Man Recovers from Brain Injury after Accident at Auger Falls
TWIN FALLS o Matt Smith couldn't breathe. He couldn't open his eyes. And his brain was beginning to swell.Time was running out and an ambulance would not be able to get to him.Smith had just fallen about 15 feet from an area known as Broken Bridge near Auger Falls, landing on his head, crushing part of his skull and breaking his femur.Three days later, he awoke in a Boise hospital, ...
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Urban Facelifts Improve Magic Valley Communities
RUPERT o What started as an idea at a Filer City Hall meeting to spruce up the town is now transforming communities across the Magic Valley. Southern Idaho Operation Facelift has improved 60 building facades and beautified 18 communities since the summer of 2011. Over the next two weeks, hundreds of volunteers throughout the region will paint buildings and pick up trash for this year's ...
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Kimberly Revitalizes Downtown Red Cap Corner as Population Grows
KIMBERLY o Businesses are being attracted to Kimberly's downtown thanks to revitalization projects and plans to modernize Kimberly's most dangerous intersection. Leaders are capitalizing on economic and population growth to make the town more independent in hopes of shedding its reputation as a bedroom community.Nearly 1,000 people have moved to the area since 1990, a significant ...
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Idaho Leads Nation In Number Of Low-Wage Workers
Tuesday marks the 75th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act. That law created a nationwide minimum wage which is now $7.25 an hour. Democrats are pushing to raise the wage, but Republicans say higher pay would hurt job creation. Idaho has been losing higher paying manufacturing jobs but gaining low-paying service ...
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BBB Recycled Email Addresses Cause Concern Use Caution
While rumors ravage the Internet about Yahoo! recycling thousands of unused email addresses, truths assure people nothing will happen when it happens.According to news provider Reuters, 7 percent of the potential dormant IDs are tied to Yahoo Mail accounts. The rest, a company spokesman said, are for non-email Yahoo services like fantasy sports leagues.Yahoo Director Dylan Casey told Reuters, ...
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Money You Forgot 75 Owners of Unclaimed Property in South-central Idaho
Many Idahoans' names, for one reason or another, end up on the state's unclaimed property list.People get divorced, they get remarried, they move out of state. And sometimes they don't leave the bank a forwarding address."Unclaimed property" usually doesn't refer to land or a house. Rather, it's money -- checking accounts, savings accounts, stock dividends, ...
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Former Kimberly Mayor Dies At 84
KIMBERLY o Raised as an only child in Kimberly, Jesse Posey considered the small town his family.At each step in life, he grew closer with that family -- when he started working at the post office, when he joined the Kimberly Christian Church, when he became the town's mayor and when he eventually became the crosswalk guard for Kimberly Elementary School."When he was postmaster, he knew ...
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Former Kimberly Mayor Dies At 84
KIMBERLY o Raised as an only child in Kimberly, Jesse Posey considered the small town his family.At each step in life, he grew closer with that family -- when he started working at the post office, when he joined the Kimberly Christian Church, when he became the town's mayor and when he eventually became the crosswalk guard for Kimberly Elementary School."When he was postmaster, he knew ...
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