ARTICLES BY STEVE KLATT
Drive safely; have patience with road crews
The past three months have been a most interesting time in the life of the Bonner County Road Department. Mid-March found us shuffling half crews on and off for the next six weeks, during which our summer construction schedule began to slip immediately. By the time we got our full …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Winter’s road conditions challenging for all
I began to write this update to Bonner County rural drivers two weeks ago and am now rewriting it to reflect two significant weather cycles we have just dealt with in Bonner County.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Winter's road conditions challenging for all
I began to write this update to Bonner County rural drivers two weeks ago and am now rewriting it to reflect two significant weather cycles we have just dealt with in Bonner County.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Work continues on county road projects
Overseeing a county road operation has some remarkable resemblance to surviving as a small farm operator. You take stock of the conditions in the spring, as mud squishes under your boots, then begin to make plans for strides forward during the warm months of summer. As summer ends, you take …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Use of county roads is returning to normal
Most Bonner County rural drivers have probably had occasions to observe some of our rural roads suffered a variety of maladies this spring, some of which significantly impacted travel. Adding to the frustration of driving through mud, is waiting for the road base to dry up enough to begin doing …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Winter's unique personality requires everyone's patience
Another winter has shaped its own unique personality here in Bonner County and the recent snow events have stretched the road department relatively thin — both in manpower and our equipment.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
What you need to know about winter driving
As the clouds have gathered and the snow started to fall after a remarkably beautiful November, we are confronted with our annual conundrum, “Are we going to be ready for winter driving on our local rural roads?” Winter road maintenance is expensive, hazardous for operators and time consuming. Bonner County …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS AGO
