Digger posted an interesting comment Friday evening: "Am I the only one concerned that this (addition of Blast from the Past and Elderberries historic postings from past writings of mine) is all part of DFO's swan song that will be culminated with a giant announcement…
Three 2-month old Oriental Pied Hornbills are displayed at the Jurong Bird Park's Breeding and Research Center in Singapore earlier today. These three birds were hatched after successful artificial incubation at the bird park when their eggs were rescued on an off-shore island in Singapore.…
Idaho is about to lose another high value educational asset. The loss is coming, in part I suspect, because the state has engaged in prolonged and systematic disinvestment in education at all levels and higher education has been particularly hard hit. University of Idaho President…
5:56 p.m. Caller reports several small fires along Lake Fernan shore, half mile north of village. 5:27 p.m. Parking problems reported @ 4th/Ichabod, CdA, near Costco 5:01 p.m. 3 males and a female are aggressively panhandling @ Tire & Lube/Post Falls. 4:57 p.m. Econoline van…
Donna Montgomery talks with Vicki Risch, former Idaho First Lady and wife of U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, after the North Idaho Pachyderm Club meeting this morning. Sen. Risch was the featured speaker at the meeting. (Duane Rasmussen photo for Huckleberries) Medicaid budget approved on 17-1…
U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, accompanied by a handful of stuff elephants, addresses the North Idaho Pachyderm Club this morning in Coeur d'Alene. (Duane Rasmussen photo for Huckleberries Online) Risch told SReporter Scott Maben the following: On the sequester cuts: “It is going to have…
... Who is Sen. Jim Risch? At this morning's North Idaho Pachyderms Club meeting, U.S. Sen. Jim Risch posed a final question of a Q-and-A with the audience this morning: Who is the most conservative member of the U.S. Senate? Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, left,…
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a bill today allowing the state’s school districts to arm teachers and other personnel with guns. Supporters say the so-called sentinels could help prevent tragedies such as December’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which…
From my March 7, 1988, Huckleberries column: Art Manley (pictured in SR file photo) didn't miss a beat when state parks official John Barnes asked the Fourt-County Natural Resource Committee for ideas in routing a north-south centennial trail through Idaho: "We already have a trail…
Thursday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Councilman Steve Adams was the one "most out of line" during the dust-up that ended with City Attorney Mike Gridley calling him a name, according to Hucks Nation. 145 of 232 respondents (62.5%) blamed Adams for being furthest "out of line" by…
A light shines above the docks at Conkling Marina & Resort near Worley on Friday. The marina is about to change hands -- again. With the owners from 2002-07 taking over the helm again. Story here. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) The century-old Conkling Marina &…
It was a classic ethical question. Highlight a mistake and delay an important project, or try to cover it up? Montana native Kip Harris, a supervisor for Sletten Construction, was faced with that sort of dilemma working on the Dover Bridge on Highway 2 in…
Idaho's Republican representatives in the U.S. House split their votes Thursday as the House passed an expanded version of the Violence Against Women Act. Rep. Mike Simpson voted "aye," joining 86 other Republicans and 199 Democrats to pass the measure, while Rep. Raul Labrador voted…
It's Easter morning. A boy rouses his younger brother, and they run to the living room to find their baskets filled with - what else? - Peeps. "Peeps are THE candy of Easter," the excited boy tells his wide-eyed sibling, who pops a yellow marshmallow…
National Geographic hails Sandpoint as one of the Top 10 up-and-coming ski towns in the country: Deep in the Idaho panhandle, 60 miles shy of the Canadian border, the backwoods logging town of Sandpoint has been transformed into a ski town and a bohemian artists'…
The film has yet to show and prove at the box office, but Disney is reportedly already planning a sequel to this weekend's release, "Oz the Great and Powerful." Variety reports that the studio has put in a request for screenwriter Mitchell Kapner, who co-wrote…
County Deputy Treasurer Laurie Thomas watches as Ruthie Johnson counts money at the Kootenai County Republican Women's Luncheon Thursday. (Duane Rasmussen photo special to Huckleberries) There's a lot of rumors swirling around out there this morning re: the three names that will be forwarded by…
11:56 a.m. Confused elderly female is talking about being evicted on 21st/CdA. 11:55 a.m. Undisclosed game problem on north end of Avondale Lake transferred to F&G. 11:51 a.m. Gues of the Day's Inn on Northwest Boulevard/CdA is suffering seizure. 11:46 a.m. Female ran across H53,…
Here's the first of the Elderberries -- a slice of life from the Huckleberries (Kootenai Grapevine) print column of 25 years ago (Feb. 1, 1988): Sometimes We Win Some: The Furfiords of Westport, Wash -- Victoria and Floyd -- fought City Hall and Duane Hagadone.…
Kim Blackmore pauses Thursday as she talks to members of the media about her estranged boyfriend, Marshall Balduff, who was shot trying to enter her north Spokane home Wednesday night through a dog door. Story here. (SR photo Tyler Tjomsland) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR IMAX…
Coeur d'Alene School Board Trustee Brent Regan photographs fellow Trustee Ann Seddon as she addresses the Kootenai County Republican luncheon Thursday. Duane Rasmussen provided this photo for Huckleberries Online.
Neil Oliver, chairman of the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee, has canceled a special meeting that had been called for next Tuesday. The local GOP will submit three names to the county commissioners to fill the vacancy that will occur when Treasurer Tom Malzahn retires…
City Clerk Renata McLeod provides the draft minutes to the 33-minute meeting last evening in which the Coeur d'Alene City Council awarded the construction contract for McEuen Field to Contractors Northwest. Part of the discussion: Councilman Kennedy stated that he has had the pleasure of…
Sheriff Ben Wolfinger and Coeur d'Alene School Board candidate Christa Hazel enjoy a laugh during the local Republican women's luncheon Thursday. Others at the table included Councilman Dan Gookin, Ruthie Johnson, Deputy County Treasurer Laurie Thomas and Duane Rasmussen. Duane snapped this photo for Huckleberries…
Twenty-five years ago, I wrote about the change in leadership at the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations: "The Rev. Bill Wassmuth once joked that he was asked to be leader of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations because he was single…
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.
