Handle Extra now full color, free

Today’s Handle Extra is the most colorful Handle Extra yet.

Starting today, find stories, features and photographs about neighborhood newsmakers in full color on every page.

Today’s Handle Extra is also easier to get.

It’s being distributed free of charge today and every Saturday on newsstands and in bright red newspaper boxes throughout the Kootenai and Bonner County neighborhoods it serves. Subscribers to the Saturday Spokesman-Review will still get their Handle Extra delivered to their doorsteps. Find news from the Handle Extra online at www.spokesmanreview.com/ handle, and news from the Prairie Voice, serving Post Falls, Rathdrum and Spirit Lake, at www.spokesmanreview.com/ prairie.

This summer the S-R plans to launch a Web site for the Handle Extra. Like the print edition, these pages will be chock-full of neighborhood, sports and school news. These Web sites also will be interactive, giving readers the chance be reporters by having their own neighborhood news stories posted online through our Citizen Journal initiative. Stay tuned.

We hope you like the color and added convenience today’s changes bring to the Handle Extra. We’re also trying to get more community news into the section.

If you’ve got news about events happening in your neighborhood, here’s how you can get it reported in the Handle Extra:

News/business stories: Contact Voices editor Tad Brooks or assistant editor Jim Allen at idahovoice@spokesman.com, or call (509) 927-2164 or (509) 927-2168, or write to the attention of Voices editor, 13208 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley, WA 99216. Reach staff writer Amy Cannata at (509) 927-2179 or (208) 765-7126 or by e-mail at amyc@spokesman.com. Reach staff writer Taryn Hecker at (509) 927-2150 or by e-mail at tarynh@spokesman.com.

School news: Reach staff writer Taryn Hecker at (509) 927-2150 or by e-mail at tarynh@spokesman.com.

School achievements: Submit items to editorial assistant Rainey Coffin at (509) 459-5434 or by e-mail at raineyc@spokesman.com.

Citizen Journal: E-mail news stories, feature stories and photos to Voices editor Tad Brooks at voice@spokesman.com. Please try to limit submissions to 500 words or less. Be sure to include your name, phone number and e-mail address so we can verify authenticity. Items will appear either in print or online at www.spokesmanreview.com/ handle.

Calendar items, public meeting announcements, church news: Submit items to editorial assistant Sherry Adkins at (208) 765-7120, e-mail sherrya@spokesman.com, or write to 608 Northwest Blvd., Suite 200, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814-2174.

Letters to the editor/High Five: Send letters up to 250 words signed by the author with full name, address and daytime telephone number to Letters to the Editor, Your Voice, 13208 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley, WA 99216. Send High Five nominations to the same address. To learn more, call (509) 927-2164.

Team photos: All sports, all ages. Voices editor Tad Brooks, Your Voice, 13208 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley, WA 99216. Or send a .jpg e-mail file of at least 200dpi to idahovoice@spokesman.com. For more information, call (509) 927-2164.

Photographs: Submit photos for consideration the same way as for team photos.

Advertising: Reach account executive Deana Rose at 765-7104.

Classifieds: call (509) 456-SELL, (800) 344-6781, or (800) 338-8801.

To subscribe: Call (800) 338-8801.