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NIC begins ROTC program

Andrew West doesn’t really have a “million things” he has to get done. But sometimes the 20-year-old North Idaho College student feels like he has a million things to do. Before last week’s lesson in time management, West’s juggling act was getting tricky at times.
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Project teaches parenting skills

One mom told Kootenai County commissioners that the Parent Project saved her son’s life. “She says we saved her son,” said Carolyn Peterson, one of four volunteers who teaches parenting classes through the county’s Juvenile Diversion program. “Really we didn’t. She did. We gave her some of the skills.”
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Sweet treats in Spirit Lake

Homemade fudge (mix and match): $10.98/pound; $5.49/half pound. Buy one pound, get a half pound free. Fudge isn’t always fudgy.
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Budget-friendly remodel proposed

Instead of making do, Bryan Martin is hoping for a makeover. The Coeur d’Alene School District’s maintenance director is proposing a remodel of Lakes Middle School, classroom by classroom.
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Annual dinner, auction to benefit YES

SPIRIT LAKE – For teens who aren’t on the sports teams at school, there just isn’t much to do in Spirit Lake once school’s done for the day. So they hang out in front of the grocery store, Shelley Tschida says, at the skate park even if they don’t skate, or head into the woods to drink beer or “roughneck on ATVs.”
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Project goes on without county OK

Opponents of a proposed asphalt batch plant near Rathdrum thought they could rest easy after Kootenai County officials rejected the project in July. When Coeur d’Alene Paving nonetheless moved forward with construction on the 30-acre site, neighbors like Tiny Wilson were flummoxed. “We’re very concerned, we’re very upset,” Wilson said.
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Back in school but still enjoying summer

The day seemed a lot like summer vacation: Ice cream, hiking, a visit to the library and swimming in Lake Coeur d’Alene. On the last day of the first week of school, fifth-graders from Sorensen Magnet School did all of those things.
News >  Idaho

Web site matches help with agencies

It’s a match-making service without the romance, but plenty of warm fuzzies. United Way of Kootenai County has launched a new Web site linking do-gooders with nonprofits and agencies that need help.
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Residents oppose mining operation

Until recently, Michelle and Donald McVey only spent summers on their property north of Athol. “We would come camp on the property and say one day we’ll be able to afford to put a house on here and retire here,” Michelle McVey said. “It’s our own little piece of paradise.”
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Kootenai County lacks court-hold area

It’s been months since Kootenai County building officials condemned the structure where defendants would sit, in secure cells, while waiting for a court hearing. Since the Worley Building was deemed unsafe, the county doesn’t have anywhere to hold defendants other than the vans used to transport them from jail to the courthouse.
News >  Spokane

Tearful prosecutor prompts mistrial

A prosecutor’s emotional and tearful opening argument in a domestic violence case prompted a Kootenai County judge to declare a mistrial Wednesday. First District Judge Fred Gibler initially assumed Deputy Prosecutor Shane Greenbank’s voice was cracking because the prosecutor was “possibly forgetting some witnesses’ names.” Then, when Greenbank asked for a tissue, Gibler “assumed it was an allergy.”
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Skate park could be shut down

Dave Roser watches kids walk past his house all day long headed toward Spirit Lake’s skate park. Though the city’s considering tearing out the park because of complaints about noise, among other things, Roser said the sounds of skateboard slamming off the ramps and onto the concrete are like music.
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Launch to be revamped

A plan to revamp the Spirit Lake Boat Launch will be unveiled at a community meeting Sept. 16. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game plans to expand parking at the launch – the only one of three public launches on the lake that has public parking – as well as improve the launch and possibly add a second bathroom.
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Let the Centennial celebration begin

SPIRIT LAKE – Spirit Lake’s Centennial Celebration begins tonight. Tickets are still available for a wine tasting and auction, which begin at 6 p.m. in the little park downtown. The $20 ticket includes a commemorative Centennial wine glass and entertainment by Spirit Lake’s own Bill Parsons on the piano.
News >  Spokane

Felony probation officer accused of harassment

A felony probation officer who spent seven months on paid leave after a stalking arrest is on paid leave again – this time for allegedly harassing a female probationer he supervised. David L. Williams, 42, of Coeur d’Alene, was placed on his most recent leave July 11 after Wanda Arrington complained he called her at odd hours, sounding intoxicated and asking inappropriate questions.
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Interactive project

Children won’t just be reading “Mudgy & Millie,” they’ll be part of the story. The new children’s book by Coeur d’Alene author Susan Nipp, to be released Sept. 13 during a special celebration, tells the tale of Mudgy the moose and Millie the mouse and their hide-and-seek game through downtown Coeur d’Alene.
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Mint fields imprint Rathdrum prairie

Breathe deep and you can almost taste it in the air this time of year driving across the Rathdrum Prairie. It’s sticky and sweet, like a starlight mint melting on the tongue.
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Group creates walking tour

SPIRIT LAKE – The project – four years in the making – was finished just in time for Spirit Lake’s Centennial, a party 100 years in the making. Members of Spirit Lake’s Centennial Committee have created a self-guided walking tour focusing on the two blocks of downtown’s Maine Street listed on the National Historic Register.
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Mint fields imprint prairie

Breathe deep and you can almost taste it in the air this time of year driving across the Rathdrum Prairie. It’s sticky and sweet, like a starlight mint melting on the tongue.
News >  Spokane

Camp focuses on human rights

Savannah Forno doesn’t look the part of a school shooter. She doesn’t have the black trench coat. She gets good grades. Not to mention she’s a girl.
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Showcasing Rathdrum

It’s a rocky ride to start. A 19-mile bike ride – most of that on logging roads around the backside of Rathdrum Mountain – then a 4.5-mile kayak from upper Twin Lake to Lower Twin, followed by a 4.5-mile run back to Rathdrum.
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Steering into independence

For the first time in his life, 25-year-old Jeff Towner is getting around town without help from his grandmother. The legally blind North Idaho College student now has a set of wheels: Three wheels to be exact.