Search for Lester Kurrus Continues After Car Sighting
The 49 year old missing Laclede man Lester Kurrus prompted a Wednesday search around the Clark Fork area after a truck driver reported a red MG over an embankment on Highway 200. Family reports say he disappeared after work Saturday and did not appear at Harper's Saw Shop in Sandpoint. Ground and air searches along Highway 200 from Clark Fork to the Cabinet Gorge Dam in Montana have yielded no clues.
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Lester Kurrus
Clark Fork
Kurrus
Highway 200
Laclede
Harper’s Saw
Sandpoint
Cabinet Gorge
Montana
Dave
Absentee Ballots Now Available for City Election
Sandpoint City Clerk Ken Hackworth reminded voters that absentee ballots for the November 6 city election are at City Hall. He urged eligible residents away from town or unable to vote in person to use absentee ballots. About 125 new registrations have been recorded since September 24, and last year's state or national voters must have voted in the city election to be considered registered this year.
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Sandpoint
Ken Hackworth
Hackworth
Ex Narc Head Arrested For Fund Misuse
John R. Cobley former head of the Pocatello bureau of narcotics was arrested by Bannock County Sheriff on 12 counts of public funds misuse The complaint was signed by Robert M King Boise Chief of the State Bureau of Narcotics and Organized Crime The judge delayed arraignment to consult with counsel Cobley had been asked to resign in September amid leaks in an investigation tied to Pocatello Councilman Nel Morgan Morgan was later cleared after a lie detector test
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Pocatello, Idaho
UPI
John R. Cobley
Pocatello Bureau of Narcotics
Bannock County Sheriff’s Department
Cobley Hargraves
Robert M. King
Boise
State Bureau of Narcotics and Organized Crime
Cobley
W. Anthony ‘Park
Pocatello
Nel Morgan
Morgan
Trombley denies plan to sell Sunnyside State Park
Idaho public lands commissioner refutes claims the state intends to sell Sunnyside State Park near Sandpoint on Lake Pend Oreille. He states no knowledge of any sale effort and warns such action would violate state land board and DPL statutes.
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Idaho Department of Public Lands
Sunnyside State Park
Sandpoint
Lake Pend Oreille
Gordon -Trombley
Boise
State Land Board
DPL
Trombley
Weather Outlook for Sandpoint and Mountain Snow
Rain continues in Sandpoint through Thursday with a 50 percent tonight and 30 percent Thursday for nearby mountains. Temperatures: low 30 tonight, high 40 Thursday. Rumors say the State Land Board may consider selling public access land not maintained as a park, following a 1920 sale by Jessie Hawkins Tuck and Charles Tuck. Mrs. Thomas I. Wilson alerted state officials via a letter to Secretary Pete Cenarrosa.
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State Land Board
Trombley
Grange
Thomas I. Wilson
Sandpoint
Pete Cenarrosa
Jessie Hawkins Tuck
Charles Tuck
Symms Keynote Speaker At Sandpoint Chamber Dinner
The Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual officer installation and dinner during the North Idaho Chamber fall meeting in Sandpoint from Nov 1 to 3. Congressman Steven Symms will give the keynote at the Elks banquet, with Gerald Walker as master of ceremonies and Rev. Huff delivering the invocation.
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North Idaho Chamber of Commerce
Sandpoint
Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce
Steven Symms
the Elks
Gerald Walker
N.S.C.C
Ben Longbottom
Sandpoint Chamber
Walker
Bert Leonard
Bill Fournier
Barbara Remmers
Norm Bauer
Jim Brockway
Bob Farmin
Howard Faux
Jim Judd
Don McCormick
Tom Robideaux
Jim Tinsman
Bill Watkins
Murder Suspect Sought In Denver Area
Powell County Sheriff says 17 year old Roger Caryl of Decatur Illinois is connected to the Whitetail Dude Ranch killings near Ovando Montana. An abandoned pickup found near Lakewood Colorado linked to him by fingerprint match shows he crossed the Continental Divide and may be in the Denver region.
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Deer Lodge
Mont
Helena
Lakewood
Denver
Collins
Daryl
Whitetail
Ovando
Helmville
Continental Divide
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Dina Tyler
Kootenai
Virginia Libby
Scott
Dina
Narc
Symms
Harold Huff
United Methodist Church
Donna Meehan
Congressman Symms
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