitworth University on Friday, an effort to resurrect a row of signs featuring stories, photos and quotes from the college’s minority students. Since Tuesday, the 88 laminated, letter-size signs have lined the Hello Walk on Whitworth’s campus, part of an awareness campaign about the challenges faced by minority students at the predominantly white and Christian private university.
News >  Washington Voices

Spokane Valley Christmas tree stays aglow with volunteers

It’s that dreaded moment when you flip the switch to turn on the holiday lights and nothing happens. A group of dedicated Rotary Club of Spokane Valley volunteers worked for a handful of hours in the biting cold Tuesday morning to get the Christmas tree in the University City parking lot ready for tonight’s Celebration of Lights.
News >  Washington Voices

Spokane Valley City Council to buy site for city hall

The Spokane Valley City Council decided Tuesday evening to move ahead with a plan to purchase land on the southeast corner of Sprague Avenue and Dartmouth Road, the west end of the University City Mall, for the possible construction of a city hall. The site is 3.38 acres and the price would be nearly $1.3 million, or $7.65 per square foot, plus standard closing costs.

Light the Christmas tree in Spokane Valley

The Rotary Club of Spokane Valley is getting the Christmas tree in the University City parking lot ready for the annual lighting ceremony on Dec. 4 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Santa is stopping by and the choir Solar Energy from the Sunrise Elementary School will be...
News >  Washington Voices

Valley’s Old Plantation torn down

To most Spokane Valley residents it was known as the Old Plantation. The restaurant sitting on the corner of Vista Road and Sprague Avenue went from being a fancy place to take your family for dinner, to several different iterations of nightclub and live music venue, before sitting empty for two years.

Facebook page tracks Spokane Valley History

David Sean Brown was born and raised in Spokane Valley. Back in 2010, he joined Facebook and quickly made contact with people he'd gone to school with or shared interests with. "I've always been interested in the history of Spokane and Spokane Valley," said Brown...
News >  Washington Voices

Coalition puts pot on its agenda

Shelly Clark and the Spokane Valley-based Coalition for Community Values have picked up a new cause: limit access to any kind of marijuana in Spokane Valley. Clark successfully campaigned to ban topless baristas at Spokane Valley espresso stands last year. At a community meeting at CenterPlace on Nov. 13 there was no shortage of volunteers for her new task force, which will ask the Spokane Valley City Council to limit access to marijuana.
News >  Washington Voices

Tri-parish covenant turns 40

Three Spokane Valley Churches are celebrating 40 years of collaboration at a special service on Sunday. The service will be held at one of the churches involved in the tri-parish covenant, the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, at 15319 E. Eighth Ave. The two other churches in the covenant, Advent Lutheran Church and St. Mary’s Catholic Church, have been part of the planning process as well.
News >  Spokane

Early Spokane Valley farmers’ ingenuity, thriftiness lives on in river rock homes

When the late Don Rhodewalt and his wife, Janice Samish, were looking to move from Oregon to Spokane in 1995, a friend who offered to help with house-hunting found them a beautiful Craftsman-style home on North Bowdish Road. It was not only the right size, it also was built out of what’s popularly known as river rock. Rhodewalt, a retired aerospace engineer, was fascinated by how his new house was built of rocks found on and around the property, carefully sorted – some are the size of watermelons, others not much bigger than golf balls – then stacked on top of each other and held together by grout.

First dance with Mary Jane

You may remember Shelly Clark as one of the organizers behind the protest that lead to Spokane Valley outlawing topless barristas about a year ago. Thursday night, Clark and the Coalition for Community Values called a meeting at CenterPlace to discuss the impact the legalization...
News >  Washington Voices

Hearing set for shoreline master plan

Spokane Valley’s shoreline master plan update is almost completed. A final public hearing will be conducted on Nov. 17, and then the draft plan will be presented to the City Council, which will then conduct a study session and allow for more public comment before putting the updated plan to a vote. Senior planner Lori Barlow gave the City Council an update Tuesday evening on a few changes that have been made to the draft plan.