Blackfoot News

On average, today's turkeys are twice what they weighed on the dinner table 50 years ago.

By LESLIE MIELKE This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it BLACKFOOT - Once a month, food from the Idaho Food Bank is distributed through Catholic Charities of Idaho at St.

Melanie Moore Jennifer Jackson of the Southeast Region of Fish and Game shows a wolf pelt to Leiann Peterson and her three children - Clay, Haley and Kylie - at the Blackfoot Public Library.

Children's Supportive Services says it is no longer providing treatment to about 100 children with severe emotional disturbances in eastern Idaho due to state budget cuts.

By MELANIE MOORE This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it BLACKFOOT - Local businessman Mark May is trying to save another Blackfoot business from closing.

Leslie Mielke The Big Toy opened to students at Donald D. Stalker Elementary Monday morning after the ribbon cutting.

By LESLIE MIELKE This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it BLACKFOOT - A luncheon and craft fair to raise money for local needs is scheduled from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., on Saturday, Nov.

By MELANIE MOORE This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it BLACKFOOT - Father-daughter duo Mike and Kayla Krehbiel opened the Red Rhino Cafe in June, and have worked the past few months to expand and improve their business.

Doctors at Portneuf Medical Center are praising the success of a new surgical procedure they used following a Blackfoot woman's traumatic accident.

By MELANIE MOORE This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it BLACKFOOT - Although he is of Japanese descent, Ken Ugaki of Blackfoot is an American veteran of World War II.

BLACKFOOT Band students at Blackfoot High School and Mountain View Middle School spent time on Monday putting the finishing touches on their pieces for tonight's performance with Dallas Brass at the Blackfoot Performing Arts Center.

By Genevieve Judge , Local News 8 Reporter BLACKFOOT - A local woman in Blackfoot is hoping to make the holidays a little brighter for the troops overseas.

By MELANIE MOORE This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it BLACKFOOT - More than 1,600 people lined up to get the H1N1 vaccine yesterday at the Blackfoot-Snake River clinic at the LDS South Stake Center.

By MELANIE MOORE This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it BLACKFOOT - More than 1,600 people lined up to get the H1N1 vaccine yesterday at the Blackfoot-Snake River clinic at the LDS South Stake Center.

The Southeastern District Health Department held another one of their mass vaccination clinics for the H1N1 virus to yet another overwhelming response.

"It's heartening and frightening all at the same time. I have a lot of work ahead of myself and we have a lot of work ahead of us as city council," says Mayor Richard Woodland.

By MELANIE MOORE This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it BLACKFOOT - Mike Virtue will spend another four years as Mayor of Blackfoot.

The Blackfoot High School Choirs started selling See's Candy on October 30. The choirs have successfully sold See's Candy for the past several years as a way to raise funds.

By KATIE HARRIS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it GROVELAND - "You are smarter than the average bear," that's the message Groveland Elementary Principal, J. Thayne had for students Tuesday, Oct.

With more than a hundred years of history there's no telling what exactly happened in this building, but for whatever reason through the years, some visitors never seemed to leave.