Current news from local sources, including the Bonner County Daily Bee, The River Journal and the Sandpoint Online Newsroom
March 16
Hunt on for Bonner County fugitive
Escapes from ISP patrol vehicle
Fiery Ponderay councilman passes
Daugharty was serving third term
Sheriff: Avalanche killed man
Slide occurred near McCormack Lake
SHS wins academic decathlon
Represents Idaho at U.S. finals
March 14
It's decision time for LPOSD
Discuss budget cuts this week
More seniors, employed seek help
Food bank struggles with increases
Man dies in snowmobile accident
Buried beneath four feet of snow
Rezone requests put on hold
County receives surge of input
March 13
Buyer interest up at SilverWing
Company ends talks with county
City mulls transfer of tower lease
Internet provider seeks control
March 12
Stimulus boosts urban tree work
$87,000 project affects 285 trees
Accounts differ in battery case
Two accused in woman's attack
Handyman completes first free job
Plans 12 goodwill projects in area
March 11
Area businesses seeing recovery
Expert: People are spending again
ITD, Sletager resolve differences
Settlement involves undisclosed sum
Woman sentenced in driving case
Tried to run husband off the road
March 10
County mulls lease/purchase plan
Aim to resolve juvenile facility issue
Idaho teacher union honors PAFE
Wins Friends of Education Award
Ban on texting while driving OK'd
State bill now moves to the House
River Journal examines ed budget
Cuts could affect pay, athletics
March 9
Joe Young seeks third term
Commissioner first elected in 2004
Recall doesn't affect Litehouse
Yoke's pulls other brands off shelves
Biomass grant less than expected
Sandpoint in line to receive $65,000
March 7
Houseboat ban ordinance capsizes
County deems measure needless
LPOSD implements healthier menu
Offer slimmed-down lunch favorites
RMEF responds to wolf groups
Foundation backs state control
March 6
Variance may raise insurance cost
Homeowners could lose 5% discount
Life sentence dealt in lewd case
Boncz must serve 15 years minimum
Mountain West closing old branch
Highway 95 bank difficult to access
March 5
Safeway buys Bonners Ferry store
Will refurbish Boundary Trading Co.
Coldwater Creek sales improve
Earnings increased in 4th quarter
Benefits of new tower debated
Issue divides communications board
March 4
Keough appoints Kerby as proxy
Senator's husband slated for surgery
Urban forestry program outlined
Fruit trees on the "no" list
Community rallies behind project
School's lawn to be transformed
March 3
Sewer district awaits judge's ruling
Could lift six-year Sagle moratorium
FEMA stays mum on consequences
County poised to grant variance
Revett seeks clarity on status
Federal court conference is pending
March 2
Public schools face big cuts
Legislators review final numbers
County mulls detention options
Sending youth to CdA proves costly
Builders balk at fee hike proposal
Funds would help pay for growth
February 28
Unmarked graves surprise team
Dig site makes way for highway
Woman's journal now a new book
Moore recounts move to North Idaho
Charges mulled in battery case
Woman said she was held down
February 27
Byway dig reveals colorful past
Archaeologists uncover artifacts
Roundabout debuts this spring
Work begins first week of April
City ponders riverfront access
Rights of way under consideration
February 26
Work closes walkway until May
More bypass excavation work begins
Super 1 store remains on schedule
Expect to open in early summer
Gold Creek Ranch wins protection
Woods family participates in program
Districts' pay raises rile legislators
New data even surprises Supt. Luna
February 25
Business owners debate BID tax
Grievances, praise aired at forum
Variance could put others at risk
Two commissioners back request
Boundary Co. mulls 4-day week
Would affect courthouse employees
February 24
Juvenile facility losing certification
Days numbered for converted home
Windfall aids pedestrian projects
Mild winter leaves leftover funds
PSNI opens home, garden store
Located in former Goodwill location
Lost in '50s nabs national spotlight
Magazine: Event is 'labor of love'
February 23
Ponderay post office burglarized
$10,000 reward offered in break-in
Sandpoint awaits grant for burner
Poised for biomass energy usage
Planner envisions 'centers concept'
Options eyed for Ponderay's future
February 21
Ponderay readies for byway
Aims to benefit from higher traffic
Hearings pending in Colburn cases
Men remain in jail on meth charges
Kootenai gears up for 100th b-day
Committee gathering old photographs
February 20
Community rallies for 11-year-old
Haden Kistler undergoing radiation
Skier likely died of heart condition
Will Johnson had anomaly in artery
Judge to rule in custody dispute
Girl could be returned to Mexico
February 19
LPOSD: Cuts will be districtwide
Trustees brace for loss of funds
Funds sought for charter school
New facility may go unfinished
Sagle man convicted of battery
Fight erupted at downtown event
February 18
Sagle school plagued by vandals
Incidents started in October
Family's case spurs H&W changes
But Blackfords still miss foster son
Ministry theft suspect faces trial
Allegedly made 54 cash withdrawals
February 17
County applies for stimulus funds
Wants money to help fight milfoil
Federal aid to assist ex-workers
93 lost jobs at Welco Lumber
2011 could bring Idaho a tax hike
Reserves, stimulus will be gone
February 16
Local Tea Party leader in spotlight
N.Y. Times writes about movement
"Panida mom" Laurel Wagers dies
Helped save theater in 1985
No charges in wolf shooting
Animal was bothering man's dog
Keller Williams Realty opens office
Company based in Coeur d'Alene
February 14
County mulls land-use amendment
Would give developers an extension
LPOSD seeks solutions to woes
Northside parents submit ideas
Vegetarian potluck keeps growing
Held monthly at Community Hall
February 13
Petition to disband BID resurfaces
Feb. 24 forum to address opposition
Anderson gets 10 to 20 years
Convicted in Sagle shooting
Parents: Don't close Northside
Cvitanich addresses concerns
February 12
Safety efforts eyed for intersection
ITD to spend $1 million in Sagle area
IDEQ sues gas station's ex-owner
Seeks compliance with cleanup
Holland family confident of medal
Off to Vancouver for Monday's race
February 11
Park adds playground for disabled
Travers slated for new equipment
Driver hurt in Highway 95 collision
Sagle teenager cited in accident
EPA fines doled out for violations
Five construction sites targeted
Holland ready for second chance
Spokesman profiles local Olympian
February 10
LPOSD eyes money-saving options
Considers closing Northside school
Plan keeps parks open, trims staff
Budget cuts will affect maintenance
CHaFE 150 ride registration opens
3rd annual event happens June 12
February 9
Community rallies behind Belwood
Resident battling pancreatic cancer
19-year-old sentenced in cases
Perez robbed man, raped teen
Keokee claims spelling bee title
Event benefits education program
February 7
Sagle's Jenkins on list of honorees
Business Women of Year named
Episcopals remodel Dover church
Transform former Kingdom Hall
Hecker to play football at EWU
Receives full-ride scholarship
February 6
F&G reappoints McDermott
Will serve another 4 years
Two men arrested in meth lab bust
Drug team led 3-month investigation
Timberlake Fire mulls levy
Town hall meetings will gather input
February 5
Car plows through shop's door
Employee accidentally hit gas pedal
Census workers hit streets soon
Aim to document every household
Idaho Legal Aid ends area visits
Loses funding for travel budget
Delegation reacts to charges
8 Idahoans detained in Haiti
February 4
Breakwater project on schedule
Mild winter conditions credited
Northside's Kohal wins award
Station hosts teacher contest
Group hopes reward nets arrest
$1,000 offered in hate crime spree
Idaho Parks reverses closures
Klatt: 'We had a paradigm shift'
February 3
Signs honor Kootenai centennial
Museum planned for 5-acre parcel
Ponderay OK'd for flood insurance
Program administered through FEMA
North Idaho parks to remain open
Layoffs, reduced budget hit agency
February 2
Realtors seek sewer fix with city
For now, home sellers pay costs
PAFE preps for grant awards
Expects to dole out $125,000
Fairgrounds slated for new lights
Grant helps fund $60,000 project
Harding's violation is dismissed
Woman connected to man's death
January 31
Holland wins 5th X Games title
Snowboarder makes history
Suspect ordered to hire attorney
Must finance his own defense
Wildlife center is community effort
Facility open to schools, tours
January 30
Quest Aircraft lays off 22 workers
CEO Schaller blames slow economy
Official's e-mail account hacked
Rasor recommends strong passwords
Minnick: Health care will be back
Touts leaner, meaner reform effort
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Milfoil herbicides
Bonner County has used herbicides for the past three summers to fight Eurasian milfoil infestations in some 3,000 acres of Lake Pend Oreille. The herbicides, Sonar PR, Renovate and Navigate (and a similar chemical DMA 4), contain Fluridone, Triclopyr and 2,4-D, respectively. Although the county contends all the herbicides are safe, opponents contend nonchemical methods would be safer. Bonner County subsequently formed the Bonner County Aquatic Invasive Species Task Force; members continue to consider how to fight the noxious weed without herbicides. Links:
- Milfoil treatment set to begin on Monday (August 7, 2009)
- Daily Bee: Commissioners accept $652,000 to fight milfoil (March 21, 2009)
- Daily Bee: County sets schedule for area milfoil treatments (June 17, 2008)
- Daily Bee: Herbicide applications anchor 2008 milfoil plan (Mar. 23, 2008)
- Daily Bee: More herbicides planned for 2008 lake treatment (Jan. 16, 2008)
- Daily Bee: Off-season herbicide testing nears approval (Oct. 31, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Winter herbicide testing proposed on lake (Oct. 28, 2007)
- Daily Bee: State proposes 2,4-D reprise to treat milfoil (Oct. 24, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Final application of restricted herbicide Renovate to begin (Aug. 3, 2007)
- Daily Bee: More than 200 PEL protesters march on herbicides (July 24, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Clean Lakes to start next round of herbicides with Renovate (July 20, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Clean Lakes finishes first round of Sonar and moves to Renovate (July 11, 2007)
- Daily Bee: County announces lake herbicide treatment schedule (July 7, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Herbicide applications set to begin in several areas around lake (July 4, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Fabric barriers installed at Windbag Marina to to suffocate milfoil (July 1, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Cocolalla Lake readied for application of 2,4-D herbicides (July 1, 2007)
- Daily Bee: County to seek more funding after survey finds more milfoil (June 27, 2007)
- Daily Bee: County announces lake herbicide application schedule (June 21, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Lake herbicide contract awarded to Clean Lakes Inc. of CDA (June 13, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Lake milfoil surveying to happen before and after treatment (June 3, 2007)
- Daily Bee: County to use majority of state funding for herbicides (May 10, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Task force puzzled by refusal of bio-controls (April 19, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Panel criticizes use of weevils, bio-controls (April 14, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Task force mulls treatment options (April 11, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Seminar to recruit divers for milfoil dredging (March 31, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Commissioners approve milfoil recommendation (March 14, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Task Force backs herbicides, alternatives (March 8, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Public raps herbicides at hearing (March 7, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Milfoil task force to discuss plan for 2007 (March 1, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Task force mulls alternatives to kill weeds (Feb. 16, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Expert to meet with task force on milfoil (Feb. 13, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Milfoil panel disagreeing on best plan of attack (Feb. 1, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Milfoil panel has 60 days to develop plan (Dec. 13, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Milfoil task force holds first meeting (Dec. 13, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Control program gets critical review (Nov. 10, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Forum examines milfoil treatment (Oct. 1, 2006)
- Daily Bee: County to form milfoil task force (Sept. 24, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Sonar treatments killing milfoil (Sept. 1, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Doubts persist at Denton Slough (Aug. 31, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Milfoil treatments end soon (Aug. 23, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Groups unite against herbicides (Aug. 14, 2006)
- See all Task Force e-mail archive
- Join the List Serve for Task Force e-mail
- See info on Sonar, Renovate or 2,4-D
- See AquaTechnex project page
- Learn about Eurasian milfoil in Idaho
- Join the Fray: Check the Community Issues Forum to read or post opinions
Jamie Packer Centre
The Jamie Packer Centre is a proposed mixed use recreational and residential development that would be sited in downtown Sandpoint at the location of the former Catholic Church on Sixth Avenue, between Oak and Church streets. The center would include an ice arena, volleyball and basketball courts, meeting rooms, housing and a parking structure. Opponents fear the center would change the character of the neighborhood; supporters say it would create an important new public space and contribute to downtown vitality. The Sandpoint City Council approved the zone change and conditional use permit for the center on June 25, 2009, giving it a green light to proceed.
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Sand Creek Bypass
Construction is under way for the Sand Creek Bypass. And as the project moves forward, some local opposition continues to brew.
Resource links:
• ITD Sand Creek Bypass – Weekly updates
• NICAN – Opponents of Sand Creek route for bypass
News links:
- Daily Bee: NICAN ends challenge to bypass (June 27, 2009)
- Daily Bee: Judge denies motion filed by NICAN (April 22, 2009)
- Daily Bee: Sletager seeks damages from ITD, others (Jan. 16, 2009)
- Daily Bee: Marina owner files new court papers against ITD (Nov. 21, 2008)
- Daily Bee: First shovelfuls of dirt moved at groundbreaking (Oct. 30, 2008)
- Daily Bee: ITD to celebrate bypass groundbreaking with ceremony (Oct. 22, 2008)
- Daily Bee: ITD outlines complexities involved with project (Sept. 19, 2008)
- Daily Bee: ITD confirms total bypass cost tops $144 million (Sept. 18, 2008)
- Daily Bee: Appeals court lifts bypass injunction; ITD moving forward (August 28, 2008)
- Daily Bee: Marina owner plans to take fight to state supreme court (August 16, 2008)
- Daily Bee: Injunction sets stage for August court hearing (July 11, 2008)
- Daily Bee: 9th Circuit issues stay against Sand Creek Bypass (July 10, 2008)
- Daily Bee: ITD board rapped bypass proposal during June meeting (July 9, 2008)
- Daily Bee: NICAN seeks delay in injunction from appeals court (July 9, 2008)
- Daily Bee: Judge rejects Sletager's attempt to halt bypass permit (July 5, 2008)
- Daily Bee: ITD board approves bid for bypass (June 20, 2008)
- Daily Bee: ITD ponders $98.5 million bid for bypass (June 4, 2008)
- Daily Bee: Bypass lawsuit venue moved to Idaho (Apr. 24, 2008)
- Daily Bee: ITD will put out request for bypass bids on April 22 (Apr. 9, 2008)
- Daily Bee: Bypass permit rekindles litigation by developer (Apr. 8, 2008)
- Daily Bee: State seeks change of venue in bypass lawsuit (Apr. 5, 2008)
- Daily Bee: Bypass right-of-way deal pending with railroad (Feb. 28, 2008)
- Daily Bee: NICAN suing Corps for insufficient bypass review (Jan. 16, 2008)
- Daily Bee: ITD accepts BNSF Railway's right-of-way offer (Dec. 13, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Council approves ITD bypass agreement (Oct. 18, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Corps sets conditions to minimize impact on creek (Sept. 22, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Army Corps issues bypass draft permit (Sept. 22, 2007)
- Daily Bee: ITD claims bypass foe has conflict of interest (Sept. 13, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Decision on bypass permit delayed until September (August 31, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Rep. Eskridge complains bypass delay is costing state (August 19, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Mayor Miller upset after trio votes against park proposal (August 17, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Council rejects park, bike path proposal along bypass (August 16, 2007)
- Daily Bee: ITD to develop park, bike path along bypass route (August 2, 2007)
- Daily Bee: State declines group's request for bypass peer review (July 12, 2007)
- Daily Bee: ITD declines to revisit bypass plan after group's request (May 18, 2007)
- Daily Bee: NICAN files U.S. District Court briefs for bypass lawsuit (April 13, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Army Corps needs more byway analysis (March 21, 2007)
- Daily Bee: Committee approves traffic plan (Dec. 8, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Views compete at hearing (Nov. 21, 2006)
- Daily Bee: ITD says bypass still priority (Nov. 19, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Traffic proposal inches ahead (Nov. 3, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Traffic solution moving forward (Oct. 9, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Bordenave to present traffic plan (Sept. 30, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Tunnel plan gets city hearing (Sept. 29, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Forum seeks traffic solutions (Sept. 28, 2006)
- Sandpoint Online: Conquering Gridlock forum
- Daily Bee: Sandpoint OKs byway easement request (Sept. 22, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Hearing set on bypass project (Sept. 14, 2006)
- Daily Bee: Study affirms bypass predictions (Sept. 4, 2006)
- Spokesman: Newcomer has vision of tunnel (Aug. 19, 2006)
- Daily Bee: ITD misses Byway lawsuit deadline (Aug. 5, 2006)
- River Journal: Mayor dislikes tunnel plan (July 25, 2006)
- Daily Bee: ITD gives tunnel chilly reception (July 22, 2006)
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