Mrs. O & I will head downtown for Art on the Green sometime Saturday -- and maybe take in a little of the Street Fair, too. We enjoy running into old friends and listening to the music at Art on the Green. Espy has promised…
Lena Cooley of Spokane Renaissance Fair made her way through Art On The Green in Coeur d'Alene earlier today. She is part of the Kiwanis Club sponsored Kids Fair during the three day festival. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Question: What do you like most/least about…
I try to be a thoughtful wife. Put some beers in the freezer for Derek so they'd be nice and chilled when he gets home. Forgot them. Beer slushies anyone? -- Cindy via Facebook. Question: Has something like this ever happened to you?
McGruber (RE: Nonini tries to placate veterans): The Noninis suffer from delusions of grandeur to one day occupy the Governors mansion in Boise. And you can bet they'd build a Taj Mahal suitable for all of their awesomeness. Seriously. I, too, believe that Senator Nonini…
July is in the rear-view mirror. Hot August is here, as is the annual Art on the Green/Street Fair that stretches from 7th Street through the City Park and into North Idaho College. I wonder if next year's street fair might set up on the…
Employees for the city of Coeur d’Alene’s wastewater treatment utility served up more than 300 free hamburgers and hot dogs on Friday to celebrate the 75th year anniversary of the opening of the treatment plant on the Spokane River. “There was a diverse group of…
5:48 p.m. Boy who left mother at Coeur d'Alene Resort (5:29 p.m.) located. 5:42 p.m. Disabled vehicle is blocking lane @ H95/NW Blvd, CdA. 5:41 p.m. Bicyclist hurt after colliding w/white Dodge pickup in CdA Albertson's lot. 5:29 p.m. CPD officers looking at City Park…
There was a point in Elaine Howley’s 34-mile swim along the length of Lake Pend Oreille when she thought she wouldn’t make it. With about six miles left to go, the 35-year-old marathon swimmer had battled choppy waters and was beginning to feel the limits…
This July 28 photo shows an unidentified hiker, right, crouching under a rock as grizzly bear passes him on the steep and narrow Highline Trail in Glacier National Park in Montana. The photographer who observed the near encounter, Philip Granrud, said it was the only…
I just had a chat w/ Fat Jack's old lady. We both prefer her unusually outspoken lodger to the current crop of IDGOP chairman candidates." -- Bjorn Handeen, Borah Triangle GOPrecinct committeeman re: candidates for GOP vote Saturday.
June retired from teaching in 1990, and that same year was elected to the Idaho House of Representatives, serving for 10 years. During that time, changing district lines had her representing areas as far north as Hope and Priest River, and as far south as…
If you're thinking about getting a tattoo, thing about how silly it might sound if a dispatcher is describing it over a police scanner -- Melissa Luck/KXLY. DFO: Bingo!
In his Eye on Shanghai blog, Thom George posts: "Patience is not a virtue in China, in particular, among Chinese drivers; nobody stops, nobody waits, nobody yields. In this situation, a woman is sweeping the street, her dustbin further down the lane blocking access to…
State Sen. Bob Nonini is shown at the North Idaho Fair in this Duane Rasmussen file photo. In a Coeur d'Alene Online comments thread this morning to his own letter, state Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, posts the following letter to him from Steve Hanson,…
The year is 2016. Facebook down for two years now. America's new moms roam the streets. Is my baby pretty? They say. Please like my baby. -- Sisyphus imagines what life would be like if this morning's Facebook outage should continue into the foreseeable future.
I don't want to wake Joker up from his slumber this afternoon. But I've been wondering about something that involves the new McEuen Park. Why is there so much unshaded green space in the western side of the park? I imagine no events were planned…
A health advisory for blue-green algae was issued Friday for the northeastern end of Hayden Lake near the sportsman’s access. People should avoid swimming in or drinking water from the lake where the algae is visible as surface scum, according to the advisory from the…
Having trouble accessing Facebook? You're not alone. The social network says it is working to get users back online following an outage Friday. Facebook says it's investigating the cause, but notes it appeared to be related to a technical issue. "Earlier this morning, some people…
Here are the 10 true stereotypes about Boiseans, according to real estate site Movoto (full story here): "Boiseans like to keep things weird" "Boiseans are immune to the 'Northwest Freeze'" "But Boiseans would push down you and your grandmother to get to the Broncos game…
On his Facebook page, Don Sausser has posted 2 photos of the new sculpture at McEuen Park: "Allium Spring Chorus." I posted the other one yesterday.
12:05 a.m. CPD officer checking report of ATVer riding in McEuen Park. 11:55 a.m. Post Falls female calling from blue VW bus reports fight w/roommate over phone use. 11:48 a.m. Officer spots shirtless male @ 15th/Montana matching description (of 11:41 item), calls for back-up. 11:41…
Thursday Poll: 111 of 139 respondents (79.86%) said Congressman Raul Labrador isn't "going places" despite his seemingly ambitious attempt to do so. However, 21 of 139 respondents (15.11%) said he is. (I marked myself in this latter camp.) 7 of 139 (5.04%) respondents were undecided.…
Kevin Richert/IdahoED NewS: On Thursday, I wrote about the current numbers measuring Idaho’s high school “go-on” rates — and the troubling big-picture trend. Thursday’s sobering takeaway: More than a year after graduating high school, only 52 percent of the Class of 2013 have enrolled in…
On her Slight Detour blog, Marianne Love posts several swell farm photos under her daily entry, including this old Ford tractor. As a kid, I drove tractors similar to this one, mowing & raking alfalfa and scraping out the manure in the milking cow corrals…
McGruber: Governor Otter sightings in town today. He's attending noon Rotary at the Resort and then take in the street fair and art on the green. Maybe you should have a Otter photo bomb contest Not Related: Otter attack sends boy, grandmother to hospital/KREM DFO:…
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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