Regional News

Pocatello city departments are seeking job candidates for roles ranging from zookeepers to lifeguards, and they are accepting applications at their hiring fair on Friday, April 25.

The annual hiring fair is the city’s largest effort to draw workers to municipal jobs in sanitation, parks and recreation, groundskeeping, and many more, with the event giving people an opportunity to meet city workers and get tours of facilities and equipment.

The Westside Players are racing against time this season to raise enough money for much-needed repairs to their 90-year-old theater, the Warehouse.

Employees of the Simplot Don Plant took to their two-mile stretch of adopted Highway 30 on Wednesday to pick up trash in recognition of Earth Day.

Simplot adopted the stretch of road near the plant in 2005, and, since then, employee volunteers have tidied litter from the sides of the highway twice a year on dates scheduled near Earth Day in the spring and National Pollution Prevention Week in the fall.

The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) awarded JR Simplot Company the ‘Adopt-A-Highway Group of the Year Award for Southeast Idaho’ on Friday, in recognition of the company’s hard work keeping their stretch of adopted road clean.

In 2005, Simplot adopted a two-mile stretch of US Highway 30, and, since then, employee volunteers have picked up trash twice a year and average about 1,600 pounds of litter cleaned up annually.

The Pocatello Animal Services Department and Friends of the Pocatello Animal Shelter will host the 28th annual ‘Run with the Big Dogs’ marathon event on Saturday, April 19.

The event will have a 2k walk/run and 5k run available for people (and their pets) along with vendors, raffle prizes, a silent auction, splash pools for dogs, and refreshments for participants and dogs.

The Southeast Idaho Task Force on Domestic and Sexual violence hosted an event on Tuesday to honor survivors of violence and raise awareness for resources in the area.

The task force is a joint project between area agencies, including Pocatello and Bannock County law enforcement, local healthcare providers, mental health providers, public housing officials, and other community leaders who came together in an effort to centralize resources for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

The Marshall Public Library is celebrating National Library Week with events centered around this year’s theme: ‘Drawn to the Library’.

From April 6-12, Marshall Public Library will showcase its collection of comic books and graphic novels as well as host an ongoing ‘Find the Comic Heroes’ scavenger hunt around the building.

Through the Managed Hunt program, private landowners agree to allow hunters access to their property to hunt in-season game, with property owners able to set rules for how and when hunters can use the land.

Fish and Game manages hunters’ use of the private land while also acting as the primary contact for hunting requests, eliminating any interaction between the hunters and the landowners.

Chubbuck city leaders are finalizing their last draft of the ‘Chubbuck 2045: Comprehensive Plan’ which will be available for public review and comment this week and could be adopted next month.

The St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store and Food Pantry will be offering discounts to Idaho State University students and staff during their monthly ‘I Love ISU Day’ sales events.

The Pocatello Fire Department (PFD) is doing a ‘Burn and Learn’ training exercise at a vacant house on Jason Avenue through Tuesday, April 1.

Fire crews will start controlled fires throughout the home, which was slated for demolition and donated by a local contractor, on Monday and Tuesday morning before completely burning the structure down on Tuesday evening.

Spring Fair 2025 is underway at the ICCU Dome on Idaho State University’s campus for another year of hosting hundreds of local and national vendors for thousands of visitors at ‘southeast Idaho’s premier home and garden event’.

This year, the Spring Fair boasts over 200 vendors offering goods for the home, kitchen, and garden as well as service displays for local businesses in roofing, flooring, remodeling, and more.

“We’re seeing a need for housing, a desire for improved recreation facilities citywide,” said Jim Anglesey, Pocatello’s long-range senior planner. “But these area plans will help give the neighborhoods a voice in what they’d like to see in their neighborhood, and what type of development they would want to see to preserve the culture and identity of their neighborhood.”

Over 30 local and national employers packed into the American Falls High School gym Wednesday for the first career fair under new event organizer Andrea Clinger.

Clinger is the new Community School Coordinator for American Falls High School, and she said the fair fulfills the school’s mission to help students achieve a productive future.

Bannock County leaders have drafted the ‘Comprehensive Plan 2040’, which gives guidelines for future growth and economic development in the area over the next 20 years and could be adopted as early as next week.

The Comprehensive Plan 2040 features five chapters focused on topics including ‘community development’, ‘economic growth’, and ‘outdoor adventure’ as well as specific goals for improvement in each area.

The 26th annual ‘Feeding the 5,000 Families’ food drive starts Saturday, March 15, with a concert at the Central Christian Church in Pocatello.
Following the concert, local churches will collect food and monetary donations for the Idaho Food Bank until May 5.

“The library isn’t just about books; it’s about a community center,” said Kimberly Carlino, technology coordinator for the Friends of the Marshall Public Library board. “By supporting the library, you’re really just supporting the community.”

Cleaning crews will soon begin the annual ‘spring clean-up’ of Mountain View and Restlawn Cemeteries, and they are asking people to pick up graveside decorations before they are thrown away.

Bannock County has already announced the summer concert series will include performances by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Billy Currington, blues musician Joe Bonamassa, and co-headliners Bad Religion and Dropkick Murphys.

The Area Agency on Aging has had an influx of people who are picking up the phone to support local seniors through their month-long ‘Friendly Calling Challenge’.