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Vera June Ralston was born in Boise City, Oklahoma, on August 23, 1929. [1] She grew up first in Pratt, Kansas, and later lived in Wichita, where she worked nights as a Western Union operator-typist and graduated from Wichita North High School in 1947. She was crowned Miss Kansas in 1948 and was the third runner-up in the Miss America contest. [2]
In 2008, the Statesman entered into a strategic partnership with the Idaho Press to print the newspaper in Nampa, fifteen miles (25 km) west of Boise. This partnership allowed the Statesman to reduce expenses amidst declining revenues. A decade later in 2018, printing moved to the Times-News in Twin Falls, [4] 120 miles (190 km) southeast of Boise.
The Upper Country News-Reporter: Cambridge and Midvale: Weekly Created by merger of Cambridge News (est. 1922) and the Midvale Reporter (est.1909). [4] Cambridge News was a rename of The Idaho Citizen, one of the oldest weekly newspapers in Idaho, founded in 1889. The Cambridge News Office (1912) is listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Following a flag folding ceremony, members of the Idaho National Guard presented an American flag to Nick Maimer’s mother, Vivian Maimer Strnad, during his memorial service held at Boise ...
Raymond Allen Snowden (October 22, 1921 – October 18, 1957) was an American man who was convicted of the 1956 murder of Cora Lucyle Dean and executed in Idaho.Snowden was noteworthy for being the last person executed in the state before the 1972 Furman v.
Boise (locally / ˈ b ɔɪ s i / ⓘ BOY-see, also / b ɔɪ z i / [5]) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, there were 235,684 people residing in the city. Located on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is 41 miles (66 km) east of the Oregon border and 110 miles (177 km) north of the ...
John P. Cassidy, Los Angeles City Council member, 1962–67, born in Boise [11] James Charles Castle, deaf artist [12] [13] Annetta R. Chipp, temperance leader and prison evangelist [14] Frank Church, U.S. Senator, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee [15] Randy Davison, actor [16] Anthony Doerr, novelist [17]
Richard Roy Eardley (December 23, 1928 [1] – June 30, 2012) [2] served three terms as mayor of Boise, Idaho, from 1974 to 1986. Eardley served as mayor for a total of 12 years, longer than anyone else in Boise history until Dave Bieter won a fourth consecutive four-year term in 2015. In city history, only Eardley and Bieter have won three ...