Emmett is continuing to add fiber optic cabling to its city-owned network, and is starting to foresee the time when all city offices and resources are hooked up. At that point, the city can start thinking about how to provide ...

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A small impromptu park at downtown Emmett’s main intersection was recently acquired by the Kiwanis Club of Emmett. The Kiwanis Aug. 16 acquisition with a donated $40,000 resolves the potential loss to development of this .33 acre Pioneer Park at ...

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Boise Regional Realtors is expanding over the hill in a merger with the all-volunteer Emmett Valley Association of Realtors in Gem County. Effective Dec. 7, BRR staff is handling administrative matters for EVAR members, including government affairs, market statistics and ...

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The new 37-unit Ross Island at Moffat Cove affordable housing complex in Emmett should be fully occupied by the end of August, soon after construction on the final building is completed. Low-income tenants have been moving in Ross Island since ...

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Emmett started installing fiber optic cable six months ago to link all city facilities with broadband services. Eventually the southwestern Idaho city plans to extend fiber optic into the community and use the technology to recruit high-tech businesses. Emmett looks ...

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Nampa-based Clarity Credit Union started construction March 10 on a new, 2,800-square-foot branch in Emmett to replace a smaller branch it acquired in 2013 as Clarity acquired Payette River Community Credit Union. The new branch at 415 S. Washington Ave. ...

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D&B Supply will open the local chain’s 13th store in Emmett in September for farmers and gardeners, big to backyard. The store is going into the former King’s Variety Store at 111 Highway 16, which closed earlier in the year. ...

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Online retailer Reclaimed Lumber Products will open its second production facility, a 7,500-square-foot wood processing plant, in the next two months in the Shadow Butte Industrial Park near Emmett. Owner Titus Gilliam said the plant is intended as the first ...

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Gem County residents dreading the Highway 16 drive into Boise will have a relaxing option toward the end of the year as a Park & Ride lot opens in Emmett. The county’s first Park & Ride will be located at ...

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