Kettle Falls News

Head golf professionals are not simply ordained. Most find their way to the top only after serving extended stints as assistants.

Local farmers today filed a lawsuit against a large-scale feedlot in Franklin County, saying that the cattle operation could use hundreds of thousands of gallons of groundwater a day in one of the driest areas of the state.

This gentleman, known simply as "Badger" works on a leather knife sheath at the British Fur Trade Encampment at Mission Point near Kettle Falls last Saturday.

Wow. What an awesome day yesterday was. My son and I went to see Native American pow wow dancers and a British fur trade encampment re-creation on the Columbia River.

British Fur Trade Encampment This weekend at Mission Point COMPILED BY CHRIS COWBROUGH S-E Editor The shores of Lake Roosevelt at Mission Point will come alive this weekend with the re-creation of an historic British fur trade encampment.

Commencement ceremonies for Colville High School and Kettle Falls High School graduating seniors are right around the corner.

MORTON When Sharon Fisher closes the door of her Heavenly Hand-Me-Downs shop May 29 in Morton's one-street business district, it will be for the last time.

Lacey Kerr leads a list of four Whitworth University softball players who have earned post-season honors in 2009.

The Community Colleges of Spokane men's and women's golf teams wrapped up the NWAACC league championships with wins Monday in Auburn at the Green River tournament.

Mead needed a two-run sixth-inning single by Nick Bond to avoid an upset at East Valley and defeat the Knights 6-5 Friday afternoon in a Greater Spokane League baseball game.

Pummeled by low demand for wood products, Boise Cascade, LLC announced Friday that it would close a pine lumber sawmill in La Grande, laying off 120 employees this summer.

The Spokane Humane Society in Washington made an alliance with mud racers for the love of animals.

"Forestry has been practiced in Washington since before statehood. We are proud of the contributions that forestry continues to makes to society," said Mark Doumit In Washington State , current law protects forest landowners from nuisance lawsuits, as long as forest practices are conducted in a manner that is consistent with good practices.

After four months of politicking, it appears efforts in the Legislature to gut the authority of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission are dead.

WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN Tonasket schools to get new superintendent in July Tonasket schools to get new superintendent in July By K.C. Mehaffey World staff writer Turner, superintendent of the Columbia School District, near Kettle Falls, was the school board's top pick after a lengthy process that pared 16 applicants to one, said board ...

Submitted by Journal Staff on April 13, 2009 - 12:29pm. The Johnson Journals Don Johnson Letters and Journals Part 43 - Don places buoys on Rainy Lake - Don sings praises for his loved ones - Fishing not so good but more executives and guests enjoy the lake on the "Mando" houseboat 5/7/52 RAIN - FIRST OF SEASON! A helluva day for me.

Eagles are an attraction on the Web a ' and at the Bing. Internet surfers around the world are flocking to the Hancock Wildlife Foundation Web site to watch live video of a pair of bald eagles ready to hatch eggs in a nest near Delta, British Columbia, a Vancouver suburb.

Avista Corp., which operates one of the nation's oldest and biggest wood-fired generating plants at Kettle Falls, Wash., says it would be interested in the results of a planned University of Idaho study of the use of a crop-drying trailer to dry biomass fuel.

Sportsmen in Washington soon may find themselves with lighter wallets, a chance to fish with two poles and at least a couple of new wildlife commissioners.