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Spirit Lake in celebration mode

Look at us now. That's the slogan gracing the back of camouflage (in pink, for the ladies) baseball caps and T-shirts the Spirit Lake Centennial Committee is selling as the town celebrates its 100th birthday.
News >  Spokane

CdA homes tour to benefit institute

Volunteers with the Human Rights Education Institute are going door to door to raise money. To five different doors. And they're inviting the public to come along.
News >  Idaho

Math test gets low marks

Idaho students got a big collective F in math, according to results from a statewide test released this spring, but some local school officials are giving that test low marks. Less than half – 46 percent – of Idaho sixth-graders scored proficient on the test and 51 percent of eighth-graders passed the Direct Math Assessment.
News >  Voices

Bayview searching for its queen

Nannette DuPont Bradetich has spent the past 30 years being royalty. Now Miss Athol/Bayview 1978 is ready to give up her reign and let someone else wear the crown.
News >  Voices

Medicine is ‘a good fit’ for Timberlake graduate

When he was a boy growing up at his family's resort in Bayview, Ryan MacDonald never considered medicine as a career. He learned about every job there was to learn at MacDonald's Hudson Bay Resort, from groundskeeping to cooking, washing dishes and working with guests.
News >  Idaho

‘Low profile’ getting higher

A nondescript building on a side street in Smelterville, Idaho, is the unlikely home of a construction company quietly landing tens of millions of dollars in government contracts. Native American Services Corporation – started in 1998 by two men raised in the Silver Valley – was just awarded a $75 million contract to manage construction projects at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama.
News >  Voices

New Lakes school on ballot

This time, if voters approve it, the Coeur d'Alene School District vows it will be built. Voters on May 20 are being asked for the third time to approve funding to rebuild Lakes Middle School.
News >  Voices

Plummer-Worley asking for new school

WORLEY – Worley's Lakeside Elementary School isn't aging gracefully. Money the district's spent on repairing the 71-year-old building would be wiser spent on a new facility, according to supporters of a May 20 bond election.
News >  Voices

LHS superintendent retiring while ‘still active’

After 23 years in the Lakeland School District, Chuck Kinsey is looking forward to having more time to spend with kids – as Grandpa. Kinsey is retiring this year as Lakeland's superintendent after a career including 12 years as principal at Lakeland High School and four years as the district's assistant superintendent.
News >  Spokane

CASA embezzler to serve home detention

If not for her son's disabilities, Rhonda Richardson would be headed to jail for embezzling thousands of dollars from a North Idaho nonprofit that represents abused children in court. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill instead ordered Richardson, former executive director of Court Appointed Special Advocates, to serve six months of home detention, complete community service and write a letter of apology.
News >  Voices

Students get a breather

Sick kids plus poor attendance equals an unhealthy budget for public school districts. "We don't get paid unless we have kids in school," said Sid Rayfield, maintenance director for the Lake Pend Oreille School District.
News >  Spokane

Taking water to the mountaintop

KELLOGG – The developers of Silver Mountain Resort say they want to transform Idaho's Silver Valley from a "Superfund Site to a Super Fun Site." But if you're a local, you may never get a chance to play in the super-fun water park they're building.
News >  Voices

Lakeland district chooses new superintendent

Mary Ann Ranells is no stranger to the administrators in the Lakeland School District. As Deputy Superintendent for Public Instruction under former State Superintendent Marilyn Howard, Ranells did quite a bit of work with the district.
News >  Voices

Needs of PF schools presented

POST FALLS – Something smells at New Vision High School. Principal Chris Sensel suspects the carpet in one of the classrooms somehow got wet last summer.
News >  Spokane

Used needles found at Huetter

An Interstate 90 rest area that was the site of a sex sting decades ago is proving again to be a trouble spot for law enforcement. Idaho State Police say more than two dozen used hypodermic needles are found each week at the Huetter Rest Area east of Post Falls, giving rise to concerns that travelers could be stuck and potentially infected with diseases such as HIV or Hepatitis C.
News >  Spokane

Shoshone sheriff, prosecutor at odds

Allies just four years ago, the Shoshone County sheriff and prosecutor are political enemies. Sheriff Chuck Reynalds, who endorsed Democrat Michael Peacock when he took on the incumbent prosecutor in 2004, criticizes him for settling too many cases without going to trial. The sheriff this year is endorsing Val Siegel – the incumbent Peacock ousted with Reynalds' help four years ago.
News >  Spokane

It’s playtime for these students

There were a lot of metaphors in the one-act plays written by students from the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation. It was anyone's guess who the characters – mostly animals – represented in the students' lives.
News >  Voices

Spirit Lake 6th-graders create musical instruments

Singing shows might be a hit on TV, but Dave Jones wasn't having any luck getting his sixth-grade music students enthused about exercising their vocal cords. The school's annual musicals were something the older kids at Athol and Spirit Lake elementaries considered uncool.
News >  Voices

Spirit Lake road repair on hold

SPIRIT LAKE – Spirit Lake drivers should buckle up and brace themselves for puddles, potholes, dips and jolts. At least for a few more weeks.
News >  Voices

County halts Bayview restaurant remodel

A Bayview developer has been ordered by the county to stop work on remodel of a lakeside restaurant. Waterford Park Homes received a permit to remove the roof of the Vista Bay Clubhouse, but more than just the roof was removed.
News >  Idaho

Bonner County schools face staff cuts

A budget shortfall of up to $1.7 million is forcing the Lake Pend Oreille School District to cut several teaching positions going into the next school year. "From a financial perspective we've taken a very responsible step," Superintendent Dick Cvitanich said Wednesday. "It's tough it had to happen this year, but I think it puts us in a better position moving forward financially."
News >  Idaho

CdA winery makes its point

As Thursday afternoon's family dinner wraps up, the crew at Coeur d'Alene Cellars clears leftovers from the butcher block table where they gather each week to try new recipes and wine pairings. Happen in at this time and it looks like a job at the winery is anything but work.