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The Museum of Idaho became a downtown Idaho Falls showpiece in 2003 when an expansive, rounded glass façade tied together the 1916 Carnegie Library and the similarly aged Masonic Lodge nearby. For the past 15 years, though, the museum’s interior ...

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College of Eastern Idaho in Idaho Falls, Idaho’s newest community college, will open its second academic year with four newly renovated spaces that provide upgraded laboratories, nursing simulation, surgical simulation and a testing center. CEI moved onto the campus of ...

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Idaho Falls Zoo Director David Pennock stands inside the large, open Hamilton Building at the neighboring fairgrounds and paints an invisible picture with his hands. “Imagine a pride of lions in here,” Pennock said, “You’d be able to view them ...

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JRW Construction of Eagle is building its first retail strip center in Kuna on a half-acre lot that owner James Wylie has owned for more than 10 years. Wylie and his sons, Jake and Erik, started construction at the end ...

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Offices and a restaurant or two could soon fill the historic Odd Fellows building in downtown Idaho Falls, long home to an antiques shop. Local farmers Kris and Tasha Taylor bought the 1908 Romanesque Revival structure in summer 2017 and ...

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Doug Oppenheimer and Philanthropist Steve Carr walked to breakfast a couple years ago in downtown Boise. Carr, an Idaho Falls attorney, and Oppenheimer, president of Boise-based Oppenheimer Companies, had become friends while serving together on the board of the Boise ...

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Neenah, Wisconsin,-based Cobblestone Hotels will open its second Idaho hotel in mid-August in Victor, near the Wyoming state line. The first Cobblestone Hotel & Suites in the Gem State opened in November in Soda Springs. A Cobblestone official acknowledges early ...

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Only the upper half of the main staircase remains at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in downtown Boise as church leaders renovate the weather-damaged lower half. The stairs have been missing since June; parishioners will be entering the ...

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The city of Boise has come up with possible solutions to two specific issues the public has zeroed in on since the vision of a new main library was unveiled: The Cabin and parking. The writers’ nonprofit organization The Cabin ...

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The Idaho State Museum will reopen its newly expanded and renovated Julia Davis Park facility Oct. 12 after closing the museum for more than four years. The $17 million revamp added 18,000 square feet to the 1950 structure. The renovation ...

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