Valley County seeks office purchase
Valley County is in the process of purchasing a building in Cascade with 13,000 square feet of office space for about $3.3 million.The building at 700 S.
March 2024
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McCall appoints interim city manager
Phil Kushlan was appointed as interim McCall city manager on Monday by the McCall City Council.Kushlan, 76, will serve as the city’s top executive until a permanent replacement is hired for former city manager Anette Spickard, whose last day on the job is tomorrow.“I look forward to working closely with the city council, staff, and community members to continue the positive momentum and ensure a smooth transition for the incoming city manager,” Kushlan said.The city expects to begin interviewing permanent replacement candidates in May, McCall Communications Manager Erin Greaves said.Kushlan is not expected to apply for the permanent city manager position, Greaves said.Kushlan previously worked for McCall as a planning consultant and also previously served as the city manager for Bellevue, Washington, and Cottage Grove, Oregon.Kushlan also previously worked as the executive director of Capital City Development Corporation in Boise.Spickard announced her resignation earlier this year after she was hired from a field of 152 candidates to be the new city manager for the City of Sedona, Arizona.She will start with an annual salary of $190,000, or 22% more than the $155,000 she earns as McCall’s city manager.Spickard said the chance to live closer to her daughters and grandchildren were a major factor in her decision to accept the city manager job in Sedona.Spickard took over as city manager in February 2018.
Hasletons charged
Dania Haselton, a former candidate for Mayor of Cascade, was charged with two felony counts for allegedly falsifying records in filing for candidacy in the November 2023 election.Haselton, 37, is accused of perjury and offering a false or forged instrument of record.
M-D to seek levy, $14M bond for housing
The McCall-Donnelly School Board of Trustees voted Monday to seek the district’s first supplemental levy and a $14 million bond that would be used to build staff housing.Decisions were based in part on the results of a survey conducted by Clearwater Financial of Meridian.
Mount competent to stand trial
The man suspected of shooting and killing another man in Donnelly on Jan.
40-lot sub. considered
Developers presented plans last week on a 40-lot subdivision proposed on Spink Lane, bordering Lake Fork Creek.The Valley County Planning and Zoning Commission did not make a decision on the proposal at Thursday’s public hearing, but heard a proposal from the applicant, Dave Callister of Boise, and took testimony from the public.The public hearing was continued to April 11 at 6 p.m.
P&Z postpone MacGregor app. again
The Valley County Planning and Zoning Commission tabled the 341-lot Macgregor Townsite application for the third time last week.There was not enough time at the meeting last Thursday to consider all applications on the agenda, so the meeting focused on hearing testimony from those in attendance for multiple applications, Commission Chair Katlin Caldwell said.The MacGregor Townsite application was tabled until April 3 at 2 p.m.
NTSB: pilot error caused fatal airplane crashes
Pilot error led to two airplane crashes that killed four people in eastern Valley County in summer 2022, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.The federal agency recently released investigation reports on the crashes, which killed a Lewiston man and his 15-year-old son and two Bend, Oregon, brothers.Richard Humphrey, 48, and his son, Cooper, were killed on June 26, 2022, after crashing into a mountainside about five minutes after taking off from the Lower Loon Airstrip near Challis.The Piper Pacer PA-20 airplane Humphrey was flying crashed into “steep, rising mountainous terrain” about 1.5 miles away from the airstrip, the NTSB report said.The report found Humphrey’s decision to “turn towards climbing terrain with limited climbing performance” as the cause of the crash.Humphrey and his son were flying back to the Johnson Creek Airtstrip near Yellow Pine, where the pair had set up camp, when the crash occurred.The airplane was reported missing later that night and the wreckage was found still burning the next day.
Perpetua tabs new CEO
Perpetua Resources President and CEO Laurel Sayer has retired after seven years leading the Boise company’s effort to permit a gold and antimony mine near Yellow Pine.Sayer, 70, immediately stepped down from her role, as well as her position on the company’s corporate board, upon announcing her retirement last week.
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