Shilah Arnold delivered eight kills as the McCall-Donnelly volleyball team kept its season alive, dropping Homedale in three sets, 25-10, 25-14, 25-15, during a 4A District III Tournament elimination game played in McCall on Tuesday.The Vandals host Weiser today at 6 p.m.
Charlie Speirs and Jacob Mascheroni nabbed the top two spots and the McCall-Donnelly boys cross country team snared a repeat title at the 4A District III Meet on Tuesday in Payette.The Vandal girls also finished second place as a team, losing a chance to repeat as district champs by tiebreaker.Speirs won the boys overall district title, running the 5,000-meter course at Warren E.
Children in fifth grade and under can visit the Boo Barn at the Valley County Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday, Oct.
On Tuesday night, just over a week before Halloween, a group of New Meadows and Adams County citizens began brewing up a concoction that should have city and county officials across the region taking notes.Like many committees before them, the newly formed New Meadows Roads and Streets Committee is likely to be cast aside by most observers as yet another layer of government bureaucracy unlikely to yield any tangible results, but guaranteed to warm the hearts of the bureaucrats and do-gooders who sign up for such duties.The committee, however, is on the verge of tapping into some of the most readily available resources in the region—a glut of blue collar talent and a strong public distaste for substandard roads.Roads have long been among the chief complaints of residents in New Meadows and across Adams and Valley Counties, but little ever changes because it turns out building and maintaining quality roads is an expensive endeavor in snow country.
First responders will practice a “mass casualty” event on Tuesday in Downtown McCall, simulating a multiple vehicle accident that would stretch the limits of local hospitals and EMS services.“We want to make sure the community is aware of this training exercise, as it may appear to be a real event, but it is for training purposes only,” St.
New head coach, same result.Sebastian Carheden scored a pair of goals and the McCall-Donnelly boys soccer team continued its district dominance by knocking off Weiser, 4-1, last week at the Richard Sabala Athletic Complex.Bogdan Monahan and Toby Klasner also hit the net as the Vandals won a fifth straight district crown with a home crowd cheering on despite cold temperatures and the occasional flurry of snow.But there was a new head coach on the sideline for this one – Forrest Stanley – a long time assistant for the Vandal girls soccer team who took the reins of the boys program this fall when Brad Kindall decided to step down after eight years.Kindall’s teams won four straight district championships and qualified for state six times, bringing home a fourth place trophy last season.
McCall-Donnelly High School senior Bogdan Monahan was one of 16,000 students nationwide to be selected as a semifinalist for the National Merit Scholarship Program.The nominees will compete for nearly $26 million in scholarships to be awarded in the spring.About 95% of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.Over 1.3 million juniors from about 21,000 high schools nationwide entered the 2025 competition by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of candidates.To become a finalist, the candidate and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application with information about the candidate’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received.A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S.
Cascade Schools Superintendent Joni Stevenson will step down by the end of the school year.Stevenson submitted her resignation at the Cascade School Board of Trustees meeting on Oct.
Volunteer work, donations, and other “outside the box” efforts could improve decrepit dirt roads in New Meadows, a newly formed committee said this week.The group, called the Streets and Roads Committee, held its first meeting on Tuesday night to brainstorm low-cost ways to improve city streets that are dusty in the summer and plagued by potholes in the winter.“We have a community of lots of experienced people in building roads and maintaining them,” said Josh Carr, a New Meadows City Council member who suggested forming the committee.
Residential properties in Valley County have seen a steady increase in property tax bills, while most commercial properties have paid less and less over the past five years.“We have seen a shift in property tax to residential properties because residential values have increased at a rate faster than commercial properties,” said Valley County Treasurer Johanna Defoort.Over the past five years, residential property values have increased by about 193% on average, from $4.1B to $10.7B in total value countywide.