Unofficially, Ray Gun reports that incumbent Edie Brooks nipped challenger James Purtee by 7 votes in the hotly contested Zone 1 trustee election and incumbent Bill Hemenway defeated challenger Terri Seymour by 40 votes in Zone 3. OpenCdA.com reports the totals as 323 to 316…
On this day in history: In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. In 1999, "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" was released in the U.S. It set a new record for opening…
Caitlin Sybouts, age 18 of Spokane, Wash., takes a break from her music classes and her boyfriend Miles Van Zee, age 19 of Federal Way, Wash., from his social studies courses, find some afternoon hang-time on Van Zee's hammock, outside Dressler Hall on the Eastern…
On my way home, I stopped at my neighborhood convenience store to get gas. I stuck the nozzle into the gas tank and pushed the trigger. I don't know if it was the force from the flowing gas or what, but the entire hose POPPED…
Item: Nampa firm lets moms bring their kids to work/Maggie O'Mara, KTVBMore Info: At an accounting office in Nampa - babies are just a part of doing business. "We had several women who had babies at the same time so we got them together to…
A sure sign of the tourist season start is the planting of the geraniums at the Coeur d'Alene Resort, which began today. The Resort plants over 10,000 red geraniums each year, as a symbolic welcome mat to visitors/Councilwoman KerriT, OnLocation North Idaho.Witness describes cop shooting…
A mockingbird grazes University of Florida biology major Devon Duffy, in Gainesville, Fla., in an attempt to drive her away from its nest on the university campus. Mockingbirds may look pretty much alike to people, but they can tell us apart and are quick to…
4:56 p.m. Woman wants a welfare check on horses along Davenport/Dalton Gardens.4:33 p.m. An unconscious man is slumped over the wheel in a white van in the median on Highway 95 b/n Kathleen & Dalton.4:24 p.m. Wife @ Kidd Island Bay reports that her husband…
Thanks to a wonderful Hospice administrator, he pulled some strings and in one whirlwind of an afternoon, got her de-IV'ed, signed out of what she considered a neverending nightmare (no offense, KMC- of the many hours I spent there by her side, I considered everyone…
My Husband, Son, Sister and I took off for the Oregon Coast on Thursday. When we read my Mom's will after she passed on in October, she said "I'd like to be cremated and my ashes put in the Ocean if possible". We were determined…
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Dandelions grow right through the sidewalk on 4th Street in Coeur d'Alene earlier today. On the Tuesday, May 26, crews will start ripping out the pavement, curbs and sidewalks of a three-block chunk of Fourth Street north of downtown Coeur d'Alene. It is the first…
Just received a call from one of my favorite Berry Pickers. Who risked life and limb to find out why those guys are standing at the intersections in the construction zones along Highway 95, north of Appleway. We've talked about this before here. Among the…
Huckleberries Online received the following message from City Clerk Susan Weathers a few minutes ago: "I just read through the blogs regarding the school board candidates’ yard signs. What is interesting to me is that the Purtee/Seymour camp is chastising the Brooks/Hemenway camp of putting…
University of Idaho graduate Anna Shambaugh of Lake Port, Calif., and resident volunteer firefighter at Moscow, Idaho, wears a mortar board as she walks to the Kiddie Dome for commencement ceremonies Saturday. Rep. Walt Minnick, D-Idaho, gave the keynote address. (AP Photo/Lewiston Tribune, Steve Hanks)Cartoon:…
The Route of the Hiawatha mountain bike trail will open for the 2009 season on May 30. Snow and trail maintenance has prevented the trail from being open sooner. You can read all about the trail and the upcoming season here.Question: Have you ridden the…
Ah, Jeannie, don't hold your breathe… we have been a proud owner of a 1947 Ford pick up. It came with a faded yellow paint job. It sat in a friends garage for 3 years. It has sat in our garage, and been torn into…
Three foot tall motivational speaker Sean Stephenson, of La Grange, Illinois, hands the ball to Chicago White Sox pitcher John Danks after he threw out the first pitch at U. S. Cellular Field before the start of recent game between the Chicago White Sox and…
Quite upside down they lounge in treesin laid back places like Belize,and seldom do they fret or worrybecause they're never in a hurry:a sloth who chews a leaf todaycould still be chewing it next May.The Bard of Sherman Avenue
The Idaho State Department of Agriculture sent out an alert by e-mail to be on the lookout for a boat named “Hello” that was headed for Idaho covered in mussels. The boat was spied by a Utah doctor interested in the problem of zebra and…
"Every day I look in Forbes to see if my name is there; if not, I go to work" -- Davis Donuts readerboard.Question: Do you enjoy the messages on the Davis Donuts readerboard?
This April 22 photo shows Gardiner School Junior High School track team members warming up on the track as a bison crosses their path in Gardiner, Mont.. In the southern Park County town, elk and bison are often seen around homes and businesses. The photo…
I'm a little slow posting things today b/c I've been hit by a mega-spammer on the e-mail side. Dunno whether I or Huckleberries Online is the target of the spammer. Or collateral damage. But I know that Dan of the County has been hit by…
Nampa teen could face serious charges after taking nude pictures of herself and sending them via text. Those pictures have made the rounds being forwarded on to several students at Nampa High School. "There's a picture of a girl exposing her breasts," said Joy Egan…
Item: Inked and outraged: Expletives painted on couple's home near schools/Brian Walker, CdA PressMore Info: When Post Falls' Dee and Lee Ternes opened their living room curtains, graffiti with obscenities on their Fir Street home greeted the senior couple. "He's 74 and I'm 68, so…
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.
