If the crowds at the recent plant sales and Garden Expo are any indication, everyone is eager to get out in the garden. Here are some ideas to get you started and a few things to watch out for.
When Megan Paternoster, 17, received a phone call in November informing her she’d been chosen as part of the Spokane Lilac Festival Fab 14, she said her first reaction was extreme relief.
Peone is a gray and white tabby available for adoption at the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service. Shelter workers say she is younger and very shy, and needs a quiet home. Her quiet disposition prefers a lap to cuddle upon.
Firefighters were recently called to a wooded area behind an apartment complex in the 2400 block of North Pines Road where camp fires lit by transients and juveniles are frequently reported, some of which turn into brush fires.
The Spokane Valley City Council will appoint two members to fill seats vacated when members Dean Grafos and Chuck Hafner resigned. The appointed council members will serve until the general election in 2017. Here are the applicants listed in alphabetical order:
Students from high schools across the region packed up their robots and headed to Spokane for the Washington FIRST Robotics fundraiser on Tuesday. Some had just returned from one of the largest robotics competitions in the world, the FIRST Championship in St. Louis, Missouri.
Loud rumbles and spectacular lightning bolts get far more notice in Spokane than in Chicago or Miami. Where the Windy City gets an average of 39 thunderstorms each year, the Lilac City gets 11.
Also: Art and Soul Festival and Auction at Freeman, LC students place at DECA national competition, EV students off to FBLA nationals, Cheney selects superintendent finalists.
Liberty Lake police responded to an unusual theft call recently when someone stole the wheels and tires off a car parked at the Mercedes dealership in the 21000 block of East George Gee Lane.
Before Henry J. Kaiser became the huge American industrialist known as the father of modern shipbuilding, prime contractor for Hoover and Grand Coulee dams and founder of more than 100 companies, he fell in love. And that brought him to Spokane.
