SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
Voters in north Idaho approved most of the school levies on Tuesday’s ballot, a few by narrow margins.
Two have apparently fallen short. The West Bonner County School District measure has about 46% approval. The Post Falls levy is 33 votes behind out of 2,900 ballots cast.
There are also tight margins in the Boundary County and Lakeland School Districts, but with the opposite result.
In Post Falls, Superintendent Dena Naccarato issued a statement expressing disappointment with such a close loss. The school district has enjoyed overwhelming community support for many years, and we wonder if some of our supporters took the success for granted and did not get to the polls. The levy is fundamental not supplemental, so we owe it to our students to try again in May, she wrote. The money is used to maintain student instructional and extracurricular programming. In addition, we need to remain competitive with our surrounding school districts if we
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Two Kootenai County school levies are on the verge of being approved, one other is too close to call, if Tuesday night’s results hold.
In the Coeur d’Alene School District, voters have given a two-year, $40 million levy nearly 60% approval, with about two-thirds of the precincts reporting.
A two-year, $19 million levy in the Lakeland School District has 53% support in Kootenai County. The levy is running about 50-50 in Bonner County.
The levy in Post Falls is too close to call. It has a two-vote lead with more than 2,300 votes counted. It’s a two-year, almost $10 million measure.
Bonners Ferry High School robotics team makes custom mobility device for kindergartner
The device is allowing Weston Keefe, who can t use his arms or hands, to play with his classmates on the playground. Author: Taylor Viydo Updated: 8:16 PM MST December 22, 2020
BONNERS FERRY, Idaho On a brisk Saturday afternoon in Bonners Ferry, local kindergartner Weston Keefe could be seen enjoying his school s playground with a renewed sense of enthusiasm. Let s play tag everybody, Weston shouted at the top of his lungs to those around him. I m going to catch you!
Assisting Weston in his mission to dominate the playground was a custom-made four-wheeled mobility device that had been donated to Weston just minutes earlier.