On a motion by appointed Trustee James Purtee and seconded by appointed Trustee Jim Hightower, the Coeur d'Alene School Board voted unanimously to end the Primary Years Programme from Hayden Meadows Elementary at the end of the 2012-13 school year. The 5-0 vote was taken…
Christa Hazel emails this message to Hucks HQ to launch the week: "My son wanted to know what I was reading on my phone. I handed it to him and told him to read it. He picked it up and said, 'Huckleberries Online. Blah, Blah,…
Marco Alvarado, right, of Denver, shakes the paw of Lakota, a service dog for Karolee McLaughlin of Allenspark Colo., as they arrive for a campaign event for Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space…
They daily stand in danger’s way protecting others from the fray; embrace them with a love divine, and please protect their thin blue line. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
Shasta Groene is no longer the little girl that captured the hearts of the Inland Northwest by surviving a terrifying ordeal in which her mother, her mother's boyfriend and two brothers were murdered by Joseph Duncan. She's now a 16-year-old high schooler. KREM2 provides a…
5:34 p.m. 2 black Labrador pups are running into traffic on e/b I-90/Seltice Way overpass. 5:31 p.m. Panel blew off furniture on truck w/b on I-90/Pleasantview, hitting car behind it. 5:25 p.m. Caller reports wanted women named Chelsea @ 23rd & Mullan/CdA. 4:55 p.m. Unconscious…
Darlyne Markus loads papers at the Idaho Press-Tribune for her 1 a.m. route Sunday, her last day after 54 years of delivering papers. She broke the world record for longest serving paper girl four years ago. (Idaho Press-Tribune photo: Aaric Bryan) 17th Mayor's Arts Award…
Christa is covering meeting in comments section It appears as thought the Coeur d'Alene School Board will attract an overflow crowd for its 5 o'clock meeting this afternoon at the Midtown Center. Huckleberries has learned 50 people already are in attendance, 40 minutes before the…
Boiseans know very little about Hammerfest 2012 — just enough to be outraged. Fronted by the white supremacist group Hammerskin Nation, the music “festival” is supposed to take place somewhere in or around Boise on Saturday. The group bills this concert as a 25th anniversary…
At Stebbijo's Place, Stebbijo posts: "This is Paula Deen's volcano cake - the only thing I changed was the icing." You can find the how-to's here. Show & Tell Friday/A Butterfly Moment Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?/Arch Druid One more…
A 22-year-old Washington State University student was hospitalized after falling three stories off a balcony at the Boulder Creek Apartments in Pullman on Friday night. Pullman Police Sgt. Dan Dorness said the man was drinking alcohol at the complex on Northeast Terre View Drive with…
Update: More background, photo of shooting victim/KREM The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department confirmed today that a 19-year-old Hayden man shot to death by Coeur d'Alene police and a man he'd shot earlier knew one another. A news release circulated moments ago by sheriff's Mayor Ben…
A 34-year-old woman from Post Falls reported to Coeur d'Alene Press that three males in black hoodies, including one on a skateboard, stole her purse as they passed by at 11:14 p.m. Sunday in downtown Coeur d'Alene. The woman, who was walking with two female…
It appears that Coeur d'Alene School Board Chairman Tom Hamilton and Trustee Terri Seymour signed an online petition against the International Baccalaureate program on Aug. 8 of this year, only days before voting to phase the program out of Coeur d'Alene schools. The anti-IB petition…
At a Spokane Pride beep baseball scrimmage, team captain and coach Troy Leeberg, takes a swing at a softball that makes noise Thrusday at Franklin Park. Beep baseball is an adaptive version of baseball for the blind and visualy impaired. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany) Question:…
On her Facebook wall, Cindy posts: "Prayers needed for my friend Jeanie Buchanan. She's having open-heart surgery tomorrow morning. Huckleberries Online friends will recall she had both kidneys removed this summer and is hoping for a transplant soon. She's had an infection in her heart…
An Idaho grandfather and former school district superintendent is suing the state of Idaho and all its school districts, charging that cash-strapped schools are violating the Idaho Constitution by increasingly charging fees for what are supposed to be “free, common schools.” Russ Joki's twin kindergartner…
His is a story familiar to us by now, one that’s been fictionalized (loosely) and retold in a National Book Award-winning best seller. A boy is born on an Indian reservation in Eastern Washington and not expected to live. He does, only to chafe at…
With athletic director Rob Spear still trying to piece together 12 games for next year, Akey acknowledged the uncertainty is having a “tremendous impact on our recruiting, our planning for the future, on everything.” The instability has most clearly manifested itself in recruiting. Akey said…
Doctor shortages are a problem in many states. But there are a number of reasons why Idaho’s problem is worse than others. For one thing, Idaho doesn’t have its own medical school. Then there are obstacles all rural states face: Difficulty attracting doctors to places…
Jeff Ward of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans and Coeur d'Alene Councilman Dan Gookin appear to be enjoying a joke during the campaign event staged on behalf of state Rep. Kathy Sims, R-Coeur d'Alene, at the Blackwell House last week. (Duane Rasmussen photo special for…
11:49 a.m. Loose dog running in area of 4485 Woodland Drive/PF. 11:35 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Sept. 30-Oct. 1 here. 11:26 a.m. Silver Toyota Camri going w/b on e/b I-90 before turning off wrong way onto NW Blvd. 11:18 a.m. Sandpoint…
I've learned long ago on this blog that few readers here are 100 percent partisan. Even the most conservative have an undercurrent or two that could be considered liberal. And vice versa. Many of us here agree on most things despite our political filter. More…
Weekend Poll: 57 percent of Hucks Nation sez Idaho's $7.25-per-hour minimum wage is more out of line than Washington's $9.09-per-hour minimum wage. 105 of 184 respondents (57.07%) said Idaho's low minimum wage is more out of line than Washington's high minimum wage. 45 of 184…
Coeur d'Alene Press editorial Sunday re: this afternoon's Coeur d'Alene School Board meeting re: the Primary Years Programme at Hayden Meadows: It is hard to imagine that board members will vote to keep the program intact and move on to other issues. There is some…
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.
