Lawmakers urged to act on property disclosure and open space
Bonner County officials push for a property sale disclosure law to keep assessments current and support a greenbelt/open space program. Sheriff Guthrie seeks payroll and benefit boosts for police, while Clerk Doris Kenney calls combining primaries to cut election costs in Idaho's 44th Legislature.
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Brian Moe
Idaho
Bonner County
Boise
State House
Senate
Bonner
Dennis Benda
Benda
Association of Idaho
Mike Guthrie
Idaho Sheriffs Association
Wilemen
Doris Kenney
Sandpoint Faces Water Shortage Amid Cold Dry Winter
City water reserves shrink as a severe cold spell and dry conditions bite. Superintendent Jack Letkner warns of decreasing dam levels and watershed depletion and calls for conservation to ensure enough supply for firefighting. Rain and snow are needed to replenish springs.
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Sandpoint
Jack Letkner
Leckner
Channel Change Proposal in Clark Fork Sparks Debate
Landowners James and Roland Derr push plan to cut a new permanent channel for Lightning Creek to control erosion and prevent flooding in Clark Fork Idaho citing gravel buildup that sends water underground in dry seasons. Local officials state flood risk and water supply concerns while state and federal agencies weigh environmental impacts and funding.
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Clark Fork
James and
Roland Derr
Lightning Creek
Army Corps of Engineers
Derrs
Derr
Joe Brashear
Brashear
Guy Wire
Kermit Kiebert of
Hope
Clark Fork Council
Pend Oreille
Kiebert
Cascade Creek
State Board of Water Resources
Idaho Fish and Game Department
Spring Creek
Bill Goodnight
Derry Spring Creek
Coffman
Energy Office Pushes State Funding for Idaho Power Projects
Boise Idaho urged to fund energy research and development for FY 1978 with 367 000 for energy conservation and demonstration projects and 157 000 for energy management and research. Earl Adams director seeks state funding to reduce federal reliance and spur projects in low head hydro solar heating and potential Barber Dam hydroelectricity. He cited geothermal reserves in Boise foothills and eastern Idaho hot water heating as existing resources and noted moves toward nuclear energy coordination with eastern Idaho officials.
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Boise
UPI
Idaho
Earl Adams
Idaho Office of Energy
General Fund
Adams
Joint Finance Appropriations Committee
Cecil D. Andrus
Joint Committee
Idaho Falls
States Energy
Boise Foothills
CBs Stolen From Vehicles In Sandpoint Downtown
James R Kerr 39 Naples reports a CB radio stolen from his logging truck on Cedar Street while he was inside Connies Cafe. S & T Construction truck owned. William Currie Panida Theatre says someone took a CB from his car between 7 and 10 40 pm, causing about 195 dollars in total damage to the car heater and dash.
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Sandpoint
James R.kerr
Naples
Cedar St
Kerr
Connies Cafe
S & T Construction
William Currie
Panida Theatre
Somone
Fund Established to Aid Pullen Family After Fire
Employees of the Bank of Idaho in Sandpoint form a fund to help Jack and Charlotte Pullen of Careywood after their home and belongings were destroyed by a Tuesday afternoon fire. Donations may be left with bank secretaries.
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Bank of Idaho
Sandpoint
Jack
Charlotte Pullen
Careywood
Pullen
Bank
Congressmen File OSHA Repeal Law
Idaho Representatives Steve Symms and George Hansen introduced a joint bill to repeal OSHA and the Gun Control Act of 1968 on opening day of the 95th Congress. They argued the OSHA ruling is unconstitutional and that gun control measures fail to curb crime, citing Massachusetts voters who rejected tougher gun laws.
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House
Idaho
Steve Symms
George Hansen
Hansen
Symms
OSHA
Congress
Massachusetts
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Goodnight
IFG
Highway Bridge
Kamloops
Dolly Warden
US Forest Service State Board of
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First Security Bank
Rich Maraffio
Susan Aho
Great Northwest Fur and Trading Post
Barber Dam
Walter Yarbrough
Grand View
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
Andrus
Sandpoint & Vicinity
U.S. Treasury Department
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