Mrs. O bought me a gift from Art on the Green that I'd seen last year but didn't buy -- a photograph of someone holding huckleberries in his/her hands in the form of a heart. I smile whenever I see that photo. Yeah, it's viewtiful.…
Etel Sanchez and Sofia Sanchez of Argentina compete during women's duet synchronized swimming preliminary round at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London today. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Question: Do you think synchronized swimming should be an Olympic…
Japan marked the 67th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack with a ceremony Monday that was attended by a grandson of Harry Truman, the U.S. president who ordered the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.About 50,000 people gathered in Hiroshima’s peace park near the epicenter…
5:39 p.m. Injuries reported in head-on crash in front of A-1 Smoke Shop @ 7200 Seltice Way/CdA. Everyone out of one vehicle. But a patient remains in other. Fluids are leaking. 4:58 p.m. Considerable tire debris under H95 overpass on w/b I-90. 4:56 p.m. Caller…
Kristin Armstrong, who won the gold medal in the women's road time trial in cycling at the London Olympics, waves her medal to the crowd as she holds her son, Lucas William, 22 months, at the airport in Boise Saturday. Boise is planning an official…
OrangeTV/Get Out! North Idaho was wary of Midtown Safety but stopped anyway: "Still, when I'm hungry enough I have a look-see anyway, and today I found something there that threw me for a lit of a loop: "Nana's Kitchen Chicken Tandoori Samosas". I'd heard of…
On her Facebook wall, Kerri Thoreson writes of this photo: "We went to Twin Lakes for dinner and there was a wedding reception at the club house. Three darling little flower girls in buttermint yellow fluff were twirling around. The littlest girl tired of the…
Idaho governors used to take the word of candidates for key boards and commissions. If they said they were independent, that would do the trick. Not anymore. After the Idaho Republican Party won a federal lawsuit overturning Idaho’s open primary system on constitutional grounds, the…
Fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A is the target of protests and boycotts across the country. The company’s CEO recently angered gay rights activists with statements opposed to same sex marriage and his financial support for anti-gay marriage groups. Chick-fil-A is a privately owned company but what…
During the recent Primary Season the KCRR was attacked by the opponents of our endorsed candidates in an attempt to steal our name -- the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans. While this attempt to intimidate us into not using our name in support of our endorsed…
Segways aren't exactly new -- even to North Idaho. Compared to the old Ford on the right, however, the device is brand-spanking new. Duane Rasmussen provides this photo from the Pinehurst classic car show & parade over the weekend.
Some of the oldest, most outdated schools in Coeur d’Alene will be renovated over the next three years if voters in the Coeur d’Alene School District approve a $32.7 million bond measure this month. It’s one of three school measures on the Aug. 28 ballot…
A Whitman County man who bragged about being involved with racist taco-truck protests in Kootenai County has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for unlawful gun possession. Jeremiah Daniel “J.D.” Hop's lawyer, Roger Peven, asked for him to receive between 15 and 21…
Prominent Coeur d'Alene architect R.G. "Bob" Nelson, who was known for his work designing the Hagadone Corp. headquarters building and The Coeur d'Alene Resort, died Thursday. He was 76. Kootenai County Commissioner Jai Nelson, his daughter, said his favorite project always was the one he…
The man who allegedly murdered six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee yesterday, identified in media reports as Wade Michael Page, was a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a racist white-power band. In 2010, Page, then the leader of the…
Kylee Kennedy, 12, of Shelton, Wash., took in the sights at Coeur d'Alene's Street Fair and Art on th Green on Friday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Question: What did you buy at Art on the Green or the Street Fair over the weekend?
Per our first-ever weekly poll, 70.83 percent of the voters — keep in mind, it doesn’t allow the same IP address to vote twice — believe the the 2011 Coeur d’Alene Vikings would dispatch the 2006 Lake City Timberwolves. Both were recognized nationally and were…
Weekend Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation say the Coeur d'Alene Police Department is handling crime/problems created by transients well. 62 of 139 respondents (44.6%) took that position. 49 of 139 respondents (36.25%) said local police weren't doing a good job handling such problems. 28…
11:30 a.m. Undisclosed vandalism reported at Bryan Elementary playground, 1135 10th/CdA. 11:26 a.m. Bikers in bicycling event causing hazard by running red lights @ 3rd & Harrison/CdA. 11:25 a.m. Undisclosed vandalism reported at Coeur d'Alene Homes, 624 W. Harrison/CdA. 11:02 a.m. Car theft reported at…
A Web site called Truth About IB (International Baccalaureate) is already celebrating the demise of the controversial program and applauding the role of school activist Duncan Koler and his wife in bringing about its expected demise: "Bit by bit (the Kolers) : "Bit by bit,…
Coeur d’Alene Police Detectives found and arrested two people suspected in recent mail thefts and check cashing: Michael Graham Wilkins, 28, of Coeur d’Alene, and Lacey Lynn Fugate, 17, who is currently wanted for being a runaway from Douglas County, Ore. They were taken into…
Think you're paying too much for a pack of Marlboros? Don't like the cost of a six-pack of Budweiser? That fifth of Jack Daniels priced just too high? Then Lewiston has a candidate just for you. Daniel Santiago (pictured) is his name. Reports the Idaho…
I heard a scientist on television say that the human brain is about the same consistency as tofu. That explains a lot about the limits of human thinking. Too many of us have tofu for brains. We prove the limits of the human brain when…
Duane Rasmussen, who provided this photograph of the Pinehurst car show and parade for HucksOnline, reports: The parade route turned left. The kids where having trouble making the turn by themselves. It was definitely a kid friendly environment. The town fathers in Pinehurst allow candy…
The Barry Goldwater campaign for presidency appears to be going well at the annual Pinehurst Car Show over the weekend. Duane Rasmussen and his handy camera were on hand to capture this shot. Question: If Barry Goldwater was alive today, would you prefer him over…
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.
