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Huckleberries Best of the Local Blogs — 11/5/07


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Juanita "Jonesy" Woltering started hunting as a seven-year-old in West Virginia. Since moving to Idaho in 1954, Woltering, of Fernwood, has hunted annually, racking up a bookload of tales, and a room full of trophies.

*Former SR colleague Taryn Hecker didn't take long to get back on her journalism feet. She's just launched a new blog, The Skinny on North Idaho, with posts about new filings on the Duncan case and Wallace's moment in the sun here.

*Put your hands together for A Butterfly Moment. She's pregnant: "I am almost 10 weeks pregnant which isn't long for most people, but for me it's been 10 weeks since I've known." Click here.

*Family Phil/A Family Runs Through It tried to be a hero at a spur-of-the-moment football game and ended up free-falling and amusing his kids here.

*For two of her son's four years, Katrina/Notes on a Napkin took son Caleb to the mall on Halloween night. This year, she went the traditional door-to-door route -- and she can't get him to stop trick-or-treating -- here.

HBO Numbers (for week of Oct. 28 to Nov. 3): 57412 page-views and 32091 unique views.

Meanwhile, Sweet & Sour Herb/Bay Views comments on SR newsroom layoffs here; Cis/From A Simple Mind explains why Hillary scares her here; Kristi/Here In Idaho sez the world will go on despite the Hollywood writers strike here; MamaJD wants to be a Pot Pie Woman here; ThomG/Perspectives recalls a turning point in his life here; and Marianne/Slight Detour was happy to get an extra hour of sleep Sunday morning here.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.