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Capitol will Train restoration team hopes get new to bring tourists to Nampa overhaul Recent $120M renovation failed to make statehouse meet disabilities compliance By KIMBERLEE KRUESI The Associated Press
BOISE — Idaho taxpayers will pay nearly $400,000 to bring the state’s recently renovated Capitol into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. State officials wrongly assumed the Capitol qualified for exemptions permitted for historic buildings while undergoing the $120 million renovation completed in 2010.
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Notus aims to open new elementary school in 2017 Next steps forward begin June 8 after voters passed a $4.8 million bond for construction By KELCIE MOSELEY kmoseley@idahopress.com
Photos by Adam Eschbach/IPT
Above: Project Manager Eriks Garsvo tears up tar paper that covers the floor of a 1942 CA-3 class caboose Thursday in Nampa. Below: Thursday was the first day of a restoration project to restore the Nampa Train Depot and Museum’s Union Pacific Caboose. It will take five phases and over a year to fully restore the 1942 caboose. Video at idahopress.com/multimedia
Restoration of 1942 caboose should be completed next summer By CHRISTINA MARFICE
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NOTUS — By fall 2017, Notus could be opening the doors to its new elementary school now that the community has passed a $4.8 million bond for its construction. The bond passed during the election held last week. It was the third attempt in the past year to receive financing from voters for the project. The bond needed a supermajority to pass, or 66.6 percent, and it narrowly missed the necessary margin the first two times. On May 19, it passed with 70 percent in favor and 29 percent against. Superintendent Craig Woods said he felt relief when it was clear the bond would pass, but he knows it will only get busier from here. Woods and other school officials, including faculty and staff, worked for months to answer questions from the community and earn their support. “This is the fun side of the work, I think,” Woods said, “the planning and getting together with different community members … The teachers are very excited, especially our elementary teachers. They worked so hard for this, and they’re excited the public responded.” The bond will increase the district’s current bond levy rate from $139 per $100,000 home to $257, or an increase of $118. But the district says that cost will be offset by dropping the amount it will collect on its plant and facility levy from $244 to $140. The district can collect up to four-tenths of 1 percent of the district’s value annually for 10 years, but that amount will drop, Notus business manager Alicia Krantz said earlier this month. The total net tax increase works out to $19.96 per $100,000 taxable property value, she said, thanks also in part to a decreased bond interest rate of 0.5 percent.
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NAMPA — Lifting a bed pad and opening the hinged metal door beneath it, Eriks Garsvo revealed a coal compartment used to store fuel for the food stove inside a caboose car at the Nampa Train Depot. Inside he found a few pieces of coal, a broken metal shovel and a small pile of cigarette butts. “Everything here is just as it was when it was in use,” Eriks Garsvo said. “Even the conductor’s cigarette butts.” The Union Pacific caboose, built in 1942, was retired in 1983 and donated to the Canyon County Historical Society, which parked it at the Nampa Train Depot. Since then, it’s been mostly left alone, until now.
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Nampa Police respond to standoff near NNU John Fulton, 36, reportedly fled a traffic stop and entered strangers’ home on East Clark Avenue
NAMPA — The Nampa Police Department responded to a standoff incident that began at about 8:05 p.m. Thursday on the 900 block of East Clark Avenue, near the Northwest Nazarene University campus. Several police cars and the department’s armored vehicle responded to the scene, where police negotiated with Nampa resident John Fulton, 36, to come out from the home.
Nampa Police surround a house near the intersection of East Clark Avenue and South Fern Street in Nampa Thursday evening after a suspect ran into an area home after a pursuit. Video at idahopress.com/ multimedia
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