I've been so busy today, trying to blog around my annual trip to the Spokane office, that I forgot to mention that -- yes, indeedy -- Hucks Online topped 2.5 million page-views Wednesday evening. The blog topped a record 1.5 million unique views on Tuesday.…
Marianne Love/Slight Detour has published several more of her cool, ski-joring photos from Bonner County. Matt Smart (on horse), owner of Mountain Horse Adventures, and Janice Wood Schoonover, owner of Western Pleasure Guest Ranch, coordinated efforts in yesterday's skijoring practice Wednesday. Laura Gillet is the…
Patrons participating in an overdue-fine amnesty at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library donated a record amount of food to a local food bank. From Nov. 15 to Dec. 4, patrons gave 892 pounds of food as part of the Fa La La La La Food…
5:17 p.m. 2 drunk males are fist-fighting in 500 block of East Orchard/Hayden.4:47 p.m. A vehicle that was abandoned at a business along Chilco Road/Athol five months ago by a Bonner County man reportedly was stolen from Bannock County.4:25 p.m. A boy reports to his…
"I had some chickpeas on hand, so she cut up some tomatoes, mixed them with the chickpeas and some herbs and stuffed the tamales with the mixture," posts JeanC of JeanC's Cathouse & Shooting Gallery. "We steamed them in my bamboo steamers over a pot…
Japanese monkeys have a bath together in a pond filled with hot spring water at a municipal tropical botanical garden in Hakodate, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on snowy Wednesday, with temperature below freezing. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Hiroko Miyoshi)Top Cutlines:1. DFO's dancing monkeys…
Oprah and I are a lot alike. Oh sure, there are subtle differences. Even with just one name, everyone knows her. I have three names - not counting what readers call me - yet nobody knows me. She lives in Chicago. I live here. But…
A Berry Picker in the Bentwood Park subdivision, off 15th Street/CdA, was stunned today -- Dec. 16, for goodness sake -- to hear the sound of a lawn mower in the 'hood. She reports to Huckleberries Online: "I heard the mower noise, and it took…
Embroiled in a scandal? Caught breaking the ethical rules? Facing a criminal charge? Guilty as hell? Come to the firm of Rammell, Loertscher and Hart. Former Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rex Rammell, state Rep. Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, and state Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol have pioneered innovative…
Everyone knows him as Nick Nickerson, and he was born in Spokane in 1929. That makes him 81 years old, and for 61 of those years he’s been a barber. At the end of this year, Nickerson is putting away his scissors for the last…
Three-year-old Hudson Kramer kisses his 6-month-old little sister Lily, as his mother Brandy Kramer holds Lily's twin sister Dahlia at their home in Coeur d'Alene on Wednesday, Dec. 8. The babies were born premature and Dahlia needed surgery. The family became caught in a hospital…
Don Sausser snapped this photo a half hour ago of a silhouetted tug boat pshing a crane-ladened barge that has been replacing worn pilings on the City Docks for the past two days.
On his Facebook page, OrangeTV posts an April 2007 review of Takara restaurant, the first one he wrote to Handle Extra. He thought it appropriate now that the Japanese restaurant on Lakeside is about to go out of business: From my experience, sushi makes for…
LastDemoInIdaho: Did all you gentle readers know that the town of Dalton Garden gets police protection from Kootenai Cty. for free? All they have to do is pass out a few heavy-duty flashlights once a year, and the deputies will patrol and protect…at no cost…
A 20-year-old Lapwai man alleges he was the victim of an unprovoked attack by University of Idaho football players. Lamont Phillips told the Lewiston Tribune the attack over the weekend landed him in the hospital for nearly a day with a concussion, a fractured orbital…
If academics determined the Bowl Championship competitors, Oregon and Auburn would not be playing the championship game this year. They would be ranked seventeenth and twenty-first in the BCS standings. This is actually an improvement for Oregon over last year’s Academic BCS, when the team…
In this May 9, 1992 file photo, British actress Julie Andrews, poses with her husband, American film director Blake Edwards, after he was awarded the Legion Of Honour, in Cannes, France. Edwards, 88, the director and writer known for clever dialogue and occasional belly-laugh sight…
Spokane sheriff's deputies have arrested a 19-year-old man who allegedly killed his mother's dogs and held his mother and grandmother hostage with a butcher knife after his mom refused to give him money.The incident happened Monday night along Deer Creek Road in Chattaroy. Deputies said…
Wednesday Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation connects socially online via Facebook. Which isn't a surprise. 80 of 213 respondents (37.56%) said Facebook is one of the social networking tools they use. 62 of 213 (29.11%) said that they connect online via blogs. Only 23…
Former President George W. Bush, right, and his wife Laura appear together to sign their books 'Decision Points' by him, and 'Spoken From the Heart' by her, at a bookstore this morning in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)Question: Would you be more likely to read George's…
This just in from the state that fancies itself as bigger and better than everywhere else: Dallas' airport renovation won't emulate Boise's recent river-themed remake. Dallas City Councilwoman Angela Hunt is citing the Boise Airport as a model of what not to be as the…
Spokane is the 15th most secure place to live in the United States among mid-size cities, according to the Seventh Annual Farmers Insurance Group of Companies study. The rankings, compiled by database experts at www.bestplaces.net, took into consideration crime statistics, extreme weather, risk of natural…
Anyway, the caller says, everybody knows what Rex Rammell is all about, so why give him space on the opinion page? Her theory was that I ran the piece simply to stir up some controversy. Not so. First, since Rammell's arrest was a high-profile story,…
State legislators in the neighboring states of Wyoming and Montana are working on bills that would end teacher tenure. Not everyone is happy about the prospects of the change, especially teacher associations in the two states. Besides sharing geographic borders, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho all…
Kinder-Magic kindergartner Lance Emery makes his Christmas wish Wednesday at the school in Coeur d'Alene during their Christmas party. The kids got to wear their pajamas, have breakfast and exchange gifts. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRWednesday's Scanner Traffic/DFO, Huckleberries OnlineSnow to return by…
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.
