BY MAX SILVERSON The Star-News Valley County Commissioners will use $1 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to allow the West Central Mountains Housing Trust to build three affordable housing units in Cascade. The decision at Monday’s meeting was the first time commissioners have used any of the roughly $9 million given to the county by the federal legislation.
The Cascade Medical Center decided last week that the 40 patients treated in the hospital last year were more important than $3.2 million in annual funding from the federal government. In a meeting last week, trustees considered the option of becoming a “rural emergency hospital,” a new designation that would give the hospital $3.2 million per year under the condition that all patients are transferred to a bigger hospital within 24 hours.
First meeting set for March A nine-person board to advise Valley County on recreation priorities was approved on Monday. County Commissioners appointed five people from McCall, two from Lake Fork, one from Donnelly and one from Cascade to a newly formed Valley County Recreation Advisory Committee.
McCall Senior Center Here are next week’s menus for the McCall Senior Center. Meals begin at 5:30 p.m.
Nearby homes evacuated until scene cleared Sat. U.S.
HazMat team cleaned spill nonstop for two days One errant spark of static electricity was the difference between life and death for Dewayne Birch and other HazMat workers last week on U.S. 95 north of New Meadows.
The Star-News The Payette National Forest is seeking public comments on the 40,000-acre Granite Goose Landscape Restoration Project on the McCall and New Meadows Ranger Districts. A public meeting on the project is planned for Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.m.
BY DREW DODSON Homeowners in neighborhoods along the North Fork of the Payette River in McCall should be wary of mountainlions,accordingtotheIdaho Department of Fish and Game. Several sightings reported since last month have led officials to believe one or two mountain lions are staying in areas around Rio Vista Boulevard and Mather Road, Fish and Game regional wildlife manager Regan Berkley said.
New gas stations would be banned along Idaho 55 in McCall under a city code update recently recommended for approval by the McCall Area Planning and Zoning Commission. The proposed law would require any new fuel pumps at gas stations on designated scenic routes in the city to be at least 150 feet away from the roadway.