It's a full week of news, and this is a special edition of the Spotlight, featuring an extended interview with Em Howe, Board Chair of McCall+Pride. This week in the headlines:

• The budget bill in Congress could eliminate 21 million acres of public land in Idaho.
• Cascade School Board supports geothermal energy project
• Herbicide Use Considered to Fight Milfoil in Payette Lake
• McCall Man Critically Injured in Crash Near Cascade
• Hundreds Join ‘No Kings’ Protest in McCall
• Agencies Convene to Address Septic Challenges at South Lake Cascade
• Local Group Questions McCall Hospital District Spending
• Sunken UTV to Remain at Bottom of Payette Lake
• Valley County Audits Tax-Exempt Properties for Misuse
• Local athletes compete at Nike Nationals
• Cascade Hires new AD
• McCall-Donnelly hires head football coach

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Another week, another pile of news! We're discussing:

• Burn permits suspended
• Donnelly shop fire sparks community support
• Landslide on 95 destroys home north of New Meadows
• Meadows Valley EMS wants to go independent
• Perpetua seeks $2 Billion Loan for the Stibnite Mine
• Rite Aid finally announces closure
• Sunken UTV mystery
• Water Skis are back on the roof of local shop
• DEEP DIVE — Did you get an invite to a survey in the mail? It's a pretty big deal! Listen to Randy Fox and Kristin Sinclair from United Payette talk about how it'll be used.

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There's a lot to cover this week after the long weekend! And we have another episode dropping on Friday! This week:

• Idaho 55 summer construction
• Wildfire simulaton shows pathways to McCall
• McCall AOI discussions continue
• Mission Street summer closure
• McCall Ski Mural seeks public input
• Stibnite project granted final federal permit
• May 20 election results
• A Deep Dive into the school board's investigation of a four-day school week.

And as always, we've got weather, sports (the last school sports round up for the school year!), and events around town.

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