The McCall Community Center’s oven is currently down and menus will be adjusted to accommodate that challenge.Anyone interested in donating toward a new oven can email mccallsrcenter@gmail.com.Here are next week’s menus at MCC.All meals are served with a fruit or vegetable and drink.
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It’s not too late to sign up for the Payette Lake Run being held on Sunday from Brown Park in downtown McCall.Registration will close on Friday at 11:59 a.m.Packet pickup will be on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
Water rates in McCall would increase about 6% in 2025 and 2026 under a proposal aired last week to the McCall City Council.The proposed rate increase would add about $4 per month to the average residential bill in each of the next two years, followed by about $3 per month each year thereafter.Overall, average monthly bills would increase from about $71 currently to about $88 in 2029, under the proposal, which the council is expected to consider adopting at a future meeting.The proposed 6% rate increase is 2% more than estimated in May when a $16.5 million bond issue was approved by McCall voters for water system improvements.The rate increases are needed to pay for debt payments tied to the bond issue, which the council pursued instead of seeking steeper rate increases that could have doubled monthly water bills to fund the system upgrades.The new rates would take effect Oct.
All-leaguer Maddox Arnold will be running and gunning for touchdowns this fall, but the senior quarterback knows who will be paving the way when the McCall-Donnelly football team opens the season against 5A Wood River on Friday.“I honestly think our O-line is going to be the star,” Arnold said.That is typically good news for a football team, and it stems from the fact four of five offensive linemen from last season return for the Vandals: Mike Pellerin (left tackle), Max Recher (center), Avery Riggs (right guard) and Finn Moon (right tackle).
Warmer weather returns to the region this week that will test firefighters efforts to contain fires in the West Mountain Complex.The warmer weather following a few days of colder temperatures and precipitation gave firefighters the chance to conduct controlled burns around several fires, strengthening containment lines by removing burnable materials.The main focus in the area continues to be the Snag Fire about eight miles east of Cascade, which grew to over 27,000 acres as of Tuesday with 3% containment.Warm Lake Road was opened last week for residents and contractors in the Warm Lake, Yellow Pine and Big Creek areas, but it was closed again temporarily following a windstorm on Tuesday evening.
AnnMarie and Zeke Johnson were relieved last week when the Waters Edge Event Center in Eagle grew quiet after they placed an opening bid on a Payette Lake cabin site the couple has been leasing from the state.The Boise couple’s bid was the only one placed for the cottage site at 993 Grouse Way, one of two lots that did not receive more than one bid during last Friday’s auction by the Idaho Department of Lands.“We didn’t know what to expect, but there were way more people at the auction than we thought,” Johnson said.
Jacob Mascheroni is just one of several McCall-Donnelly cross country runners on the move this fall.Mascheroni, a junior, has put in the work as he chases top finishes at districts and state meets again this year.The Vandals open the season on Friday at the Weiser Invitational.“He’s done a lot of hard workouts on his own and worked on eating clean and sleeping well to maximize his training,” M-D coach McCall Keller said.
Most of what Michael Perry knows about wildland firefighting he has learned on the frontlines of the West Mountain Complex wildfire over the last two weeks.Perry is among 250 U.S.
The City of McCall’s proposed $56.4 million budget for 2025 was adopted last week by the McCall City Council.The budget proposal includes all expected city expenditures from Oct.