Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 6/27/08

Dan Bates/Tri-City Herald, AP
Dr. Keith Leonard, left, Andrea Izester, and Shelli Churchill lead the staff of a dental office on horse back down Smokey Point Blvd. in Arlington, Wash., Wednesday. Since more than half of the dental assistants and office staff own horses the crew saddled up and rode in to work. “We decided that when gas got to $4 a gallon, we would all ride in,” Leonard said.

Ha-huge Grizzly: There better be a big back door to the Lincoln Community Center, because the town’s newest resident is going to have trouble getting out the way he came in. He is the third-biggest grizzly bear ever recorded in Montana, and he’s almost 9 feet long. A team of six taxidermists are taking three days to mount the bruin for display, using a urethane frame that’s typically intended for Alaskan brown bears. And they still had to saw it in pieces so they could widen the hips and belly with extra material to properly fill out the 830-pound grizzly’s hide/Missoulian. Story here .

* Man wounds himself while trying to shoot rattler /Lewiston Tribune
* St. Maries couple could face more abuse charges /KXLY
* 10 Commandments activists owe Boise $10,000+ /IStatesman
* Parents of sexually abused Boy Scouts meet with parole board /KCBI
* 2nd teacher resigns after Mexican Flag controversy /Twin Falls Times-News
* Astronaut Barbara Morgan officially retires from NASA /KTVB
* Mother/daughter thwart Perrine Bridge suicide /Twin Falls Times-News

Orbusmax Special : Washington assisted-suicide supporters turn in petitions here .