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Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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AIRWAY HEIGHTS – It continues to get easier and easier to get to all kinds of places outside of Spokane with the ease of new non-stop airline travel. Once the butt of a joke that “you can’t get there from here,” Spokane International Airport announced April 30 that Southwest Airlines will offer new seasonal direct flights to both Chicago and Orange County, Calif. beginning June 6. In addition. direct service to San Jose, Calif. resumes on the same date. The once-daily flights to Chicago will fly into Midway Airport, connectio...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Citing the inability to come to an agreement to negotiate a different lease term, Spokane County Raceway operator Craig Smith will step away from the facility leaving both the 2021 season, and the track’s future up in the air. Neither Spokane County Commissioners, nor officials with Spokane County Parks who oversee the facility returned requests for comments by deadline time Tuesday evening, Feb. 23. They were asked on Monday to address the rampant social media chatter that the track would close — or if it...
LAWRENCE, Kan. - Dr. H. George Frederickson, the lightning rod president who oversaw the transformation of Eastern Washington State College to Eastern Washington University, passed away July 24 at his home in Lawrence, Kan. having just recently turned 86. Frederickson, a 1961 graduate of Brigham Young University, and who earned his master's in public administration from UCLA and a doctorate down the road at USC, was chosen to replace Emerson Shuck who had served Eastern...
Among other weather records that were set last week, we just might have seen our shortest fall ever. Just five days into the autumnal equinox - the fancy Latin term for the swing from summer to fall - much of the Inland Northwest got belted by winter, or at least a distant relative. The area's summer, which in itself was significantly cooler than normal, drifted into history on Monday, Sept. 23. And then, bang, here comes the first measured snowfall in September since 1926 on...