Three Idaho County school districts will go to patrons with one-year levy requests for the 2021-22 school year this Tuesday, May 18. Polling places and sample ballots are listed at www.idahocounty.org.
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Farm and Ranch, Spring 2021 issue for North Central Idaho.
The Idaho County Free Press presents this year's Get Acquainted 2021. The 38th annual issue …
GRANGEVILLE — Save the date for Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. This is when a “Reality Check” is coming to the students of Grangeville High School.
GRANGEVILLE — “I’m forcing your hand — I just need you to tell me tonight what to do with it, how to proceed,” Mountain View School District 244 Superintendent Todd Fiske told board trustees April 19.
COTTONWOOD — “We reduced this year’s levy by $50,000 — I don’t think that happens very often,” Cottonwood Joint School District 242 (CJSD 242) Superintendent Rene Forsmann said.
GREENCREEK — After a year off due to COVID-19, the annual Camas Prairie Area Farm and Forestry Fair was in full swing Thursday, April 22.
GRANGEVILLE — Grangeville’s Katie Matthews is the new Mountain View School District 244 zone 5 trustee.
As Mountain View School District 244 prepares to ask its patrons for a $3.1 million levy May 18, superintendent Todd Fiske is making his rounds on the meeting circuit.
COTTONWOOD — Students at Prairie Elementary School will have six weeks to catch up on time lost this summer.
GRANGEVILLE — Trust, a salary allocation schedule and language were the main topics April 14 as Mountain View School District (MVSD) 244 and Central Idaho Education Association (CIEA) negotiations for 2020-21 continued.
BOISE — Teachers are in the spotlight again in Idaho, but once more, they are denied funding after House Bill 354 failed after a long debate. This hour and a half discussion on the floor involved fears that House Republicans have regarding teachers talking about race theory with their studen…
GRANGEVILLE — Despite a previous year filled with disappointments and cancellations, Grangeville High School’s Business Professionals of America (BPA) members had a successful run at the regional conference, as well as in the state competition.
MOSCOW — Tree-ring scientists estimate the amount of lignin — a polymer that makes plant cells rigid and woody — in a tree core by how much the core reflects blue light; at least in conifer trees. “Currently, there isn’t a good way to look at how much lignin is in a tree core from a deciduou…
In an effort to answer patrons’ concerns on the upcoming levy, Mountain View School District 244 Superintendent Todd Fiske will hit the road with a variety of community meetings starting this month.
Thirty-six high school students from across the nation are participants in the 2021 Virtual National Civics and Law Academy for eight weeks through April 15. The 8th annual academy is being held virtually because of the pandemic.
GRANGEVILLE — Mrs. Barger’s sixth and seventh grade science classes at Grangeville Elementary Middle School (GEMS) recently held a science fair where they learned about forming a scientific question, making a hypothesis about their question, revising their hypothesis and then providing a con…
Two new members are sought for the Idaho County Historic Commission.
KOOSKIA — Registration for children entering kindergarten at Clearwater Valley Elementary School in Kooskia for the 2021-2022 school year will be Wednesday, April 28. Children must be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1, 2021. A 20-minute informal evaluation is part of the registration process.…
GRANGEVILLE — Seven Grangeville High School students had their hard work paid off when they took a large portion of the awards at the State of Idaho Science and Engineering Fair the week of March 24.
GRANGEVILLE – “Now is the time; there’s no more putting it off,” Mountain View School District 244 Superintendent Todd Fiske told the board of trustees at the March 15 meeting. Fiske reiterated that the need for a levy wasn’t MVSD’s funding model. “This is the State of Idaho’s funding model,…
KOOSKIA — Registration for children entering kindergarten at Clearwater Valley Elementary School in Kooskia for the 2021-2022 school year will be Wednesday, April 28. Children must be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1, 2021. A 20-minute informal evaluation is part of the registration process.…
GRANGEVILLE — As eighth grade students filed into the multipurpose room at Grangeville Elementary Middle School Thursday, March 4, one student ended up quite surprised.
KOOSKIA — Registration for children entering kindergarten at Clearwater Valley Elementary School in Kooskia for the 2021-2022 school year will be Wednesday, April 28. Children must be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1, 2021. A 20-minute informal evaluation is part of the registration process.…
LEWISTON — A Grangeville High School graduate is among four Lewis-Clark State College graphic communication students who had their designs chosen to be on the cover of Inland 360, an alternative weekly arts and entertainment publication, during the next year.
KAMIAH – Kamiah Elementary School (KES) will be host to a free parent workshop.
KOOSKIA — After a lengthy executive session at the Feb. 22 Mountain View School District (MVSD) 244 board meeting, trustees voted unanimously to extend superintendent Todd Fiske’s contract by a year and add 10 vacation days, as well.
GRANGEVILLE — Gone are the days when a few strums on the guitar and a folk song or two from a roving teacher constituted an elementary school music class.
KOOSKIA — At the Feb. 22 Mountain View School District 244 meeting, the board of trustees voted unanimously to return to full school days on Wednesdays.
KOOSKIA — “A lot of people have weighed in on what the right amount is for the levy,” Mountain View School District 244 Superintendent Todd Fiske told the trustees at the Feb. 22 board meeting at Clearwater Valley High School. “The burden is going to be on you to set that, with several unkno…
KAMIAH — Preschool kids are wild about puppets.
Area students were recently named to the University of Idaho’s 2020 Fall Dean’s List. A total of 2,815 students qualified for the list for the fall 2020 semester, which ended Dec. 18, 2020. To qualify for the dean’s list, U of I students must maintain at least a 3.5 GPA on a minimum of 12 gr…
GRANGEVILLE — “Our proposal is essentially the same as it was at the Dec. 9 meeting,” Mountain View School District 244 school board trustee and negotiations representative Brad Lutz told the CIEA (Central Idaho Education Association) team at the Feb. 17 meeting.
After last spring’s school shutdown of in-person schooling due to COVID-19, families needed to decide how to approach their children’s education last fall. Some chose in-person school, some online school through Clearwater Valley High School, while others chose different online school progra…
GRANGEVILLE — Two young men came in at the top of their classes in a recent school essay contest.
BOISE — Idaho students’ visions of future success were announced recently as Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra outlined her public schools budget plan to the Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations committee.
Area students were recently named to the University of Idaho’s 2020 Fall Dean’s List. A total of 2,815 students qualified for the list for the fall 2020 semester, which ended Dec. 18, 2020. To qualify for the dean’s list, U of I students must maintain at least a 3.5 GPA on a minimum of 12 gr…
GRANGEVILLE — “As essential workers, our team is now slated for vaccines,” said Mountain View School District (MVSD) 244 Superintendent Todd Fiske. Fiske gave a COVID-19 update and administrative report at the Jan. 18 board meeting.
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GRANGEVILLE — Recently, two Grangeville FFA members competed in the (virtual) North Idaho District Extemporaneous Speaking Leadership Development Event.
GRANGEVILLE — The Mountain View School District (MVSD) 244 board voted in favor at the Jan. 18 meeting to hold off setting a 2021-22 levy amount, and, therefore, delaying a levy election until May.
In late January, the Grangeville Elementary Middle School eighth grade band was able to join Grangeville High School band members to play together, discuss future band activities, and experience a little high school. Go Big Blue! Instructor is Danica Schmidt.
NAMPA – Hailey Russell was on the dean’s list for the fall 2020 semester at College of Western Idaho. She is a 2018 graduate of Grangeville High School and is the daughter of Valor and Lorie (Palmer) Russell of Grangeville. Russell is a full-time student and also works full-time as a prescho…
MOSCOW – Theta Chi, Epsilon Kappa Chapter, University of Idaho, was the highest GPA fraternity at the U of I for fall 2020. The fraternity had a combined GPA of 3.43. This is Theta Chi’s fourth consecutive semester as number one, and seventh semester since 2017.
BOISE — Education has seen huge shifts during the global pandemic that we live in today, federal money has been moved quickly to help offset the costs of COVID-19 in Idaho’s schools and universities and reporting on that during education week are university presidents, board of education off…
GRANGEVILLE —“I’m concerned as a parent and community member,” patron Katie Told said to the Mountain View School District 244 board at the Jan. 18 meeting.
MISSOULA, Mont. – Two local residents were named to the University of Montana fall semester 2020 Dean’s and President’s list. To qualify, students must be undergraduates, earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher and receive grades of A or B in at least nine credits.
LEWISTON — Lewis-Clark State College senior Matt Payne has won a couple of graphic design and artwork honors in his young career, including a piece that was featured on the cover of the entertainment section of a local newspaper.
University of Idaho Extension is offering: “Introduction to Small-Scale Grass-Fed Beef Production for the Rural Landowner,” on Thursday, Jan. 21, 6-8:30 p.m. The presentation is by Bill Warren and Jim Church, University of Idaho Extension.
While still some months off, elections will be coming up for the region’s taxing districts on everything from school levies to city councils and fire districts.
University of Idaho Extension will present: North Idaho Annie’s Project. Annie’s Project — Empowering Women in Agriculture — will offer an all-women course which fosters problem solving, record keeping, and decision-making skills around five areas of agricultural risk: production, legal, mar…
STILLWATER, Okla. — A total of 8,004 students were named to the 2020 fall semester honor rolls at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
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