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Dietrich Boys Takes State Championship
It has been 50 years since the Dietrich Boys have won the State Basketball Championship. Their first game of the tournament was against Summit Academy, which they won handilly 78 to 42. The second game with Clark County was much tighter and ended with a score of 46 to 39. This sent them to the championship game against Council on Saturday, March 5th, at the Ford Idaho Center. With the Dietrich Blue Devils scoring 22 points in the first quarter, Council was playing catch-up for the entire game. Add-
ing to their domination of the game, Dietrich hit 23 out of 31 free throws while Council only had two out of seven. The final score was 68 to 55. Photo: The 2016 Champions along with a few members of the 1966 championship team.
In 2A Basketball, the Wedell Trojans took third in the State Tournament. After a decisive win against Melba (67-45), the Wendell boys lost to West Side - Dayton (45-57). That put them up against St Maries for their final win of the season - 71 to 62.
Next weekend, March 18th and 19th, Hagerman will host the 10th Annual Cowboy Poets. Fifty plus poets and musicians will bring some of the best entertainment in the West to this fundraising event for the American Legion and Idaho ‘N’ Heroes (an organiztion helping Idaho’s wounded warriors enjoy the beauty of outdoor Idaho). Day shows start at 10 a.m. with free admission. Night
shows start at 6:30 p.m. with a suggested donation of $12. All show held at the old Hagerman Gymnasium on State Street. Festivities on Saturday will include a community breakfast at the Senior Center from 7 to 10 a.m. (only $6.00) From 5 to 6:30 p.m. the High School FFA students will be cooking up a mess of vittles for $12 a plate, and while you eat, enjoy fiddlin and square dancin in the park.
Cowboy Poets Gathering
March 9
,2016
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Water Supply Holding Steady
The Natural Resources Conservation Service has just released the third water supply outlook report for the 2016 water year. Idaho’s mountain snowpack ranges from 90 to 110% of normal for most of the state. The lowest snowpacks are in isolated pockets at about 85% of normal in the Spokane and Little Wood basins. Snowpack density is the name of the game right now, as the higher the density the “riper” the snow is for melting. Snow typically melts when its density reaches 40 to 45%. “Normally the densities of Idaho’s various snowpacks are in the 30 to 34% range for this time of year,” said Ron Abramovich, water supply specialist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service. “However, many sites are reporting higher densities – in the 36 to 38% range. The warmer February temperatures have allowed the snow to begin ripening up much earlier.” Based on Idaho’s March’s Surface Water Supply Index (SWSI), irrigation supplies continued on page 9.....