by Blair Koch | Oct 1, 2010 | In Business
Tom Schiermeier and Ryan Schiermeier, the father/son team of Schiermeier Taxidermy, look at their lives’ work as more than stuffing trophy animal mounts. Whether it’s a teenager’s first pheasant harvest or a Kodiak Brown Bear taken from Alaska’s permafrost terrain...
by Blair Koch | Sep 1, 2010 | Features
Put the potatoes aside and pass the grapes! The Great Bonneville Flood not only sculpted the towering basalt walls of the Snake River Canyon, but the event – which took place some 15,000 years ago – developed a sandy loam soil perfect for wine grape growing in Idaho....
by Blair Koch | Sep 1, 2010 | In Business
Don’t let the location – a corner lot in a busy strip mall along Falls Avenue – fool you. Local Dish Market and Café is like no store you’ve experienced before. The moment you step outside your vehicle and approach Local Dish you know you’re in for a treat. If the...
by Ryan Howe | May 1, 2008 | Features
You’ve seen it hauled out by the truckload. It’s the same outdated stone material your grandfather’s hearth was made out of in the 1970s – or is it? Today, the average homeowner can’t afford to install real stone in or around their home – or can they? We set out to...
by Blair Koch | Mar 1, 2008 | In Business
Janet Franklin’s handmade soaps are luxuriously simple. Besides a slim label hugging each bar, they are free of packaging and slightly rough around the edges. Their lack of over-commercialization is instantly appealing. Franklin uses a back-to-basics approach to...