Craig Moore/Glacier Life"Jet swims too!" posts Craig Moore/Glacier Life here. "I was a little scared to throw the ball in for a blue heeler and border collie. We have never seen him in water over his head. Turns out he loves the water. The hardest…
It was a typical Kellogg kegger. Huge cups. Foamy beer. Bonfire. And, an early start. Memory tells me we had that keg tapped about one in the afternoon. What's more, a person from elsewhere would have thought we all hadn't seen each other for ten…
Armando Franca/AP PhotoThe United States swimmers dive into the pool for the synchronized swimming Team Event Technical Routine of the Pan American Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines:1. Entering its fourth season, the ABC show Desperate Housewives gets ready to…
What's the nicest new -- or soon-to-be -- construction project in the local area?1. Cabela's2. Riverstone Park3. Johnson Mill River Park4. Kroc Center5. Coeur d'Alene Library6. Centennial Trail (off NW Boulevard)7. The Terraces condo8. Riverstone9. Coeur d'Alene Press print building10. Other
NBC News, AP PhotoAuthor J.K. Rowling, right, reads from " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows " to fans during an interview with NBC's Meredith Vieira in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday. The interview airs through Friday on the "Today" show and Sunday on "Dateline NBC"."Harry…
In the Head's Up! inside report at City Hall, Parks Director Doug Eastwood advises that he received an inquiry from a local real estate agent re: rattlesnakes on Tubbs Hill. Seems a client of the Realtor was told not to walk his dog on Tubbs…
Craig Moore/Glacier LifeHere's another of the "Glacierdise" photos from Glacier National Park and Craig Moore/Glacier Life.*Raymond Pert/Kellogg Bloggin' opines that the north fork of the Coeur d'Alene River can't be as wild as it was in his youth b/c there's too much money at stake…
S-R carrier Alyia Rushing of Coeur d'Alene was the first to report the Wednesday morning arson fire at Capone's Pub and Grill in Post Falls. She's wondering why that is. The fire was visible from the freeway, she said, and she watched numerous drivers pass…
The feds are worried because they've found some unusual items in airline passengers' luggage recently including wires, switches, pipes or tubes, cell phone components and dense clay-like substances, including block cheese. See AP story. They are worried that the items may be part of rehearsals…
Item: Press columnist argues for ousting Edinger, Reid, Hassell: Mary Souza says she won't seek council seat/Mary Souza, Coeur d'Alene PressThis year there are three city council positions up for re-election in Coeur d’Alene: Dixie Reid, Al Hassel (sic) and Ron Edinger. The other three…
Absolutely. I was very tentative when he was elected. He wasn't my first choice. But he has redeemed himself as far as I have seen. Funny how the Trib likes to belittle him (like somehow the Trib is some bastion of intellect) but he is…
Although Micron does not have a plant in northern Idaho, their business and their employees pay a considerable percentage of taxes paid in Idaho. The accompanying businesses in the Treasure Valley that supply them do likewise. To the degree that northern Idaho receives money from…
I'm rerunning OrangeTV's July 2 review of the Bardenay restaurant and distillery b/c I visited it last evening. The place was hopping.The bar is the main visual attraction, a huge cherry-oak monolith that takes up nearly an entire side of the room, with diagonally cut…
I was introduced to flyfishing and huckleberrying by the late C. Patrick King on a Fourth of July weekend 30 years ago. At the time, Pat was publisher of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., and I was about to begin a five-year stint…
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.