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SCREEN EXTRA THE BOYS OF SUNNYVALE HAVE NINE LIVES With little fanfare, Netflix released Season 9 of Trailer Park Boys on March 27. The acclaimed Canadian faux-documentary TV series, which is set in Nova Scotia, has been taking us into the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park and the lives of Bubbles, Julian, Ricky and the other residents since 2001. The show originally aired on Canada’s Showcase network and after seven seasons and several movies and specials, Netflix picked it up. It doesn’t take a rocket appliance to know that was a smart move. —Amy Atkins
READER COMMENTS From our most commented story on Facebook, March 2530, “What?? McCall Star-News Headline States Tom Luna is McCall’s New School Superintendent”: Katie Peterson: Yikes! Read the article people. You can’t always just trust a headline! Btw… April Fools are supposed to be funny… this freaked me out. Whew. Glad it’s just a BAD JOKE! Jan Lundell Ahlin: Sorry, but Luna (Tom or his sister) working anywhere with schools is not
$600,000
Amount Monsanto Co. has been ordered to pay in fines for not reporting toxic chemical leaks at its phosphate plant in Soda Springs
funny… It is lunacy. They both should be sued for all the money they funneled off to various programs run by cohorts and partners in crime. Scott Chapman: I totally fell for it… Jennifer Hancock: STOP IT. When will ID learn!? John Brandell: I live in McCall. It bothered me at first, then realized April fools joke. Sad but wouldn’t put anything past this government. Hollie White: April fools day is a few days away??? Can’t believe this BS. How can this even happen.
$44,465
Average Idaho teacher pay in 2013-2014, a decrease of more than $200 from 2012-2013 Idaho Ed News
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Worst April Fool’s Day Hoaxes 1. Uday Hussein-owned Babil newspaper tells Iraqis in 1998 that the United States has lifted its sanctions and rations will now include bananas and Pepsi (psych!) 2. Opinia newspaper in Romania (falsely) reports in 2000 that inmates will be released from Baia Mare prison 3. London City Hall worker suffers a heart attack and files for early retirement trying to meet a made-up report deadline 4. Man ties a dead chihuahua to a (deaf) co-worker’s car bumper 5. Man pretends to hang himself on the front yard to scare his ex-wife 6. Clothing store employee calls her boss to tell him the shop is being robbed 7. State-run Russian news agency Itar-Tass punks the world with news that the Warsaw Pact may be revived
QUOTABLE “Ut ter nonsense, ut ter nonsense.” —IBR AHIM HOOPER, SP O KESMA N FO R THE COUNCIL ON AMERICANISL A MIC REL ATION S , RESP ONDING IN A S P O KES MAN-RE VIE W REP O RT TO A N I DA H O STATE H O U S E PRESENTATIO N THAT C L A IMED “ISL A MIC IMMIGR ATION ” A N D “REF UGEE DUMP S” ARE “ TARGETING” C O N S E RVATIV E C O M MUN ITIES IN ORDER TO C HA N G E TH E I R C U LT U RE.
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9. An Oregon radio station warns that a local dam has burst, leading homeowners to flee
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8. Boston DJs Opie and Anthony in 1998 claim Mayor Tom Menino died in a car crash; his family is among those who believe the report
10. Iraqi ambassador to Russia in 2003 announces in a press conference that U.S. forces fired a nuclear missile on British troops
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0.63%
Idaho ranking for teacher pay among all states and the District of Columbia, behind Mississippi and South Dakota
Foreclosure rate reported in the Treasure Valley in January, marking the lowest such rate since October 2007
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Idaho Business Review
$8.5 MILLION
Estimated cost for the proposed Bown Crossing Branch Library in east Boise boiseweekly.com
“Do you think the charges against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (desertion and misbehavior before the enemy) are fair?” Yes, they reflect his actions: (51.5%) No, they should be harsher: (13.5%) No, he should not be charged at all: (21%)
I don’t know: (14%) Disclaimer: This online poll is not i ntend ed to b e a s c i enti f i c s a mp l e o f l o c a l, statewi d e o r n ati o n a l op i ni on.
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Ranking for Madison County, in eastern Idaho, in a study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on the healthiest counties in each state boiseweekly.com
NO. 7
Ranking for Ada County in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study of the healthiest counties in each state boiseweekly.com
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Tie vote in the Idaho House State Affairs Committee, killing a measure that would have opened a way to access cannabidiol oil to treat children with severe seizure disorders. boiseweekly.com
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