We've reached closing time on Friday before a three-day Memorial Day weekend. I doubt that I'll visit the local cemeteries on Memorial Day. But I do visit on other days, particularly when I walk home after work. I enjoy walking among the tombstones, reading inscriptions.…
Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North IdahoOn the east side of Tubbs Hill, Lake Coeur d'Alene's Sanders Beach shoreline is rising up the seawall. At the nearby 11th Street Marina, Hanna and Associates parking lot is filling with floodwaters but the sandbags are at the ready/Kerri Thoreson, OnLocation…
Richard M. Hackett/Daily Times-Call, APCraig Singleton displays racquetball sized hail he collected after a tornado hit Windsor, Colo., on Thursday. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines:1. Craig's wife, Mary: "Is that a snowball? I mean, it's an odd color, a little shade of white and a…
I know this may sound "intolerant," but I gotta admit that I really don't like pregnant men and boys with boobs. There. I said it. If you happen to be a man "with child" or young man in need of a brassiere, I'm sorry if…
Get the Flash Player to see this video.Huge runoff from the Idaho mountains has caused the Spokane River to flood. As a result, onlookers are treated to a spectacular water show as a flow of more than 40,000 cubic feet per second comes crashing down…
The elections office will be open from 8-5 on Monday at 1808 3rd Street in CDA for the last day of absentee voting. This is a very fitting Memorial Day activity. Honor a Vet-Go Vote! On Tuesday, Election Day, the polls are open from 7…
Robin Loznak/Roseburg News-Review, APKrystee Weatherford, a fourth-grader at Fir Grove Elementary School in Roseburg, Ore., helps put up flags at the Roseburg National Cemetery earlier today. About 100 students from the school placed about 3,500 flags in recognition of Memorial Day. For Andrew Zahler's SR…
“This year’s flooding in the Coeur d'Alene and the St. Joe Rivers, like the ’65, ’74 and ’96 floods, are the result of heavy logging and road building by the Forest Service, Idaho Department of Lands and private timber corporations,” says Allen Isaacson, former supervisory…
Paul Ruhter/Billings GazetteA Billings Logan Airport Crash Fire and Rescue truck responds to the scene of an airplane crash near downtown Billings, Mont., early this morning. A small plane crashed into a building, causing an explosion and fire and killing the pilot. Story here1. A…
Larry Spencer's latest 11th-hour election mailings hit mailboxes today. Seems Jai Nelson has turned his head in the Kootenai County commissioner GOPrimary for Chairman Rick Currie's seatre: Rick Currie: One of the weak areas he has is the lack of vision or direction to lead…
Tondee wants to continue the daily chores of managing the county's business while updating the comprehensive plan. After that, he'd like to follow through on rewriting zoning ordinances. Those are a couple of unsexy tasks, but they're long overdue in a county that has absorbed…
Huckleberries Online has learned that key reporter Marc Stewart is leaving the Coeur d'Alene Press to become the spokesman for the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe. Stewart, who now reports on local government after covering police and courts, will join the tribe in mid-June. HBO also…
Item: Risch claims his special session produced biggest tax cut, opponents say that's bogus/Heath Druzin, Idaho StatesmanMore Info: Risch has made the one-day special session the cornerstone of his whirlwind 7-month tenure as governor. ... The Legislature eliminated the $260 million property tax for school…
Jerome A. Pollos/Coeur d'Alene PressKelsey Busch, 16, right, waits for her turn at getting $40 worth of gas Thursday as her friends Jake Phillips, center, and Jason Perry keep her company at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The free gas promotion took…
The marine deputies are the creepy and extraneous. Lose the lot of them. Little young nazis. Marine Recreation Enforcement, I believe their division is called. Enforcing recreation, yeah right. A buncha snivviley jerks, ask me. They cured me of boat ownership. The lake it not…
A friend/associate of mine who knows I am a staunch conservative figured me to be against the levy on Tuesday and the ed corridor because of tax reasons. My response is that I am overwhelminly for hiked taxes that aid the betterment of a. children/education…
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.
