Frost Accepts Homicide Case in Boise
Boise District Judge appoints Robert Frost as special prosecutor in the June Hofmeister homicide case. The cost split with the attorney general’s office covers up to $3,000. investigation cost remains several thousand dollars. Hofmeister was found dead in a wrecked pickup on the Schweitzer cutoff road July 16 after an autopsy showed head trauma and strangulation.
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Boise
Robert Frost
June Hofmeister
Dar Cogswell
Frost
Featherston
W Anthony Park
Cogswell
Attorney General
Lynn Thomas
Weather Update for Sandpoint Thursday
Sandpoint is partly cloudy and cooler with light winds. Chance of rain is near zero as a low near 40 and a high around 65 are forecast for Thursday.
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Sandpoint
Recalls Progress In Sandpoint Mayor Benoit Case
The Sandpoint recall effort against Mayor Les Brown and Councilman Bud Benoit continues with calls for compromise. Jim Judd, leading the petition in support of former police chief George Elliot, cites cost concerns and legal approval as pivotal, with 90 days to collect 187 signatures representing 20 percent of last election voters.
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Les Brown
Bud Benoit
Jim Judd
Sandpoint
George Elliot
Brown
Benoit
Judd
Elliot
Dave Easton
Easton
Steel shot ban cuts hunters at Kootenai Refuge
Refuges reports show opening weekend hunters fell to 58 from 210 last year while crippling losses doubled to 76. Del Pierce notes steel shot reduces effective range and sky buster success, with Saturday's 27 hunters averaging five birds and Sunday's 31 hunters averaging 1.6 birds.
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Kootenai Wildlife Refuge
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del Pierce
Pierce
Boy Dies in Septic Tank Located at Grandparents Home
The body of two year old Bobbie Zundell was found at the bottom of a septic tank at his grandparents house in Spokane County. A major search had involved about 300 officers and volunteers after the boy disappeared Sunday in a rugged timbered area. The tank had been pumped immediately after the disappearance in a bid to locate him.
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Spokane
UPI
Bobbie Zundell
Spokane County Sheriff's Office
Explorer
Bonner County School District proposes ten percent holdback
Bonner County trustees voted to request a ten percent holdback on all budget expenditures except salaries to cover a $169,678 deficit from this year's pay raises. Superintendent Dr. E Wayne Likens called it a holdback not a cutback and said it lasts until state enrollment funds are known, with an estimated $75,000 allowance plus $30,000 forest reserve and the holdback aiming to balance the budget.
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Bonner County
E Wayne Likens
Likens
Forest Reserve
Wayne Holdback
Questionnaires To Gauge Community Progress Will Be Distributed
The Congress for Community Progress plans a two week distribution starting Oct 22 with 15 member steering committee input. Rovers will deliver in Sandpoint Syringa Heights Kootenai Ponderay and Lakeshore Drive and at Grange meetings.
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Congress For Community Progress
Rocky Mountain Rovers 4-H Club
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