Half of the roughly 30 dogs at the nonprofit shelter SpokAnimal have contracted a yet-to-be-identified respiratory illness that’s led to some cases of pneumonia and the temporary closure of the shelter.
The rustic Bear Creek Lodge along North Mt. Spokane Park Drive, just outside the state park, was built in 1952 but closed in 2023 and sold to the park for a new headquarters building.
Tucked away in an event space in a local library, surrounded by a small but dexterous group of neighbors and volunteers fiddling and futzing with a sweater that needs buttons or an umbrella with a busted rib, Chris Oxford is taking apart a brass-bottomed lamp.
From 1975: Construction of new homes on the Rathdrum Prairie continued, despite a proposed moratorium because of the possible contamination of Spokane’s drinking water.
From 1975: The Associated Press listed the top stories in Washington for 1975, and the No. 1 story was also a top story 50 years later: Flooding in Western Washington.
Each year, we like to celebrate the holiday season with a Christmas card for our readers that showcases the best of the Inland Northwest, from the Spokane Falls to the Ice Ribbon.
The debate between real Christmas trees and artificial ones has been going on for decades. Artificial because they are easy and reusable. Real because well, they are real and fill the house with a delightful scent. I happen to fall into the live tree camp not because I like them but because I grew up with them.
Every effort is made to make the Christmas Bureau an uplifting experience for the people who come and stand in line for hours at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center to get presents to make the holiday bright for their children. Ornaments are placed on trees. Decorations are hung. Santa is on display. And Christmas music rings through the air.
From 1975: The Spokane Chronicle told the riches-to-rags story of Frank N, Marr, 68, a former mining tycoon, now dying of cancer and barely surviving on Social Security.
From 1975: The city of Spokane “deliberately built failure” into its controversial firefighter trainee program, said Ann Dewey, president of the Spokane chapter of the National Organization for Women .
Four years after the project was announced, the first of two phases of pedestrian and cyclist improvements kicks off next construction season on the Pacific Avenue Greenway in downtown Spokane.
