HMOffsuite posted a reminder in the comments section that the Sherman Square Park free concert series ends tonight downtown with a tribute to The Beatles. Revolver, a Beatles tribute band, will be featured tonight, from 6 to approximately 8:30. If the music is comparable to…
Lyle Gaylord of Royal West Amusement prepared the carousel on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 for opening day of North Idaho Fair & Rodeo on Wednesday in Coeur d'Alene. The fair runs through Sunday. (Kathy Plonka/SR)SR's Today In PhotosQuestion: Which day(s) do you plan to go…
But one woman in the audience wanted to know why the media wasn't covering the Obama administration policies and holding the federal government accountable. She also went so far as to wonder aloud why no media had attended Saturday's event. Apparently, she didn't notice the…
"Recognize these guys?" asks Kootenai MPO. "No, it's not the members of a 1960's-era folk singing group reunited for one last tour. This is the seven-member Idaho Transportation Board (which badly needs a female member, by the way)." More here.3 views of wolf wars: hunter,…
Estonia's Ksenija Balta competes in the final of the Women's Long jump during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Sunday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)Top Cutlines:1. After again jumping to conclusions on the Ed Corridor, the head CAVEr is now a mere…
Former officer Christopher Love is suing the Spirit Lake Police Department, claiming that he was unlawfully fired last year after he was diagnosed with active leukemia. Love, who joined the department in October 2006, had told Police Chief Wiley Ronnenberg later that year that he…
Kevin Taylor: "BTW Cindy H, I think we all remember that picture of DFO and the goat. Just sayin'." DFO: I don't know anything about that.Question: Which one is the old goat?
5:40 p.m. Motorcyclist ran into the back of a dump truck @ H41 & Prairie. Driver kept going b/c he didn't know his truck had been hit.4:58 p.m. KMC needs help lifting a large man who got to the hospital after falling 2 stories.4:15 p.m.…
You're looking at the new adviser to the Sandpoint High School Cedar Post newspaper. William E. Love III has signed a contract. He's been finger-printed, and he has his ID card for Lake Pend Oreille School District 84, where he'll begin his teaching career Sept.…
One of HBO's Merry Hucksters couldn't help him/herself this afternoon, after City Council candidate Jim Brannon failed to show for a planned noon announcement of his candidacy on the American Legion pitcher's mound at McEuen Field. Gary Ingram, I believe, is warming up in the…
... that Coeur d'Alene police wrote Aryan Nations follower Paul Mullet of Athol 3 more tickets for littering this morning. In one of those incidences, Mullet was allegedly caught on surveillance camera, circulating racist literature on the North Idaho College campus. Mullet was among three…
Progressives are waiting for Barack Obama and his team to work the kind of political magic they seemed to work in 2008—except when they didn't. Cutting through all the mythologizing of the Obama campaign, the real keys to his stretch-run success last year were his…
Powerball winner Solomon Jackson Jr., center, of Columbia, S.C., receives a check from the South Carolina Education Lottery during a press conference after claiming his prize Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)
The mystery of the road rage van continues. Spokane County Sheriff’s detectives have been trying to track down the driver of a van who faces a vehicular assault charge for allegedly dragging a motorcyclist during a fight on North Division Street on Aug. 14. Detectives…
For many years, the boys were the same size and it made it pretty easy to shop. I had convinced them by the time they were in 1st and 2nd grade that everyone, all siblings, all over the world, wore each other’s clothes. There were…
Item: Pontiac, Mich., to play Spokane in film remake of 'Red Dawn'/AMMore Info: A southeastern Michigan community will be doing its best Spokane, Wash., impression next month. That's when crews will be in Pontiac to shoot scenes for the upcoming remake of the classic 1980s…
Huckleberries hears that former HBOer Gary Ingram was ready at noon at the American Legion pitcher's mound on McEuen Field, where Jim Brannon was to announce his candidacy for incumbent Mike Kennedy's seat. But the Habitat for Humanity director wasn't there. A woman was also…
Rachel Mewes, 16, plays with her cockatoos at Bragfest 2009--an annual bird lover's potluck held Saturday in Franklin Park. Pampered Parrots Avian Rescue sponsored the event. (Colin Mulvany/SR)Packed house greets Minnick in Sandpoint/Bonner County BeeGrizzly cub died of 'acute hemorrhage after dart hit jugular/MissoulianUtility claims…
11:59 a.m. Hayden Avenue man reports ongoing problem with wandering goats.11:58 a.m. Motorcyclist going 100 mph s/b on H95 @ M/P 456 (Careywood).11:07 a.m. Mother in Post Falls trailer court reports her 36YO son is getting threatening calls.10:48 a.m. Man wants to talk to officer…
I’m in love with a big, red machine. My husband and I have started renting movies from Redbox, the machines that rent new releases for just $1 a day and are popping up in grocery stores and malls across America. We’re big movie watchers —…
... that conservatives are planning a protest tonight before the health care forum featuring Walt Minnick at North Idaho College. Messages have been sent out to local Tea Party members, the tax protester group headed by Sharon Culbreath, Republican Women, North Idaho Pachyderms, and Reagan…
This Nov. 2006 photo provided by Sunda Croonquist shows Croonquist, left, and her mother-in-law, Ruth Zafrin at Croonquist's daughter, Tovah Zafrin's 4th birthday party in Los Angeles. Veteran comic Croonquist is being sued by her mother-in-law after making her the punchline of too many jokes.…
I have no idea whether Pam Lowe is telling the truth. I don't know if the ousted Idaho Transportation Department chief's litany of good ol' boy complaints will hold up in court. But her legal filing, reported by The Associated Press last week, is just…
I wanted to thank Hucksters and blurkers for their support during my crisis, yesterday. Your kind e-mails and suggestions were much appreciated. Anabelle (my hard drive) is resting quietly. We're still not sure kind of surgery she'll need or what her prognosis will be. I'm…
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.