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Dr. Pates – Still Healing and Wheeling at 83

“You got the sniff, snot, snort, snuff, hack, spits, sputter, sneeze, toot, wheeze, blow, bark and sputter? Have you got the aches, pains, strains, toots, squats or squints?” The...

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Brandon Craner

Brandon Craner

Brandon Craner’s construction company is currently paying most of his bills, but the Buhl resident’s second job is quickly taking over his life. As of May, Craner was ranked 58th overall in a field of 222 professional bass fishermen in the FLW Western Series. Not...

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Jared Price

Jared Price

Every night, Jared Price plays in front of 10,000 screaming fans. Not bad for a kid whose hometown only has 5,645 people. Price is in the ninth year of his pro baseball career, and he’s loving every minute of it. In the spring of 2000, handfuls of Major League...

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Lyle Masters

Lyle Masters

Lyle Masters’ passion for auctioneering and the responsibility he feels to give back to his community are deeply intertwined. Ever since he began his auction career in 1959 he has volunteered his time, doing what he does best: talking up bidders and giving folks a...

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Ron Cole – Mandolin Maker

Ron Cole – Mandolin Maker

A young couple spends a romantic evening of their honeymoon floating down an Italian waterway in a Gondola… A group of family and friends gathers around a campfire enjoying marshmallows on the fire and dancing to Bluegrass music… A congregation of a hometown church...

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Sheryl Whiting

Sheryl Whiting

Sheryl Whiting can’t imagine a winter without skiing. Pomerelle Mountain Resort can’t imagine skiing without Sheryl Whiting. For the past 29 years, Sheryl has taught literally thousands of skiers as an instructor at Pomerelle. “How many people have the opportunity...

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Leah Pentland

Leah Pentland

To watch Filer High School music teacher Leah Pentland move around her classroom, you wouldn’t guess that she is legally blind. She moves with the confidence, grace and assurance of someone who does not let her impairment get in the way of life.  “I can do pretty...

Photo © S. Brandon Hansen
Biff Hutchison

Biff Hutchison

Sure, he catches big air and can perform full 360-degree back flips. When you find out Biff Hutchison is on a pogo stick things get interesting. Hutchison, an otherwise typical 16-year-old Burley High School junior, started riding years ago. Like many children...

Christopher Kubs

Christopher Kubs

From immigrant to Vietnam War veteran to cowboy to acclaimed metal worker, Hill City resident Christopher Kubs’ story would make a great book. With a college degree in English, he could author it, too. The first time Christopher Kubs saw the West, it was from the...

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Chelsi Phillips

Chelsi Phillips

When Chelsi Phillips was crowned Minico High School’s Homecoming Queen last fall, she never dreamed it would lead her to win Idaho’s Homecoming Queen Competition allowing her the privilege to compete for “America’s Homecoming Queen” in Anaheim California this...

Southern Idaho Photos

Photo © Jason Lugo
Sep 01, 2007

Elba Valley

This is Elba valley and Elba canyon. Photo was taken near the top of Mt. Harrison. It's only about a 20 minute drive...
Photo © Jason Lugo
Apr 01, 2011

Minidoka Dam

This is the Minidoka Damn in the spring of 2009 when water levels were reaching high levels. The normal flow for this...
Dec 01, 2011

Shoshone Winter Lava Beds

Whenever I have a photo shoot in the Hailey, Shoshone or Gooding area I always take the back roads. For me that means...
Oct 01, 2008

Snake River Egret

Living on the Snake River in Declo is is like having a huge flat screen TV that is always playing the "Snake River...