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Feature Stories

Shakespeare in the Park: Upcoming Hamlet Production and a Group Built on Community

By Arianne Chamberlain REXBURG — For the last four years, Rexburg Community Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park has been an anticipated theatre event in Rexburg. Each summer, passionate actors, directors,... Read More

Brave Seeker Books and the big bright smiles they are bringing to Rexburg

By Dylyn Alverson REXBURG – In downtown Rexburg at 19 E. Main Street resides the cutest bookshop, Brave Seeker Books. From the decorative air balloon symbolizing an opportunity to start... Read More

How Thrifting Can Help The Community: United Voices Rising

By Megan Hunter REXBURG – In the heart of the Rexburg community, the UVR Thrift Shop is doing more than sellingsecondhand goods. It’s helping fund healing for female survivors of... Read More

The Little Free Bakery: Connections Made with Passion

By Kenda Watkins REXBURG – A few years ago, Alex Andrews moved to Rexburg with no connections. She said that when she moved to Rexburg, she was having a hard... Read More

Failure and Fortitude- How the Untold Story of Teton Dam Failure Came to be Told.

By Nathaniel Gee, author of Failure and Fortitude: How Faith, Politics, and Power Shaped the Teton Dam Disaster If you ever write a book, one of the first questions you... Read More

Trellis Development inspired by economic future for east Idaho families

By Emily Miller REXBURG – Creating economic opportunities for their own children and future grandchildren is one of the driving forces for the team at Trellis Development, headquartered south of... Read More

Rexburg PD Keeping Us Safe—and Smiling

By Alaina Thompson REXBURG – To most, Rexburg is a quiet, peaceful town. With its slogan, “America’s Family Community,” it’s easy to picture a happy, uneventful residence for its residents.... Read More

A new challenger has appeared! New game store opens in Rexburg

By Matthew Malloy REXBURG — For a while now, third spaces have been dying out, leaving us without a good alternative. Third Spaces are those places we frequent to escape... Read More

Rexburg 8-year-old earns top honors at music composition competition

By Emily Miller REXBURG – A little ditty about a mama bunny and her babies earned 8-year-old Clara McNiven of Rexburg first place honors in a national composition competition this... Read More

Rexburg teen who lost both parents to cancer has opporunity to travel to Europe with dance team

Top photo: Gideon Tice, dancing here with Haley Wade, says participating in the arts has been an important outlet for him since losing both his parents to cancer. Courtesy photo. ... Read More