Tekoa will file for grants to study airport expansion

The town of Tekoa is researching what it would take to expand the town airport, hoping to attract air traffic bound for the Coeur d’Alene casino.

By the end of April, Tekoa officials will turn in an application for a $25,000 planning grant from the state Department of Transportation Aviation office.

If they are awarded the grant, it will kick-start a conversation between the involved parties on the feasibility of expanding the airport, according to Mayor John Jaeger.

“We would sit down with the players and see how it would fit into the overall scheme,” Jaeger said.

In a recent meeting with the...