Michael Johnson of Athol said he double-checked with the city before getting permission to hold his yard sale. Johnson is selling some of his possessions to pay a few bills and help cover the cost of his wife’s cremation. The yard sale runs through Sunday. “We’re just doing what we can to survive right now,” he said.
CRAIG NORTHRUP/Press
May 11, 2020
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Little’s rebound plan leaves yard sales room to negotiate
As Idaho gradually opens its businesses over the course of the next five weeks, an industry largely forgotten in Gov. Brad Little’s coronavirus rebound plan has been greenlighted by some local jurisdictions but halted by others, creating confusion and constitutional conversations around the weekend ritual.