Sheriff Ben Wolfinger provides a reality check for readers of this column who are grousing about the small berms Coeur d’Alene snow plows have left across driveways this year. It could be a whole lot worse. The Kootenai County sheriff knows whereof he speaks, after spending quality time with the Idaho Public Safety Communication Commission on Thursday in Boise. Sheriff Ben told Huckleberries Online readers afterward: “All I heard all day was the constant complaints from locals about the Ada County Highway District and (its) lack of plowing, particularly the residential neighborhoods.” This, after Boise had just received a record snowfall. Make that a record snowfall for Boise, not North Idaho. Meanwhile, the residents on the smallest street in Coeur d’Alene can be assured that the top-notch crews of streets chief Tim Martin will plow their ’hood within 30 hours of a major storm. And, in years when massive snow berms aren’t clogging the streets, they will drop their snow gates to leave driveways relatively berm free/DFO. Saturday SR print Huckleberries. More here.

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