Top 30 Under 40 nominations are open through Nov. 5

By DEVIN WEEKS

If you have an outstanding young person working in your organization, office, business or company, now is the time for name-dropping. The Kootenai County Young Professionals is hosting its second year of the Top 30 Under 40 program, which encourages community members to nominate hardworking and remarkable young people who are making a difference in North Idaho.

Product validation is becoming part of everyday business planning

Integrate product validation in your business practice daily. Uncover proven reasons and techniques to boost your strategy today.

MHSA sets sites for some postseason events

The Montana High School Association had an executive board meeting Thursday to set sites for winter sports postseason events.

LEAP Update workshop being offered

One-day logging workshop being offered via Zoom.

Online LEAP Update being offered

LEAP Update is an annual opportunity for LEAP graduates to build on that professional development in forestry.

Hanford agencies to hold cleanup meeting

KENNEWICK – The public is invited to ask questions and learn about Hanford Site cleanup during an in-person meeting at the ballroom of the Red Lion Hotel Kennewick Columbia Center on Tuesday, Dec. 5 from 6-8 p.m., according to a Department of Ecology announcement Monday.

Iconic churches struggle to accommodate both worship, tourism

With tourism reaching or surpassing pre-pandemic levels across southern Europe this summer, iconic sacred sites struggle to find ways to accommodate both the faithful who come to pray and millions of increasingly secular visitors. A developing strategy is to have visitors and faithful go separate ways – with services held in discrete places, visits barred at worship times, or altogether different entrances. But the challenge remains to ensure the full spaces retain their spiritual purpose. The aim is to make them available to worshippers but also to educate tourists about their history as sacred sites, especially in rapidly secularizing countries where less famous churches are emptying out.

POLITICS: Snuff electoral college

We’re constantly encouraged to vote and reminded that each individual vote counts. However, is our vote treated equally? I’ll give you some facts and let you decide. Fact: The U.S. Census counts every man, woman and child regardless of citizenship. The count includes even long-term non-residency.

Free-roaming cats: A conservation crisis

LAKE COUNTY - Domestic cats can provide excellent companionship and make wonderful pets. But when allowed to roam outdoors, this non-native, invasive species threatens the welfare of birds and other wildlife and endangers the integrity of the ecosystems into which domestic cats are introduced.

Legals for April, 5 2023

Colorado snow storm knocks out power for thousands even as I-70 reopens

The heaviest accumulations were expected in Colorado's Front Range region, where the eastern plains meet the Rocky Mountains and the vast majority of the state's population lives

Taking the hassle out of eBay

So you've got an item you want to sell on eBay. You could take the time to photograph it, research the going price, set up the auction online and field questions from bidders.

Dick & Melinda Skogerson Even turning 70 hasn't slowed this hard-working couple

The Skogersons

DESERT AIRE — When Desert Aire Realtors Dick and Melinda Skogerson met at a Bellevue restaurant in 1983 it was love at first sight.

Half-million of Walmart's U.S. workers to get pay raises

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Walmart Stores Inc. is hoping its decision to boost workers' paychecks will help it boost its bottom line.

7 killed in Mexico's most violent state despite capo arrest

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hopes that the recent arrest of a Mexican gang leader could calm the country’s most violent state appeared dashed Saturday as the bullet-ridden bodies of seven men were found in a field and a rival drug cartel announced it was moving in.

7 killed in Mexico's most violent state despite capo arrest

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hopes that the recent arrest of a Mexican gang leader could calm the country’s most violent state appeared dashed Saturday as the bullet-ridden bodies of seven men were found in a field and a rival drug cartel announced it was moving in.

Excessive cost stop St. Regis recycling program

St. Regis residents were disappointed and a little perplexed last week when they discovered that the towns recycling bin...

LAW ROUNDUP: Two Bear Air has busy Wednesday

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Hair today, gone tomorrow

The hardest part about moving is saying goodbye. They say it’s better to have loved and lost, that it’s a gift to have someone or something worth grieving. But that doesn’t make goodbye any easier. You feel it in every fiber of your being. Every inch of your body. If you’re really unlucky (or lucky, to miss it?) your hair suffers worst of all.