Kimberly

Tuesday was a good day for school supplemental levies in the Magic Valley.  Hansen School District voters passed a $190,000 levy for one year.  Kimberly voters approved a $300,000 levy with 69% voting in favor.  Murtaugh

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Voters in six school districts in the Magic Valley will be going to the polls to decide on supplemental levies.  The Cassia County School District is asking for just over $681,000 per year for two years.

The money goes into the school district’s general fund.  Hansen School District is asking for a renewal of its annual $190,000 levy.  Voters in the Jerome School District will vote on the renewal of an annual $650,000 levy which will go into the general operating budget and will not be used for facilities.

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Kimberly, Idaho has been awarded several grants for infrastructure improvements. The city received almost $1.5 million dollars. The grants include funding for an RV dump station, a stoplight at the Red Cap corner, and funding to provide safer routes for kids on their way to and from school.

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2012 could be another year in which many area school districts ask voters for more money to run the schools.  Some are definitely planning on supplemental or plant facilities levies while others are definitely not.  Some are still undecided. 

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Eight Idaho schools have won $100,000 grants from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation in an effort to increase the number of kids who attend college or other post-secondary training. The schools were chosen out of 55 after competing in several categories, including increasing the number of  students taking college preparatory exams and upper-level math and science coursework

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Officials say the new Kimberly City Hall will be ready by March 1. A construction official says that the $542,000 remodel of the former Rock Creek Rural Fire Protection District is going well.

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A Hansen teen is recovering after a weekend accident that also killed a Blackfoot girl. Idaho State Police say 19–year old Katherine Bulcher of Hansen was driving South on highway 55.

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The city of Kimberly, Idaho was recently presented two awards for their efforts in this year's 'Operation: Facelift.' The awards, including 'Most Improved City,' were presented by Southern Idaho Rural Development for over a thousand hours of volunteer support in Kimberly.

You can't help but notice the improvements as you travel through Kimberly!

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US Highway 30 between Buhl and Hagerman was blocked for about two hours yesterday afternoon.  A semi-truck crashed into the back of another vehicle that was waiting behind a third vehicle to make a left-hand turn. 

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Two Magic Valley men are in jail this morning after trying to get away from Twin Falls County sheriff’s deputies.  The deputies were assisting some state probation and parole officers when one of the suspects allegedly drove a vehicle over several yards and through two fences in a subdivision north of Kimberly.

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