I forgot to mention that I broke my swimming fast Sunday after my church's annual baptism at Ross Point Bible Camp. It was just too hot to hobnob under the trees. So I jumped into the Spokane River and frolicked with the kids for several…
At the Lovestead, Marianne Love/Slight Detour tells or her husband, Bill, and son, Willie, and others moving 150 bales of hay into their winter home in a bay "in the big shed at the end of the lane." It took them about an hour to…
Chris Cillizza of Washington Post's The Fix blog offers a map today that reveals how people generally stereotype every state in the union. Cillizza explains: "Today we happened upon an awesome map put together by Renee DiResta at her No Upside blog. What DiResta did…
5:22 p.m. Driver of primed pickup w/loud muffler almost hit another vehicle head-on while passing recklessly @ Brunner & Diagonal/Rathdrum. 4:47 p.m. Wanted female in custodial issue may be in 6600 block of Maplewood/PF. 4:36 p.m. Caller reports people littering in Corbin Park on Spokane…
"Oh my God," said Julia Jakaber, of Otis Orchards as she ziplined through the trees in Wallace earlier today. She and her sisters booked the adventure with Silver Streak Zipline Tours as a birthday present for their father Ted Wentz also of Otis Orchards. (SR…
Herb @ Bay Views is reporting that the hospitality industry at Bayview is going through a rebirth with Ralph's Coffee, Scenic Bay Marina and Captain's Wheel Resort leading the way. More here. An incomplete diary of a road trip/Atmospheric Ruminations Super women -- in Saudi,…
Challengers to Pennsylvania's tough new law requiring voters to show photo identification are appealing a judge's decision to let it take effect in the Nov. 6 presidential election. The lawyers for the people and rights groups suing filed the appeal Thursday afternoon. The paperwork was…
A 3,000-pound granite marker sits at the corner of Dorchester and 53rd Streets where President Barack Obama first kissed first lady Michele Obama Thursday in Chicago. The owners of a shopping center in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood installed the granite marker this week. The Obamas…
The body of Army Specialist Ethan Martin, 22, killed in Afghanistan August 7, will be flown to the Sandpoint Airport from Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, on Friday, and escorted to Bonners Ferry with his family in a military cortege. Also accompanying the cortege will…
Idawa: I just spoke to one of my co-workers who just spent the last couple days at the Cd’A Resort. While he had nice things to say about the resort and the town, he was, in his words, “disgusted” by the other guests at the…
A musician from Spokane's Ryan Larsen Band stands with hat over heart as the National Anthem is played at the Handshake Productions free Tuesday concert at Don Johnston's Sherman Park Square in downtown Coeur d'Alene. (Duane Rasmussen photo for Huckleberries Online) This photo reminds me…
Free movie tickets? A $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel? This week's news quiz is putting those prizes on the table, which means only one thing: You're 10 interactive questions away from being in the running. You can take the News Quiz test by…
Idaho plans to play as a Football Bowl Subdivision independent and join the Big Sky Conference in other sports, pending Idaho State Board of Education approval Friday. The state board will hold a special meeting Friday to vote on Idaho's athletic future. Idaho is the…
Spokane Valley Rep. Matt Shea must be feeling pretty low about "the media." Shea -- the same guy who pulled a gun on another driver in an apparent road rage incident and took photos of himself standing in his opponent's driveway -- has blocked multiple…
Chairman Tom Hamilton of the Coeur d'Alene School Board: One of the reasons I ran for the trustee position was that I felt that previous boards had not been judicious stewards of the taxpayers dollars. One of the more glaring examples of this was the…
"Quaint" Coeur d'Alene earned a nice spread in the Diablo publication of East San Francisco Bay. Travel reporter Amelia Arvesen writes: "Unless you’re an Ironman triathlete or have golfed the world’s only floating green, you’ve probably never stopped in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. An outdoor enthusiast’s…
Greg Lee, the veteran Inland Northwest prep writer for the SR and long-time umpire of Coeur d'Alene recreation softball, snapped this photo of fenceless McEuen Field moments ago. The upgrade has begun.
12:21 p.m. Motorist reports trucker tried to side-swipe him on H41 @ Hayden/Rathdrum. 11:49 a.m. Individual in midtown Coeur d'Alene reports child abuse in Dalton Gardens. 11:26 a.m. Wood is lying on both sides of intersection of Seltice Way & Atlas Road/CdA. 10:48 a.m. An…
At Citizens for a Positive Coeur d'Alene Facebook wall, Jennifer reports: "The fences have been removed! Open green space for all to use comes next. The positive progress continues... "
Wednesday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation supports the policy by Kootenai County police agencies to roust panhandlers. 84 of 111 respondents (75.68%) support the policy. Only 19 of 111 respondents (17.12%) oppose it. 8 were undecided. Today's Poll: Which gender is easier to rear as children…
The building started its life around the year 1862 as a livery stable supply shop, became the Idaho Territorial Capitol but then died in obscurity as a neglected old icehouse sometime around 1915. Its ruin was observed with little ceremony, but Lewiston historian Steven Branting…
Priscilla Presley, left, and Lisa Marie Presley speak to fans gathered at a candlelight vigil at Graceland, Elvis Presley's Memphis, Tenn. home, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) Elvis Presley fans numbering in the thousands outside Graceland to mark the 35th anniversary of his death got…
Harry Houdini makes an appearance. So does Henry Ford. J.P. Morgan, Emma Goldman. Admiral Robert Peary. Booker T. Washington. These real-life characters rub elbows with the well-heeled, the immigrants and the African-Americans who inhabit the world E.L. Doctorow created in his 1975 novel “Ragtime.” Local…
It’s a biological fact that the human male determines the gender of his offspring, but I’ve often wondered if my innate attraction to the opposite sex conspired against me when I produced four sons. My mother traces this appreciation to infancy. She said, “You couldn’t…
Pecky Cox/As the Lake Churns had her camera handy as she spotted this paddler and his dog on Priest Lake. Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR 'Sovereign citizen' disturbs Spokane court/AP Benewah escapees caught in Kootenai County/KXLY Invasive insect found in Ada, Kootenai counties/KTVB Tribe, Catholics celebrate…
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.
