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SeaPort will fly Spokane to Olympia, and Lakeside needs your vote

Plus, $40 million for homelessness and housing services is open for applications.

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SeaPort Airlines will fly from Felts Field to Olympia starting Jan. 8

SeaPort's Olympia route comes with a $279 fare

$279
for a one-way ticket out of Felts Field
22 years
since Olympia's airport last had regional air service
500
passengers each way, daily, between Spokane and western Washington

Sources: Spokane Journal of Business, The Olympian

If you've ever lost a whole day driving to the Legislature, this one's for you. SeaPort Airlines is launching a seasonal route between Spokane's and Olympia Regional Airport, timed to the legislative session.

The Olympian reports it's the first regional air service at the airport in 22 years. SeaPort founder and CEO Kent Craford said in a statement that getting to Olympia "will no longer require an entire day of travel."

  • Starts: Jan. 8, 2027
  • Days: Fridays and Sundays, in the afternoon
  • Flight time: about an hour
  • Aircraft: nine-passenger Pilatus PC-12s

Olympia's last commercial flights were in 2004

  1. 2004Big Sky Airlines flies the last commercial service at Olympia Regional Airport.
  2. 2016SeaPort's flight services close.
  3. 2025SeaPort relaunches flight services.
  4. MarchSeaPort begins weekday service from to Boeing Field in Seattle.
  5. Jan. 2027SeaPort's Felts Field to Olympia flights will begin.

Sources: Spokane Journal of Business, The Olympian

Community

Lakeside High is trailing in the vote for a $1 million field upgrade, and you can vote through Sunday

If you've got a free minute today, Nine Mile Falls could use it. Lakeside High School is one of four finalists in T-Mobile's contest, and voting runs through Sun., Nov. 8. The winner gets a $1 million home field upgrade.

Lakeside trailed Menasha in the final-round vote at last count

Source: The Inlander

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Menasha High (Wis.)224.9K
Lakeside High87,600

It's an uphill climb. Lakeside has roughly 490 students, and Wisconsin's Menasha High, with nearly double that, was leading. Still, Lakeside already banked a weight room makeover after winning the West Division semifinals with 123,100 votes.

  • Voting ends: Sun., Nov. 8
  • Limit: one vote per day
  • Rivals: schools in Wisconsin, Louisiana and Virginia
  • Shortcut: vote4lakeside.com

$250,000weight room makeover Lakeside has already won

Lakeside earned it as West Division champion. The $1 million field goes to one of the four finalists.

Sources: The Inlander, kxly.com

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News Notes

Housing funds

If you run a nonprofit that serves people without housing, the City of Spokane and Spokane County are accepting requests for proposals for $40 million. Funds will come through human services grants, consolidated homeless grants, emergency solutions grants, homeless prevention and more. City spokesperson Erin Hut told KXLY the city wants "more folks get access to the resources they need and get into stability." NonStop Local KHQKXLY.com

$40 millionavailable through the city and county's shared request for proposals

The process uses one shared application, common review and scoring criteria, and a joint committee.

Sources: KXLY.com, NonStop Local KHQ

Transfer station

A fire closed the Valley Transfer Station Thursday morning after employees reported hearing multiple explosions before seeing flames inside a compactor. No injuries were reported, and the county said it was expected to reopen later Thursday. The county sent the public to the Waste to Energy Facility on South Geiger Road and the North County Transfer Station in Colbert, and the cause was still being investigated. NonStop Local KHQKXLY.com

Art sale

Paintings by Kathleen Gemberling Adkison go on sale at 11 a.m. today at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, with proceeds going to ' wildfire relief and recovery funds. Two of the four have sold, for $5,000 and $2,500, and the MAC's Wes Jessup hopes to raise $18,500 once all are gone. The Spokesman-Review

State meets

A Spokesman-Review preview says Eastern Washington cross country teams race Saturday at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco, where Spokane-area boys teams could win titles in five classifications. The 4A boys go at 3 p.m., with Mead the defending champ. The Spokesman-Review

Airway Heights

Community Frameworks broke ground Thursday at 13318 W. 2nd Ave. on seven single-family homes, the start of a Highland Village project that will eventually include more than 90 affordable rental units. The Spokesman-Review

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A cowgirl bar now lives where a houseplant bar used to. At the end of September, downtown Spokane's Garden Party, which opened in 2023 and was filled with about 75 houseplants, became Giddy Up or Shut Up. Inside you'll find a wall of Western hats and a row of toy horses in the windows. Yeehaw, indeed.

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SeaPort will fly Spokane to Olympia, and Lakeside needs your vote

Plus, $40 million for homelessness and housing services is open for applications.

The TLDR

  1. SeaPort will fly Felts Field to Olympia starting Jan. 8
  2. Lakeside High trails in the $1 million field vote, which ends Sunday
  3. $40 million in homelessness and housing funding is open for applications
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