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Local Blogs: Gas Theft Growing


As The Lake Churns Photo
Pecky Cox, who received her U.S. citizenship status Tuesday, is shown with "Ferris Bueller" actor Ben Stein at Hill's Resort in Priest Lake.

My neighbor, who is foreman for a local construction firm, told me that he showed up for work the other day only to find that all the fuel had been siphoned out of their equipment. He said by the time he had refueled all of the equipment it cost him over $1,000, not including the cost of paying six employees to sit around until they could refuel/Kootenai MPO Blog. More here.

HBO Numbers (for June 17, 2008): 8514 page-views/4826 unique views

Roundup (A-N):
*The Green Police/Notes on a Napkin
*Friends & soulmates/Nuts & Nonsense
*Get Out! mailbox: deluxe June edition/Get Out! North Idaho
*Crimpleness has its advantages/Marmitetoasty
*Celts, grades, pizza/Kellogg Bloggin'
*Kids/A Butterfly Moment
*David Iglesias wrote a book/Arch Druid
*Of sunsets, ships and seagulls/Atmospheric Ruminations
*Alas, over hamburgers/Chronic Discontent

Question: Have you taken any steps to prevent yourself from being the victim of gasoline theft?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.