All Craig LaVoie wanted to do was remove the decades-old yellow-red-orange tiles and slap a more modern facade on his Largent’s Appliance store front in downtown Lewiston. The tiles started coming off Nov. 2. Immediately, history emerged: the original round ...

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Lewiston wants to join hundreds of cities across the country that have transformed shuttered historic theaters into prime downtown attractions. The Liberty Theater Preservation Alliance hopes to restore and reopen Lewiston’s 1921 Liberty Theater, which has sat empty since 2005. ...

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Idaho had the No. 1 construction job growth in the nation from March to April. Only 23 states saw job gains in construction in early spring, according to the Associated General Contractors of America. “The slowdown for the month (elsewhere) ...

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A new $3.1 million Idaho Foodbank will open in Lewiston, next door to a Rosauers Supermarket, near banks and two blocks from the Boys & Girls Club. The 18,000-square-foot structure will replace the food bank’s existing home in a 6,900-square-foot ...

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Spokane-based Clearwater Paper Corp. will begin construction in October on a $160 million upgrade of its Lewiston mill with a continuous pulp mill digester. This will replace 12 batch digesters that individually process wood chips into pulp and are them ...

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A forced overnight stay in Boise for commercial air travelers from Lewiston will come to an end Aug. 23 as Alaska Airlines shifts its 4:25 p.m. departure from Lewiston to 6:30 a.m. Lewis Clark Valley and Moscow-Pullman residents will be ...

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