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3 weeks ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
NEWPORT — Two Newport business owners shared their concerns about city infrastructure with the Newport City Council at its Monday, June 2 meeting. They were Kristin Yake and Troy Moody, co-owners of My Sidewalk Cafe at 300 S. Washington Ave. Moody is also a Planning Commissioner.
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1 month ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
Newport’s federally funded after-school program ‘on chopping block’NEWPORT — Andie Flavel has more than a few stories about the Grizzly Discovery Center, the Newport School District’s K-8 after- school program. Flavel and her husband work full time and do not have many family members who can babysit in the Newport area, so they enrolled their sons Aksel and Ronan in GDC as early as kindergarten.
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1 month ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
NEWPORT — Maintenance that was supposed to repair Newport roads last year damaged some of them instead, two audience members complained at the Newport City Council’s May 19 meeting. Pat Williams said workers did a poor job of laying out chipseal up Quail Loop during last year’s maintenance. Then, the chipseal was torn by a resident doing wheelies on the road shortly after. When he tried to fix part of the road himself, one worker stopped him, claiming the crews would do it.
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1 month ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
NEWPORT — The Newport Farmers Market has been awarded a $1,500 grant for its Kids Bucks program. From AgWest Farm Credit’s Rural Opportunity Grant program, the grant will allow the Newport Farmers Market to host Kids Bucks weekly instead of only once a month. Starting the first weekend of June, children who sign up for the program can earn Kids Bucks by participating in educational activities related to nutrition, such as crafts and scavenger hunts.
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1 month ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
New cafe and bakery opens in NewportNEWPORT — Stampede Coffee Company started with a horse trailer. After decades of a career in coffee that ended with two drive-thrus sold amid family health crises, Stampede owner Patty Rowe had gotten a job in property management instead. But another opportunity to work with coffee came years later — not at a shop or a stand, but in a horse trailer. “I’m like, ‘Oh, this is my passion,’” said Rowe, 60.
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1 month ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
NEWPORT — Citywide notices of routine sewer cleaning and maintenance came a few weeks too late for some Newport residents. Since the cleaning and maintenance began April 14, at least six have reported noises from their drainage, water backing up in their bathrooms or water coming up through their toilets. One poster on Facebook wrote April 28 that their “entire bathrooms” were sprayed down by toilet water. “My whole house smells like toilet water,” the poster wrote.
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1 month ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
NEWPORT — As ChatGPT reached schools, Todd Matthews questioned why he was still working as an English teacher. Matthews, who has taught at schools since “before computers were on desks,” said he and the rest of the Newport School District faculty knew ChatGPT was coming. So when it was initially released on Nov. 30, 2022, he immediately tried to see what it could do. “At that time it was like, ‘Oh my gosh,’” Matthews said.
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1 month ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
NEWPORT — The Newport City Council on Monday, May 5 heard updates from the Port of Pend Oreille. Jessica Garza, Port economic development director, announced to the council that the Economic Development Advisory Committee’s quarterly meeting is at 9 a.m. May 14 at the Ione Train Depot, 101 Railroad Ave. Versatile Industries and Partners for Rural Washington are giving presentations at the meeting.
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1 month ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
NEWPORT — Christopher Bell was sworn in as the Newport School District’s new school resource officer at the Newport City Council meeting on Monday, April 21. Bell is a retired Bonner County Sheriff’s Office deputy with almost 30 years of experience. He enjoys working with children and has been a coach in the area for years. His first day as school resource officer is May 2.
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1 month ago | 
pendoreillerivervalley.com | Gabrielle Feliciano
NEWPORT — A spy, an assassin and a child telepath become a fake family to accomplish a mission. Two alchemist brothers search for the Philosopher’s Stone to restore their lost bodies. A genius high school student discovers a notebook with the ability to kill anyone whose name is written in it. These are the synopses of “Spy × Family,” “Fullmetal Alchemist” and “Death Note,” the anime that the teens and preteens of the Newport Library Anime Club watched at their last three meetings.
