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Eye on Boise Otter’s housing stipend to resume - Sun 19 May 2013 PST
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Magic Valleys Students of the Week
Mercades Arroway is a junior at Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind, having attended the school since she was an elementary student. During high school, Mercades has taken some courses at ISDB and some mainstreamed courses at Gooding High School in order to support her ongoing progress in learning. She has shown notable growth and maturity in her approach to her academics and has become a ...
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Times-News Earns 20 Press Awards
Magicvalley.com took 20 state awards, including seven first-place finishes. One of them was for its coverage of wildfires.Photographer Drew Nash and reporter Steve Kadel won first place for entertainment reporting about drive-in theaters. Ashley Smith won first place for "Our Hemingway," a reminiscent look at author Ernest Hemingway's time in Idaho; and a story about a Twin Falls ...
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Wheels up Boise pushes for airport comeback
Boise has nearly 30 percent fewer flights than it had at its prerecession peak, but that's still more than 50 flights a day for passengers such as Tom Hegna, a Phoenix resident. Hegna was on his way to Troy, Mich., on Thursday. An author and 25-year veteran of the insurance industry, he makes five to eight flights per week and has flown more than 2 million miles in his career. "I spend ...
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150 Boise icons The Bench
Did you know? By the 1950s, 30,000 Boiseans, or half the city's population, lived south of the Boise River in 'post-war suburbia.' Sergeant City was the predecessor of developments like Buena Vista and Crescent Rim. The military decommissioned Sergeant City in 1946. In 2011, the Boise Architecture Project included Sergeant City in its list of the most endangered historic sites in ...
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GBAD election 8 candidates many options
The Greater Boise Auditorium District was authorized by voters in 1959. It was created to be a tool to boost the Boise economy. The district gets its money from a 5 percent tax on hotel rooms inside its boundaries, which surround Boise. It operates Boise Centre, a convention venue that opened in 1990, and has studied possible expansion for many years. Who's running against whom? Voters ...
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Nampa school trustee election framed by financial woes
Students at Vallivue High School, trying to get from class to class, clog the hallways. Getting a seat in the cafeteria is tough. The school is full at 1,800 students, and district administrators expect more growth. Vallivue School District is asking voters for a $50 million bond for a second high school. The cost will be about $40 a year on a home valued at $115,000 and about $53 on a home ...
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Idaho History Idahos first Episcopal Church originally named for its founder
On Aug. 14, 1864, Episcopal priest St. Michael Fackler held divine services at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Boise's first small adobe schoolhouse. Services were held there because there was not yet a church building in town. The Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman had reported a day earlier that "Mr. Fackler is on a tour of observation through Boise, Owyhee and Alturas counties, and is disposed to ...
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Idaho Statesman takes top honors at annual Press Club event
The Idaho Statesman staff won general excellence, Pinnacle and reporter of the year awards in the Idaho Press Club's annual event. The winners were announced at a dinner in Boise on Saturday night. The Pinnacle award goes to the winner of the greatest number of overall awards. The Statesman captured first place in 15 out of 32 daily newspaper categories. Print reporter of the year went to ...
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Groups sue federal agency over sheep research station after grizzly deaths
BOISE, Idaho - Four environmental groups are asking a federal judge to order the temporary shutdown of a sheep research station on the ...
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Powerboat operator in collision pleads guilty
SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) -- A northern Idaho man who crashed his powerboat into a moored sailboat on Lake Pend Oreille has pleaded guilty to simple negligent operation of a ...
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Large grassfire is burning near Kuna
Ada County Dispatch said that crews are on the site of the fire in the Kuna area Saturday afternoon. The fire is burning near Green Lane and McDermott road. The size of the fire isn't known. There are structures in the ...
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Mistrial declared in N. Idaho rape trial
SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) -- A northern Idaho judge has declared a mistrial after the jury deadlocked in a case involving a Montana man charged with ...
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More than 2200 students graduate from Boise State on Saturday
Boise State Universitys 92nd Commencement ceremony Saturday morning in Taco Bell Arena honored more than 2,200 graduates. Those graduates included 513 students who were eligible for honors, including 309 cum laude, 173 magna cum laude and 31 for the highest honors, summa cum laude.We call this ceremony Commencement, and commence is to begin, not to end. Were going to send you off and wish ...
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Thousand Springs State Park 2013 Insiders Guide
Adventure Guide: See the exclusive special section in the Times-News on May 22. The 2013 edition features the state parks and national monuments throughout south-central Idaho -- and all the fun you can have there. It's a section you'll want to keep handy all ...
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Montana investigates bison deaths near Yellowstone
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- State veterinarians in Montana have been sent to examine bison carcasses north of Yellowstone National Park amid fears the bison might have acquired a deadly disease from domestic ...
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Boise eyes tougher laws for panhandling
Panhandling where solicitation can't be avoided would also be banned. That includes asking for money from drivers on roadways, people in line, or people dining at a sidewalk ...
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Judge Enough evidence for deputy to go on trial
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- A judge has ruled there is enough evidence for felony domestic battery counts against a Twin Falls County sheriff's deputy for the case to go to ...
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Montana investigating bison deaths north of YNP
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- State veterinarians have been sent to examine bison carcasses north of Yellowstone National Park amid concerns the bison might have acquired a deadly disease from domestic ...
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2 children killed in E. Idaho rollover crash
Idaho State Police say the 16-year-old driver was northbound on Interstate 15 near Shelley at about 1:15 p.m. Friday when he went into the median and ...
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Fewer Resources for Wildfire Season
12: Number of BLM seasonal positions eliminated 9: Percentage of budget cut from regional BLM wildfire budget 4: Total firefighters allowed to occupy a fire engine, down from five last year 140: Number of gallons ...
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Relay for Life honors cancer Survivors Caregivers
FILER o As music blasted Friday night during the Twin Falls Relay for Life, cancer survivors gathered behind members of the Honor Guard to get ready for their first lap. As survivors headed in one direction, their caregivers went the opposite direction. After meeting in the middle of the track, they all walked together.Cancer survivor Tim Taylor said he tries to make it to Relay for Life as ...
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Weather A Cool and Breezy Weekend
Our week started in the low 90s and ended with temperatures in the low 60s. There were scattered showers and even a few thunderstorms. The cool temperatures as well as some isolated showers and storms are possible this weekend.Today will have a mix of sunshine and clouds, unseasonably cool temperatures and a far cry from what we had last weekend. Last Saturday our high temperature was 86. We ...
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Financial Aid Available for Children’s Medical Care
BOISE o The United Healthcare Children's Foundation is seeking grant applications from families who need financial assistance to help pay for their child's medical treatment. Grants can be used to pay for treatment, services or equipment not covered or fully covered by a family's commercial health insurance plan.Qualifying families can receive up to $5,000 per grant to help pay ...
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Ask St. Lukes Should I Be Worried that My Heart Is Racing
Ask St. Lukes: Handling Stress as a Young Mother I'm a young mother with two toddler boys, and I'm feeling more stress than I want to. Are there things I can do to get back my health outlook ...
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Idaho looks to eco-business for eventual recovery
Colorado has been leading the country in developing a sustainable, environmentally-friendly ‘green economy’ using $1 billion in federal grants over the last ten years or so, the efforts have paid off and now it seems that Idaho’s leadership may be looking to do something similar.
Using a $1.25 million federal grant the state of Idaho is investigating the extent of our green economy. Officials from the Idaho Department of Labor are in the process of interviewing around 5000 large and small employers and asking them, basically, how many ‘green’ jobs they’re currently got and what their growth potential is for the coming years. Read more
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