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Clearwater Paper says court decision allows plant plants to advance

Lawsuit doesn't impede delivery of key equipment to North Carolina facility

July 5, 2012

Clearwater Paper Corp., the Spokane-based maker of tissue and paperboard products, says a recent U.S. District Court decision will enable the company to move forward with a major component of its new tissue manufacturing and converting facility in

Good Spirits plans stores on North Side, in Spokane Valley

Five Mile, Valley outlets slated to open this month; additional locations eyed

July 5, 2012

Chey Scott

Wenatchee, Wash.-based Good Spirits LLC, which was established just before voters passed Initiative 1183 to privatize liquor sales last November, plans to open two new Spokane-area liquor superstores in the coming weeks. Ted Eaton, Good Spirits'

Spokane Public Schools moves ahead with $14 million skills center addition

Also, Central Valley plans $3.3 million tech facility in old Rite Aid at U City

July 5, 2012

Mike McLean

Spokane Public Schools says it's a big step closer to building a $14 million addition to the NewTech Skills Center in Hillyard, and the Central Valley School District separately expects to call for contractor bids this month to ready a tech branch

Village Centre Cinemas, other movie theaters go digital

Theaters do full conversion to stay relevant as industry phases out 35-mm reel film

July 5, 2012

Treva Lind

Village Centre Cinemas Wandermere, a 14-screen complex, soon will equip one of its theater rooms with a high-tech, 45-foot-wide screen and a larger projector for 3-D movies.This final piece is all that remains to finish a conversion of the North

Scafco to build plant in East Spokane

City is reviewing plans for $5.7 million facility for making steel studs

July 5, 2012

Mike McLean

Scafco Corp., which operates two Spokane-area manufacturing facilities, is seeking a building permit to construct a new $5.7 million steel stud manufacturing plant at the former site of the Playfair horse racing track in East Spokane, plans under a

Spokane businesses fight to thwart graffiti

Property owners say removing it quickly is most effective

July 5, 2012

Chey Scott

Driving through Spokane on the city's main arterials, it's not difficult to notice the deliberate, spray-painted scribbles and markings of illegal graffiti on buildings, signs, light posts, overpasses, and even in some residential Spokane-area and

Aerial wildfire douser to nest at Spokane International Airport

Arizona-based Aero-Flite will establish operations at SIA

July 5, 2012

Kim Crompton

Aero-Flite Inc., a Kingman, Ariz.-based company that recently garnered a big contract to help provide the U.S. Forest Service with next-generation air tankers for wildfire suppression, plans to establish operations at Spokane International Spokane

In the News

July 5, 2012

July 2 / Spokane mall owner refinancesGeneral Growth Properties Inc., the Chicago-based real estate investment trust that owns NorthTown Mall and Spokane Valley Mall, refinanced $3.1 billion in debt, including $63 million for Spokane Valley The

Calendar

July 5, 2012

Meetings & EventsThe Washington Policy Center will host its 10th Annual Health Care Policy Conference with the Eastern Washington Health Care Lunch, Monday, July 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post. The topic will

Soldering equipment concern sees big uptick in sales

RPS Automation expects to double revenue, largely due to aerospace work

June 21, 2012

Chey Scott

As the domestic aerospace-manufacturing sector continues to grow, Spokane Valley-based soldering equipment maker RPS Automation LLC is seeing its sales shoot upward and is attributing much of that increase to aerospace-related fabrication.RPS in