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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]
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]
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 Paper is a 1994 American comedy drama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid and Robert Duvall.It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Make Up Your Mind", which was written and performed by Randy Newman.
Attributing the profession of journalist to a fictional character allows many possibilities for the author: reporters may travel extensively and face adventures (like Tintin), are among the first to have news of disasters and crimes (like Clark "Superman" Kent and Peter "Spider-Man" Parker), and are supposed to be good at establishing communication.
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 ...
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 ...
The Owyhee Avalanche was founded in Ruby City, Idaho on August 19, 1865 by J. L. Hardin and brothers John and Joe Wasson. [3] The Wassons bought out Hardin and moved their printing plant to Silver City in 1866. [3] The Wassons sold the paper in 1867 to William John Hill and Henry W. Millard.