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Tammie Newman has returned to McAlvain Companies, Inc. after working in Texas for the past two and a half years. She is rejoining the company as director of preconstruction services. Newman originally joined McAlvain in 1997 as a project manager and was ...

Kari Overall has been elected president of the Idaho Education Association in a statewide vote of association members. Her three-year term begins August 1. Overall teaches U.S. history at South Junior High School in Boise, and has a substantial track ...

Gina Bessire has joined the Zions Bank Business Resource Center as business resource counselor. She will join Karen Appelgren, director of the BRC, in providing workshops and complimentary one-on-one business consulting appointments to aspiring, new or established small business owners. ...

Darrell Early has been named chief of the Office of the Attorney General’s Natural Resources Division. The appointment is effective immediately and follows the retirement of longtime Division Chief Clive Strong. Early joined the office in 1999 as a deputy ...

Jason Karl has been hired as the first Harold F. and Ruth M. Heady Endowed Chair of Rangeland Ecology at the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources. He starts in the fall. Karl earned a bachelor’s degree in wildlife ...

The Idaho State Board of Education has new elected officers to serve for the next year, including a new president. Linda Clark will serve as president, Debbie Critchfield will serve as vice president and Dr. David Hill will serve as ...

Rob Stewart to has been promoted to SBA loan officer at Columbia Bank. He will work closely with Columbia Bank teams in Pendleton, Hermiston, Ontario, Eastern Washington and Idaho. Stewart has more than 32 years of banking experience. He served as the vice ...

Ava Isaacson has joined Idaho Rivers United as a conservation associate. Isaacson has a BS in environmental science from the University of Idaho and worked as an AmeriCorps member for Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute in Moscow. She completed a second AmeriCorps ...

Eight members have joined the board of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce including Laura Cobb, Gerald Hunter, Charlene Maher, Susan Morris, and Jeff Taylor. These five members will serve a three-year term. In addition, Dave Terrell, Brett Lensing, and Chase ...