Voices

Meeting times for neighborhood councils and other community groups.

The family of friends of a 15-year-old University High School sophomore killed in October 2013 will hold a silent auction Sunday to benefit her scholarship fund.

Readers express gratitude

Winter is tough on many most wild critters and birds are no exception. They need lots of nutritious food to keep warm. In the wild they can draw on leftover seed heads and winter hardy insects to sustain them, so your feeders provide a welcome addition.

In a relatively short time span, the weather changed dramatically across Eastern Washington while delivering unusual conditions to boot.

Shaniqua Nilles just may be the best Christmas present the Gonzaga women’s basketball program gets this year.

A cleanup agreement has been reach for Spokane Valley Holcim Inc. cement plant site

“The barn is due for repainting, but it’s a solid, well-built barn, with hand-made trusses, really quality work,” said Jerry Phinney, who bought the 10 acres on which the house, barn and other structures are located in 1976. He noted that there’s no real foundation; the barn just sits on pillars, but it’s never shifted. “It’s a strong structure.”

While I love the array of food that comes with Thanksgiving and spend a crazy amount of time planning which recipes to use, the thing that brings the most joy are the conversations that come whenever life brings together friends and family over food and drink.

Bowdish Middle School in the Central Valley School District has announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2015-16 school year.

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