A Silverwood Theme Park maintenance worker checks the tracks of the Timber Terror wooden roller coaster Thursday in preparation for the park's opening weekend. Story here. (Press photo: Jerome A. Pollos) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Edit: A check list for new UI president/Statesman Driver faces…
Barry Bailey and his wife Judy, of DeRidder La., walk out hand-in-hand, after having their 1873 Winchester rifle appraised at the NRA's Antiques Guns and Gold Showcase during the National Rifle Association's 142 Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center Thursday…
A big gain in the job market is lifting the stock market to a record high. The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 15,000 for the first time, and the Standard and Poor’s 500 index, a broader market measure, rose above 1,600. In the first hour…
On Thursday, 6,192 people made 9,415 donations totaling $578,735 in a one-day blitz to raise money for more than 400 Idaho charities and nonprofits. The effort was the state’s first-ever Idaho Gives campaign. Top five large nonprofit recipients: 1. Idaho Foodbank, $13,605 2. Planned Parenthood…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) would be "the most qualified" presidential candidate in modern history if she decides seek the White House in 2016. “I pray that Hillary Clinton decides to run for president of…
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, opinionator Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune give jeers to ... ... the University of Idaho. The UI signed disgraced former Sen. Larry Craig to speak at its Idaho Falls satellite campus commencement Thursday. Craig gets to rehabilitate…
Originally posted at 8:05 p.m. Thursday Coeur d'Alene Superintendent of Schools Hazel Bauman sent out a mass email to her staff at 6:36 this evening, saying she was a finalist for a job as superintendent of the Central Kitsap (Wash.) School District. Here's that email:…
Thank you, Mayor Bloem. Sorry to hear that our mayor isn’t running for another term. It saddens me because there is so much of Coeur d’Alene left to tear up and spend money we don’t have to appease the rich and elite. I really can’t…
A key problem with politicizing nonpartisan races is this: Qualifications take a back seat to affiliations. Please, with a critically important nonpartisan local election on the horizon, don't fall into the D vs. R trap. In addition to school board elections on May 21, voters'…
Gotta call from a relative whom was approached by a candidate for the Kootenai Medical Board today. My relative wanted to know about the hospital election. I told her that I didn't know much about it. But would be planning to get up to speed…
Jesse Tinsley/SR shot this photo of firefighter Bridget Luby holding an oxygen mask on Chief, a 10-year-old cat belonging to Haley Major outside the heavily damaged house on 8th Avenue near Napa Street, Spokane, today. The cat was rescued from the home.
Tulips blooming, robins singing, right this minute spring is springing. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
A charter school in a rural region of Oregon conducted a “school shooting” incident last week, intended as a safety preparedness drill. While some teachers in the school found the exercise to be helpful, reaction in Idaho to the planned event has been overwhelmingly negative.…
Pedro Portugal, dressed as a "chola bullfighter," runs from a bull during a performance at a bullfighting parody in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday. You write the cutline. (AP photo) Wednesday Winner -- DFO w/4 likes: "Larry B the Frog grimaced, too -- at the thought…
5:23 p.m. Caller behind Exxon reports male punched another male & stole his backpack @ Govt Way/Appleway, CdA. The victim is now chasing the assailant north of Govt Way. 5:18 p.m. Psychological problem (schizophrenic episode) @ 200 block of E. Anton/CdA. 5:15 p.m. Coeur d'Alene…
Steve Groves, of Post Falls, credits his yellow lab Dakota, 8, with saving his Yorkshire terrier from a bird of prey in Post Falls. Story here. (AP Photo/Coeur d'Alene Press, Shawn Gust) 5 more 'bottle bombs' found in Sun Valley/KTVB Idaho Gives fund-raising at almost…
Today Leslie Damiano, second from the left, was elected president of the Kootenai County Republican Women Federated. She replaces Sharri Siegwarth, second from right, who resigned today as president and will join her husband in Seattle, where he is now working. The women gathered today…
Idaho’s two Republican U.S. Senators are split on the topic. But in April, the Republican National Committee unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Common Core, saying it “fits the country with a nationwide straitjacket on academic freedom and achievement.” The RNC’s decision disappointed Coeur d’Alene…
Marc Johnson of The Johnson Report has written an insightful column re: the optimism permeating the United States this year -- and the negativity that holds politics from Idaho to Washington, D.C., in its captivity. Fully 69 percent of Americans are optimistic their families and…
On her daily walk around Tubbs Hill, Walkabout snapped this photo of two inhabitants of the hallowed green space on the southern edge of downtown Coeur d'Alene. Sandy Emerson told me today that you can access the western entrance to Tubbs Hill by parking in…
During the Coeur d'Alene School Board trustee forum Tuesday, Jimmy McAndrews of the Coeur Group read a prepared closing statement from Trustee Ann Seddon. Seddon, the appointed trustee from Zone 4, declined the Coeur d'Alene Education Partnership invitation to debate challenger Dave Eubanks on Coeur…
Sergey Grankin sat on a toilet on a small stage in Mary Cooper’s Ferris High School classroom last week. “I’m optimistic about vomiting,” he said. “If you knew every time you gave me a swirly you were gonna have to go home and change your…
I've been running a few names around in my head re: possible candidacies for Coeur d'Alene mayor and council -- solid individuals who could win seats in this era of partisan nonpartisan races. In the comments section moments ago, I mentioned that someone like Jimmy…
It’s May 2nd, and today Idahoans are coming together for 24 hours of unprecedented giving. Today is a day for us to show our support for our nonprofits, big and small. A day for you to find your passion and share it! From 12 am…
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.
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