FINANCIAL FOCUS
The school year will soon be here. And if you have young children, you’re one year closer to the day when they may be headed off to college. When that day arrives, will you be financially prepared?
August 2024
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Donnelly adopts 2025 budget
A $2.1 million budget proposal for 2025 was adopted on Monday by the Donnelly City Council. The city will collect about $146,000 in property taxes under the 2025 budget, which includes the maximum 3% property tax increased allowed by state law.
Cascade Schools gets a new principal
Chuck Silzly has been hired as the new Cascade Schools Principal, taking over for Lindsay Anthony, who served in the position for two years. Silzly comes to the district with 26 years of experience in education.
Rambler runners open season Wednesday
The Cascade cross country team is off and running, armed with a new coach as the fall season opens Wednesday at the Middleton Soggy Sneaker Run. Josh Miller, 30, will lead Rambler runners after accepting the head coach position, which oversees cross country for both junior high and high school.
Mountain Community School starts semester
The Mountain Community School will add a hot lunch option, a new yurt classroom and an outdoor play area this year. The charter school, which opened its doors in 2022, serves children in kindergarten through eighth grade and is located at the base of Tamarack Resort in a space that formerly housed the resort’s ski school.
Feathers at the Fair
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New hires shake up Cascade athletics
A series of new hires will shake up Cascade athletics entering the 2024-25 school year. Three new head coaches will take the reins of varsity programs and a new athletic director has been hired to oversee it all.
A cell tower at 60,000 feet – Experimental balloon floated above West Mountain Complex
Floating in the stratosphere thousands of feet above the West Mountain Complex fires is an experimental high altitude balloon carrying equipment to provide cell phone service to firefighters on the ground.The Thunderhead Balloon, operated by the Sioux-Falls, South Dakota firm Aerostar, launched from Baker City, Oregon on Aug.
Schools monitor air quality as athletics begin
Officials are monitoring air quality as high school athletes start practice this week to prepare for the fall season.A series of wildfires have filled Valley County skies with smoke and diminished the air quality in recent weeks, and even forced organizers of a popular mountain bike race to be held at Tamarack Resort in Donnelly over the weekend to call off the event.But McCall-Donnelly Activities Director Conor Kennedy said school officials are on top of it.
Cascade’s Platts a Hall of Famer
Add Hall of Famer to the long list of achievements for Cascade’s Bill Platts.The local 96-year-old track and field world record-holder was inducted into the Idaho Senior Games Hall of Fame at a ceremony last week.Platts received a custom glass trophy of recognition, with his name engraved.