$735K remodel completed by city Dawn Havens notices that the McCall Senior Center feels warmer recently, and not just because of the three dozen pies she baked in the center’s kitchen earlier this week. Havens was responsible for baking all 39 pies sold for the annual Thanksgiving pie sale, the senior center’s first major fundraiser since a $735,000 renovation of the building was completed over the summer.
Kallyn Rogers scored 10 points, but the Cascade girls basketball team’s quest to win a third straight game fell short against Wilder, 3919, on Friday at Novotny Gym. Freshman Ceder Saxton also chipped in five points as the Ramblers fell to 2-1 with the non-conference loss.
New Meadows Community Center will host a free community Thanksgiving dinner Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
On Nov. 1, McCall’s long independent newspaper, The Star-News, was sold to CherryRoad Media. The edition of The Star-News you are reading today is the first to be produced by CherryRoad, after the former local owners, Tom and Tomi Grote, continued to handle the first few November editions.
This Thanksgiving, we should all be thankful for community journalism and its deeply embedded roots in McCall. Today’s edition of The Star-News marks the first not shepherded by Tom and Tomi Grote since Feb.
America votes to extend Biden’s inconceivably stupid agenda To the Editor: Here we are again, one more time when America’s democracy and our voting rights, as set forth in our Constitution have been cannibalized. The state of Georgia will need two more months to establish the winner between Herschel Walker and Warnock.
The McCall Mountaineers hockey team skated out to an early lead and cruised to a 10-4 victory over the Reno Ice Raiders Friday at the Manchester Ice and Events Centre. Dimitri Jones, Bryan Watters and Mackay Power each came up with two goals as the Mountaineers opened a two-game homestand with a convincing win.
Cascade’s Jordyn Cummins won four races as the Cascade Killer Whales and the McCall Marlins swim teams competed on Saturday at the Cascade Aquatics and Recreation Center. Luke Johnson also picked up a trio of wins, while Cascade teammates Sawyer Davis, Nash Campbell, Jackie Smith and Laura Inwards all won two races.
A freshly-paved highway and looming avalanche danger await drivers on Idaho 55 within a work zone near Smiths Ferry this winter, officials advised last week. The road will be open in both directions this winter as crews have stopped construction until next spring on the mile-long Smiths Ferry road-straightening project.