Strange night and morning at Casa Oliveria Wednesday and today sans Snoopy (who BTW was named after rapper Snoop Doggy Dog not Charlie Brown's Snoopy). Mrs. O & I caught ourselves several times stumbling over little rituals that we had done automatically as a result…
Jaycee Philen, 9-months, of Tomball, cries as she gets her photo taken by her mom, Jamie Philen in the blue bonnets near Chappell Hill, Texas, on Highway 290, today. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Karen Warren)
The Coeur d’Alene City Council agreed Thursday to put on an election May 21 for the authority to borrow up to $36 million to pay for federally mandated upgrades to its wastewater treatment plant. Councilman Ron Edinger voted against it/Coeur d'Alene Press. Question: Anyone know…
Where do you fit in the rank of your family? Are you the oldest? The youngest? Or the middle child/children? I started out as the oldest, and then got deranked for a year or so, to the Middle child… My folks had a foster child..…
5:31 p.m. Out-of-gas, large motor home stuck in middle of s/b lanes on s/b H95/Elder Road. 5:20 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for March 27-28 here. 5:13 p.m. Horsehaven/Post Falls neighbors reports boy shooting BB gun off back deck. 5:11 p.m. 3YO girl…
Bjorn Handeen, left, a candidate for Coeur d'Alene School Board, makes nice with former GOP legislator Gary Ingram during the Reagan Republican luncheon at Fedora today. Handeen and Ingram or on opposite sides of the power struggle in the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee. Handeen…
Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d’Alene, a former Kootenai County deputy prosecutor whose first bill as an Idaho state representative was defeated on a tied Senate vote today – a tie that was broken by a no vote from Lt. Gov. Brad Little – said, “I’m…
In this July 20, 1993, SR file photo, Tyler Ferguson, left, and Joey Jones get acquainted with greyhounds from Canadian Kennels at Coeur d'Alene Greyhound Park. Students and staff of the Coeur d'Alene Association for Handicapped Recreation visit the park as part of a summer…
It’s the core of Coeur d’Alene, and city officials are trying to figure out what to do with it. The so-called “4 corners” area is where Northwest Boulevard runs into Sherman Avenue downtown at the intersection of Government Way and Mullan Avenue. Crews tore down…
Huckleberries hears ... that there was a fun exchange at the end of the joint meeting between the Coeur d'Alene City Council and the Lake City Development Corporation today. Seems Councilman Dan Gookin asked the LCDC if there were any issues that would impede the…
The City of Coeur d’Alene Arts Commission is seeking artists for the McEuen Park Entry Arch. The renewed and revitalized McEuen Park has been a project long in the making for the community of Coeur d’Alene. This prime location in the heart of downtown has…
In this 2007 SR file photo, Lake City High principal John Brumley, left, is charged by Coeur d'Alene High principal Steve Casey as the two duke it out during halftime of the junior varsity game between their two schools. The schools have started a spirit…
A federal judge refused on Thursday to dismiss a Federal Election Commission lawsuit that accuses former Sen. Larry Craig of misusing $217,000 in campaign funds for his legal defense after his arrest in a 2007 airport bathroom sex sting. Craig had argued that the airport…
Supporters for gun rights gather outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation headquarters in Newtown, Conn., today. Search warrants released today revealed that an arsenal of weapons including guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, a bayonet and several swords was seized at Adam Lanza's…
Huckleberries is still amused by appointed Trustee Brent Regan's reference to some challengers for area School Board elections as "recently minted conservatives." On his Facebook page, he listed himself among the "solid conservatives" along with Ann Seddon, Glorie Ward, Carol Goodman, Bjorn Handeen. Possibly Regan…
It somehow amazes me when the Ideologues are so wrapped up in their practice of preaching to the Choir, that they forget an important ingredient for good government. Yes, political philosophy is important, but only to a point. That point is first, that the philosophy…
On party-line votes, the House approved two school board association-backed bills aiming give to districts more leverage during negotiations as well as require the teachers union to prove it represents a majority of a district's educators before it can bargain for them. The two measures,…
A shadow sliced the sunlight. The white metal table wobbled as he dropped a sheaf of papers next to my brimming cup of café au lait. “It’s brilliant!” he said. “It’s something only you could write.” Carefully, I removed my wide-brimmed straw hat and looked…
Lyndsey Frank, 10, gives her friend Hannah Lakey, 10, a ride on her battery-powered moped after getting out of school Friday at Skyway Elementary in Coeur d'Alene recently. (AP Photo/Coeur d'Alene Press: Jerome A. Pollos) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Coeur d'Alene man foils burglar/Press Easter…
11:47 a.m. No injuries from T-bone crash b/n green Intrepid & Chevy @ w/b I-90/Seltice Way offramp. 11:09 a.m. Female in 1400 block of Highwood/CdA thwarts try by boys to steal her bike & one other by driving car at them. Boys were riding bikes,…
I believe the 2013 legislative session has been a dysfunctional session as far as education issues are concerned. There is a lack of common direction, agreed upon goals, or methods needed to accomplish these undefined goals. The legislature is drowning in information without direction. This…
Sara Meyer of Citizens for a Positive Coeur d'Alene provides this photo of work this morning along Front Avenue. Seems those railroad ties, which once were traversed by trains going to the old Rutledge Mill (Coeur d'Alene Resort Golf Course) were buried under pavement somewhere).…
Wednesday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation opposes the unanimous decision made by Kootenai County commissioners to fire long-time Public Defender John Adams. 198 of 239 respondents (82.85%) oppose the commissioners' decision. Only 17 of 239 respondents (7.11%) support it. 24 (10.04%) were undecided. Today's Poll: Should…
The Coeur d'Alene City Council will meet with the Lake City Development Corporation at noon today in the Coeur d'Alene Library Community Room. By necessity, as a result of Councilman Steve Adams' eleventh-hour flipflop and stubborn stand against judicial confirmation, an item has been added…
University students use sticks to hit the police truck outside Greece's parliament during a demonstration against education reforms, in Athens earlier today. The reform will see roughly one in five universities and polytechnic faculties closed or merged. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Wednesday winner -- Ruralway &…
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.
