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About twice a year we update wine consumers here in North Idaho about trends in and the state of the wine industry.

Recall flunks school rules

Group did not have permission to be on property

COEUR d'ALENE - Coeur d'Alene School District 271 said

Awesome with avocados

Beverly’s chef in third round of competition; vote for Mad Mark’s turkey burger online

COEUR d'ALENE — Using a white rubber spatula, Mark Bertram delicately pressed on a handmade turkey burger patty as it sizzled and browned in a small pan over a blue flame.

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Burning recall questions go to court

Prosecutor files suit to clarify time to check signatures

COEUR d'ALENE - Kootenai County wants a judge to rule how many days recall petitioners have to collect signatures in their drive to oust four Coeur d'Alene incumbents.

Youth Sports: Aug. 2, 2023: Water polo, flag football and more

Updates on area Kroc Water Polo Club and signups underway for Coeur d'Alene Recreation leagues.

Visual search to shop: Gimmick or game changing?

NEW YORK - Imagine using your phone to snap a photo of the cool pair of sunglasses your friend is wearing and instantly receiving a slew of information about the shades along with a link to order them.

Despite market unrest, Fed likely to pare stimulus

Your choices

For the next couple of months, wine consumers will be bombarded with this list and that list of the best wines. From big box retailers to wine publications, there will be many interpretations of what constitutes a great wine. As a wine writer who also works daily with customers, I take a different approach, highlighting the wines that you, North Idaho wine consumers, think are the best, based on which ones you come back and buy over and over again. As we say, what matters most is what you like. So here are the wines you have voted for, not in a survey, but with your pocket books and money clips.

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Phyllis Elaine O’Neal (Wagner), 87

Even if you're careful drugs can end up in water

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests.

North Idaho Reserve Police Academy goes online in 2012

The North Idaho Reserve Academy, typically hosted by the Coeur d'Alene Police Department (CDAPD), has undergone some technological updates designed to make it easier, and less expensive, for reserve officers to attend classes. This year, the CDAPD partnered with the Idaho Peace Officers Standards & Training (POST) Academy and all classes for the North Idaho Reserve Academy will be broadcast over the Idaho Education Network (IEN). The IEN is a secure, online network that can be accessed in every community through local, public high schools.

Housing strategies, solutions

Solving the housing crisis in North Idaho is not an unattainable goal. It may be a "BHAG" — a "big hairy audacious goal" — but those who are working to accomplish this feat realize it will take collaboration, communication and innovative ways of doing things to arrive at outcomes desirable for the whole community.

Online TV spats mean fewer free shows on Web

LOS ANGELES - Broadcasters took a big step toward eliminating free TV shows on the Web after they blocked access to their programming online this month to enforce their demands to be paid.

Expectations low for Fed moves

There's more to Cd'A schools story

At the Monday School Board meeting, Trustee Dave Eubanks, speaking to the Board and the community, called for the disposal of district assets. His goal, apparently, is to replenish the district's contingency fund after some of those funds were used to ensure sufficient funding for completion of Winton Elementary School.

Collecting other people's sales tax

WASHINGTON - A bill to require Internet shoppers to pay sales taxes for online purchases may be cruising through the Senate but it will soon hit a roadblock in the House.

What would Mozart do?

Northwest Sacred Music Chorale concert reveals the impossible

The works of Mozart should be recognizable to almost everyone. He’s known as a child prodigy and later a highly acclaimed composer. But in 1782, at the age of 24, he was hired to compose a work for the Festival of Pallii for the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg under very stringent instrumental and short program guidelines that normally would stifle a creative genius.

'Tis the season! Save 40% on Early Bird Season passes for the Festival at Sandpoint and give the gift of music this Christmas.

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Charmaine Powell