When Jerry Layman first became affiliated with Farmers & Merchants Bank, he had no idea that the Spokane institution one day would have $305 million in assetsor about $297 million more than when he began doing legal work for the bank.Layman,

When a woman notices her jeans fit a little too snug around the waist, she knows its probably time to hit the gym. For a menopausal or post-menopausal woman, acting on this realization could save her life.A study last year by the Fred fat

Farmers & Merchants Bank, of Spokane Valley, posted record net income in 2003 for the seventh year in a row.The banks net income climbed to $4.4 million last year, up 16 percent from 2002. Its total deposits rose 9.7 percent, to $269 million

Spokane Valley-based Falcos Garden Center Inc. plans to construct a retail-and-office building in front of its current store.Falcos has sold its greenhouses and garden inventory, which were just north of its store at 9310 E. Sprague, to for

Its amazing what a box of apples, a couple of golf shirts, and a few bottles of wine can do for a city.A hodgepodge of items like these added just enough pizzazz to give Spokane the edge it needed to win its bid for the 2007 U.S. Figure says

The number of bankruptcy petitions filed in Eastern Washington soared to a record high for the fourth straight year in 2003, and experts here say they might continue to increase this year.Businesses and consumers last year filed 10,429 seeking