Idaho’s west central mountain communities such as McCall, Donnelley, and Cascade are trying to attract workers to improve their economic development, and they see improved broadband internet access as one avenue. “It’s a community issue,” said Andrew Mentzer, executive director ...

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A new $257,000 grant will enable the Idaho Falls Civic Center for the Performing Arts to add a mechanical orchestra lift to the first phase of renovations, which also include the replacement of all seats and a new color scheme ...

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Creating apartments for downtown living drove Mike Allen in recent years to buy the historic Montgomery Ward and Rogers Hotel buildings that are across the street from each other in downtown Idaho Falls. Allen since October has been renovating the ...

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U-Haul, the Phoenix-based moving and storage company, has bought the former Kmart buildings in Idaho Falls and Ammon to convert into the company’s largest climate-controlled self-storage centers in Idaho. The Ammon sale closed August 15 for an undisclosed price and ...

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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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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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Boise’s Freak Alley has a spinoff in Idaho Falls called Pugsslane. Gibby Smede started doing graffiti art or street art a year or so ago in a narrow downtown alley as a high school senior project at Compass Academy, an ...

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