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September 17, 2025

Council FFA Opening Social was a Hit!

Council City Council
September 17, 2025

City Explains Need for Water Work

New Meadows City Council
September 17, 2025

City Water Cleared, Brown Earns Certification

September 10, 2025

Mehen Memorial Skatepark Prepares to Open

Letters to the Editor

Sincere Thank You
US Funeral Service
An Interesting Public Hearing in Weiser
Thanks from the Council Mountain Music Festival
Mayor Good Should Have Allowed Public Comment

Community Bulletin Board

The Redeemed Inspirational Concert
Council Library
Rope Rescue Training
Adams County Legislative Town Hall
Funeral Services for Albert Becker
Meadows Valley Community Center
Council Community Choir Rehearsals
Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry

Other Local News

A “Grace Full” Easter
Bingo - September 19
The Amazing Grace of His Last Years
Watch Which Buttons You Push
Tent Worm Infestation in Idaho: Characteristics, Lifespan and Control Strategies
John Newton, Lost And Found
Bingo September 12
Baked Potato Bar Fundraiser September 12
Grace: It’s Really Amazing
Bus to Ontario August 28

Thank Yous

Thank You
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
The Council Elementary school library
Thank You from the Chamber
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Adams County Commissioners
September 17, 2025

Safer Streets, Smarter Spending, Stronger Forests

Council FFA Opening Social, 2025.  Photo by Alexis Power.
September 17, 2025

Council FFA Opening Social was a Hit!

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Council City Council
September 17, 2025

City Explains Need for Water Work

L - R: Mayor Julie Good, city council member Traci Foster, Jake Slater of IRWA, Hunter Brown, and Kirk Kundrick. Photo credit: Rachel Reynaga
New Meadows City Council
September 17, 2025

City Water Cleared, Brown Earns Certification

Midvale City Council
September 10, 2025

Water Rate Public Hearing Scheduled For October 13

Sophomore Jim Tucker avoids Kamiah defense.Photo credit: Patty Guilford, www.gameframephoto.com
Sports
September 10, 2025

Council Football Off and Running

September 10, 2025

Walk or Run with Courage to Connect

Ty Sheets prepares to take the snap from Gavin Evans in Council’s Junior High football against Cascade Ramblers.Photo credit: Nate Estes
Sports
September 10, 2025

Sports Council Junior High Football Starts On Thursday, September 4, Council Junior High Football played Cascade Ramblers at home. Final score was 36-20 Council.

Adams County Commissioners
September 10, 2025

County Secures $18.6M Budget; Welcomes New SRO; Plans for Opioid Settlement Funds

Progress on the Mehen Memorial Skate Park in New Meadows.Photo credit: Rachel Reynaga
September 10, 2025

Mehen Memorial Skatepark Prepares to Open

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Elections
September 10, 2025

Local Candidates

The Raindrop Coffee Shop’s special garden.  Photo credit: Mary Beth Schwartz
September 10, 2025

Raindrop Coffee Shop and Their Special Garden

The Hunter’s Garden. Photo credit: Elizabeth Hunter
Homesteading with the Hunters
September 3, 2025

Best Time to Start Was Last Year (...and the next best time is now)

Council Elementary’s new principal, Leo Fontana. Photo credit: Council School District
September 3, 2025

New Principal at Council Elementary

September 3, 2025

Carter Closing Shop - Temporarily

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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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Yester Years

The Upper Weiser Valleys in 1876

Alex and Martha Kesler. They lived in the Salubria Valley (and are listed in Milton Kelly’s 1876 account) before moving to the Council Valley.

Recent History Corner & Yester Years

Creation of a Cataclysm!

A Courthouse is Born

Showing the frame of the new courthouse – 1998.

MUD

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.
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