Another Nov. 20. Another birthday for former Coeur d'Alene mayor Sandi Bloem and me to share. This one makes 66. Mrs. O wished me a Happy Birthday this morning and observed: "Weren't you just 25 the other day?" Scripture is dead on when it compares...
SR photog Colin Mulvany happened upon this scene today. Colin posts: "Jack Donahue checks out the remains of his BMW X3 SUV after the city came and removed a large blue spruce tree that had crushed the vehicle at 28th Avenue and Madison Street in…
Verne Windham had an extra, important duty while on the air Friday morning at Spokane Public Radio’s old studio on North Monroe Street. But first, he needed to choose a longer piece of music for listeners who might be on edge because of the lack of electricity or working hard for windstorm recovery. Q: Are you a regular listener of public radio?
PM Scanner Traffic (20 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 20 more items) includes fire that has fully engulfed vehicle in parking lot of Grocery Outlet parking lot, 410 Neider Ave. Also, day ends with three reports of vehicles hitting deer on H95.
Most agree that Idaho's public defense system is broken, including Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. But no one seems to have a good idea re: how to fix it. Jack Thomas of the Inlander takes a look at the problems with the Idaho system.
At age 18, photographer Tom Rosseau, of Spokane Valley, joined the Marines in the middle of World War II. Since then, he has viewed life through a camera lense. Rosseau, now 89, was interviewed re: his remarkable life by Cindy. She tells his story below.
The daily roundup of links from Huckleberries Online blog roll includes: Croatoan/Fort Boise, Finding Liam/Slight Detour, Powderkeg Hounds/On Tap, Financial equality/Bay Views, Release the pheasants/Outdoors, 1st Take: Database/Randy Stapilus, EWU's Kupp ready to take next step/Grip + more ...
Cheryl Metcalf, the artist who created the Education Corridor Public art piece entitled “Chief Morris Antelope” to honor the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, was on site at 7:30 this morning, for the installation of her sculpture, Chief Morris Antelope, along the Spokane River near North Idaho College.
American Red Cross didn’t get any takers Thursday night at a Kootenai County shelter for residents impacted by the power outages. The shelter, including snacks and showers available after 5 p.m., will remain open today at the Coeur d’Alene Bible Church, 5350 N 4th St. Red Cross officials are assessing whether to keep the shelter open beyond tonite.
North Idaho College students are reaching out to the community and offering a traditional Thanksgiving dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, in the Edminster Student Union Building. ... The dinner served about 250 people last year and is set up to serve 500 this year.
Idaho’s unemployment rate dropped to 4 percent in October amid growth in the construction and retail sectors, according to the state Department of Labor. The state’s unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in September versus 4.6 percent a year ago. Question: If so many Idahoans are employed, why does it seem like so many of us live near the edge?
City employees and workers were on the scene this week assessing damage to the Jewett House, caused by a historic ash tree blowing over onto the front porch of the Jewett House. Walkabout snapped this photo today.
CWM tells of his boss coming to work Wednesday with a sad tale of her home existence. Seems her husband plugged in the television first, when the power came back on -- and then remembered hours later about the applicances. Question: What was the first thing you plugged in after the power came back on?
akohbe, 1, claps with his new parents Melissa and Stephen Moro as his adoption is finalized during a ceremony for National Adoption Day at the Berkshire Juvenile Court in Pittsfield, Mass, today. Question: Do you have adoptees in your family?
Scanner Traffic for Friday AM (20 items & counting) includes minor crash between Post Falls school bus and vehicle at Bay St & 3rd Ave ...
An Athol man who decided to go camping without telling his family was located following an intensive 12-hour search by Kootenai County sheriff's volunteers near his home this morning.
St. Vincent de Paul’s Souport the End of Homelessness fundraiser raised nearly $10,000 Thursday afternoon for its warming shelter program. The soup cook-off was attended by roughly 1,100 people who came to sample and judge more than 40 varieties of soup.
In the 4th of a 5-part series, Kevin Richert/Idaho Education News investigates the popularity of three-day weekends for the teachers and families affected by four-day weeks for some rural Idaho schools "Fridays represent the biggest tradeoff of all: four long school days, in exchange for a free weekday."
AM Headlines for TGIF morning includes: Deputies seek missing Athol man/Press NIC mulls staff reduction policy/Press, Boats, docks ripped apart at Hope/KREM 2, Snow, colder temps in store for next week/SR, Idaho unemployment rate falls to 4%/EOBoise,Law enforcement plans citizens academy/Press, St. Vincent's Soup-Off raises nearly $10,000/Press ...
In the Thursday poll, 62.5% voted: "I support Planned Parenthood. Period." The poll was conducted after the Washington AG announced that he found no sales of fetal tissue or partial-birth abortions being conducted at PP clinics in Washington. Today's Poll: How would you rate the response by the power companies to Wind Storm 2015 damage?
The Cutline Contest today features a turkey from Modesto, Calif., that was selected by Foster Farms for a presidential pardon. Thursday Winner: HFHayden.
Tongue firmly cheeked, SpudBob describes how the natives are getting restless entering their 4th day without electrical power: "One by one my rechargeable appliances are falling silent. I am afraid that my electric toothbrush will be next. Anyone know how to operate a manual one? I can’t remember and of course have no access to YouTube."
Moscow-Pullman Daily News edit: Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter recently announced he plans to ask state lawmakers in January to dump another $1M into the state's shrinking Constitutional Defense fund. He says it's needed to continue "defending the sovereignty of our state and our citizens." ... the fund hasn't funded a winning case since 1996.
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Opinion Writer Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune gives jeers to ... Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard. Trillhaase criticizes Scott for circulating an electronic emails demanding that Gov. Butch Otter take a hard-line stand against the relocation program for Syrian refugees.
With tens of thousands of households without power heading into a third straight night, the struggle to stay warm intensified Thursday. “We just feel like we’re living in some sort of nightmare right now,” Melissa Plenty said. “I do worry about not being able to wake up, because I don’t breathe well.”
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.
