Voices

Have you ever noticed that there’s an inevitable cascading effect from one simple action? Clean out one drawer in your house and you wind up cleaning out every drawer, not to mention closets and nearly everything else.

For 10 days they messaged back and forth, catching up on 40 years, and discovering a spark of mutual attraction that quickly became a flame. Freed from the student-teacher taboo, their relationship flourished on the internet.

Bones is available for adoption at the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service. Shelter workers say he’s a cute and cuddly 3-year-old Chihuahua. He has a unusual rib that does not cause him any pain.

And now they’re ready to go back in the closet.

The Spokane Valley City Council has made it clear that it desires a new library across Sprague Avenue from the new City Hall, but it’s not clear how it’s going to be paid for or who would run it. That was the takeaway by the frustrated contingent of Spokane County Library District’s board of trustees that gathered briefly outside Spokane Valley City Council Chambers on Tuesday evening, after listening to a city staff presentation on how the city could potentially de-annex from the district.

Spokane’s Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co. wants to mine a sand deposit in Mead, but neighbors are against the proposal before the county hearing examiner

Spokane Valley held a public meeting to solicit input for a master plan that will guide the design of the rest of the Appleway Trail last month. Construction on the next phase, from Sullivan Road to Corbin Road, will begin in spring.