Community/Senior Center Menus
MCCALL SENIOR CENTER Here are next week’s menus for the McCall Senior Center. Meals begin at 5 p.m.
November 2022
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Library to host animaltheme family Story Time Friday for Family Reading Week
McCall Public Library will celebrate Idaho’s Family Reading Week with a special animal-themed Story Time on Friday at 6 p.m. with free books and snacks.
New Meadows updates code to allow tiny homes
Tiny homes can now be built in New Meadows under a zoning code update adopted on Monday by the New Meadows City Council. The updated code sets standards for tiny homes, or homes that are less than 400 square feet, in hopes of reducing a housing shortage in the area, New Meadows Mayor Julie Good said.
Payette forest wants to burn 30,000 acres per year
Burns would reduce risks of widspread forest fires The Payette National Forest is asking for comments on a multi-year project that would include as much as 30,000 acres of prescribed burns per year to reduce the risks of catastrophic forest fires. The “Resilience and Fuels Reduction Prescribed Fire Project” also seeks to improve habitat for wildlife and native plants on about 1.3 million acres of the forest.
New website for The Star-News to be launched Friday
CherryRoad Media will launch a new website for The Star-News this Friday, Nov. 18.
Spend ‘free’ fed money on county roads
Valley County is getting a giant slice of pork from the federal government that should be fed directly into improving county roads. That is the biggest bang county residents and property owners can get from the bucks.
Letters to the Editor
I have, for years, enjoyed reading the The Star-News from cover to cover. I’ve always seen it as a quality small-town paper. Until the last issue. Maybe it’s the new owners who have made the decision to include the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s pitchman in their opinion section? (“Idaho should unhitch its wagon from the broken welfare train,” Nov. 10, 2022). In any case, it’s a bad decision.
EVENTS/THE ARTS
Payette Lakes Progressive Club’s Festival of Trees will be Saturday, Nov. 26, from 10 a.m.
READING REWARDS
READING REWARDS - These students at Donnelly Elementary School were allowed to wear capes in class after earning more than 100 points in the Accelerated Reader program or for excellence at sight words