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Bookmobile brings the library to rural Idaho areas – Local News 8
INKOM, Idaho (KIFI)—The South Bannock Library District, headquartered in McCammon, uses its Bookmobile to bring books to rural readers without access to a brick-and-mortar library.
The Bookmobile is a converted passenger bus filled with books, audiobooks, and DVDs for all age groups. Throughout the school year, it stops at elementary schools in Downey, Inkom, and Lava Hot Springs.
“We started coming to the elementary schools hoping that we could fulfill a need for homework assignments and whatnot that the school libraries weren’t able to give their students,” said Megan Short, Library Director of the South Bannock Library District.
The newest Bookmobile is the largest the Library District has had to date. Short said the traveling library is instrumental in providing books to readers who may live far away.
“Marsh Valley is a small population, we have a great amount of land to cover,” said Short. “And so, especially for those families that it’s a hardship for them to be traveling that much–it’s nice to have a mobile library that you can take to them and meet them where they’re at.”
To learn more about the Bookmobile and its scheduled stops, visit the South Bannock Library District website at www.southbannocklibrary.org.
MERIDIAN — Former Idaho state Rep. Dorothy Moon was elected to her third term as chair of the Idaho Republican Party during last week’s Idaho GOP Convention in Meridian.
Moon announced her candidacy for a third term as chair earlier this month after first being elected in 2022 and again in 2024. In this year’s election, Moon received 306 votes, former Idaho state Sen. Steven Thayn received 155 votes and Mark Fuller, the previous Idaho GOP first vice chair, came in third with 134 votes. In receiving just over 51% of the vote, Moon was able to narrowly avoid a runoff.
In his challenge to Moon, Thayn called for fostering a greater sense of unity among members of the party.
“Unity does not mean uniformity of opinion,” Thayn said in a prior news release on his candidacy. “Nor does it mean forced agreement. Forced unity always leads to tyranny. Real unity is voluntary. It is built through listening, respect, and a sincere effort to solve problems together.”
In the initial announcement of Moon’s campaign, she highlighted improvements to voter turnout and the defeat of the 2024 ranked-choice voting ballot initiative as among key party successes during her most recent term.
BLACKFOOT — A large contingent of Blackfoot Police officers has cordoned off an area near the Taco Bell on Parkway Drive in Blackfoot.
Police responded around 5 p.m., according to multiple witnesses who contacted EastIdahoNews.com.
EastIdahoNews.com has reached out to Blackfoot Police for details.
We will update this story as we learn more.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — An Idaho Falls angler is back in the Idaho record books after landing a record-setting lake trout at Payette Lake.
Idaho Fish and Game said Dylan Smith caught and released a 43.25-inch lake trout on May 2, setting a new state catch-and-release record for the species. The fish surpassed the previous record of 42 inches.
The catch marks Smith’s second appearance in Idaho’s record books. He previously held the state catch-and-release lake trout record after landing a trophy fish in 2018 before that mark was later broken.
According to Fish and Game, Payette Lake has become one of Idaho’s premier lake trout fisheries thanks to years of management efforts aimed at improving both lake trout and kokanee populations.
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