Looking Back

1 Years Ago

June 29, 2000

With the final help from property owners in place, the city of Cheney will finally punch Parkway Drive through from SR-904 to North Sixth Street. Construction on the long-awaited east-west thoroughway will probably begin this fall.

Spokane City Councilman Rob Higgins recently addressed a meeting of the West Plains Business Association and downplayed the suggestion that his city had eyes on annexing big portions of the area.

Medical Lake Mayor Jim Hill, who doubles as a Washington State Highway Patrol trooper, took the matter of lax animal control into his own hands r...