Another year is in the books for the Idaho County Fair. Here’s a look at some of the week’s events, which included lots of animal time, talent, royalty, pigtails and fair food. (To view the slide show, click on the right arrow in the top right corner.)
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GRANGEVILLE -- “We really wanted to keep this open for the community,” Joel Gomez said. “We feel there’s so much potential here.”
The 43rd annual Chief Lookingglass Powwow was held in Kamiah Aug. 16-18, at the Wa’A’Yas grounds. With the theme of “Come Dance Under The Stars,” hundreds of children and adults participated in inter-tribal and ceremonial American Indian dances, dressed in full regalia of their prospective t…
GRANGEVILLE – A proposal for a multi-use biking and pedestrian path west of town will not receive official support from the City of Grangeville.
GRANGEVILLE - Judge Gregory FitzMaurice granted a motion from the defense to postpone from September to January the trial of two Greencreek sisters accused of attempting to contract the murder of their neighbor.
GRANGEVILLE – “Our communities see the benefit of having a certified specialist instruct our children in physical education,” Grangeville Elementary Middle School teacher and parent Bernadette Edwards told the Mountain View School District 244 school board July 29.
GRANGEVILLE – Inappropriate books and materials were a concern for resident Richard Negus, who wants the City of Grangeville to get ahead of what he sees as a potential problem.
COTTONWOOD – Showcasing their best, kids worked the floor last Saturday, Aug. 17, for the annual Idaho County 4-H/FFA Livestock Sale. Held at the Idaho County Fairgrounds in Cottonwood, the fair culminates in this sale that this year featured a total 205 animals with a total sale of $250,760.
While the state’s vote for Proposition 2 – Medicaid expansion – is old news, how those ballots fell at the precinct level within counties has been broken out in a new interactive map recently released by the Idaho Policy Institute (IPI).
Idaho County’s population was on the second year of a rebound in 2018.
Before you know it, the swim season is over at the Grangeville city pool. Patrons enjoyed one last dip for summer last Friday, Aug. 16, ending the season that started on June 2.
What was in the air at the Idaho County Fair in 2019? A lot of people were seeing double.
BOISE – Attorney General Lawrence Wasden is renewing his call for Idahoans to be vigilant following an increase in the number of consumers being targeted by the so-called Social Security imposter scam.
These horses at Silver Spur Lodge in Dixie seemed to be waiting for their next customers to take them for a ride recently.
An Orofino man is being charged with felony vehicular manslaughter following last month’s fatal motorcycle crash at Kamiah.
After heavy storms dropped damaging rain and hail on Fiddle Creek, north of Riggins, last Friday night, Aug. 9, it took Idaho Transportation Department workers most of last Saturday to scrape away enough of the mud and debris for regular traffic to resume on one lane of U.S. Highway 95 south…
GRANGEVILLE – Despite a looming insurance deadline, Mountain View School District (MVSD) 244 and the Central Idaho Education Association (CIEA) did not come to any agreements at the July 30 negotiations meeting for the 2019-20 school year.
GRANGEVILLE – “Of course, in the ambulance and emergency services, we continue to be concerned about recruitment and retention,” Syringa Hospital facilities manager Bill Spencer told the board of trustees at the July 20 meeting.
Why was nearly 1-year-old me photographed by a blank TV screen? I’d seen the pictures in browsing family photo albums, but it wasn’t until I was perhaps in high school or college that I thought to ask my parents just what was the deal?
GRANGEVILLE – Seven Idaho County Fair royalty 2020 candidates and the three current members of the court gathered Wednesday, Aug. 7, at the Grangeville Church of the Nazarene for the annual royalty luncheon.
Get ready for Umpqua Bank’s Vendor Night, Thursday, Aug. 22, 5 to 7 p.m., at the bank’s main level and in the parking lot.
Elk City Days was held last Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9-10, featuring kids’ games, a parade, logging show and other activities for the community’s annual celebration.
AARP Foundation Tax-Aide has kicked off volunteer recruitment for its Tax-Aide program, the nation’s largest volunteer-run tax-preparation service. The foundation is looking to expand its team of volunteers for the upcoming tax season and is accepting new volunteers through the end of October.
GRANGEVILLE – Spend your lunch hour with an interesting story, as the Brown Bag Program continues today, Wednesday, Aug. 14, when Meleah McCulley will present “The Short Line to Stites.”
Kids Klub recently welcomed Grangeville Police Department’s Sgt. Mike Quintal who taught about 30 kids about bike safety.
KOOSKIA – Federal agencies continue to investigate a fatal plane crash last Sunday, Aug. 11, outside Kooskia.
Clearwater Valley Hospital and Clinics, St. Mary’s Hospital and Clinics and Kootenai Health have entered into a letter of intent to transfer ownership of the two critical access hospitals from Essentia Health to Kootenai Health.
Local school districts are seeking new board trustees for 2020.
GRANGEVILLE – Attendees came with interest – and questions – that created for a standing-room-only crowd of approximately 225 who packed into last week’s Capital for a Day event, hosted by Governor Brad Little and attended by more than a dozen state department heads and agency officials.
KAMIAH – The area surrounding the St. Mary’s Medical Clinic in Kamiah is busting with activity. This is in preparation to make way for the $5-million-dollar clinic expansion that will allow St. Mary’s to accommodate more patients in the area.
In June, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced that 44 local governments in Idaho would receive a total of $32.2 million under the 2019 Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program.
GRANGEVILLE – Idaho County’s solid waste contractor, Simmons Sanitation Service, Inc., of Kamiah, told the county commission Tuesday, Aug. 6, that garbage collection is once again on pace to total about 4,900 tons this year. That would again trigger an excess tonnage provision in the county’…
GRANGEVILLE – Syringa Hospital and Clinic has gained a familiar face.
GRANGEVILLE – Spend your lunch hour with an interesting story, as the Brown Bag Program continues for the next three weeks.
HARPSTER -- Harpster area freelance writer and Kamiah schools substitute teacher Norma Staaf has filed to run for Mountain View School Board Trustee, zone 2 in the November 2019 election.
Pine Tree Community Credit Union in Grangeville held its annual customer appreciation barbecue Friday, Aug. 2.
The annual Dixie Days celebration brought in townspeople and visitors to view a quilt show, eat burgers, paint, play softball, participate in a tug-of-war and duck derby, play horse shoes, visit and listen to the band American Bonfire.
This group of rafters was spotted taking a slow float through Pine Bar Recreation Area on the Lower Salmon River west of Cottonwood last Sunday afternoon, Aug. 4.
The Monastery of St. Gertrude at Cottonwood hosted the 27th annual Raspberry Festival last Sunday, Aug. 4. The event featured its signature dessert, an arts and crafts fair, classic car show, art exhibit, chapel tours, and entertainment throughout the day.
The last in the Grangeville Arts/Grangeville Chamber of Commerce Summer Concert Series was held at Pioneer Park Aug. 1. Attendees enjoyed a warm, breezy summer night as they listened and danced to The Big Newtons out of Lewiston.
GRANGEVILLE – There’s a new face for Grangeville music and she has an understanding of small-town programs.
The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests marked the start of wildfire season last Friday, July 26, with an effort to counter the eruption of a lightning-caused burn six miles east of the Powell Ranger Station, near where Crab Creek meets Colt Killed Creek in the deep woods.
It's the hunters' responsibility to check if they drew and buy the controlled hunt tags no later than Aug. 1
Stites Days took place July 13 and 14 with people flocking to town for a 20-entry parade, park play, horseshoes, food and more.
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.
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.”
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…
GRANGEVILLE – Locate a partner. Check.
GRANGEVILLE – For Jolene Rupp, the desire to be a bookkeeper came early.
Four Townsend's solitaire babies in a nest, located on top of the Grangeville watershed by the towers, on June 25. Townsend's solitaire is the only solitaire native to America north of Mexico. The name commemorates ornithologist John Kirk Townsend.
GRANGEVILLE – The Grangeville Free 2019 Summer Concert Series lineup is secure and ready to begin July 11.
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