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Richard DeWolf’s Portland-based company, Versatile Wood Products, specializes in the restoration and remodel of historical doors, windows and cabinetry. In the course of a single year, that work produces a significant amount of wood waste and sawdust, to the tune ...

Grace Assisted Living expects to open an 87-unit, 80,000- to 90,000-square-foot home in April near the Franklin Road freeway offramp in Caldwell. It will be the Boise company’s seventh assisted living home.  Caldwell will give Grace Assisted Living a presence ...

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For 26 years, McCall’s alternative high school has bounced from the school district’s basement to Ponderosa Park and a building on Highway 55 to 20 years in a pair of trailers at the edge of McCall-Donnelly High School. Since February, ...

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Don’t expect the name of the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley to stay the same. It’s a mouthful, and it will change when the new animal welfare center in Hailey opens some time in fall 2018. The shelter ...

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The new owners of BoDo want to give the downtown Boise commercial/office/movie complex more personality. Rob Gerbitz, sitting at Caffé D’Arte, looked across the street at 8th Street Marketplace – the 1903 Northrup Building and the 1904 Mercantile Building between ...

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U.S. homebuilders are feeling more optimistic this month, reflecting a recent rebound in sales of newly built homes. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Nov. 16 rose two points to 70 this month. That’s the ...

Idaho as a state and Boise and Lewiston as metro areas have led the nation in construction job growth at various points in the past year, and the state overall added 7,000 construction jobs in the past three years to ...

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The Royal Motor Inn street sign has finally been retired in downtown Moscow, two years after the new owners rechristened the mid-century, downtown property the Monarch Motel. The new Monarch Motel sign went up the last week of October, funded ...

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Every spring, the freeze and thaw cycle in McCall cracks the downtown streets, sending city crews rushing to patch up the pavements. The cycle repeats year after year on a base pavement that likely dates back 50 or more years, ...

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The founder and CEO of Chobani has no regrets about moving his Greek yogurt company to south-central Idaho, a region embroiled in the national debate over refugee resettlement that spread to company boycotts by far-right bloggers and conspiracy theorists. “I ...