I couldn't wait for the day that my son was old enough to try riding his bike without training wheels. To me, it seemed like one of those "father-son" moments that's imperative to our relationship. One day, I went to pick him up from daycare,…
"This was the scene yesterday afternoon," writes Marianne Love/Slight Detour re: haying at her Lovestead, "as a very nice young man named Zach Johnson baled 185 bales for us. It's a good amount for the acreage, and it should tide us over, with the other…
Sadhus, or Hindu holy men, watch the solar eclipse through specially-designed viewing glasses in Allahabad, India, Wednesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)Top Cutlines:1. Members of the Idaho Legislator get their state issued rose colored glasses before next years session -- RedMan.2. Sadhus…
5:31 p.m. A female is causing a traffic hazard by jaywalking back and forth across Government Way & Ironwood.5:01 p.m. A woman is complaining of head and neck injuries after hitting the front window during a 2-vehicle crash @ Appleway & Howard.4:47 p.m. R/P reports…
Approximately 2:35 p.m., deputies and EMTs responded to the boat ramp area at Honeysuckle Beach to a call that a vehicle, pulling a boat, had crashed into several cars. Responding EMTs were told that the driver may have had a heart attack, and bystanders were…
An ant can lug 100 times his own weight so this one is hardly stretched to trundle off with a tasty white spider.I'm guessing this is where we get the term 'take-out'.Sue Turner/Tumblewords (w/digital photo)
JeanieSpokane sent a link to her latest post. Which tells of a scary series of tests she faces tomorrow as she begins the process to get on kidney transplant list. I'll let her describe it: "I’ll have a marathon bloodletting at dawn, and somewhere in…
CoeurGenX snapped this photo of an improvised pontoon boat on Lake Coeur d'Alene during the Fourth of July weekend. If you look closely, you'll see that the camp trailer is sitting on its wheels and the tongue of the trailer is sticking out, for easy…
From Steve Sibulsky: "Well, it's (semi-)official. … Just got a snail note from (Coeur d'Alene Councilman) Mike Kennedy …asking for re-election $$ Go for it Mike!" Now, back to your regular progamming ...
"Two sailboats 'bookend' the Coeur d'Alene Resort golf course floating green on Lake Coeur d'Alene," posts Councilwoman KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho. No one is above the law/Community CommentFat chance/Dogwalk MusingsHealth care plan/Simple MindAdventures In Boating 101/Live, Love, Laugh, HopeLearning to let go/Otis G ExperienceMore below
This undated picture provided by Taco Bell shows part of a Taco Bell advertisement featuring a Chihuahua professing his love for tacos. Handlers say Gidget the Chihuahua, whose Taco Bell commercials made her a star, has died. She was 15. The owner of Studio Animal…
Occasionally, in Scanner Traffic, individuals involved in crimes or other misdeeds are thought to be African-American, Hispanis, Native American or belonging to some other minority group. One of the three males, for example, being sought for throwing fireworks at others on Tubbs Hill was described…
Rep. George Eskridge, Sen. Shawn Keough, Rep. Eric Anderson, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and First Lady Lori Otter under the infamous 72YO Dover Bridge that is scheduled for replacement. Otter and the other dignitaries attended ground-breaking ceremonies for the new bridge earlier today. Story here.…
... (spotted by DFO on an older passenger car with Utah license plates @ 3rd & Lakeside recently): "A smoking area in a restaurant is like a peeing area in a swimming pool."
Dan Mottern hasn’t gone too far this year to look for fish. Been staying close, is how he phrased it. Close means a few miles this or that side of his fly shop in Avery. It’s July and the holes we all remember from last…
Item: Be a healthy homebody: Look to the East for alternative medicine for ailing homes/Taryn Hecker, InHealthNW.comMore Info: Everything in your home that takes up space, takes up energy, too. Practitioners of the ancient Chinese art of feng shui believe a person’s environment can impact…
... I wonder how different life would be if I hadn't ...
Robb Akey, University of Idaho head coach, shakes hands with U.S. Army Sgt. Nathanael Buschmann, from Oregon, Wis., at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, July 5. "I'm a big college football fan," said Buschmann. "During the season, I try to watch every game -- even the…
This undated photo provided by Bergdahl family spokesperson Sue Martin shows Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl during a motorcycle ride through central Idaho's backcountry. Bergdahl was captured on June 30 in Afghanistan, and appeared in a video released by the Taliban on Saturday. Hailey is planning a…
11:59 a.m. A young woman is lying alongside Ramsey Road, a block north of Appleway.11:13 a.m. An e/b vehicle has been clocked at speeds over 100 mph on H53 from M/P 7 to Atlas Road.11:06 a.m. A Plummer woman is suffering an allergic reaction to…
Last Wednesday, in the basement at Red Feather Lounge in downtown Boise, one of the most well-known anti-Semitic neo-Nazis alive today held a book signing. News editor Nathaniel Hoffman and I crashed the party and were escorted out, but before I left, I videotaped everyone…
Rob Wienclaw might not want anyone to know it, but he has a shiny new plaque. The longtime officer with the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Police Department was recently named Policeman of the Year by the Idaho American Legion. “I was kind of embarrassed,” Wienclaw, a…
Kris McIlvenna, owner of Greenbriar Inn talked about the many huckleberry products available, including their huckleberry topping that was drizzled on top of cheesecake in Coeur d'Alene. Story here. (Kathy Plonka/SR)Question: I can think of no way to serve huckleberries better than Kris McIlvenna is…
Item: Captured Idaho soldier Bowe Bergdahl in national spotlight: Bowe Bergdahl's plight sparks speculation, but 'he deserves our support and our belief'/Kathleen Kreller, StatesmanMore Info: An Idaho soldier is at the center of a local and national media frenzy after his capture last month by…
Item: Catching up with Idaho's former Gov. Dirk Kempthorne: The former governor and Cabinet member reflects on 23 years in public office and what to do next/Dan Popkey, StatesmanMore Info: Kempthorne reminisced about his 1974 election as student body president at the University of Idaho,…
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.
