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TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 2012

Wild Card/Tuesday -- 9.25.12 11 

This morning, a newspaper colleague circulated a German word that describes all of us who are enjoying the misery of Green Bay Packers fans after sub refs robbed them in the Monday Night Football game yesterday: "schadenfreude": "Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune."…

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P.S. She Said Yes 

Near the finish line of the Priest Lake Marathon Saturday, Matt Siegel of Spokane faked a leg injury to draw his girlfriend to him. When Ashley Earls of Spokane arrived to help him, Siegel got down on one knee and asked her to marry him.…

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McEuen Field Work Ahead Of Schedule 

Lake City Development Corporation spokesman Keith Erickson provides this update on McEuen Field work: Beautiful early autumn weather and good soil conditions have combined to put crews ahead of schedule on the first stage of the McEuen Park upgrade. Crews are currently excavating soil from…

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PM Scanner Traffic -- 9.25.12

4:52 p.m. Juveniles reportedly riding in back of pickup from Post Falls Library lot. 4:47 p.m. Non-injury crash takes out hydrant @ Huetter & Prairie/Hayden. 4:37 p.m. Non-injury crash involving city vehicle @ Marlborough behind Woodland Middle School. 4:19 p.m. Piece of furniture is lying…

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PM Headlines -- 9.25.12

North Idaho College challenger Todd Banducci is at the microphone while Reagan Republican/Strategery official Jeff Ward watches from the sidelines at the RR Victory Dinner at Templin's Sept. 15 (in this Phantom Photographer photo). Banducci is running against incumbent Trustee Mic Armon. The Reagan Republicans…

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Boise SB Urges No On Props 1-3 

The elected Boise School Board has announced it's endorsing a “no” vote on all three school reform referenda on the November ballot, Propositions 1, 2 and 3. Board President AJ Balukoff said, “We have an obligation as the governing body of the Boise School District…

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H&W Office: Bouma? Obama? Scram! 

Gresham Bouma, a Moscow GOP legislative candidate, was incorrectly told he needed to move a campaign rally this week because state regulations banned it, the Lewiston Tribune reports; Bouma was asked to move his rally, which his campaign was filming, from in front of a…

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CdA Woman Faces Cancer, Pregnancy 

Reporter David Cole/Coeur d'Alene Press tweets that "Today Show" may be in Coeur d'Alene Thursday to follow up on this story: It was a beautiful sunny day at Coeur d'Alene Cellars on her wedding day, Sept. 3, 2011, and Linsey Mattison felt oddly uncomfortably in…

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Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Sickens 30 

A Spokane teen was among 30 people who were sickened with salmonella connected to a peanut butter sold by grocer Trader Joe’s. Spokane health officials say the teen, along with another Washington boy from Thurston County, became ill about 6 weeks ago. The peanut butter…

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GOP Chair Rips Anti-Luna Reform Ad 13 

State Republican Party Chairman Barry Peterson (pictured) again criticized an ad campaign urging voters to overturn state schools superintendent Tom Luna's Teachers Come First education overhaul. The talking points from Peterson aren't new. He has criticized opponents' radio ads that said the student laptop purchase…

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Webcam: McEuen Field 

Seems to be a whole lotta scrapin' going on at McEuen Field, where heavy equipment continues to scrape the parking lot south City Hall down to dirt as part of overhaul of the green space. You can follow the city of Coeur d'Alene webcam, which…

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Missing Boy Launches Alert System 

When a 12-year-old boy went missing Friday in Coeur d’Alene, school officials turned to a new emergency notification system to alert parents by email and phone. About 12,000 households received messages before the student was found unharmed Saturday morning. “We were still in testing mode,…

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Bears Hanging Out Near Hayden Lake 

A black bear sow and her cub have been frequenting the English Point recreation trail near Hayden Lake, Forest Services officials say. No reports of aggressive behavior from the bears have been received at the Panhandle National Forests headquarters in Coeur d'Alene, “but it remains…

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Priest Lake Fish Yields Human Finger 

A fisherman cleaning a large lake trout he caught at Priest Lake found a human finger inside. Detectives were able to get a fingerprint off the severed digit and track it back to the owner: a 31-year-old wakeboarder who lost four fingers from his left…

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Streamline Group To Circulate Flyer 15 

For those keeping score at home, a Berry Picker sent an email containing a flyer (that appears to have the Ron Lahr/Jeff Ward Strategery Group's look) from Streamline Kootenai County. The flyer offers Streamline's reasons for voting for Kootenai County government consolidation. The only name…

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Shedding A Light On Ostomy 10 

It’s something most people don’t want to talk about or even think about. The squeamish blanch at the details; for others the subject is just too intimate to discuss. But the 700,000 people in the U.S. living with a permanent ostomy don’t have the luxury…

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AM Scanner Traffic -- 9.25.12

From Tamrak Store/Priest River (27914 H57) Facebook wall via Pecky Cox/As the Lake Churns: "House Fire at 4 am, on Shelly Lane, right behind the Tamrak. Great job Priest Lake Fire Dept onresponding quickly and keeping the area safe with things so dry." 11:59 a.m.…

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Hucks Poll: Many To Vote Absentee

Monday Poll: By a narrow margin, Hucks Nation said it wasn't going to vote absentee in the November general election -- 50% to 47.46%. Exactly half (59 of 118) respondents said they will go to the polls on Nov. 6. 56 of 118 (47.46%) said…

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County Suffers Cat Epidemic 14 

Dori Peck says there are two words to describe the cat and kitten epidemic in Kootenai County. One is crazy. The other is overwhelming. And it's getting worse, said the executive director of the Kootenai Humane Society. Whether ferals or strays, they're everywhere. "We have…

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AM Headlines -- 9.25.12

Sandy Schilling, family nurse practitioner, left, give a pertussis vacination to Jessica Martinez at NATIVE Health of Spokane on Monday. Martinez, a health informantion manager at NATIVE Health clinic, was getting her required shot. (SR photo: Dan Pelle) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR NFL upholds controversial…

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No Zombie Bee Here 

Yesterday, I posted a Parting Shot photo of dead zombie bees from Washington state. So today I'll publish a photo of a health North Idaho bee going about it's business of collecting honey, while colleague Kathy Plonka snapped photos.

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Strategery Handles Govt Change PR 10 

In response to a comment by Ron Burgundy this morning, Ron Lahr confirmed that his Strategery company is handling public relations to pass the proposed Kootenai County government change measure on the November ballot. Ron, who is president of The Strategery Group as well as…

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Otter Empathizes w/Chicago Mayor

In the struggle to fix the nation’s public schools, the old red-state, blue-state idea is looking as dated as Dick and Jane. You can hear the change in the voice of Gov. C. L. Otter, a Republican here in one of the most deeply conservative…

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Texas Paddling Triggers Furor 

A Texas school district voted to change its corporal punishment policy after the story of a teen girl who was paddled by a male vice principal made headlines around the country. Now, parents of students in the Springtown Independent School District will have to authorize…

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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.