My wife and I enjoyed a three Grandma lunch at Applebee's Sunday, with a sib and in-laws. Guest of honor were my mother, my wife's mother and my brother-in-law's mother. Good food. Excellent service. Good conversation. Then, we returned home to enjoy the sunshine in…
On her Facebook wall, Pecky Cox posts these two birds on Priest Lake, w/Papoose Island in the background, and asks her friends to guess what the pair are saying to each other. You can see more of Pecky's Priest Lake photography by becoming a Facebook…
Top Commented story (24 comments): Edit: College cuts yield bitter harvest/Lewiston Tribune
Opera Coeur d’Alene is preparing a varied program of events in the late summer and early fall. First up is a concert performance of the classic Gilbert & Sullivan operetta “The Pirates of Penzance” on July 13 – performed during a cruise of Lake Coeur…
5:31 p.m. Occupants of white 1987 Olds tossed out trash on I-90 before exiting at Post Falls & taking Idaho Street north. 5:23 p.m. Wanted 21YO female is in back yard @ 900 block of Highlands/Post Falls. 4:39 p.m. 2 people hurt in crash of…
Zoey Becker, 5, of Coeur d’Alene, checks out a great-horned owl held by Beth Paragamian, wildlife education specialist for the Idaho Fish and Game and Bureau of Land Management departments, during Migratory Bird Day Saturday at the Blackwell Island boat launch. The free event, hosted…
In the last few days of April, two Republican organizations announced their endorsements in the May primary elections. They were entirely different. The North Idaho Political Action Committee, based at Coeur d’Alene, led by a group of long-time Republican activists and elected officials, offered this…
Marianne Love/Slight Detour captured Saturday morning's "after the rain" wet scene. Posts she: "If you look closely, you'll see a couple of Canadian honkers framed in this old stretch of wooden fence along the Murray property on Selle Road." More here. When you get old/Bay…
From Huckleberries print column of May 18, 1994): "No. No. No. No. For years, we've lived with a high school mascot nicknamed after a chest rub: Viks. Now, Lake City High basketball coach Jim Winger is trying to saddle us with a literarily incorrect pet…
As a form of therapy following a stroke, Spokane artist Pat Adams has oil-painted scenics and portraits of family members at her kitchen table for more than 30 years. But after the death of her beloved dog Sage, Adams took her painting in a new…
In a letter sent to Huckleberries Online, local GOPrecinct Committeeman Matt Roetter explains how the leadership of the county Republican Party are in favor of repealing the 17th amendment (in other words eliminating your right to directly vote for U.S. senators): "On November 26, 2013…
Rick Shaffer, of Friends of the Trail of the Coeur d'Alene's has issued this Facebook SOS: "The Shoshone County Planning and Zoning Commission has received an application for the installation and operation of an asphalt plant at mile marker 48 near Enaville, one of the…
Breck Seiniger and Joel Horton. The moderator at the podium is Melissa Davlin of Idaho Public TV; the two reporters at the desk are Rebecca Boone of the AP and Betsy Russell of The Spokesman-Review. (Photo: Aaron Kunz/Idaho Public TV) Two candidates for the Idaho…
The clandestine Kootenai County Republican Concerned Citizens organization has released its endorsements for GOPrimary offices, from governor down to county precinct committee members. The only person associated with the organization, which was cleverly named to correspond with the initials of the Kootenai County Republican Central…
Coeur d'Alene Today reports: "We are excited to announce our ability to communicate with you via your smart phone! The city is partnering with iShoutOut to bring our latest information to your mobile device. By connecting with the City of Coeur d’Alene on iShoutOut you…
A new video from Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in jihab and praying in Arabic. It is the first public sight of the girls since more than 300 were kidnapped from a northeastern school the night of…
Alaska’s long-time senior senator, the late Ted Stevens (1968-2008), had a vicious temper. He could erupt in a split second. Turnover on his staff was constant for few folks would take his berating their competence for long. He was demanding, would not accept excuses and…
The robin's song we think a treat to little worms may sound less sweet. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
On his Facebook wall, Branden Durst, the former Democratic state senator who resigned his post last fall to move to the Puget Sound, offers this endorsement of Russ Fulcher: "To my Republican/Conservative friends in Idaho: On May 20th you will get the opportunity to cast…
Tyrel Schlecht of Piersol Construction grades the gravel bed under the future equipment bay as he works on the new fire station at Spokane International Airport recently. The station will have sleeping quarters for five firefighters and a 34-foot observation tower. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley)…
11:59 a.m. Suspicious male entering house @ 200 block of S10th Street/CdA. 10:57 a.m. ISP officer calls Boise HQ to see if he has authority to prevent wide-load trucks from turning onto I-90/H95, if they don't have flaggers and pilot vehicles. 10:50 a.m. Port of…
A couple, tourists from Mexico, kiss in front of the painting of former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and former East German leader Erich Honecker kissing by artist Dmitri Vrubel at the so called East Side Gallery, remains of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin, Germany, Monday,…
House Republicans have no scheduled votes or hearings on ObamaCare, signaling a shift in the party’s strategy as the White House rides a wave of good news on the law. Not a single House committee has announced plans to attack the healthcare law in the…
First District GOP Congressman Raul Labrador endorsed Russ Fulcher for governor today, over two-term GOP Gov. Butch Otter. “Butch Otter has done a lot of things to admire in office,” Labrador said at a Statehouse news conference with Fulcher. “But after 40 years in government,…
Weekend Poll: A solid majority of Hucks Nation said the Founding Fathers didn't found this country as a Christian nation. 120 of 188 respondents (63.83%) took that position. 64 of 188 respondents (34.04%) said the United States was founded as a Christian nation. 4 (2.13%)…
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.
