ELECTION: Vote for McAndrew

For the past eight years it has been my honor to serve our community as the Zone 2 representative on the Coeur d’Alene School District Board of Trustees. I am keenly aware of the opportunities and challenges facing the district and I wholeheartedly support Jimmy McAndrew for Zone 2 Trustee on Nov. 7 to help navigate the district’s future.

Lakeland looks to tighten budget

Levy results prompt hard look at spending

The Lakeland Joint School District trustees were grateful to the community for passing two levies in an election Tuesday that will fund the district for the next two years, but were reverent while they reviewed the district’s budget in a meeting Wednesday to prepare for the upcoming school year.

Legals for June, 22 2023

Legals for June, 22 2023

Layoffs, insurance on CLN emergency meeting agenda

Board will meet Thursday at storm-damaged PF Library

Staff layoffs and a reduction in force will be part of the discussion as the Community Library Network holds an emergency meeting at 2:45 p.m. Thursday at the Post Falls Library, 821 N. Spokane St., which has been closed to the public due to winter weather damage and flooding.

Legals for December, 6 2023

NIC special meeting Wednesday

North Idaho College trustees will convene tomorrow night for a special meeting.

NDOC announces candidate endorsements

NDOC endorses candidates

ELECTION: Vote for Gibbons, Griffin, Schroeder or Cassidy

Many Shoshone News-Press readers will remember my wife and I as longtime residents of Kellogg and the Silver Valley. Five years ago, we chose to move from Kellogg to Coeur d’Alene due to health care concerns and other personal considerations, but we still consider ourselves connected deeply to the people of the Silver Valley and the Kellogg School District.

ELECTION: Vote for Tenbrink

This weekend I met Heather Tenbrink, a conservative, who is running for Coeur d’Alene Public Schools trustee in Zone 3. Ms. Tenbrink was articulate and focused on the needs of our schools and community. Heather is dedicating herself to working toward increasing rigorous academics for our students, parent involvement in our schools, fair and competitive pay for teachers, and working to make the budget easier to understand.

Legals for July, 8 2023

Lakeland approves Heritage Health agreement - again

The Lakeland Joint School District board of trustees will continue to allow Heritage Health counselors to meet with students on campus.

EDITORIAL: Is it time for NIC to start over?

Some suggest accreditation loss only way to save college in long run

Library network to contract with ICRMP, Great American Insurance

Appeal letter in the works; library closures again allayed

During a third special meeting this week, Community Library Network trustees unanimously voted to contract with the Idaho Counties Risk Management Program and Great American Great American Insurance Group rather than letting the network's insurance lapse.

OPINION: Pattern of deception

A large portion of what we call “intelligence” is pattern recognition. Patterns of sounds are recognized as words or music. Patterns of symbols are written language. Patterns of features are faces. Captcha asks you to recognize items that fit a pattern to prove you are human. Intelligence tests rely heavily on pattern recognition by asking you to find the next number or symbol of a set or to determine which word does not fit with others.

West Bonner trustees schedule, cancel another meeting

Despite court order, outgoing board chair signs superintendent's contract

Recently ousted West Bonner trustees Keith Rutledge and Susan Brown planned to enter the district into contractual or financial obligations just hours before their recall takes effect, which could defy a District Court ruling.

MY TURN: Reckless CLN trustee actions

Risk from actions of the board majority of the Community Library Network continue to rise. Trustees Ottosen, Plass and Hanley are adding liability and eroding CLN’s safeguards; they are actively harming the library network. In just six months they’ve violated agreements, cut funding while increasing expenses, disregarded legal advice, and tried to demoralize staff.

Roundup: Hospital District trustee candidates

The following candidates are seeking election to the Kootenai Hospital District Board of Trustees.

Former NIC employee charged with battery on trustee

A former North Idaho College employee was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly threw a bucket of liquid onto a college trustee.

Legals for May, 18 2023