The last time the Lake City High boys basketball team qualified for state was 2001-02. That year, the Timberwolves played in the championship game. Jim Winger was the coach then and he coached one more year before stepping down. Winger, 42, believes LC should be…
Victor Calzada/El Paso Times, APA goose carries a little passenger at Ascarate Park today in El Paso, Texas. Jose Angel Sanchez said he placed the duck on the friendly goose's back when it waddled up to him during an outing to the park. The goose…
I drove past the turnoff to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument last year about this time, going 85mph. Looks like Family Phil & Co. stopped. Story hereWhen Will and I first moved to North Idaho in 2005, we were very aware of the ‘granolas.’…
Mary Altaffer/AP PhotoRepublican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., pays for a slice of pizza at Verrazano Pizza after campaigning in the Brooklyn borough of New York Thursday. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines 1. "All right, buddy, I want the whole pizza No more Mr.…
The North Central District Health Department Friday afternoon received laboratory confirmation of bacterial meningitis in the University of Idaho student previously suspected to be infected. The health department is working with UI officials to identify anyone who may be in need of antibiotics. The student…
Andrus mentioned in passing that he’d just learned of Grant’s decision today, but thin rumors were floating around Boise yesterday. There were matters of timeliness. One was that, as Grant said, the time was about to arrive when the candidates would need to get into…
Ronda Churchill/Associated PressAlicia, left, a prostitute at the Chicken Ranch, sits in front of Randolph College students visiting the historic brothel in Pahrump, Nevada. Students of the liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Va., toured the brothel as part of their American Culture Program studies. More…
Teacher Marty Scanlon gave his advanced art class at Helena High School an assignment to make a chair out of the material of their choice. The only requirement was that it be useable as a chair. Senior Jana Barros designed a chair adorned with pink…
For those of us who are tired of working, it can be difficult to find the motivation to get to work. Some days, it may feel impossible. Why not just stay in bed all day? Why not call in sick…again? (For those of you who…
ATTN: Media RE: BloggersAs much as I loath the term "blogger", I do realize that it does have a specific meaning: blog (blg)n.A weblog.intr.v. blogged, blog·ging, blogsTo write entries in, add material to, or maintain a weblog.[(we)blog.]blog·ger n. So it's just mildly annoying when you…
In a guest editorial in the Coeur d'Alene Press this morning, Post Falls senior planner Collin L. Coles recommends that Kootenai County change the way the commissioners office does business. He supports adopting a form of county government that's run by part-time commissioners and a…
Democrats have targeted the race, however, because of Sali’s relatively tepid showing in the 2006 election. Sali won the five-candidate Republican primary with just one-quarter of the vote and won the general election with 49.9 percent of the vote while Grant received 44.8 percent. Democrats…
re: Thursday Question: What is the worst smell that you've ever smelled?My cousin forgot to deliver a boxed up dead deer head to the taxidermist one winter- just left it in his trunk. Come spring, no one could stand to ride in the car, and…
(Hillary) just doesn't have Bubba's ability to bend the truth. Bill was the best. He could look me in the eye, lip quivering, and convince me he did not have sexual relations with that woman. (At least until the blue dress surfaced.) Hillary, on the…
As more airline cancellations disrupt service, are you changing your summer travel plans?/Idaho Statesman.*Still flying*Driving*Not traveling
I talked (to expectant parents) about the importance of thinking about what style of discipline you both were comfortable with and the fact that unless we make a conscious decision to change it, people naturally parent in the way they were parented themselves. I told…
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.
