MT. IDAHO – Traffic will remain closed, at least for this week, along a section of the Mt. Idaho Grade for new culvert installation.

Border Days 2019 featured sunny skies and tons of events. From the rodeo to the egg toss, the parades to the car show, Grangeville's annual celebration featured something for everyone. Check out photos from this year's event.

BOISE -- Kendall Automotive Group Inc., recently drafted Dallas Cowboys rookie all-star Leighton Vander Esch to join Kellen Moore as a spokesperson and endorser. Vander Esch, born and raised in Riggins, Idaho, and a graduate of Salmon River High School there, was a crowd-favorite Boise State…

GRANGEVILLE – Skies were blue and breezes slight for the 108th annual Border Days. Just the right combination for a plethora of Idaho County residents and visitors to clamor onto Main Street for the 2019 Super Egg Toss.

Many of our readers will remember when phones were quite different than what they are today, and others will shake their heads with little understanding for the progression of the communications system.

Incorporated cities within Idaho County have seen minor population increases – on average nearly 0.9 percent -- in the past two years, according to estimates for 2010 to 2018 recently released by the U.S Census Bureau.

COTTONWOOD -- At 2 p.m. Sunday, July 14, the Monastery of St. Gertrude will host author Susan Swetnam, who will read from her new book, “In the Mystery’s Shadow: Reflections on Caring for the Elderly and Dying.”

Implementation is set to begin later this summer on the Lolo Insect and Disease project on the Lochsa-Powell Ranger District.

It was a busy Border Days week! Hopefully everyone has recovered. I was happy to have my girls home from Boise. We got my brother, Steve, to participate in his first egg toss. We had a lot of fun!

In 2018, Alex and Margaret Frei were the first two runners to cross the finish line at the annual 5K fun run held each Fourth of July in Grangeville. On Thursday, Margaret was the first woman to finish, but Alex wasn’t seen until later.

Census Day 2020 falls on April 1 next year, and it comes with a push for people across Idaho to be counted, whether online, by phone or by mail.

Debco Construction of Orofino made the lowest of three bids for the Glenwood Road-Adams Grade junction rebuild: $1,289,289, approved during the June 18 Idaho County Commission meeting. A bid for repairs at Crocker Creek, about 12 miles from Kamiah, came in at $206,352. That bid, by Cook and …

GRANGEVILLE — “It’s the same old norm,” Border Days committee secretary Justin DeFord told the Free Press of the 108th annual rodeo. “We’re keeping it simple.”

GRANGEVILLE – For Jolene Rupp, the desire to be a bookkeeper came early.

Last week, I included the e-mail I received from Idaho Department of Labor director Jani Revier in response to the e-mail I sent inquiring about the Grangeville IDOL office being closed. Revier said, in part, “The regional office in Grangeville does not meet … current requirements for the Am…

COTTONWOOD – As the saying goes, it’s not the destination, it’s the journey. For Emile Brager, those are words he’s literally lived by in mule pack travels he’s undergone across thousands of miles and more than a dozen countries, taking months to years to complete.