I'm 3/4ths of the way through ripping out another of those landscape projects that made since years ago. A few years back, I tore out all the mugho pines, bird nest pines & barberry bushes in the front yard. Last year, I tore out all...
Lifeguard Michael DuBois keeps an eye on the beach at Burbank Park in Pittsfield, Mass., today. The lifeguard program in Pittsfield, Mass., keeps an eye on swimmers five days a week, Wednesday through Sunday. Question: Anyone out there ever serve as a lifeguard? Want to tell us about it?
2 beerfests are on tap this weekend, according to Rick Bonino/On Tap: 3rd annual Ales for the Trail fundraiser at McEuen Park from 2-8 p.m. Saturday ($30 admission includes 6 ounce drink tickets) & Silver Mountain’s Brewsfest at the Kellogg-area ski resort from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday. Rick provides more details below.
If I'm reading the Kootenai County press release correctly, commissioners have approved a 3% pay raise for county workers. But they're letting department heads decide which workers should get more than 3% and which should get less. That's part of a nearly $89M budget proposal for the county in FY2016, a $1.5M budget increase.
The Cutline Contest for Wednesday features Japanese children dressed up as police officers in Tokyo. Tuesday Winner -- DFO.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday PM (20 items & counting + AM Scanner Traffic link with 20 more items) includes report of injury accident in Post Falls in which male partly impaled by truss shortly after 5 p.m. ...
In his On Tap blog, Rick Bonino reports that Tricksters on Schreiber Way is tweaking its IPA (India Pale Ale) lineup again. You can read more below. BTW, are you interested in what's happening on the local brew pub scene? Rick does a good job of covering it. And I easily can run more of his coverage.
The daily roundup of HucksOnline blogosphere links includes Post Falls elected officials, staff & others touring Greensferry overpass construction site + Would we call them Miracle M's?/A Grip on Sports, In defense of Megyn Kelly/Faithful Geek, Harrowing Cobain documentary opens Friday/7 Blog & Special guests at 'War Bonds' reading/War Bonds ...
The man killed in a shootout with Bonner County deputies and a Sandpoint police officer has been identified as Casey George Alarcon, 34, of Sandpoint. According to a KCSD news release, Alarcon fired 2 shots at the officers before he was fatally wounded by return fire from one of the deputies.
Hisashi Iwakuma became the fifth pitcher in Seattle Mariners history to throw a no-hitter today, when he blanked the Baltimore Orioles 3-0 this afternoon. Boxscore here.
Walking partner Greg Lee & I hiked around Tubbs Hill today, for our regular lunch time walk. I decided this morning to hike Tubbs Hill because Greg told me that he's never walked around it in the 30-plus years that he's lived in Coeur d'Alene....
The top-earning outside public relations consultant contracted by the state of Idaho is a veteran political pitchman and well-connected Republican who holds a $4,000-a-month contract working about 10 hours a week with the state treasurer’s office. Mike Tracy's total billings in the last five years exceed $250,000. Thoughts?
Jon Alexander, the former Twin Falls Times News opinion editor, writes: "Mainstream Republicans must finally disavow the increasingly dangerous radicals who've infiltrated the Party of Lincoln before it's too late. Heavily armed right-wing vigilantes rolled into Ferguson, Missouri, Tuesday, stoking already inflamed racial tensions."
President Barack Obama speaks to media before signing H.R. 1138 Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act on Friday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Behind the president, from left are, Gary O'Malley, executive director, Sawtooth Society, Rick…
The University of Washington beat Washington State University in last year’s Apple Cup, and Husky head coach Chris Petersen’s team finished with a better record than Mike Leach’s Cougars. But Leach was still ahead in one category: He topped the list of salaries received by state employees last year, at $2.75 million.
Workers at Pacific Steel and Recycling in north Spokane accidentally punctured a barrel Wednesday morning, releasing a yellow vapor plume that sickened workers there and at a nearby city building. Nearly 100 firefighters and paramedics responded to Pacific Steel, 1114 N. Ralph St., where hazmat crews hosed workers off.
Marshall Swearingen of the High Country News reports of the tense standoff occuring at a mine site near Lincoln, Mont., between the USFS and the constitutionalist Oath Keepers. The USFS says the mine owner is out of compliance with federal rules. The well-armed Oath Keepers are on the site to protect the owner's mining rights.
Jadd Davis, artistic director of the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre, tells Huckleberries that tickets are still available for each of this weekend's four performances of "Shrek." Best seats are available for Saturday show. See advance story by SR's Caroline Lamberson below.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (19 items & counting) including mutual aid call from Spokane to help handle people hurt by hazmat situation @ Pacific Steel & Recycling.
A federal judge has sanctioned Idaho for misleading the court about medical and mental health care for inmates. The ruling from U.S. District Judge David Carter means that the Idaho Department of Correction will remain under the court's supervision until at least the fall of 2017. (See Angry North Idaho's tweet response below.)
Long-time commenter Don Sausser says there are clear signs that Idaho and this region are preferred living places for a lot of people, including young families. He wonders why there's so much negativity in the HucksOnline comment section about Idaho. And wonders whether it would be better if those who don't like the Gem State leave.
I think more people approve of liver, than Congress -- Scootermom. Question (for liver haters): Is there something you dislike more than liver?
AM Headlines for Wednesday includes Don Sausser's recent photo of sunbathers on Independence Point + Idaho Records/Coeur d'Alene Press, Sandpoint police shooting kills man/KREM, Coeur d'Alene fire inspector honored/Press, Editorial: A terrible senior citizen secret/Press, Post Falls shooting victim in intensive care/Press + more ...
Spokane minister Derrick G. Moore, 51, was acquitted of a hate crime charge last week by convincing a jury he was acting in defense of his home when he allegedly used a gay slur while physically removing his gay son and another man from a shower. One of the men received a cut above his eye in the scuffle. Did the jury make right decision?
The new Gallup sampling finds that only 14 percent of U.S. adults are satisfied by lawmakers’ recent performance on Capitol Hill. The results released Wednesday show a 3-point drop in approval for lawmakers, Gallup added, down from 17 percent in July. The polling agency’s latest…
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.
