THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: The debate on the MLB trade deadline goes on

I love debating who’s coming up to win award. We didn’t need a midseason trading deadline to do it, though. They could have found all the players they needed by Opening Day.

Northwest Notes: July 30, 2024

Notes on Coeur d'Alene High football registration, a new athletic director at Lewis-Clark State and Boise State men's basketball facing Saint Mary's in Idaho Falls.

Competency hearing set in Sandpoint arson case

A competency hearing has been scheduled in the case of a Bonner County woman charged with setting a July 4 arson fire that destroyed the Army Surplus store.

Sholeh: What people with disabilities want you to know

Empathy is appreciated; pity is not.

VETERANS PRESS: Honoring women veterans

Idaho Women Veterans Medallion

"Courageous Past — Unlimited Future." This is the motto you will see on the Idaho Women Veterans Medallion. Four local women veterans recently met with Idaho State Treasurer Julie A. Ellsworth, who championed the birth of this medallion, to celebrate its meaning and share stories of their own military background.

Ronald Leo Hagman, 89

Ronald Leo Hagman passed away peacefully with his loving wife of 70 years by his side on July 13, 2024, at Coeur d Alene Life Care Center, one month short of his 90th birthday. Born on August 11, 1934, in Kellogg, Idaho, Ron was the beloved youngest son of Julius and Myrtle Hagman.

Legals for July, 30 2024

Bluff Creek Complex fires prompt closures on St. Joe River Road

Staff from the Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF) announced Monday that the Gold Flat undeveloped campsite 8.6 miles north of Red Ives Cabin on the St. Joe River Road would experience a temporary closure. There will also be a temporary closure of segments of Forest Development Roads 509, 1258, 1956F, and 322 in the Bluff Creek area.

Monday TV/Radio highlights

Television and radio highlights for Monday, July 29.

LEGION BASEBALL: Lums fall in state AA title game

Coeur d’Alene, bidding for its first trip to regionals since 1979, finished 22-17.

Coeur d'Alene photographers record veterans as they return to Normandy

Local men photograph, record veterans as they return to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day

The BDF is a nonprofit organization focused on helping veterans and their families find closure from the wars they served in, while providing a once-in-lifetime experience to visit the battlefields they fought in.

NIC responds to Rumpler lawsuit

North Idaho College has denied allegations of wrongful discharge and retaliation leveled by a former employee.

LEGION BASEBALL: Lums advance to AA title game

Coeur d'Alene will face Pocatello in the state AA tournament today at Halliwell Park in Pocatello.

Mountain West Bank acquires Spokesman-Review building

With plans to relocate its administrative operations and Coeur d'Alene area lending teams within the next two years, Mountain West Bank has acquired the large Spokesman-Review building at 608 Northwest Blvd.

HUCKLEBERRIES: Two grounds benefiting the people forever

Tubbs Hill and McEuen Park are miracles. The hallowed ground that the two treasures share on the waterfront would be commercialized today if well-meaning — but myopic — civic leaders had had their way decades ago.

Ronald Leo Hagman, 89

Ronald Leo Hagman passed away peacefully with his loving wife of 70 years by his side on July 13, 2024, at Coeur d Alene Life Care Center, one month short of his 90th birthday. Born on August 11, 1934, in Kellogg, Idaho, Ron was the beloved youngest son of Julius and Myrtle Hagman.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: There is no justification

Jim Jones’ opinion piece from July 24 illustrates how illegal immigration has helped to corrupt American society. Here is a former Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court justifying the violation of our nation’s immigration laws because he has concluded that these laws are not rational. He is in effect condoning the breaking of the law. Why not enforce the laws we have, and then work to change them legally through the proper legislative channels?

For love of the lake

Just after retirement, Skip Murphy shares stories of Murphy Marine Construction's legacy

From the deck of his Boothe Park home, Skip Murphy has a view of his handiwork and his family's fingerprints across the waves and along the shorelines of Lake Coeur d'Alene.

Bonnie Ann Boulton, 92

Bonnie was born on May 17, 1932, in Gothenburg, Nebraska, to Harm and Edith (Strever) Junker.

Rowena Delores Shepherd, 89

Rowena Shepherd was born September 13, 1934, in Oklahoma to LD and Edna Guice.