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D.F. Oliveria

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Updated 2 days, 10 hours ago

Alaska Viking’s ‘Mooseltoe’

Americans in the 1960s and 1970s proved they were suckers for cute gimmicks before a Coeur d’Alene-born Alaskan be…

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
Today, Thong Man would be proud

I was waiting for friends at The Vault when two bare butts bounced by.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
Ex-cop Cronin now expert archivist

Tom Cronin jokes that he was appointed by President Claudia Brennan to research Coeur d’Alene Rotary Club history because he missed a meeting.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Hang on for whale of a tale

Most of you have heard of Jonah and the Whale.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
35 years ago, this gem went missing

Debbie Swanson has been missing for 35 years.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Huckleberries: Dougy's buskers bustin' loose

It began as a lark.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Extra! Extra! Reed all about it!

Bruce Reed is now the deputy chief of staff for President Joe Biden.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Huckleberries: When the smelter stacks fell

John Austin of Pinehurst watched them go up in the mid-1970s and, together with more than 4,000 spectators, saw them fall on May 26, 1996.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Huckleberries: Remember Fred Murphy, tugboat captain

Legendary Fred Murphy wasn’t seeking applause when he built

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Fingers, fingers, everywhere

If it wasn’t so annoying, it might be funny – the stiffening middle finger on Diana Witherspoon’s right hand.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Find out if you're an IdahoIC

I didn’t know what Inland Northwesterners thought of Californians until it was too late. I was unloading

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Oh yeah, sex sold in Cd'A, too

Coeur d’Alene has no room to tsk-tsk about Wallace’s former Red-Light days.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
In case you wondered, sex sells

Dr. Heather Branstetter didn’t plan to write a book about the notorious sex

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Anna juggled busy schedule to help kids

Many of you know that Anna “Patty Duke” Pearce won an Oscar at age 16 for

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Missing Anna, five years and counting

We called her Anna because she preferred her real name.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
SOB club featured Compton, too

Dick Compton didn’t make friends when he voted in the 2-1 majority on March 6