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Last weekend’s rain dampened some forest fire activity in the region.
The grease was piping hot and the batter fresh inside the mobile Myron’s Famous Donuts stand set up on the grounds of the Clayton Museum on Labor Day.
Even though just one person was in the audience for the Aug. 31 showing of “Mike Wallace is Here” at Mackay Main Theater, the movie played on the big screen and the restored antique popcorn popper held fresh popcorn.
“We need to take care of the animals of Custer County,” said Michelle Christianson, treasurer of Heart of Idaho Animal Sanctuary.
With fall approaching, some roads in the Salmon-Challis National Forest close for the season.
Even though just one person was in the audience for the Aug. 31 showing of “Mike Wallace is Here” at Mackay Main Theater, the movie played on the big screen and the restored antique popcorn popper held fresh popcorn.
Hunter Diehl joined the staff of The Challis Messenger last week as a reporter.
Last weekend’s rain dampened some forest fire activity in the region.
First Cobalt, which owns the Iron Creek Cobalt Project in Lemhi County, entered a $5 million loan agreement with Glencore AG on Aug. 26 to complete engineering, metallurgical testing, field work and permitting associated with a recommissioning and expansion of the First Cobalt refinery in Canada.
BOISE (AP)— Federal officials last week rejected one of Idaho’s requests for a waiver for Medicaid expansion, causing Gov. Brad Little and other Republican leaders to say the federal government “pulled the rug out from under us.”
Five so-called mobile food pantries installed in well-trafficked areas in Salmon are rarely bare because of volunteers determined to address food insecurity among Lemhi County families.
The Challis Vikings hosted the Grace Grizzlies for the season-opening football game Sept. 6 and lost 56-6.
Consider this. Challis lost two games by a total of eight points in 2018.
First-time hunters have a final opportunity to complete a mandatory hunter education course before the fall big game seasons begin.
Kelli Ann Strand of Challis wrapped up her summer golf season by being chosen the Idaho Diamond Line Player of the Year by the Idaho Golf Association for 15-18-year-old girls.
An illegally killed pronghorn buck was discovered near Stanley Aug. 14 by Idaho Department of Fish and Game officers.
Kelli Ann Strand ended up with a three-day total of 209 — 7 under par — to win the season-ending Idaho Junior Amateur golf tournament earlier this month.
A hunter education class is scheduled in Mackay from Wednesday, Aug. 21, through Thursday, Aug. 29.
There’s no slowing down in Lisa D’Orazio’s fourth-grade classroom at Challis Elementary School — for the teacher or her students.
Challis Elementary School received a $10,299 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's fresh fruit and vegetable program.
It may be known by three names, but Challis school trustees and Superintendent Lani Rembelski agree they need to hold a workshop to tweak the district’s continuous improvement plan. That plan is also known as a strategic plan and school-wide improvement plan.
This year we studied trout in the classroom with Sylvia Hamilton from the Sawtooth Fish Hatchery.
Changes to the student handbooks for the two Challis schools have been approved by the school board.
Results in grade-level proficiency scores for Challis students covering the last five school years range from a low of 4 percent on the math section for one cohort to highs of 50 percent in reading and 57 percent in science for two other age groups of students, Superintendent Lani Rembelski …
You could tell that Challis school board members were a bit jealous of fifth-grade students in Stephanie Strand’s class who reported on their BaseCamp experiences at the board’s June 12 meeting.
Challis students involved with the Custer County Coalition lunch and learn program are bound for a four-day Idaho drug-free youth leadership summit in Coeur d’Alene June 18-21.
Calvin and Jenna McGowan of Challis welcomed a daughter, Macie Jo Jean McGowan, on Feb. 16, 2019.
