Nearly all the official statistics for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 are up at the library – some pretty dramatically. Total circulation rose by 55 percent compared to the previous year. While the checkout of actual items rose by just 1 percent – 309,325 compared to 307,684 items – the use of online databases rose by a whopping 318 percent and downloads of e-books and music went up by 40 percent – 43,996 compared to 31,317 percent. Coeur d'Alene Today tells you the rest of the story here.

• Repatriots/Fort Boise
• Clean Slate for Wednesdays/On Tap
• Tone of baseball changes with the leaves/Grip
• Love, family time & road side attractions/Slight Detour
• What was the fizz sound Tuesday night?/Simple Mind
• The religion that created comic book heroes/Faithful Geek
• If you'd been in charge during the Cuban missile crisis/Slice

HucksOnline numbers (for Wednesday, Oct. 14): 10,092 page-views/6,547 unique views.