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Steve Eugster, tenacious Spokane councilman who inspired fury and admiration dies at 78
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMay 30—Steve Eugster, a divisive attorney at the forefront of some of the most controversial issues facing Spokane in the 1990s and early 2000s who reinvented the city's government, died last ...
Shawn Vestal: A Black pioneer's legacy in Spokane stretched deep into the 20th century
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 25—He was born into slavery and escaped it. Joined the Union Army and marched with Sherman to the sea. Served two terms in the Mississippi Legislature during Reconstruction. Then he, his ...
Longtime Spokane collector Don Pearson's estate sale spreads his legacy through the community, one...
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJun. 10—Shoppers gasped and gawked as they wove their way through giant Chinese vases, Italian carved wood statues, Victorian settees and chandeliers Thursday morning at the first of many sales ...
Longtime Spokane Symphony tubist Leonard Byrne, 'man of science' and 'real artist,' dies at 70
Tribune via AOL· 3 months agoJan. 24—Leonard Byrne, who served as the Spokane Symphony Orchestra's principal and only tubist for nearly five decades, died Monday of congestive heart failure in Spokane Valley. He was 70.
Shawn Vestal: One family, one restaurant, four generations
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoJul. 29—Eddie K. Eng was born more than nine decades ago in the Taishan region of China, an area that historically produced so much emigration to America that it bills itself as the "First Home ...
NC health officials say 309 in region have died of COVID
Henderson Daily Dispatch, N.C. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 3—HENDERSON — COVID-19 has claimed 309 lives across the Tri-County since the start of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services says. As of the ...
End of an era: Grant County Journal will fold final edition after more than a century of local...
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 10 months agoJun. 20—EPHRATA, Wash. — A legacy newspaper in central Washington is closing this month, leaving another community without a local watchdog. The Grant County Journal's final edition will be ...
