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Council School Board
August 27, 2025

Hamaker Sworn in as New Board Member; New SRO Hired

August 27, 2025

Upper Country Singers Begin Rehearsals for 2025

Letters to the Editor

Thanks from the Council Mountain Music Festival
Mayor Good Should Have Allowed Public Comment
Forest Clean Up and Funding
Illegal Moratorium
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Big Yard Sale
Upper Country Children's Choir
Upper Country Singers – First Rehearsal
Midvale Church of Christ
ACHS Rummage Sale
MVCC Pie Sale
Community Worship Service
New Meadows Burn Ban

Other Local News

Grace: It’s Really Amazing
Bus to Ontario August 28
Bingo September 5
Grant Received from Commercial Club
Health Advisory for Brownlee, Hells Canyon Reservoirs
Bingo August 22
Board Elections in December
Noxious Weed Projects - Apply Now!
Bingo - August 22
BYOP - August 28

Thank Yous

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The Council Senior Center would like to thank the Council Loggers Jubilee board for their very generous scholarship donation. It will help us with our Home Delivered Meals program. Nancy Schwartz, Coordinator
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New Meadows City Council
August 27, 2025

Special City Council Meeting: EMS District Discussion

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Adams County Commissioners
August 27, 2025

Commissioners Address Rock Fire, Home Burials and Road Complaints

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August 27, 2025

Candidate Filing Deadline - Aug. 29

Jennifer Hamaker after being sworn in as the Council School District Board Member for Zone 2.
Council School Board
August 27, 2025

Hamaker Sworn in as New Board Member; New SRO Hired

A past concert with the Upper Country Singers. Photo credit: Upper Country Singers
August 27, 2025

Upper Country Singers Begin Rehearsals for 2025

New Meadows City Council
August 20, 2025

Updates, Budget Hearing

Cambridge Middle-High School. Photo credit: Mary Beth Schwartz
August 20, 2025

Sponsors Needed for Paws Pals

Rock Fire perimeter as of Monday morning. Photo courtesy of Boise National Forest
August 20, 2025

Rock Fire Update

A screenshot from purpleair.com showing the air quality measurement taken from the sensor at the Council Schools.
August 20, 2025

How Clean is the Air you Breathe?

Meadows Valley School Board
August 20, 2025

K-3 Shows Top Reading Growth in the State

August 20, 2025

More Information on Council Water Project

Cambridge City Council
August 20, 2025

Cambridge City Council Signs Civility Pledge

Adams County Commissioners
August 20, 2025

County Intends to Purchase a Couple Buildings in Former Council Ind. Park

Council City Council
August 20, 2025

Water Rate Increase Tabled For Now

First Place Golf Team: Nick Waggoner, Jacques LaFay, Tina Taylor, and Ric Coles. Photo credit: Laura Silkworth
August 20, 2025

Fosdick Golf Benefit Celebrates 40 Years

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Council 4th of July

July 4, 2025
A child races their soap box car.

Council Boys Basketball vs Notus

June 12, 2025
Council boys basketball action

Council Junior High Track Meet

April 25, 2025
An athlete competes at Council's Jr. High Track Meet on April 25, 2025.

Council Basketball Boys District Championship

February 26, 2025
Basketball action on 2/26/2025

Council Boys Basketball vs Garden Valley

February 19, 2025
Basketball action on 2/19/2025

Titan Girls Basketball District Tourny

February 7, 2025
Titan Girls basketball

Council Boys Basketball vs. Tri-Valley

January 14, 2025
Council vs. Tri-Valley

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Cambridge

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Rock Fire Update
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Candidate Filing Deadline Aug. 29
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Cambridge City Council
Concerns About Spruce Tree

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Adams County Commissioners
Commissioners Address Rock Fire, Home Burials and Road Complaints
August 27, 2025
Candidate Filing Deadline - Aug. 29
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Rock Fire Update
August 20, 2025
How Clean is the Air you Breathe?
August 20, 2025
More Information on Council Water Project

Midvale

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Rock Fire Update
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How Clean is the Air you Breathe?
August 20, 2025
Candidate Filing Deadline Aug. 29
August 20, 2025
Midvale City Council
Declarations of Candidacy Due August 29
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Midvale School Board
FY25 Financial Report Results In Moving Funds

New Meadows

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New Meadows City Council
Special City Council Meeting: EMS District Discussion
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Adams County Commissioners
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Mud in 1919 on what is now Highway 95 near Grangeville.

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Mud in 1919 on what is now Highway 95 near Grangeville.

Photos from the Mink Family

Bob Mink, age 19, driving a team that is pulling the family’s combine. This photo shows the horses harnessed/hitched in two rows, four abreast. In other photos, the teams are hitched in different formations.

Fatal Fruitvale Wreck

Left to right: Bill Burt at left edge; his wife, Ethel Burt; unidentified woman with back turned, Hazel Burt, Nellie Ivie, Florence Burt, Clarecie Ivie (Abbott), Jim Fisk (my grandfather); the others are unidentified.

Mesa Gun Fight

Adams County Sheriff Chester ‘Chet’ Selby (1896 - 1951) and his son, Norman (1922-1941), with a fresh deer kill on the hood of the car, in 1928. Selby picked up the wounded man known only as ‘Arnold’ near Council and took him to the Weiser hospital. Chet Selby was a WWI veteran and the father of Loraine Selby (1932-2016). His other daughter, Vivian (1923-1985 ), married Ted McGown (1917-2001).
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