Huckleberries almost gave Commissioner Dan Green a heart attack Wedneday. Seem the link to that Kootenai County employee survey that I posted was live. In other words, the link allowed anyone who clicked on it to take the survey. Which woulda discombulated the outcome had…
Boaters lounge around under Highway 520 near the Washington Park Arboretum in unseasonably warm weather this week in Seattle, Wash. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Steve Ringman)
A Facebook Friend from Hayden posts: "I really wish food manufacturers wouldn't use deceptive packaging! I picked up 2 of the same brand's brownie mixes off the store shelf today, one regular and one marked as low fat. For the exact same serving size, the…
5:52 p.m. 3 very disorderly males driving pickup w/horse trailer on Tree Farm Lane/Hayden. 5:40 p.m. 15YO boy on Tiger Avenue has suffered undisclosed trauma injury. 5:19 p.m. A school bus has clipped a vehicle in parking lot of Post Falls Middle School. 5:14 p.m.…
Idaho Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna talks with Coeur d'Alene School Board candidate Christa Hazel after speaking at the Kootenai County Reagan Republican luncheon today. Bauman announced Wednesday evening that she will be leaving Coeur d'Alene for a job as superintendent of the Central Kitsap…
In a candidate profile by the Coeur d'Alene Press, Zone 5 candidate Bjorn Handeen responds to a question re: partisanship: I think that nonpartisan is a code word for nonconservative. I think the only people who have been complaining about the exposure of that concept…
On his Facebook wall, Digger posts: "As Larry the Cable guy would say ... git er done ... and I did ... lawn mowed and fertilized with Scotts Weed & Feed; all flowerbeds weeded and treated with roundup to prevent unnecessary weeds; all other weedy…
Three Coeur d'Alene men were rescued and treated for hypothermia after there canoe capsized near Higgens Point (actually Osprey Point) on Lake Coeur d'Alene early this afternoon. The three -- Jason S. Parker, 58, Sierra R. Parker, 32, and Ronald G. Sever, 65, were dumped…
North Idaho College welding students and their guests chow down on barbecue chicken and hamburgers Thursday at the welding facility in Coeur d’Alene. About 100 people showed up for what is becoming an annual event to eat and look at some of the projects the…
I know, I know. Disqus can be a pain in the butt (esp. when "Recent Comments" feature is malfunctioning). But I just used comment photo ftu for first time (under Cindy's Dream link). Great stuff. All you have to do to post a photo under…
Interesting comment by Former Prompter Jockey on the Coeur d'Alene Press Online site re: salary for Supt. Hazel Bauman ($123,971 annually), who has resigned to take a superintendent spot in Central Kitsap (Wash.) School District. FPJ is responding to statement that new super should be…
Facebook Friend Margo Mossburg of Spokane posts: "I have been eating salad all week. I wonder if that makes up for the chocolate someone gave us?" Question: How much salad does it take to make up a box of chocolates?
From Coeur d'Alene Police Department Facebook wall ... parking places to be used around town while McEuen Field/Front Avenue reconstruction under way. Click on photo above to expand.
Scott Bjergo holds Pam Haussler’s mule steady as she gets into the saddle outside the Lakeview, Idaho, post office. Bjergo has the contract to deliver mail by boat to the rugged eastern shoreline of Lake Pend Oreille's south arm. (Daily Bee photo: Keith Kinnaird) Neither…
How much do you know about charter schools, Spokane-made movies and other current topics? Take our weekly news quiz and find out. Simply by entering, you're eligible to win movie tickets, and our overall champ will win a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel.…
Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing because they don't want overweight women wearing their brand. They want the "cool kids," and they don't consider plus-sized women as being a part of that group. Abercrombie is sticking to…
David Bond of Wallace Street Jounal writes of this weekend's Depot Days: The Saturday forecast is for 70-degree weather and the car show for the Wallace N.P. Depot's annual event will be in full swing. Cast yourself up and down the street and recall what…
Smelled my first lilacs of the season today on my way to the waterfront, along Northwest Boulevard, just north of the Spokesman-Review building -- deep-purple ones. No flower or bud, to me, smells as sweet as a lilac. I have 4 bushes of them in…
Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, along with 1st District Congressman Raul Labrador, have sent a letter to the Seattle office of the U.S. Coast Guard, asking for a timely review of a planned jet boat race near St. Maries called “Race the Joe.”…
Brain Teaser from Rachel Dolezel, former director of the Human Rights Education Institute (on edge of Coeur d'Alene's City Park, via Facebook: So, if Idahoans only earn 84cents to the national dollar, and Coeur d'Alene residents only earn 79 cents to the national dollar...and (white)women…
On his Facebook wall, Robin Loznak of Kellogg, Ore., posts: "Spotted a large cow along Oregon Highway 138 near Sutherlin on my drive home (Wednesday) evening. Reminds me of an old joke... Question: So why did this cow cross the road?
11:59 a.m. Resident reports chasing man w/black, fake beard/wig from Post Falls yard; man last seen leaving in silver Mazda 3 on 4th Avenue toward Spokane Street/Post Falls. Officer reports talking to a man fitting that description earlier today. Man said he was going to…
In a candidate's profile in the Coeur d'Alene Press earlier this week, Zone 5 candidate Bjorn Handeen said he thinks teacher retention is a significant problem in the Coeur d'Alene School District: I have been very surprised, while talking to many people, many teachers. I'm…
Wednesday Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation consider urban deer in Dalton Gardens/CdA/Kootenai County/North Idaho to be a nuisance. 57 of 130 respondents (43.85%) took that position. Another 41 of 130 (31.54%) said urban deer were "OK" as long as they didn't hit the animals…
Wind prevented Dick Corbit from skydiving over Hawaii at 80 years old. So he recently jumped at the opportunity to free fall at 86 in Dubai. "I told them that I'll be back at 90 -- if I live long enough," said Corbit, who lives…
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.
