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D. F. Oliveria

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Coeur d'Alene, ID, United States

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Huckleberries: Monkee business brings fond memories

A long time ago in a Southern California city far, far away, a woman who now lives in Hayden had a brush with a Monkee before he was famous. → Read More

Like father, like son

I've been missing me some Kathy Plonka photography. And you probably have, too. So I snagged this from a recent series that Kathy shot of the United Steel Workers rally at Hecla Mining HQ this week. → Read More

Pulitzer winner returns to roots

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson spoke Thursday evening at the Panida Theater in Sandpoint about the importance of public education in Idaho. Robinson, a graduate of Coeur d’Alene High School who grew up in Sandpoint, credits her teachers in North Idaho for “giving me my mind.” → Read More

Snake Pit, Rocky Mountain Oysters go hand in hand

Huckleberries begins today with a word association game. You say: Tom Richards. Huckleberries responds: Snake Pit. Or Enaville Resort. You say: Snake Pit. Huckleberries says: Rocky Mountain Oysters. Testicles. Testicle Festival. Bull balls. And there's even a hall of fame for those who have partaken of said Snake Pit delicacy. → Read More

In praise on indie bookstores

This weekend during Small Business Saturday, (Cindy Hval) got to spend a few hours as an honorary bookseller at Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane. Saturday was a designated Indies First event. Indies First is a collaboration between authors, publishers, retailers, and readers, and it celebrates independent bookstores and local communities. → Read More

Huckleberries: Yogi Berra still leaves us smiling

“Joltin Joe” DiMaggio may have gone away, as the old Simon & Garfunkle song says. But his old teammate Yogi Berra still provides words to live by in this fall of discontent while we wish/hope/pray for the presidential election to go away, too. Robert Cliff, of Coeur d’Alene, is Facebooking daily one of the famous non sequiturs from the late New York Yankee catcher, to keep his sanity and to… → Read More

Huckleberries: Huckleberries: When in doubt, vote for Pedro

If you don’t like the two main candidates for the U.S. presidency in Idaho, you can select one of six other choices on the ballot including Libertarian Gary Johnson and Independent Jill Stein. Or you can write in one of 37 other names that have been certified by the Idaho Secretary of State as write-in candidates, including six from Idaho. Or you can vote for Pedro. → Read More

Huckleberries: Don’t be so quick to discount Gen. Sherman’s history in Coeur d’Alene, reader urges

Last week, Huckleberries gave voice to a critic who wondered why Coeur d’Alene’s main street was named after brutal Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman. Now, another Huckleberries reader warns us not to become PC. After all, he says, Sherman was instrumental in founding the beautiful city by the lake. → Read More

Video: Downtown vandalism

Seems downtown Coeur d'Alene has suffered vandalism to trees and other amenities. On Sunday night, 5 men who appeared to be staggering down the sidewalk near Cross-Fit, 4th St/Coeur d'Alene Ave, attacked a small tree in the boulevard. Two of them succeeded in bending the tree. The act was caught on video. See below. → Read More

Huckleberries: Lady Lola cruises back into view

There have been two recent sightings on the West Coast of the Lady Lola, the mega-yacht sold for $90 million by Duane Hagadone in 2004 and re-purchased by him in 2011, for less than half the price. It’s for sale again. If you have a cool $430,000, however, you can rent it for a week. → Read More

Huckleberries: She was nice back then, but can he vote for her now?

Carl Tinghino, a retired millworker from Kootenai County, remembers that school mate from his Illinois high school who was "very, very bright" and "very, very nice." But, as one of North Idaho's conservatives, he doesn't know whether he can vote for the former Hillary Rodham for president. → Read More

Huckleberries: Kootenai County driver’s license department delays snag teens, too

Two teenagers seeking their first driver's licenses are the latest victims of the long lines and longer waits at the driver's license department at the Kootenai County Courthouse. One teen waited 3 1/2 hours. The other 4 1/4 hours. While waiting, the mother of the second child said via Facebook that businesses with the service problem of the driver's license department couldn't survive. → Read More

Huckleberries: Lake City’s Music Man needs our help

Coeur d’Alene’s Music Man, Chris Guggemos, is battling cancer. And now the community has a chance to pay him back. Country western singer Kelly Hughes and his band will be featured in a fund-raising concert for Chris from 1 to 4 p.m. today in Coeur d’Alene’s City Park. → Read More

Huckleberries: Chief Antelope again looks on Lake Coeur d’Alene

One of the things you should know about Chief Morris Antelope, before a statue of him is dedicated at Coeur d'Alene Monday, is the meaning of his Coeur d'Alene name, Ats’qhule’khw – "Looks at the land." And he did. Chief Antelope ranched and farmed thousands of acres on the Palouse. Also, he spoke both English and Coeur d'Alene. And was a respected spokesman for Inland Northwest tribes. Also, he… → Read More

Huckleberries: Idaho’s driver’s license rules ageist

Councilman Dan English of Coeur d’Alene consoled himself last week while waiting and waiting – and waiting –for his turn to renew his driver’s license. At least, Dan thought, he would pay extra and receive a license that was good for eight years, instead of four. But that’s an option in Idaho only if you’re under age 62. Dan no longer is. So, like a teenager getting his first license, Dan was… → Read More

Huckleberries: Silver Valley publisher takes littering seriously

Keri Alexander, publisher of the Shoshone News Press in the Silver Valley, is death on littering, so much so that she has organized grassroots litter patrols to pick up trash along the freeway. She has wondered what she would do if she witnessed someone littering. She no longer has to wonder. She took action when she caught a female motorist dumping trash out her window at the Osburn exit of… → Read More

Viral: Spokane father recreates teen-age daughter's sexy selfies

When Chris "Burr" Martin noticed his teen daughter posting sexy selfies on social media, he asked her to tone it down. When she continued, the Spokane man began taking selfies mimicking her various posts. The selfies went viral. → Read More

Another dog park for Lake City?

Pooches in Coeur d'Alene could have another park to play off-leash in. The city council will be asked to consider creating a dog park at Phippeny Park between north Seventh and Eighth streets. The city's Public Works Committee agreed Monday to forward a request to the city council for consideration. → Read More

Huckleberries: Post Falls councilwoman encounters road rager

Post Falls Councilwoman Kerri Thoreson had a close encounter with a Road Rager on Spokane Street last week. A woman in an SUV behind her honked and gestured when Kerri stopped at an intersection on the busy street. The Road Rager then tailgated Kerri for a few blocks, so closely that Kerri couldn’t get her license plate number. Why had Kerri stopped? Two boys on bicycles were crossing the… → Read More

Former Rep Jeff Alltus, 61, RIP

Huckleberries has confirmed with a family member that former three-term Idaho state legislator Jeff Alltus, 61, has died after a five-month bout with pancreatic cancer. Alltus, who represented the old House District 3 B from Hayden, died Saturday at the Hospice House on Prairie Avenue/Hayden. → Read More