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AM Headlines — 10.6.09

Iraq war veteran Justin Koogler of Sandpoint at North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene on Thursday, September 1, 2009. He was able to purchase his books through one of the stimulus book scholarship funds at NIC. KATHY PLONKA kathypl@spokesman.com (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)

Justin Koogler’s personal stimulus came in the form of $300 for textbooks at North Idaho College. His grant (which covered about half his book bill) is one tiny way that the $787 billion federal economic stimulus package has begun showing up in the Inland Northwest, six months after it was signed into law.

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