Gonzaga's head coach Mark Few calls in a play in the first half of their second round NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on Thursday at the EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany) Question: Do you yell or throw things…
Digger: So I'll open this up today. I'm emceeing and auctioneering for a charity auction tomorrow night to benefit Moscow's low power FM community station. I've been to plenty of charity fundraisers so I kinda have an idea of turn ons/offs when it comes to…
Kootenai County Chief Deputy Clerk Pat Raffee released the final list of candidates who have filed for taxing district offices in the May 21 election. The filing deadline was 5 p.m. today. Many candidates have filed in recent days. Details are provided on the final…
Gonzaga's Elias Harris, of Germany, makes remarks during a news conference after practice for a third round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament on Friday in Salt Lake City. Gonzaga is scheduled to play Wichita State on Saturday. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
4:56 p.m. Someone removed barrier, entered snowmobile trail, 2 miles up Hayden Creek Road. 4:54 p.m. Teen-agers trying to jump on train at unknown Post Falls location. 4:12 p.m. ISP officer calls in abandoned white car @ e/b I-90/MP 4.2 (near Spokane Street). 4:11 p.m.…
One of the bills reviving selected provisions of voter-rejected Proposition 1 regarding rolling back teachers’ collective bargaining rights was defeated in the Senate today on a 14-19 vote, reports Kevin Richert of Idaho Education News. SB 1148 was the bill to let school districts raise…
From Lake City Development Corporation board meeting minutes from Wednesday: Also during its regular monthly board meeting, Coeur d’Alene Downtown Association Manager Terry Cooper reported that a parking plan is in place to alleviate inconveniences imposed by the McEuen Park upgrade project. A free shuttle…
In her latest OpenCDA.com newsletter, Mary Sousa rips into the new Balance North Idaho group, which has been enthusiastically endorses by the Coeur d'Alene Press and Huckleberries. Sez Mary: "The group claims their mission is to 'endorse and promote candidates and issues in local non-partisan…
Update: My informant nailed it. Otter's office has released a press statement confirming that he has appointed Glen Bailey to a Bonner County commissioner opening. Click here. Huckleberries hears (originally posted at 1:54 PM) ... That Gov. Butch Otter has selected 1st District Court bailiff…
At The Slice blog, Paul Turner writes: One of my favorite moments from “Mystery Science Theater 3000” … Joel or one of the 'bots speculated that when there was a break during shooting of “The Big Valley” and Barbara Stanwyck would be telling stories about…
Berry Picker Mike reports that two, thirtysomething men have set up a "hotdog-type stand" at the Coeur d'Alene post office, 7th & Lakeside, that implores bystanders to help impeach President Barack Obama. Sounds like those guys who invaded from the Puget Sound area in recent…
Huckleberries'd like to have been a fly on the wall -- or maybe in the maple syrup -- during the breakfast rush at a Sherman Avenue eatery, one morning a week ago, when the following were seen hobnobbing: Councilman Steve Adams, Councilman Dan Gookin, OpenCDA.com…
A Coeur d'Alene Parks Department employee helps load what remains of the Freedom Tree onto a trailer this morning at McEuen Field. (Duane Rasmussen provided this photograph to Huckleberries Online)
March Madness is in full swing, and we're not talking about the college basketball version. In the Idaho Legislature, March Madness is the time when bills come to the floor like popcorn out of a chute. The last weeks of a session are mind-numbing for…
Kootenai County’s unemployment rate fell to 6 percent last month. That is nearly as low as in the summer of 2008, when the Great Recession was beginning to grip the Northwest. The February rate dropped from 6.4 percent in January and was nearly 2 percentage…
The House has voted 45-21 in favor of SB 1108, the bill to make it more difficult to qualify an initiative or referendum measure for the Idaho ballot; there was bipartisan opposition. The bill, which earlier passed the Senate, now goes to the governor’s desk/Betsy…
The House has voted 49-18 in favor of SB 1117, the statewide extra-heavy trucks bill. “This is about local control, and we’ve pointed out that the state highway (department) does have jurisdiction on the state highway going through your community,” Rep. Marc Gibbs, the bill’s…
Randy Myers: I was thinking that there could be a TV show or movie maybe called "Mayor and Council" and was thinking of Alec Baldwin for Mike Kennedy and Helen Mirren for Sandi Bloem ... Now that I've seen and heard Dennis's post....I'm re-thinking....a cartoon…
The scene at the site of the Freedom Tree after it was cut down this morning. (Duane Rasmussen photo for Huckleberries Online) Duane Rasmussen offers this description of what he saw this morning after the Freedom Tree was cut down on McEuen Field: "A television…
12:08 a.m. Road Rager (12:03 item) driving aggressively @ NW Blvd/Lakewood, flipping off others. 12:03 a.m. 25ish male road rager gesturing angrily, tailgating in white pickup @ e/b H95/Huetter. 11:58 a.m. Male & female involved in physical domestic dispute in 44700 block of H95. 11:53…
The Texas Tech Board of Regents has confirmed the hiring of Duane Nellis to be the university’s new president starting June 15. The board had to wait 21 days under Texas state law before voting to approve Nellis’ hiring, and the University of Idaho president’s…
As the House continues its debate on the statewide heavy-truck bill, Rep. JoAn Wood, R-Rigby, told the House she couldn’t believe that big trucks would roll right through the center of towns. “Even in the little town that I live in, we have a truck…
A Berry Picker couldn't resist adding a little background music to the 911 call from Councilman Steve Adams, seeking permission to make a citizens arrest on City Attorney Mike Gridley. The whole situation struck the Berry Picker as cartoonish ...
Dustin Ainsworth photographed the remains of the Freedom Tree being carted off through downtown Coeur d'Alene from its long-time spot on McEuen Field. Meanwhile, Duane Rasmussen brought a sap-filled pine cone from the Freedom Tree to Huckleberries Central. Wonderful smell. I've placed the pine cone…
Dave Eubanks is challenging Ann Seddon for the Zone 4 seat on the Coeur d’Alene School District Board of Trustees. Eubanks filed a petition for candidacy late Wednesday. Seddon was appointed to the Zone 4 seat in May and announced last week that she is…
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.
