With closing of JD Lumber Mill, Priest River, Idaho faces uncertain future

August 10, 2008

With the mill disposing more than 200 jobs, Priest River wavers between its possible fates, including bubbling into a tourist hub or fading into a ghost town.

Hardworking. Tight knit. Loyal. And, worthy of a second acknowledgment, hardworking. That's how the small-town Priest River residents describe themselves.

Stocked with the stoicism of blue-collar grit, the small riverfront town has always banked on its hardy residents to fuel the machine of its survival: the lumber mills.

By ALECIA WARREN Staff writer

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