I didn't swim last summer -- not a single dip in our wonderful waterways. However, in the last four days, I've gone swimming twice -- on Sunday off North Idaho College Beach and last night in the Spokane River off a private neighborhood beach in…
Hey y'all: I'm writing a little piece about Art on the Green mainly focusing on the musicians performing at the festival this year, but I wanted to include a bit about how much it has grown over the years. Thing is, I wasn't quite born…
Brandi Jade Thomas/AP Photo, St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Winchester, aka Cat Daddy, holds a 30-pound catfish he caught after midnight Tuesday in the backwaters of the Mississippi River near Red Wing, Minn. Winchester fishes the backwaters of the Mississippi River at night for giant catfish.…
Kendra Goodrick was handcuffed and whisked away this afternoon as her infant son, Jameson, cried in the hallway outside a Coeur d'Alene courtroom. The 29-year-old Hayden woman was in court today to ask that the 18 months she spent on probation be counted toward a…
... with Taryn in a few minutes. Do you have anything you'd want to pass along to Kendra and her family?
Spokesman-Review File PhotoWhile I'm editting the Huckleberries Gone Wireless interview with City Parks Director Doug Eastwood, you can have some fun telling me what's happening in the photo above. All I'll tell you is this: It's Doug at work in June 2002.
Some trivia about Gov. Chris Gregoire:-She and her husband own a cabin on Hayden Lake, Idaho, a home (besides the governor's mansion) in Olympia, and a time-share condo at a Whistler, B.C. ski lodge.-She has a $200 hand-carved wooden canoe (presumably a miniature one) given…
Jesse Tinsley/Spokesman-ReviewHere's a photo of that tombstone epitaph that Parks and Cemetery Director Doug Eastwood mentioned in his Huckleberries Gone Wireless interview this morning. Frances Bond's tombstone in Forest Cemetery sez: "I told you I was sick!"Question: What epitaph do you want on your tombstone?
Note: I'll edit the full interview by mid-afternoon and repost it.Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-ReviewBob Macdonald, left and Doug Eastwood both from Coeur d'Alene were involved in the development of Centennial Trail from its infancy.D.F. Oliveria: When did you arrive in Coeur d'Alene and from where?Doug Eastwood: I…
I'll be interviewing Parks Director Doug Eastwood at 11. Anyone have a question for him?
Some people think First District Judge John Mitchell (pictured) is soft on crime. Others accuse him of thinking he's above the law. If you read the comments at www.cdapress.com on Sunday's story Caught in the middle, which illustrated the division between Judge Mitchell and some…
Blogging from my hotel in Bozeman MT. I was her on biz for the last two days and played golf and toured THE YELLOWSTONE CLUB and SPANISH PEAKS. Also attended my first pro bullriding competition tonight...was pretty dang cool although I never thought I would…
Cue Tammy Wynette: "Sometimes it's hard to be a woman/Giving all your love to just one man …" Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas is a lucky guy. He can swap sexually charged online banter with a flirtatious underling – and his wife of 34 years…
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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.
