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KEC awards funds

Kootenai Electric Trust distributes Operation Round Up Grants

Kootenai Electric Cooperative's Operation Round Up Trust Board granted its second quarter disbursement for 2009 funds. The Trust Board received 26 grant requests and awarded nearly $16,000 to 12 of the applicants. The following received funding:

Editorial

Together we stand for a strong USA

Editor's note: In what has become a Fourth of July holiday tradition, we're reprinting one of this newspaper's most popular editorials.

The signs of Independence Day are all around us. From grocery stores running short on hot dog buns to fireworks stands peddling a plethora of pyrotechnics, the sense of celebration is building.

• POLL: Won't give up rights
• POLL: Second before First
• POLL: This vote is neither

Outdoors

Glacier vacation

Going-to-the-Sun Road opening, sunny skies lead to quick trip

I was awake, waiting to rise for another day, when the phone rang at 6:45 a.m. On the other end was my friend, Don Witulski.

• Fish Tips

Sports

Lums split again at wood bat tourney

COEUR d'ALENE -- The Coeur d'Alene Lumbermen lost 7-6 to Medicine Hat and beat the Washington Pirates 9-1 in five innings on Friday on the second day of the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Senior Wood Bat Classic at McEuen Field.

On Thursday, the Lums beat the Belgrade Bandits 7-4 and lost to the Eagle Vipers 3-0 in eight innings.

• Northwest Notes

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Real Estate

The eagle has landed at Hope

COEUR d'ALENE - For two decades Hope Realty has hidden behind large trees at one of the busiest intersections in town.

• Watching the housing market(s)