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Rexburg—Spotlight City

Posted on October 1, 2022 by Emily Miller / Comments Off on Rexburg—Spotlight City

Diversity in a Small Package By Emily Miller We rolled into Rexburg with two giant moving vans in the middle of February 2019. The previous owners of our new home had left a couple weeks earlier, giving the
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Glenns Ferry—Spotlight City

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Dorothy Drake / Comments Off on Glenns Ferry—Spotlight City

A Theatrical Town By Dorothy Drake When my husband Jim and I made an exploratory trip to Glenns Ferry in late 2018, our impression was of a time-worn town, run down in some places—yet as we drove around,
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Salmon—Spotlight City

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Tom Lopez / Comments Off on Salmon—Spotlight City

The Quintessence of Rugged Individualism By Tom Lopez IDAHO magazine published a Spotlight City feature on Salmon in our November 2002 issue. Now, almost two decades later, here’s a second profile of the town. I was an interloper
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Rockford—Spotlight

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Alice Elison / Comments Off on Rockford—Spotlight

On the River’s Far Side By Alice Elison Speeding east along Highway 39 in the early hours of Sunday, June 17, 1979, we entered Rockford, which was fewer than fifteen minutes to our final destination of Blackfoot. My
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Sandpoint—Spotlight City

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey / Comments Off on Sandpoint—Spotlight City

In with the Old and New By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey On a clear blue day in the summer of 2018, I peered out the windows of a building in downtown Sandpoint and saw the city for the first time—metaphorically,
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Howe—Spotlight

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Anna Sermon / Comments Off on Howe—Spotlight

And the People of the Little Lost River Valley By Anna Sermon The wind in Howe often blows from the west, as it did on October 18, 2012, when the dance hall-bar-restaurant and the store, storage barn, and
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Smelterville—Spotlight

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Mary Terra-Berns / Comments Off on Smelterville—Spotlight

Boom to Bust and Back Again By Mary Terra-Berns On a beautiful sky-blue but slightly blustery day last June, I flew at two thousand seven hundred feet from Coeur d’Alene to Missoula, Montana with my friend LaDonna Beaumont
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Idaho Falls Spotlight

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Bruce Bash / Comments Off on Idaho Falls Spotlight

The Pros and Cons of Popularity Story and Photos by Bruce Bash After two decades of publication, IDAHO magazine has begun to revisit some of our Spotlight City selections of previous years. Here’s a new look at Idaho
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Reynolds—Spotlight City

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Ray Brooks / Comments Off on Reynolds—Spotlight City

From Stage Stop to Scientific Site By Ray Brooks My quest to follow the 1864 route of the Reynolds-to-Silver-City stage line suddenly ended in several bangs. I was far into the Owyhee Mountains on a rough, narrow, seldom-traveled
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Roberts—Spotlight

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Amy McClellan / Comments Off on Roberts—Spotlight

A Town Tailored to Its History By Amy McClellan My family has a long-standing personal connection to Roberts—a town of about six hundred and fifty residents fifteen miles north of our home in Idaho Falls—through our frequent visits
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