Post Falls gears up for market and music series amid parking challenges

The 2024 River City Market and Music series is the first major hurdle for Post Falls affected by the parking closure at Falls Park from 2024-2027 during the Post Falls Dam project.

PRIDE: Event doesn’t represent Coeur d’Alene

You have the audacity to include me and others that do not support your article at all. Please find better ways of labeling your ideology with all of Coeur d’Alene residence.

Numerica awards $372K to regional nonprofits

Local recipients are Family Promise, Third Avenue Marketplace, Safe Passage

Safe Passage, Family Promise of North Idaho and Third Avenue Marketplace (formerly the Post Falls Food Bank) are among 21 regional nonprofits awarded a total of $372,000 in grants by Numerica Credit Union. The funds were distributed through the 2024 Numerica Charitable Fund, a June 6 news release said. This annual program partners with organizations that align with the credit union’s philanthropic initiative, Numerica CARES for Kids.

PRIDE: Event doesn’t represent Coeur d’Alene

Your headline on June 2 is just another way that the press twists the truth to project a lie. Coeur d’Alene is a community made up of people of varying values and opinions.

OPINION: Multiplication of division

America is divided. Ask most anyone and they would likely agree. However, you may not get consensus on the reason for the division, or where the fracture actually lays. It is as if we have a general feeling of division but among your known circle of friends and acquaintances, specific boundaries of disagreement become blurred.

The Joy of Triathlons

Kip is a physical therapist who moved here in 2007 and didn’t do his first triathlon until 2010

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Logan Walsh, Timberlake High School

Timberlake High senior softball player Logan Walsh is this week's Knudtsen Chevrolet Press Athlete of the Week.

Mary Albert, 86

Mary Ieleen Albert, beloved wife, mother, and friend, passed away peacefully on May 14, 2024.

Graduates, look around the room

In recent years I invited my village of friends, many of whom are actual long-ago classmates of mine, to give sage advice to the new crop of high school graduates and it was an eclectic array of perspectives.

MY TURN: Project 2025 — Presidential Transition Project

I see from Mr. Regan’s most recent article that he thinks the Coeur d’ Alene Press should be a mouthpiece for his perspective, rather than a voice for the broader views of the community. That doesn’t surprise me. The first thing authoritarians want to do is take over a free press. Democracy dies in darkness, and that’s the whole goal, isn’t it Mr. Regan? You’d hate to have Idahoans know what the IFF and the KCRCC are really up to. Speaking of that, every citizen should know about Project 2025 — The Presidential Transition Project.

Braver Lens to present 'Canine Bridge' Saturday at ArtWalk

Dog-centered project aims to build human connections

Organizers of a dog-centric photography project are hoping to build human connections. Presented by Braver Lens, a part of the Braver Angels national nonprofit, the pop-up "Canine Bridge" photo exhibit will be on display during a special ArtWalk from 5-8 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot between Magpie and the Art Spirit Gallery.

PRIDE: Event doesn’t represent Coeur d’Alene

The cover page today was an outrage and untrue. Your headlines infer that every person in Coeur d’Alene backs pride in the park. Although I reside in Post Falls none of my friends were polled by The Press and asked if they back Pride in the Park.

FARMERS MARKET: Change of venue hurt businesses

We have a small store downtown on Sherman Avenue and I’d like to give a big shout out to whomever had the audacity and underhanded partaking in denying the permits to the vendors of the original Farmers Market that had been doing business downtown for many years, and which also brought live music to McEuen Park on Wednesdays. They were forced to move to Riverstone as a place to conduct business two seasons ago.

Mexico awakes with joy, division to the first woman elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum

With about 78% of votes counted, Sheinbaum had some 59% of votes, about twice as many as her nearest competitor Xóchitl Gálvez, who got around 28%.

Fast Five Kevin Croffoot: A father's heart of fire and faith

Meet Kevin Croffoot, a battalion chief with 32 years in the fire service, which began in the beginning with Hayden Fire and continued after consolidation becoming Northern Lakes Fire Protection District.

PRIDE: Event doesn’t represent Coeur d’Alene

We live just outside Coeur d’Alene and we’re very disappointed that you included all of Coeur d’Alene as celebrating the pride parade.

COMPANIONS: Abandoned dog met with compassion

The story of Loomie in Saturday’s Press moved me to tears. And I’m not even a dog person — I’m a cat lover. But, my heart went out to that little fur baby that someone would so heartlessly abandon and such a cruel way.

Juneteenth celebration on Wednesday

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States

Coeur d'Alene School District balances operating budget

Surplus of $1.65 million projected for next year

Much belt-tightening and reduction of expenditures have been put into place to balance what would have been a $6 million 2025 fiscal year budget shortfall in the Coeur d'Alene School District. Director of Finance Shannon Johnston provided a comprehensive overview of the district's finances Monday evening during a budget hearing, held at Midtown Meeting Center in Coeur d'Alene. “Next year, we are projecting a $1.65 million surplus," Johnston said. "Negotiations have not occurred yet, and that’s why you’re going to see a surplus. We have not settled on anything."

Running Shoes 4 Kids launches GoGood GiveBack campaign in Kootenai County

Community event and Run 2 Summer set for June 29

Be helpful, not hurtful. Go good, do good, be good.