Hagadone official seeks permit
An official for Hagadone Corp. wants to build a boat storage facility near Post Falls that would be used by the company’s local marinas and boat shops.
JRB Properties LLC, which is managed by Hagadone spokesman John Barlow, is asking Kootenai County for a conditional-use permit to build up to 10 pole barn structures for boat storage in the agricultural area.
The facility would be accessed from Beck Road.
A county hearing examiner will have a public hearing May 19.
The property is in an area designated both for industrial and agricultural uses on the county’s future land-use map.
The buildings would be used by Boardwalk Marina, Silver Beach Marina, Yacht Club Sales & Service, The Resort Boat Shop and others allowed by the owner, the application states.
The facility would have seasonal use with boats being delivered for winter storage in the fall and then removed for summer use.
The application states that all deliveries would be handed by the professional staff, not by customers or the general public.
For more information, call the Kootenai County Planning Department at (208) 446-1070.
Vehicle license offices to close for training
The Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls vehicle license offices will be closed today.
The staff is attending an Idaho Department of Transportation title and registration training workshop.
Both offices will reopen Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
For more information, call (208) 446-1580.
Truck crashes, drops casket onto U.S. 95
Craigmont, Idaho
The driver of a pickup hauling a trailer carrying four caskets lost control on U.S. Highway 95 and hit a guard rail, the Lewis County sheriff said. One casket broke through its concrete liner and fell onto the road.
The casket, which contained a body, did not break open.
Richard Vassar, 62, of a Lewiston funeral home, was cited for inattentive driving, Sheriff Phil Steen said.
The left rear of the trailer collided with an oncoming pickup, but no one was injured in the accident last Thursday.
Judge sets trial date in Letterman plot
Choteau, Mont.
A state judge Tuesday set a tentative trial date for the man accused of plotting to kidnap the toddler son of “Late Show” host David Letterman.
Kelly Frank is scheduled to go on trial July 18 on charges of soliciting to kidnap, theft and obstruction.
He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Frank, a painter who had been hired do to work on Letterman’s ranch in north-central Montana, was arrested in March after an acquaintance told investigators he had planned to kidnap the talk show host’s son, Harry Joseph, and the child’s nanny and hold them for $5 million ransom.
On Tuesday, he entered an additional not guilty plea to a second charge of soliciting to kidnap – this charge involving the nanny.
Frank remains jailed on $650,000 bail.