Bonner County Lumber Crisis Signals Coming Hard Times
The Bonner County lumber sector faces a worsening downturn as housing starts dry up due to 12 percent interest rates and limited long term loan funds. Mills like East River in Priest River have shut or reduced shifts while Diamond International and Louisiana Pacific cut production. Industry leaders forecast eight to ten months of continued weakness with no immediate rebound.
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Bonner County
Sandpoint
Lee Mahler
Bank of Idaho
Treasury
Mahler
East River
Priest River
Diamond International
Louisiana Pacific
Dave Miller
LP Sandpoint
L-P
Miller
Lawrence Nelson
Nelson Lumber Co
Idaho to auction 320 acre prison land at 2 pm Monday
Idaho faces a sale of the new multi million dollar prison site plus 320 acres of state endowment land. Attorney General Tony Park questions the process and notes the land may be bought by the Board of Correction rather than through a negotiated purchase. Legal notices appeared Sept 12 26 and again this Thursday describing the section 28 township 2 north range 2 east Boise Meridian parcel.
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Richard Charnock Boise
UPI
Idaho
Board of Correction
Tony Park
Park
Department of Parks and Recreation
Section
Boise Meridian
Wan Field
Parks Department
Correction Board
Fatal Crash Near Bonners Ferry Claims Canadian Visitor
Marjorie A. Brown 35 of Creston Canada died Monday when her car left State Highway 1 near Bonners Ferry and overturned several times. Police say she was thrown from the vehicle and struck her head on a rock.
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Bonners Ferry
Idaho
UPI
Marjorie A. Brown
Creston
B.C
Canada
Interior aide visits Kootenai tribal site near Bonners Ferry
Roy Sampsell special assistant to Interior Secretary Rogers Morton visited the five acre Kootenai community near Bonners Ferry Idaho to view living conditions and tribal needs. He discussed the tribe’s bid for a reservation amid U S government land seizures and spoke at a Spokane meeting with affiliated Northwest Indian tribes.
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Bonners Ferry
Idaho
UPI
Rogers Morton
Roy Sampsell
Northwest
Sampsell
Spokane
Tribes of
Northwest Indians
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Morris Thompson
United States
Squaxin Island
Kah
Colville
Warm Springs Nation
Stillaquamish
Thompson
Congressional
Congress
Washington
Weather Update for Sandpoint Winds and Clouds
Increasing cloudiness tonight with a chance of showers Wednesday. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Rain chance 20 percent tonight and 30 percent Wednesday. Lows around 50 tonight and highs near 70 Wednesday.
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Sandpoint
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By Malcolm Hall
Litt
Kootenai
Willard Pieh
North
Boyer
Piehl
Harold Tibbs
Bee
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