A controversy that split the town
Jeff Tyler and his wife, Pam, hold signs in 2011 that protest a McEuen Field proposal at a Coeur d’Alene City Council meeting.
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Nathan Baker lobbies for a skate park at the new McEuen Field in 2011 as dozens line up to object to a plan to overhaul the park.
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In 1996, Mabel Chase of Post Falls was honored as Idaho’s first female rural mail carrier.
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Tim Roberts displays his championship style as he bags groceries at Coeur d’Alene’s Super 1 in 1986.
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Coeur d’Alene High tennis coach Ron Estep, left, congratulates John Friesz in 1991 after the school retired the former star’s number (No. 17).
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Workers secure a line to a manmade island that would serve as the new foundation of the Cedar’s Floating Restaurant in 1991.
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Human rights leaders Tony Stewart, left, and Norm Gissel talk outside the former Aryan Nations compound, which was demolished in 2001.
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Mark Fuhrman, author and disgraced former Los Angeles police detective, signs autographs in 2001 after the release of his third book, “Murder in Spokane: Catching a Serial Killer.”
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Chris Wilbanks, 17, of Coeur d’Alene places an American flag at a veteran’s tidy gravesite to prepare for the 2018 Memorial Day. The city cares well for the hallowed ground today. But in 1981 it didn’t.
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The battle for McEuen Field officially launched 15 years ago today.
A sign-waving crowd of 300 hooted and whistled for nearly three hours May 24, 2011, as the City Council mulled a conceptual plan to overhaul the cherished park.
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