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In a column for the Coeur d'Alene Press, former Idaho GOP vice chairman Jim Pierce reveals something that many of us at Huckleberries Online already know: The local Kootenai County GOP Central Committee has been overthrown by the Far Right, some of whom have come here from out of state with the purpose of impacting local politics.

The Hagadone Marine Center campus in Coeur d'Alene just opened its mega service center on Thursday, Hagadone Marine Group president Craig Brosenne said. The service center will ensure that even when a boat is acting up, repairs won't eat up the whole summer. Devin Heilman/Coeur d'Alene Press reports.

In Huckleberries Monday, a Washington driver didn't think a dig by a Coeur d'Alene resident wasn't that funny. So he provides us today with the viewpoint from Washington of Idaho drivers.

The Parting Shot today features another fab photo by my Priest Lake friend, Pecky Cox. After taking the photo of the guy on Priest Lake, Pecky asks innocently: "What smoke?"

The Cutline Contest today features old codger DFO and his trophy wife, Mrs. O, at the Summer Concert Series Thursday evening, sponsored by the Coeur d'Alene Arts and Culture Alliance. Thursday Winner: gitrdun.

I spotted this sign on the front desk of the Coeur d'Alene Library earlier this week when I turned in an overdue book, "The Rain in Portugal: Poems" by Billy Collins. It cost me 70 cents to be late. Magnanimously, I gave the librarian a dollar. Then, I wondered how many users try to sneak their non-service dogs into the library.

I know it's not Christmas. But I thought I'd branch out in offering you The Bard's musings. Some of us might not be here at Christmas. Here's The Bard's take on an old familiar Christmas carol.

Marissa and Kelsey Weddle entertain the audience at the Summer Concert Series at Riverstone Pond Thursday. I'm not sure which is which. They're twins, after all. Both sing beautifully. Second time I've heard them this summer, courtesy of the Coeur d'Alene Arts & Culture Alliance.

I don't know how many of your know this, but SR columnist Doug Clark and I have been fast friends since we met in Red Bluff, Calif., in the early 1970s. I was instrumental in getting Clark into the newspaper business. He was instrumental in bringing me to the Northwest in 1977, to Kalispell. And, then, in 1984, to the Coeur d'Alene ...