Shoshone County commissioners approve overlay district

Shoshone County commissioners voted this month to create a mountain overlay district for the areas surrounding Wallace.

A will by any other name … no, sorry they are actually not the same

Because attorneys seem to have a hard time making anything easy, several estate planning documents have similar and easy to confuse names, which adds confusion to an already complicated topic. Estate planning legal matters are already confusing enough, so it certainly does not help to have similar names for related but completely different documents. Today, let’s try to clear things up a bit with a review of the differences between a “Living Will” and a “Living Trust.”

If you are not married, but are in a long-term relationship, you have some very specific legal planning needs

If you have a life partner to whom you are not married (whether same or opposite sex), you should be aware of all necessary legal planning to make clear under Idaho law what your partner’s role is if you die or become incapacitated. What will your partner’s legal status be regarding surrogate decision making, end-of-life decision making, and their status in your estate? Without engaging in some proactive (but relatively simple) legal planning, the results of your incapacity or death could leave your partner not only in grief, but in a financial or logistical nightmare as well.

OPINION: E Pluribus Unum

As one, we can halt the backsliding

Borah Elementary on chopping block

Cd'A School District considering closure to balance financial shortfall

A neighborhood school that has been open since 1950 is in jeopardy of closing and being repurposed as the Coeur d'Alene School District considers ways to balance its $6 million shortfall.

'Windows to our past'

Saving history has many benefits, says museum director

Walter Burns, chairman of the city’s Historic Preservation Commission, said there should be a review process before such historic homes can be torn down.

Book pulled at Lakeland Middle School

Results in heated special meeting

During a special meeting of the school board for Lakeland Joint School District, a heated debate about whether interactions between board chair Michelle Thompson and assistant superintendent Lynn Paslay constituted collaboration or individual direction after the pulling of “The Truth As Told by Mason Buttle” from three sixth grade ELA classes.