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The Art of Receiving a Compliment

By Gabriel Cruden / July 3, 2026 /

Have you ever noticed that receiving compliments can be hard?  Doling them out can be easy. All you have to do is get out of your own head long enough…

Happy Semiquiencentennial USA!

By Gabriel Cruden / July 3, 2026 /

Two-hundred and fifty years old already? Feels like just yesterday we were celebrating your 200th birthday. Yes, hard to believe that I’m old enough to remember when the USA was…

Where Is the Middle of Nowhere?

By Gabriel Cruden / July 3, 2026 /

When friends who are not from the Inland Northwest visit us, the common refrain is, “You’re out in the middle of nowhere.” To get to our modest abode in the…

Taste Budz Review: Temple Tavern

By Gabriel Cruden / July 3, 2026 /

Temple Tavern is a new restaurant in the Garland District that opened in February of this year. It was formerly North Hill on Garland. We never made it in prior,…

The Abraham Lincoln Railcar

By Gabriel Cruden / July 3, 2026 /

Readers are likely familiar with railroads. Whether from history lessons about the Transcontinental Railroad in middle school, or the trains that seem to block the road specifically when you are…

Huckleberry Press – July 2026

By Gabriel Cruden / July 3, 2026 /

Huckleberry Press June 2026

By Gabriel Cruden / June 5, 2026 /

Hit the Trail with Soph: Take Mom Outside

By Gabriel Cruden / June 5, 2026 /

If you’re like me and prefer to put off more pressing matters and procrastinate by doing menial side quests like reading this column, you may recall when my brother, mother,…

Quit Wishin’ Go Fishin’

By Gabriel Cruden / June 5, 2026 /

Izaak Walton in the Compleat Angler insisted that “the trout is the tastiest of the fresh water fish…a fish that feeds clean and purely, in the swiftest streams, and on…

New Flooring Business Opens in Stevens County

By Gabriel Cruden / June 5, 2026 /

By Samantha Peone, Contributing Writer A new flooring business recently opened up in Springdale. Established this March, Shay’s Flooring LLC offers a variety of floor-related services to the region, said…