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Extension officials concerned about possible cuts

COEUR d'ALENE - They can manage for now.

But some providers of non-mandated services in Kootenai County worry that upcoming budget cuts are the beginning of a long fall.

More important for us is the long-term implications," said Mike Howell, district director for the University of Idaho Extension Office. "I don't think we want to go through this every year."

The commissioners announced last week that county funding for the Extension Office would drop about $20,000 to $140,000, in their proposed 2011-12 budget. Alecia Warren, Cda Press Read more.

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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.