I've returned from an enjoyable lunch for 25-year SR staffers at the Spokane Club in Spokane. Nice to press the flesh with long-time newsroom papermates Rich Landers, Jeff Jordan, Jim Allen, Greg Lee, Dan Pelle, Becky Nappi, and more. For first time in awhile, Publisher…
A member of the Andrew Sisters styled group 'The Victory Belles' plants a kiss on the cheek of Pearl Harbor survivor Evan Brasset, at a ceremony observing the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, at the National World War II Museum in New…
On her Facebook wall, HBO super-sub CindyH offers this pickup line -- from her 12YO son. Here's the conversation: "Sam, 12: Want to hear a great pick up line? Me: I guess. How much does a polar bear weigh? Me: I dunno. Sam: Enough to…
Yeah, yeah, this is an old football program for the time when Washington State playing UIdaho. But I'm using it as a reminder that the two Palouse colleges will tip-off tonight in a basketball game. The next installment of the oldest continuous rivalry west of…
5:48 p.m. Truck pulling trailer w/o signal/backup lights on H53 @ M/P 7 (west of Greensferry/PF). 5:39 p.m. Alexis @ Habitat for Humanity on Wyoming/Hayden reports woman w/dreadlocks, sitting on wood pile outside of nonprofit, asked for ride to Spirit Lake. Seems intoxicated. 5:15 p.m.…
Idahoans said they were most concerned about water quality of all of the environmental issues facing them. They shared that concern with residents polled in Oregon and Washington by DHM Research is an independent and non-partisan public opinion research and consultation firm based in Portland,…
In this Dec. 23, 1982, photo, from left, Alan Alda , Burt Metcalfe , Harry Morgan and Loretta Swit (Maj. Margret stand on the set of M*A*S*H* in Los Angeles. The Emmy-winning character actor whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on television's "M*A*S*H" highlighted…
Correction Update: Wondering if skinny jeans are allowed on campus? They are. BYU-Idaho's longstanding dress & grooming standards promote principles of modesty and restrict formfitting clothing, but skinny jeans are not singled out or prohibited. In addition, the Testing Center issue reported in Scroll has…
At 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Bonner County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a possible shooting. The incident took place in the vicinity of East Mountain View Road in Clark Fork. The altercation initially started after a high school basketball game. Several adults and one…
In a letter, Terry Harris, of the Kootenai Environmental Alliance, writes: "Today, Kootenai Environmental Alliance filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mandate to remove the trees along the Rosenberry Drive (“The Dike Road”) in Coeur d’Alene. The lawsuit…
Boise State’s highly ranked football program officially accepted an invitation from the Big East on Wednesday, ending months of speculation about the Broncos’ future conference plans. The rest of Boise State’s programs are going to the Western Athletic Conference, which was the Broncos’ home from…
From the looks of the photo above, Joe Roope of Castaway Fly Shop in Coeur d'Alene had a good time last week living large with the fat rainbows on Argentina's Jurassic Lake. Rich Landers, SR Outdoors blog. More here.
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Payments from gambling profits made to schools by Indian tribes can be kept secret, according to the Idaho Attorney General. The attorney general issued that opinion last month in response to a query made by Sen. Bart Davis over a public records request submitted to…
MikeK: Two years ago I was in what has become the most vetted election ever in Kootenai County (maybe anywhere in Idaho), complete with “private investigators” misrepresenting themselves to turn up any potential problem to try and overturn the outcome. The number of human mistakes…
Tuesday Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation voted that the new United Conservatives of North Idaho is an organization of right-wing wackos. 72 of 176 respondents (40.91%) voted that UCNI was a "right-wing wacko" group. 28 of 176 respondents (21.59%) said the organization represents "more…
10:38 a.m. Caller is concerned that 2YO is living on 15th Street/CdA w/mother who's on meth. 10:19 a.m. PFPD Blue asks dispatcher if the new warming center offered by Ground Force Manufacturing is operational 24/7 and told it is. He will be transporting transient (9:23…
Erin Jenkins (left, in photo above from recent KVNI interview with Kerri Thoreson) and Phil Thompson have repossessed everything from tractors to landscaping in their career as private investigators. Now the partners in Hayden’s Confidential Investigations are sharing the stories of repos gone wrong –…
Wolf harvest in the Panhandle is at 25 to date, slightly higher than we had in all of the 2009/10 season. During 2009, we had 24 hunter kills by the end of March. (There were also 4 illegal kills in 2009, giving us the final…
A whopping 92 people attended the open government seminar in Coeur d'Alene last night, sponsored by IDOG, Idahoans for Openness in Government, and co-sponsored by the Spokesman-Review and the Coeur d'Alene Press. Press Managing Editor Mike Patrick told the crowd it was the first time…
The following is part of a report by the County Clerk' Cliff Hayes' office to the city of Coeur d'Alene re: 24 county residents inadvertently voting in city elections in the cities of Coeur d'Alene, Hayden, and Rathdrum Nov. 8. (Precincts 50, 60, & 61…
Spokane resident Bob Snider was a young boy and an eyewitness to history during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He has built a model of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Ward and designed T-shirts and other memorabilia that commemorate that day.…
So just what is Washington State getting in new football coach Mike Leach? Who better to ask than the first hire for his football staff, David Emerick, whom Leach said will be chief of staff, basically making sure everything runs smoothly in the football office.…
Highway Commissioner Chris Fillios is here being instructed by Coeur d'Alene Press Editor Mike Patrick about his role in a skit that was part of the open meetings/records forum in Coeur d'Alene Tuesday night. Fillios was cast in the role of a reporter who catches…
James Bond: I think we should stop pussyfooting around on this kind of stuff. No more nickle and diming year after year! Let’s just list out all the crap most people hate: Smoking, brussel sprouts, beets, Pit Bulls, Mom Jeans, etc. and let’s just tax…
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.
