Only Coeur d'Alene insurance man Steve Adams filed his papers for the City Council on the first day of candidacy filings today. Adams plans to take on incumbent Woody McEvers. Meanwhile, Huckleberries hears that Habitat for Humanity exec Jim Brannon will file his candidacy papers…
The largest private residence in Kootenai County has come on the market this month. Owned by Ron and Georgia Puryear, the 26,000 sq. ft. residence is on the north shore of the Spokane River in Post Falls. Listed by John Beutler of Century 21, the…
Item: Washington bans holiday Christmas displays, tree to stay/APMore Info: The Christmas tree can stay — but no more Nativity scene. That’s the word from Washington’s Capitol, where protests erupted last winter over competing private holiday displays. The furor focused on an atheist placard, which…
When Coeur d’Alene’s Salvation Army Kroc Corps Community Center opened three months ago, organizers projected that 1,500 people would join the first year, with about 670 of them using the center daily. They were wrong. Some 15,500 people have become members of the community center,…
Eduardo Menendez, left, and his teammate Francisco Menendez of the team "Hublot" celebrate after winning against the team "Star Design" at the Polo Gold Cup in Gstaad, Switzerland, Saturday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Keystone/Peter Klaunzer)Top Cutlines:1. (tie, both posted at 9:16 a.m.): The one-headed…
5:54 p.m. One male driver is complaining of injury after a head-on collision b/n a Dodge Ram & a Toyota passenger car @ 22nd & Pennsylvania/CdA.5:41 p.m. A disorderly male in a green, checkered shirt is stumbling onto Ramsey @ Dakota/Hayden.5:01 p.m. R/P wants to…
One of the weirdest posts I've read at the Coeur d'Alene Press blog was brought to my attention over the weekend by newby Soaf. It's the second part of an exchange between soon-to-be-announced candidate Dan Gookin and "Phaedrus," a commenter who frequents local media blogs,…
The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press, a finding that makes it more likely criminal charges will be filed against the doctor who was with the pop star when he died. The…
At As The Lake Churns, blogmistress Pecky Cox snapped this photo of a swimmer early Sunday morning in smokey Luba Bay on Priest Lake.From everything I read in the news, there is an unemployment crisis. Well, can't prove it by me!!! We have been looking…
Narse Desautle of Lewiston gets the first Idaho wolf tag sold at the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Office in Lewiston today. The agency is expected to begin selling permits Monday morning to hunt wolves starting as early as Sept. 1 in some regions…
“You did what?” my friend Virgil said, dumbfounded, when I told him I had just backpacked overnight in the backcountry by myself, as if he could not process such a notion. Other friends were equally baffled, and they all live in the Big Sky/Bozeman area…
I was in college at the time, spending my summers working on Glacier’s trail crew. The park usually pulled us off the trails in August to fight forest fires. That’s what I was doing on that night, sitting in a fire camp on Apgar Mountain…
Sales manager Mark Hranicky holds up a bunch of keys to some of the 90 cars that were traded in under the federal government's Cash for Clunkers program, on a lot at Lee Toyota in Topsham, Maine, Monday. As the Cash for Clunkers program expires,…
The Idaho Innocence Project at Boise State University says it has unearthed evidence showing that Sarah Pearce, a woman who was convicted in 2003 for the savage beating of a Washington state motorist who was passing through the area on the freeway, may actually be…
Item: 12:34 p.m. R/P wants to speak to an officer re: an individual's "right-wing postings on the Coeur d'Alene Press Web site."DFO: Some of you Merry Hucksters bristle when I delete a comment of yours, claiming that your 1st Amendment rights are being violated. Or…
Folks lined up to get their wolf tags at Idaho Fish & Game this morning. This is the first public wolf hunt in Idaho in decades. (Kathy Plonka/SR)The first hunter to buy a wolf tag at Idaho’s Fish & Game headquarters in Boise this morning,…
Ian Lavin, 9, of Eagle, Idaho, throws a decoy into a pool out in front of Dekes, a 2-year-old Labrador Retriever, at the Splash Dogs dock at the Western Idaho Fair, Sunday in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Charlie Litchfield)Cartoon: Who will cut health care…
A man who told police he was hunting Sasquatch is in the Benewah County Jail after a high speed chase that ended with his arrest Sunday in Worley. David Mack Albrethsen, 39, is charged with felony eluding after deputies and tribal police used a nail…
As predicted here Friday, Coeur d'Alene insurance agent Steve Adams has decided to challenge incumbent Woody McEvers rather than incumbent Mike Kennedy for a City Council seat. Adams announced earlier this year that he would take on Kennedy. But he filed this morning for McEvers'…
With much fanfare, Boise State University last week implemented a campus-wide no-smoking policy. I'm not going to deny the ability of the government to regulate or even ban smoking on campus. The trouble is the policy extends beyond the campus and its buildings and straight…
Caroline Lixie, 5, holds on to her mom's hand just before the first bell of the first day of school at Discovery Elementary School in Sunrise, Fla. this morning. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Lilly Echeverria)Question: Anyone facing the unenviable task of dropping off a little…
JohnA: Yesterday, while driving down again to celebrate Miles' first birthday, my mom fell and broke her hip following Mass at St. Pius. Two years in a row I'm eight hours away while my mom is hospitalized. She's doing OK this morning according to my…
11:25 a.m. Responder investigating a possible house fire @ Wyoming & Meadow View/Hayden discovers hay bails burning behind the property.11:22 a.m. Emergency responder investigating report of natural gas smell in an apartment @ 1105 E. 3rd/Post Falls discovers a sewer leak.11:19 a.m. Dunno exactly what's…
Item: Legislator's wife to run for Post Falls council: Henderson touts conservative values, wants tax change/Brian Walker, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: Citing conservative values and a commitment to serve, Betty Ann Henderson said she'll challenge for a Post Falls City Council seat on Nov. 3.…
On Friday, we were discussing gadfly Dan Gookin's announcement that he planned to run for the Coeur d'Alene City Council seat now held by Deanna Goodlander. In the process, Nic/Rants, Raves & Random Thoughts, brought up the "Wild Goose Chase" that Gookin (shown with biologist…
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.
