Voices

Lulu is available for adoption at the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service. Shelter workers say she is a very active girl who loves to play ball. She would do best with an active owner.

Fog. The Inland Northwest is in the thick of it this time of year. November through January is peak season for this atmospheric marvel and 2016 is no exception.

I have a lot to be grateful for, and I know it. But I’m still surprisingly stuck in my sorrow over the election of a month ago. Never before has any election left me feeling the way this one has, depressed. I’ve been on the losing side of plenty of elections – I mean, being my age, that’s inevitable – but this one feels different, and the ability to just accept and move on eludes me.

Recent snow and cold temperatures have kicked off the Great Tree Hunt for Christmas with style.

After 15 years as an assistant boys basketball coach at West Valley, Rick Jones has taken over the Eagles’ girls program.

With three kids under the age of 10, Jared Fields and his wife, Shvonna, know only too well how expensive buying sports equipment can be when a child wants to play hockey, baseball or almost any other sport. Not to mention the money spent when said child decides they don’t like one sport, and want to try a different one.

Five Mile Prairie residents teamed up with students and staff at Eastern Washington University to come up with a new master plan for Sky Prairie Park.

Now Bailey is a senior at the University of San Diego. The 6-foot-6 forward for the Toreros is having the kind of season many predicted for him way back when.

By 10:15 Saturday morning, the line at the counter at Auntie’s Bookstore was several people deep. Shoppers juggled stacks of books while reaching for their wallets. A toddler clutched a board book, unwilling to part with her find even for the minute it took to ring it up. Teens milled around in small herds, jostling each other in the aisles, while parents pondered coloring books and consulted Christmas lists.

There are several things about the Frederic Elmendorf House that make it a rather singular and special home – including a stairway to nowhere on its second floor and a small open bathroom on the landing at the bottom of the old servants’ staircase.