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Eastern Idaho Public Health (EIPH) will be holding FREE (no out-of-pocket cost) immunization clinics in June in all our satellite offices.
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Today at 4:52 pm West Yellowstone PD made contact with Fremont County asking for assistance in a pursuit they had in progress. Vehicle was reported to be traveling south bound toward the Idaho State line. Vehicle entered into Fremont County with Montana Deputy following. Fremont County Deput…
In a stunning change of events, Karey Hanks went from losing Tuesday’s election for State Representative 35-A to being declared the winner early Wednesday morning.
Local and state elections are over. Here is a compiled list of voter statistics and election results from Madison and Fremont County. All voting counts are unofficial and they will be recounting on Friday, June 4.
Rexburg
Project Protect, a service project created in Utah to produce masks for health care workers, sent about 190 kits to Rexburg on May 6. Each kit had 100 masks to be sewn. In the last two weeks of May, Upper Valley residents created over 93,000 clinical-grade pleated masks.
Rexburg
The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has shared the following letter about the October 2020 general conference with Church members everywhere.
Education
On Monday Rexburg residents gathered at Kennedy Elementary for a candlelight vigil to celebrate the eighth birthday of J.J. Vallow. The vigil also served as reminder that J.J. and his sister Tylee have been missing since September, 2019.
Beehive Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce they have awarded a total of $9,000 in Service Awards (scholarships) to the following recipients for the 2019/2020 school year:
The Upper Valley Music Teachers Association’s Scholarship Competition looked a bit different this year. Due to restrictions from COVID-19, only High School Seniors competed and the competition was held completely through recorded entries.
Agriculture and Business
ISLAND PARK — The Sawtelle Mountain Resort is undergoing a facelift.
ST. ANTHONY — Thanks to the purchase of two St. Anthony Industrial Park parcels the city will pay off a $250,000 Development Company loan used to develop the park. The organization is also known as the East Idaho Planning and Development Association.
REXBURG — Restoration work on a local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant proved to be more than a headache for the company in charge of the repair work.
Features
REXBURG – The Madison Veterans Service officer hopes to share a message of peace via his restored 1969 Vietnam War ambulance.
Madison Memorial Hospital respiratory therapist, Aaron Craythorn, is in New York treating COVID-19 patients at the Lincoln Bronx Hospital in New York. He has done so for the past six weeks and plans to be there for another month.
What better way to celebrate Unicorn Day than with a unicorn, right?
State News
BOISE — Two Boise teens were arrested Wednesday night during another protest at the Idaho Capitol — and one of them is accused of spray-painting anti-police statements on the building’s facade.
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BOISE — Newly released FBI documents say that Sen. Mike Crapo’s campaign told the FBI that the senator “was aware of and approved” the investment of a quarter-million dollars of his campaign donors’ funds into a risky get-rich-quick scheme “at the time of the transaction” in 2008, in which t…
Although the national average for gas prices moved just a penny in the last week, things have been much more volatile for Idaho and its Rocky Mountain neighbors.
Southeastern Idaho Public Health has confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 in southeast Idaho (1 in Bingham County, 4 in Franklin County).
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Southeastern Idaho Public Health (SIPH) has confirmed the first death associated with COVID-19 in Bannock County. The individual was a male age 65 with underlying health conditions. This gentleman had contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19.
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If you’ve driven past the electronic billboard on Northgate Mile near North Holmes Avenue lately, you may have noticed an ad showing a young girl holding a wedding bouquet with the words “Don’t Marry Me Off” and a link to girlawake.com/end-child-marriage.
National News
Latter-day Saints participated in an effort to provide live sheep to the Navajo Nation in Utah. Representatives from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offered assistance with senior staff from the Utah Governor’s Office and leaders from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Fo…
When leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lift the temporary suspension of weekly worship services, Church members around the world will again enjoy the centrality of the meetinghouse to their Sabbath experience.
After careful consideration and at the direction of Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, the Bureau of Land Management will temporarily suspend the collection of all entrance fees until further notice.
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BOISE — Oregon’s Cascade mountain range represents more than just a topographic barrier in the politically divided state.
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When leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lift the temporary suspension of weekly worship services, Church members around the world will again enjoy the centrality of the meetinghouse to their Sabbath experience.
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BOISE — Nearly 14,000 Idahoans have tested negative for COVID-19, but it is unclear how many of those were faulty results.
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A video meeting hosted by Utah’s Alpine School District was hacked, revealing pornographic images to dozens of elementary school students last week.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a new symbol to identify the faith. Church Prophet and President Russell M. Nelson announced it and explained its significance during the Saturday evening session of the April 2020 general conference.
