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This week, online viewers will see a new web version for The Challis Messenger. We’ve made a few changes to incorporate a bell or whistle or two, and as we’ve been doing for a while, the whole paper will be posted. Full pdf versions of special sections should be available for your browsing pleasure. Links to advertiser websites should ...

Hearing for Herd Creek Road case on hold
Federal District Judge B. Lynn Winmill has cancelled a hearing scheduled for next Tuesday, May 15 in the Herd Creek Road case, plus vacated a temporary restraining order he granted for the Bureau of Land Management preventing Custer County from reopening the road under RS 2477.In a May 7 order, the judge also deemed moot the BLM motion for a ...

SREC: 2012 rate increase unlikely
Salmon River Electric Cooperative officials told members about various changes at the April 26 annual meeting, but members were no doubt glad to learn that one thing will stay the same: there will likely be no power rate increase for 2012.Among the changes: Executive Secretary Vi Stevens is retiring after 24 years on the job; Jim Dungan is ...

Stanley council approves lot line shift
At last month’s meeting, the Stanley City Council received input at a public hearing regarding a lot line shift on property that will soon be home to Stanley Community Library, as well as other commercial and residential development.Landowner Rebecca Arnold, who could not be present, submitted a letter identifying a few issues she ...

Protests delay and may halt some spring grazing
Livestock grazing on four Bureau of Land Management allotments in the Pahsimeroi Valley will likely be delayed this spring, the Custer County Commissioners learned at their April 9 meeting.Western Watersheds Project (WWP) has protested the Challis BLM grazing plans for the Meadow Creek, Trail Creek, Grouse Creek and Rock Creek allotments, and the ...

Clarification
Custer County is administering $396,000 in federal Health Resources and Services Administration funds for use in two North Custer Hospital District projects: building a new $125,000 ambulance barn and doing $271,000 worth of remodeling to make the Challis Area Health Center compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Health ...

Heileson enjoys visit with Custer County “rednecks‚ÄÃ'
M.C. “Chick‚ÄÃ' Heileson of Iona and Idaho Falls took his campaign to unseat Rep. Mike Simpson to the Custer County Tea Party Patriots May 1, saying he turned down another event in St. Anthony to come to Challis because he enjoys the people here.“You’re a bunch of rednecks,‚ÄÃ' he said to laughter from the crowd.Heileson ...

Ward vying for Senate seat
Alan Ward, 54, has been campaigning hard for District 8’s Idaho Senate seat, making multiple trips to Custer County from his home in Garden Valley.A lifelong resident of the area, Ward was born in Cascade, raised in Garden Valley and owns and operates Payette River Lumber and Garden Valley Motel. His family started Ward’s Greenhouse ...