Artistic Director Jadd Davis of Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre Facebooked an hour ago that tonight's performance of "The Music Man" at the Kroc Center is within a few seats of selling out. And tickets for other performances are going fast. You can see discount opportunities by clicking on the link.
Rob Curley has been selected as the new editor of The Spokesman-Review to replace editor Gary Graham, who earlier announced his plans to retire in the fall. Curley worked most recently at the Orange County Register and previously worked at the Las Vegas Sun and The Washington Post.
I'm amazed how many partisans believe that the world as we know it will end if the other side's candidate wins the presidency. Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter is the latest to say, "it's over," if her side doesn't win: “If Trump doesn’t win, it’s over,” she told The Washington Examiner Wednesday.
In one moment, Jory Schmeling is general manager of a wooden boat business. In another he is a gopher for said business. Schmeling wouldn’t have it any other way. His journey to StanCraft Wooden Boats was unconventional to say the least. SR sports scribe Greg Lee provides the story below.
Donald Trump is enjoying a mid-convention bump in the polls, surging into within striking distance of Hillary Clinton in a national survey released Thursday. The Reuters-Ipsos rolling national poll shows Clinton leading Trump by 4 points, 40 to 36 percent.
"Friends and family remembered the life of a North Idaho teen who drowned while boating one year ago on Thursday," reports Taylor Viydo/KREM 2. Also, Viydo reports, questions still remain re: exactly what happened on the day that Nault died.
Deputy City Administrator Sam Taylor told Huckleberries today that the $1.5M Four Corners project at NW Blvd/Fort Grounds Ave will open next Wednesday "wonderfully on schedule."
I don't know what surprises me more -- that U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz didn't back down when given a chance to endorse Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio., last night. Or that Trump gave Cruz an opportunity to denounce him at the national convention. Can anyone explain what's going on?
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"Today is a very sad day for the party of Reagan and Lincoln. G.O.P. R.I.P. 1854-2016" -- Jeffrey Ward of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans Wednesday evening.
KREM 2 Facebooks a poignant post re: Coeur d'Alene police officer Mario Rios, who explains in an open letter why he continues to serve at a time when police are being ambushed and murdered in this country.
After a nearly three-year battle with cancer, Post Falls football coach Jeff Hinz passed away Wednesday evening. He was 45. It was three years ago this Thanksgiving that Hinz began to discover he had a serious health issue.
In the Wednesday poll, a plurality of Hucks Nation described the controversial speech given by potential First Lady Melania Trump as "a mere blip." Today's Poll: What is the last thing that you bought at Coeur d'Alene Hastings?
Mike Kennedy Facebooks: "In the last several years I have seen a decline in quality, selection of books, and even cleanliness in their stores in Cd'A and Boise, so I can't say this is a shock. I'm sorry for those folks who will have to make a career shift. It's good that the Well-Read Moose exists in Riverstone now." (Q: Do you still buy books?)
AM Headlines features photo of Kootenai County delegate to national convention who was 30 feet away from surprise floor visit by Donald Trump last night. Also: Coeur d'Alene PD police log/CPD, Canoe ride kicks off tribe's Julyamsh/CdA Tribe, Rathdrum store employees save woman's life/KHQ, Post Falls begins chip-sealing streets Monday/Press ...
Say it ain't so, Joe. The Norman (Okla.) Transcript reports that Hastings Entertainment is going to close all its stores by Oct. 31. The SR is working on a store. Hastings is one of the few stores that I frequent. It's popular in Coeur d'Alene. Nice vibe. But I suppose selling books, magazines and renting video isn't the way to go any more.
"So my walk around Tubbs Hill this morning I usually see a few Turkeys and deer however this morning the only wildlife I saw was a naked man running up the service road and perving out up by the water tower" -- Facebook Friend Dustin Ainsworth.
More than 100 Pokémon Go players gathered at McEuen Park to play their online game, win raffle tickets, and pick up litter in downtown Coeur d'Alene and the waterfront, according to a Coeur d'Alene Press report by Keith Cousins.
In his editorial this morning, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments that no one should be surprised that Idaho has a surplus again this year. It's intentional. Legislators & Gov. Butch Otter ignore projections and low-ball education spending. This guarantees surpluses for tax cuts to rich friends later.
A law enforcement officer tries extinguish a burning American flag Wednesday in Cleveland, during the third day of the Republican convention. (Question: How do you react when you see or hear of someone burning the American flag?)
Stubbornly undercutting calls for Republican unity, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz refused to endorse Donald Trump on Wednesday night as he addressed the GOP convention, ignoring thunderous boos from furious delegates. (DFO: And this was the guy Idaho Republicans thought was best of the batch?)
Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger will speak today to the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans group about the new permitless carry law and the jail expansion. Doors open at 11:45 a.m. at The Fedora Pub and Grille, 1726 W. Kathleen Ave. The meeting starts at noon
Six-year-old Yuna Kim of Vancouver BC runs along the seawall at City Beach in Coeur d'Alene on Wednesday. She and her family scheduled a stop in Coeur d'Alene on their way to Yellowstone National Park.
I've been listening to the Republican Convention as I garden during the viewtiful summer evenings that we've been experiencing. I was surprised that Ben Carson connected the dots between Hillary Clinton and Lucifer, via Sal Alinsky. The speech by Donald Trump Jr seemed OK (until I learned there might be a mini-scandal involving it, too).
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.
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