In an evening walk downtown Wednesday, Mrs. O, Huckleberry & I met a couple from southern Illinois who were staying at the Coeur d'Alene Resort. They had just tasted huckleberries for the first time, possibly at the Farmer's Market or Crafted (which was teeming with customers). The woman thought Idaho's state fruit tastes like a bitter blueberry...
Keeper Shana Fredlake feeds a slice of squash to a Galapagos Tortoise at the Dallas Zoo earlier today. The Dallas Zoo's Animal Nutrition Center prepares animal diets daily for more than 2,000 animals at the zoo and the Children's Aquarium.
Priest Lake chronicler Pecky Cox was grateful that the bear that visited her garage didn't do much damage other than helping itself to a huckleberry pie.
Summer mornings after sleepovers at Oma’s, the grandkids are greeted with banana pancakes. They’re the same pancakes that their moms and dads and aunts and uncles were raised on, an adaptation of a recipe by the actress Judy Garland. Question: How do you like your pancakes?
Today's Cutline Contest features re-enactors firing a musket salute in front of rebel general/slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest's tomb in Memphis, Tenn. Wednesday winner -- JohnA.
Scanner Traffic this Thursday PM (22 items & counting + AM Scanner Traffic link with 19 more items) includes possible new fire -- a 100-by-100-foot one -- north of Cape Horn Road/Bayview & fire above Carlin Bay/Lake Coeur d'Alene.
As part of its commitment to providing the best possible citywide trail system for bicyclists, runners and walkers, the city this summer is widening narrow bike lanes. The city’s Bike-Ped Committee recently measured bike lanes across the city and determined which trails were too narrow to provide safe passage.
A new CDC study highlights the causes of death most distinctive to each of the U.S. states between 2001 and 2010, The Inlander's blog reports. Not counting common causes -- heart disease, cancer, etc. -- Idahoans are more likely to die in a plane crash that residents of any other state except Alaska.
James Holmes was found guilty of murdering all 12 victims in the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado in 2012. The judge was reading through the verdicts in each of the 165 charges filed against him Thursday afternoon. The 27-year-old admitted to the killings, and…
In her post today, Cis/Simple Mind explains why Seasoned Citizens are a happy lot because they realize that the politicians don't care, at the national, state or local levels. Sez she: "So why stress yourself out over something no one cares about?" Most oldsters in their 70s enjoy life more by refusing to argue about politics & religion.
The daily roundup of Huckleberries Online blogosphere posts includes: Honor old men/Fort Boise, Why elderly are happy/Simple Mind, Thursday throwbacks et al/Slight Detour, Istanbul: A mosque on every corner/7 Blog, Hummingbirds prefer high sugar doses/Outdoors, Authors and libraries and books, my oh my/War Bonds + more ...
In an editorial today, the Idaho Statesman comments: "The more the calendar advances in Gov. Butch Otter’s third term, the more we find ourselves looking back at smoke from distant fires, lawsuits, missteps and miscalculations. We are tired of inhaling the smoke from old problems left simmering ..."
We're accustomed to Idaho being the Mississippi of the West when it comes to important lists like spending on education. But Randy Stapilus/Ridenbaugh Press points out a list in which Idaho leads -- most commercial drone activity, per capita. Doesn't that make you want to jump up & down -- and cheer? (Sarcasm off)
A gunman opened fire on a Navy and Marine Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Thursday, leaving four Marines dead, and a recruiter wounded. The gunman was also killed. Officials said during a news conference that gunman had numerous weapons, and the police chief, Fred...
"Earlier this year, after a court ruling left the statewide system in mothballs, districts secured short-term broadband service at surprising discounts," reports Kevin Richert/IDEDNEWS.org. By and large, those savings should continue into 2015-16, according to preliminary budget requests obtained by Idaho Education News.
"Since both schools were quoted as saying' "We want to go in another direction," One would have to assume from that, the direction would be a loosing streak" -- Herb Huseland re: Firings anger local prep baseball coaches.
The president of Planned Parenthood on Thursday apologized for the “tone and statements” of its chief medical officer, whose candid comments about fetal organ removal have generated heavy attacks against the organization. “Our top priority is the passionate care that we provide. In our video,…
Two highly successful North Idaho high school baseball coaches have been fired. Nick Rook of Coeur d’Alene and Tom Grunenfelder of Lewiston were dismissed in recent weeks. Rook’s dismissal became official Monday at a school board hearing. A CdA graduate, Rook took six of seven teams to state including a runner-up finish three years ago.
Scanner Traffic for Thursday AM (19 items & counting) includes crash on e/b I-90 (near weigh station) that has blocked both lanes of traffic.
In Wednesday's poll, a plurality of Hucks Nation approved of the nuclear deal with Iran, stating that it made the world safer. Today's Poll: Did Caitlyn Jenner deserve to win the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs?
AM Headlines today features a photo of 3 carloads of Confederate flag sympathizers making a statement at Independence Point Wednesday evening. Also: Idaho Records/Coeur d'Alene Press, Robbery suspect held on $250K bond/HNN, 5 hurt in blast at Newport aerospace center/SR, & Moscow may ban smoking at farmers market/KXLY + more ...
Jade Helm 15, a seven-state military exercise that has inspired wild theories about the Obama administration taking over Texas, began on Wednesday. The eight-week exercise features about 1,200 soldiers, including Green Berets, Navy SEALs and other special operations troops, and it focuses on “unconventional warfare.” Are you worried?
A judge reluctantly agreed to another delay Wednesday in the case against a North Idaho man accused of killing a Coeur d’Alene police officer in May. First District Senior Magistrate Barry Watson rescheduled the preliminary hearing for Jonathan Daniel Renfro to Aug. 26 – 16...
Wendell Wardell, former financial officer for the Coeur d'Alene School District, responds provides an op-ed article in the Coeur d'Alene Press about a school board discussion Monday. Trustee Dave Eubanks raised the idea of selling the new district office to offset a $1.8M shortball in the district's contingency fund.
In an editorial in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Bill McKee comments: "Idaho's broadband imbroglio got a little more perplexing last week when a letter surfaced to show Gov. C.L. 'Butch' Otter knew federal funding had been nixed for the state's school broadband system months before lawmakers were informed."
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.
