Here's another shot taken by Don Sausser, Huckleberries Eye On Sherman Avenue, of downtown Coeur d'Alene street work at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Don reports that Sherman Avenue is finished. But about a half a block on the side streets needs to be done. Blackwell…
Marabous are seen watching photographers doing their work at an enclosure at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany earlier today. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) Top Cutlines: 1. “I don’t know,” mumbled Herman (the bird on the right). “Maybe they don’t realize Ostriches do…
Marianne Love offers this canvas of lovely lupine from her portion of Bonner County on her Slight Detour blog. More here. View from top of St. Paul's Cathedral/London/A Family Runs Through It How to grow beans on a teepee/Sunny's Facebook wall Manito Park nature walk/Crazy…
13 other art-on-loan statues will be dedicated tonight by Mayor Sandi Bloem and the "godless" city Arts Commission, besides the controversial Hindu god Ganesha statue near the Parkside building on Sherman Avenue (which Stebbijo provides for Huckleberries Online today). Councilwoman Deanna Goodlander provides this link…
JEERS ... to former state Sen. Evan Frasure, R-Pocatello (pictured). His launch as co-chairman of Idaho's newly ordained redistricting commission is a visceral reminder of why he's not been missed from public office: He's a partisan mischief-maker who makes Peter Lorre look like a novice.…
Matt poses with Kerri Thoreson after buying an autographed copy of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" at Coeur d'Alene Fred Meyer in December 2009. Matt tells Huckleberries. So do you remember back in December 2009 when Sarah Palin rolled into Coeur d Alene on her book…
Item: Dow closes below 12,000 for the first time since March/Christine Hauser, New York Times More Info: Stocks on Wall Street closed sharply lower on Friday on sentiment that analysts attributed to a sense that the global economy was slowing and that European debt problems…
Athol legislator, Phil Hart, is asking the Idaho Supreme Court to determine whether he filed an appeal with the Idaho Tax Commission on time. If the court rules in his favor, Hart said, it could bring him one step closer to being granted tens of…
Allen Slabaugh, top row left, is joined by his cycling teammates after their van overturned in Burley on the way to Seattle for the start a 3,600-mile bike ride to Washington, D.C., to raise money for the Georgia-based Fuller Center for Housing. Slabaugh is a…
A white supremacist who ran for the Hayden City Council in 2003 has been convicted of a racially motivated attack on a black man in southwestern Washington. Zachary Beck, 32, was convicted Wednesday of conspiracy to violate civil rights after a bench trial in U.S.…
Can you tell Huckleberries readers what is happening above? A Ganesha disciple intercepts Kootenai County Constitution Party members en route to protest. A Kootenai County GOP Central Committee official attacks an Idaho Dairymen's Association vehicle. A wild elephant attacks a vehicle on a street in…
11:48 a.m. Owners of car & motorcycle involved in noninjury crash @ H95 & Canfield are in Sears lot. 11:47 a.m. Small black dog from earlier this AM is now running along I-90 @ 4th Street/CdA. 11:37 a.m. Kimberly in 1500 block of Hayden Avenue…
A lot of fights and public urination in this week's Downtown Coeur d'Alene Bar Report. But the Gold Star for the best incident goes to an angry young man who celebrated his 21st birthday this week by partying most of the evening. Seems he punctuated…
Before the Kootenai County Constitution Party was offended by the public art depicting Hindu god Ganesha on Sherman Avenue, it got ticked off by a Coeur d'Alene Public Library Thanksgiving display. Which showed some of the Pilgrims as African-Americans. Here's part of a letter that…
Thursday Poll: A supermajority of Hucks Nation say that the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee shouldn't be pushing a townhall meeting advocating distribution of raw milk. (The local GOP is urging members to attend such a meeting at Coeur d'Alene Library community room June 22.)…
Four all-night work sessions have prepared the road surface for tonight’s overlay on Sherman Ave, downtown Coeur d’Alene, emails Don Sausser, Huckleberries Eye On Sherman Avenue. Don speculated that the work would be complete by this morning and should be ready for the art-on-loan dedication/ArtWalk/Constitution…
Veterans and community members are angry, asking why someone would deface a war memorial in Post Falls, spray painting "War Pig" on Vietnam War era armored personnel carrier.The M113 APC, along with an M-60 tank, are outside the American Legion post in Post Falls, a…
Now that we're nearing the final weeks of the state's budget year, it appears fairly obvious that the state will close out June with a budget surplus in the range of $70 million. The state's tax collections had been running about $74 million ahead of…
The Italian restaurant in Coeur d’Alene has officially chopped the pasta from its name, reinventing itself as the more mature Tito's Italian Grill and Wine Shop. Gone are the white, butcher-paper table coverings, crayons and the selfserve bottle of wine reminiscent of Tomato Street. In…
Thursday thread: Constitutionalists target Lake City art/Hucks Online Members of the Kootenai County Constitution Party are planning to protest today the dedication in Coeur d’Alene of a public artwork sculpture of the Hindu god Ganesha – a four-armed being with an elephant head. A posting…
Idaho State Rep. Jim Marriott, right, and Idaho Govenor C.L. "Butch" Otter, center, speak about the flooding situation in Bingham County at the A.V. Center in Blackfoot on Thursday. (AP Photo/Idaho State Journal, Jordon Beesley) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Thursday Scanner Traffic/DFO, Hucks Online Mild…
Item: Man having diabetic episode Tased by police:Low blood sugar caused him to be incoherent, police said/Chelsea Bannach, SR More Info: A driver was Tased today for resisting before police realized he was actually having a diabetic episode. The incident started about 4:45 p.m. when…
Bonner County has a bear problem—or is it really a people problem? Last year, Bonner County had a record number of bear complaints—770 complaints, in fact. That's a whopping 740 more complaints than in any other county in Idaho. All those negative human-bear interactions amount…
We’re No. 1. Measles will be overjoyed. A new report shows that more parents in Washington refused to have their children vaccinated than any other state in the nation. I’d have thought Mississippi would have taken that flag, but no – it’s apparently a different…
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