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D.F. Oliveria
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Huckleberries: Humps, lumps and disco dancing
Here's how our community got to where it is today.
HUCKLEBERRIES: 'Coeur d'Alene was different back then'
Christa Manis Hazel was 19 going on 20 when a community firestorm engulfed her.
HUCKLEBERRIES: Penney's earned its place in Cd'A history
When J.C. Penney manager Ernie G. Meyer handed Mayor Marc Souther a symbolic key to his new store 60 years ago, it was a big deal.
HUCKLEBERRIES: Remembering 'a loyal friend and a fine sportswoman'
A fatal misstep on a diving board 81 years ago claimed one of Coeur d’Alene’s great female athletes.
HUCKLEBERRIES: A new music man and other visionaries
Many wondered whether a popular summer concert series in Coeur d’Alene and Hayden would survive without promoter Chris Guggemos.
HUCKLEBERRIES: Ramsey Road recollection, a motor sled and women in charge
Successful candidates often say they plan to “hit the ground running.”
HUCKLEBERRIES: Cd'A, going up
Coeur d’Alene residents are accustomed now to towering cranes downtown, lifting high-rises into existence. But that wasn't the case 40 years ago.
HUCKLEBERRIES: A kind man in a tough business
And so begins my 40th year in Coeur d’Alene. I’m not a native, neither am I a newcomer.
HUCKLEBERRIES: A history of holiday giving and 'outstanding' decorations
Gary Allen didn’t hesitate to answer an obvious question: “Would you do it again?”
HUCKLEBERRIES: Fox was no doc-in-the-box
If you’re lucky, you have health insurance and receive regular health care from a family doctor. If you’re luckier still, your family doctor knows your name wi…
HUCKLEBERRIES: Local crime of the '70s
It has been 50 years since the Marcussens disappeared without a trace. Rita Marcussen, 20, a popular 5-foot 5-blonde with shoulder-length hair, was last seen h…
HUCKLEBERRIES: Hello, hello
Coeur d’Alene had its Alexander Graham Bell moment 70 years ago when Publisher Burl Hagadone of the Coeur d’Alene Press dialed KNEW radio in Spokane.
HUCKLEBERRIES: A clock like no other
The giant cast iron clock in front of Clark’s Diamond Jewelry is slower now. But you would be slower, too, if you had survived two world wars, 115 years of …
HUCKLEBERRIES: Changed by flames
It’s easy to lose track of the fires that reshaped downtown Coeur d’Alene and the waterfront.
HUCKLEBERRIES: Cold case closure
Steve Schauer said all along that Duncan Peder McKenzie Jr. brutally murdered a 15-year-old Coeur d’Alene girl days before Halloween 1973.