The Post Falls football team kept its faint state playoff hopes alive with a 13-7 win over Coeur d’Alene in a 5A Inland Empire League game Thursday. Now Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene will root for Lake City to capture the conference championship tonight at…
Dan of the County: Things were more active at the elections office today but they're still not breaking any records for sure. The countywide absentee voting rate through earlier today was 4.6% and for the city of Coeur d'Alene they were up to almost 9…
At As The Lake Churns, Pecky Cox and her camera are on hand to provide these colors of fall, including a topping of snow.
There's only five shopping days left until Election Day, if you count today as one of those. I don't think we've seen everything yet. It'll be fun to open the mailboxes this weekend to see what surprises pop out of them. Huckleberries Online will try…
Local bikini baristas have been busy serving up lattes now say they’re not getting paid a cent for their services and are filing grievances with the Department of Labor and Industries. The owners of the Pretty in Pink espresso stand in Spokane near the intersection…
CindyH reports that Huckleberries Online was prophetic in running that photo of pumpkins buried in the snow in Denver Wednesday. This is what she found on her porch this morning.Inmates might get H1N1 vaccine before you/Rob Kauder, KXLYRegulators OK cut in Avista gas rates/Tom Sowa,…
Joel Waul, 28, climbs on top of his rubber band ball on the driveway of his home in Lauderhill, Fla., Friday. Waul who works nights restocking a Gap clothing store, has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of…
5:51 p.m. Woman in teal Subaru Outback reports hitting deer @ Ramsey & Prairie.5:41 p.m. Teen R/P reports there are 5 juveniles who want to her trying to break into her house on Lilac/Post Falls.5:32 p.m. EMT reports finding her 72YO neighbor deceased on Getaway/Harrison.5:31…
Poolman: I took a trip recently that involved a couple of airlines and a regional service or two. Here is my take – they are all pretty much the same. Delta might give you the entire can of soda while US Air might only pour…
Jack O'Lantern, shining brightin the black October night,your grin is crazed and wild and drunken --but don't forget, you're just a punkin.The Bard of Sherman Avenue
If you read enough left-wing blogs or watch enough Comedy Central, you might conclude that Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch condone rape. The accusation is out of line. The so-called "Franken amendment" is far more complex than the critics would have you think.…
This March 21, 2009, file photo shows elephants washing vehicles at Wildlife Safari in Winston, Ore., as trainer Timothy Hamilton holds a device called a bullhook. Representatives from People from the Ethical Treatment of Animals object to the use of the bullhooks, saying they force…
JeanieS: The best thing to happen was that a friend of all five of us women (my dinner group - we've been together for 30 years), Art, who lives near by, camped out on the couch in our suite and shuttled us back and forth…
Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Resource Specialist/Biologist Beth Reinhart (cq) along with Coeur d'Alene resident Dan Gookin took a look at the Spokane River shoreline at Riverstone on Thursday, April 12, 2007, to investigate an allegation that the developer interfered with the flow of the…
Stickman: My grandmother and mother always had a rosary handy and used them daily. I am also not a Catholic anymore, though I remember those days vividly. I once went to St. Peter's in Rome and bought a beautiful rosary for my mother and also…
A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game. The family of Brandon Patch argued…
Driving his motorized wheelchair, disabled veteran Kelly Brown and his dog, Max, give their friend, Joe Long, a tow through Stewart Park in Roseburg, Ore., on Tuesday. Long said he is undergoing outpatient cancer treatment at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Brown, who…
Skip Partridge didn’t say much. He couldn’t. A series of strokes had left him with aphasia, and finding the right words became an agonizing process, fraught with frustration. However, he didn’t let his disability silence him. Instead, with the help of his two Golden Retrievers,…
A Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints member makes her way through security at the Memorial Building in Eldorado, Texas, Wednesday, for a third day of jury selection in the trial of Raymond Merril Jessop. (AP Photo/Standard-Times, Patrick Dove)Question: Why would a…
Congrats to DFO who was voted Best Journalist in the readers poll that appears in the new issue of Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Magazine. Also, just for kicks I cut out all the Spokane stuff and posted a list of just the North Idaho winners on my…
Here is an anonymous note (David Laird/Community Comment) received this morning: I will seek and find you.I shall take you to bed and have my way with you.I will make you ache, shake & sweat until you moan & groan.I will make you beg for…
In a Huckleberries print column from Oct. 16, 2007, I wrote about this photoshop re: Hayden's urban renewal plans that Dan Gookin (a council candidate then & now) had posted in a comments thread on Huckleberries Online the previous January. You can read the original…
Noon: Traffic is backed up on w/b I-90 as a result of the hay in the road (11:55 entry).11:59 a.m. R/P reports that Ryan, a martial arts specialist who has a history of harassing people, is pounding on his door, threatening to kill him. The…
Norm Gissel (pictured), the local human-rights activist who helped bring down the Aryan Nations, is circulating a mailer on behalf of Councilwoman Deanna Goodlander today, decrying challenger Dan Gookin's statements about Coeur d'Alene police Sgt. Christie Wood. He writes in part:Councilman Goodlander's opponent, Mr. Dan…
"In a last ditch effort to put their campaigns over the top," comments Aliasjax, "challengers in the upcoming city elections are out with new campaign slogans":Dan Gookin: "Gookin...for dummies!"Jim Brannon: "Aim, Ready, Fired!"Steve Adams: "I won't earn my pay."Joe Kunka: "I agree with Sandi"Question: Can…
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.
