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Hunter harvest stats show slight drop in elk and mule deer harvested in 2021, significant drop in white-tailed deer due to disease outbreak

9:44 AM

Despite deer and elk harvest numbers dropping across the board, numbers have shown to be relatively on track with historic 10-year averages for mule deer and elk. White-tailed deer, however, didn’t fare as well in 2021. As anticipated, the number of white-tailed deer dropped significantly, a decline attributed to a late-summer disease outbreak.

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Ashton woman helps active-duty military with paperback books

10:54 AM

Jennifer Cecil an Ashton resident was looking for a way to serve members of her community when she came across operationpaperback.org. As she found more out about the project she felt it would be the perfect match for her “I come from a military background with military family members. I’m an avid reader, and what they do is they collect gently used paperback books from all 50 states, and they mail them overseas to active military members, to military members in the United States, to VA hospitals and the Wounded Warrior Project.” Cecil says.

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Liz Cheney says Russian strike on Ukraine train station that killed civilians ‘clearly is genocide’

9:32 AM

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Daniella Diaz and Katie Bo Williams, CNN Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming on Sunday said Russia’s missile strike on an eastern Ukraine railway station last week that killed dozens of civilians “clearly is genocide.” “I think that Europe needs to understand and grapple with the fact that you’ve got a genocidal

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Pot hole season is back: What cities are doing to help fill them

4:25 PM

Its the time of year where pot holes are popping up all over the roads. These craters come in all shapes and sizes. But some of them may be a big cause for concern. Kerry Hammon the public information officer for Idaho Falls says “Those that are going to cause you to swerve or are bigger, you know, the safety concerns, those are the ones we need you to call us and report them immediately and we’ll get them taken care of.”

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Rexburg Situation Room to take place Sunday

11:28 AM

A new event in support of Ukraine is planned for Sunday April 10, 2022 from 5-6 at the Rexburg Tabernacle. The event was put together by Yohan Delton, who says the event is to, “give Ukrainians a voice more of a voice, and also bring a Ukrainian who is already in Ukraine.” He says the he was very much appreciative of the turn up from the last event and hopes a for something similar. “I appreciated the last event, especially the show from the community was more for me a mental and spiritual gathering to feel the strength of what is happening here and I felt it.”

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