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Kerri Thoreson

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Updated 2 days, 6 hours ago

Here's to May baskets, birthdays and fast horses

I love my birthday month of May, which I celebrate all month long with a hundred or so Main Street Birthday Club f…

Updated 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Summer has arrived. Finally!

Happy first day of summer tomorrow, when we'll receive the gift of sunshine and temperatures in the 80s after a chilly wet first part of the month. Summer sols…

Updated 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Cars, cruising and stories to tell

Cars are coming to downtown Coeur d'Alene by the hundreds. Thousands of enthusiasts will enjoy Car d'Lane's Friday night cruise on Sherman Avenue, the Saturday…

Updated 11 months ago
Graduates, look around the room

In recent years I invited my village of friends, many of whom are actual long-ago classmates of mine, to give sage advice to the new crop of high school gradua…

Updated 11 months, 1 week ago
To be loved by a dog is a gift

She was the best dog, the very best dog, actually the best dog ever ... all 6 pounds of her.

Updated 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Serving the voters; observe, don't celebrate

Each election year, this column is filed on Tuesdays, long before the polls close at 8 p.m. So, while I can’t do in print the Wednesday morning quarterbacking …

Updated 11 months, 3 weeks ago
May is for ice cream, motorcycles and voting

The past week’s glorious sunshiny weather has been a mood brightener all the way around.

Updated 11 months, 4 weeks ago
Bold-face mention for Miss Nancy

My dear friend and former newspaper columnist, Nancy Harlocker of Dalton Gardens, left this world May 1 after 92 memorable years of life.

Updated 1 year ago
Here's to the merry month of May!

I love my birthday month of May, which I celebrate all month long with a hundred or so Main Street Birthday friends, starting with May Day, the Kentucky Derby,…

Updated 1 year ago
The resource of special teams

Last November, I volunteered with the Post Falls American Legion's free community Thanksgiving dinner, something I'd done for many years. That day one of the w…

Updated 1 year ago
Teaching us how to live our best lives

Last week, I had the pleasure of talking with one of the most interesting women I know. Betty Stone is celebrating a milestone birthday today, although she sta…

Updated 1 year ago
Of shopping hungry and pimento cheese sandwiches

After a meeting first thing Monday morning in Coeur d'Alene, I stopped at the grocery store for a few things.

Updated 1 year ago
Farm, ranch life on the Rathdrum Prairie

Recently, I realized that changing landscape can be disorienting when landmarks implanted in our brain no longer exist. I’ve lived here since Post Falls was fe…

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
March Madness fun for local couple

Alan and Dani Wolfe of Post Falls are an athletic pair ... running, hiking, golfing, Ironman and coaching youth sports.They’re engaged and enthusiastic grandpa…

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
Top down and sounds of spring

Ruthie Clark always wanted a little red convertible, which seemed impractical during marriage and motherhood and life in rural North Idaho.

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
Planting peas and parading on St. Patrick's Day

Back in the day, my late mother, Alice Rankin, was a master gardener, teaching classes through the county extension office.