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DF Development is set to present plans for the 1,130-unit RedRidge Village development in Valley County that is only a sliver of a larger 30,000-acre project stretching across a wide swath of land south of New Meadows.The planned unit development is proposed for a 2,258-acre area on the western edge of Valley County to the south of McCall.
There was no flinching as the McCall-Donnelly girls basketball team welcomed 6A Nampa to the M-D gym on Saturday. Kaitlyn Esplin just missed a double-double and Izzy Tinney enjoyed a perfect night shooting as the 4A Vandals knocked off the visiting Bulldogs, 56-23, in front of a home crowd to etch their first win of the season.
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The Cascade volleyball team gathered on Nov.
About 4,500 homes and businesses from Cascade to Yellow Pine lost power on Friday for over six hours because of “line interference” caused by a bird, according to Idaho Power.Power went out at 5:48 a.m.
After recent snow storms delivered 24 inches of snow in one week, Brundage Mountain Resort moved their opening to tomorrow, a week earlier than planned.November winter storms have brought in more than three feet of snowfall, with packed snow depths ranging from 25 inches at the base of Brundage to 35 inches at the top.This will be Brundage’s earliest opening date since 2005 when the resort opened Nov.
A proposal to build Valley County’s first solar farm was denied Thursday by the Valley County Zoning Commission.Commissioners told applicants Kristen and Sean Rogers of McCall that the proposal was not complete and that the little information that was provided would negatively affect neighboring properties.The application proposed to build an array of eight-foot-high solar panels on about 95% of a 15-acre property at 12600 Goode Ln, about six miles south of Donnelly.“The way that I see this is we have an incomplete application.
As Thanksgiving approaches, food banks across Valley and Adams Counties are working to ensure local families have the supplies they need to put a special holiday meal on the table.This year, the need is even greater than usual due to economic pressures, particularly rising food costs as many families work hard to make ends meet but still find themselves stretched thin.“We’re seeing ever-increasing numbers of families, even more so than during COVID,” said Linda Klind, director of the Heartland Hunger and Resource Center in McCall.Each year, hundreds of families in Valley and Adams counties need help from food banks including the Donnelly Food Pantry, Cascade Food Pantry, New Meadows Food Bank and Heartland.Each organization works to ensure that no one in Valley or Adams counties goes without food.
Donnelly Fire & EMS Captain Nick Landry lit up the table filled with sawdust and wood chips to demonstrate to a group of students how wildland fires can travel quickly.The Donnelly Elementary fourth grade class is currently learning the FireWorks curriculum, a free hands-on interactive program that teaches students the science behind wildland fires, said Melissa Maini, the fourth-grade teacher at Donnelly Elementary.Maini, 58, has taught the program for several before it took a pause during COVID.It is back again this year with a class of 18 students.The curriculum teaches how the local terrain and plants affect wildland fires, said Maini.