Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Four designs mulled for Enaville bridge Briefs

A mixed group of Shoshone County public officials and landowners, along with representatives from the Spokane-based David Evans and Associates Inc. engineering firm, gathered Wednesday to discuss and evaluate four proposals for the replacement of the decaying Enaville bridge.
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Capital comes to Mullan

MULLAN - A smorgasbord of Idaho state politicians, including Gov. Butch Otter, filed into the Morning Club in Mullan Wednesday for another installment of Capital for a Day - Otter's monthly journey to open a dialogue between small town citizens and the state government.
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Charges sought in Kellogg hazing incident

On Friday a document recommending battery charges for three Kellogg High School softball players made its way from the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office to the courthouse.
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Cashier charged in lottery ticket scam

KELLOGG - A 27-year-old gas station cashier has been arrested for allegedly partially scratching lottery tickets, scanning them and selling the losers to customers while buying the winners.
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Post Falls man arrested in Shoshone County

SMELTERVILLE - A Post Falls man was arrested Sunday in Smelterville after an altercation that allegedly involved a brick.
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Man trapped in mine

MULLAN - Hecla Mining Company rescue teams have been working around the clock to rescue a miner who was trapped underground by a "localized ground fall," or cave in, Friday at the Lucky Friday Mine.
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Digging up Silver Valley history

KELLOGG - The man spent hours, days and months pouring over tattered back issues of the Wallace Miner dating to 1907. He ventured into the dark, uninhabited recesses of the University of Idaho book repository.
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Margason moving on after 30 years

KELLOGG - Although it was the last day of his over 30-year career in the grocery business, Stein's employee Joe Margason was busier than usual on Thursday.
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Arsonist gets 10 years for blaze at newspaper office

WALLACE - Shoshone County District Court was packed Monday for the sentencing of the Kellogg man who torched the old Shoshone News-Press building in September and later returned to the scene to "admire his handiwork" before being arrested.
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Luna to visit Silver Valley

In the midst of a statewide skirmish between lawmakers, state officials and educators regarding his sweeping educational reform package, Idaho Superintendent of Education Tom Luna will speak with Silver Valley residents today in Wallace.
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Movie night in Enaville

ENAVILLE - The multi-colored lights of Albert's Landing rose from the black west bank of the Coeur d'Alene River as the car rounded a bend in Old River Road, tearing through a torrential downpour with windshield wipers cranked at full speed.
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Mine owner has big plans

After buying out the Sterling Mining Co. for a cool $24 million in an April bankruptcy auction, Silver Opportunity Partners LLC (SOP) has rolled up its sleeves and isanxious to start drilling test holes.
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Demolition day

KELLOGG - A building that long served the news and advertising needs of Shoshone County began to fall to the destructive force of demolition equipment Monday morning.
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Teen fights rare disease

MULLAN - The first of over 100 seizures gripped the brain and shocked the body of 16-year-old Kayla Marie Dolsan Nov. 30 as she sat in class at Mullan High School.
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Annual Lookout Pass free ski school begins Saturday

LOOKOUT PASS - Around 400 youngsters from North Idaho and western Montana will slice or, more likely, crash their way down the slopes of Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area this Saturday, Jan. 8.
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Snowmobiler killed in avalanche

The body of a 35-year-old Farmington, Wash., man was found under 9 feet of snow Wednesday, 10 hours after the search began.
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Job seeker still has hope

KELLOGG - Brian Fulton, 21, a Kellogg High School graduate, didn't look as down-trodden as the other three job seekers huddled in the Idaho Department of Labor Office in Kellogg Wednesday. His frequent smiles showed in stark contrast to the beige room partially lit by the gray nether-hours of the …
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Gambling on the Golden Chest

With a new partner pledging to back a gamble, the New Jersey Mining Company is set to pull the lever of the Golden Chest Mine slot machine, hoping to see symbols of that precious ore line up across the screen.
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