🌱 Kimberly's Joe Barrett leads Bulldogs' haul of football honors

Coffee in hand, Kimberly? We've got the latest town updates for you. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• Kimberly's Joe Barrett leads Bulldogs' haul of football honors
• Kimberly fields to help researchers test bean irrigation strategies
• Eastbound interstate night closures begin near Twin Falls

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Sunny to partly cloudy, with a high of 64 and low of 35 degrees.
• Thursday: Pleasant with clouds and sun, temps: high: 64, low: 41.
• Friday: Breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 64 and low of 44 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Kimberly's Barrett, Wood River's Fife named 4A Sawtooth Central Idaho Conference football players of the year (kmvt.com) — Kimberly's Joe Barrett earned the conference's Offensive Player of the Year award after catching 53 passes for 901 yards and 12 touchdowns. The Bulldogs also placed six players on the first-team offense and seven on the first-team defense, with Barrett earning a defensive back spot.
   

• University of Idaho Receives $579,000 for Crop Research Projects (dailyfly.com) — Kimberly will host bean field trials testing how soil-moisture monitoring can guide irrigation, part of an $80,000 University of Idaho research project also taking place in Parma. The work is among five projects receiving $579,000 in federal grants to study crop storage, disease management, irrigation and huckleberry cultivation.
   

• Eastbound interstate to close overnight for Vineyard overpass girder repair (kmvt.com) — Eastbound interstate drivers near the Twin Falls exit face overnight detours starting November 11 while crews replace a damaged Vineyard overpass support beam. Closures are scheduled from about 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. for roughly one week, routing traffic through Highway 25 near Jerome. Westbound lanes will remain open.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Kimberly

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Friday November 13

• Early Release
  KIMBERLY DISTRICT Kimberly, ID 83341
  5:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday November 11

• Foundation Mastermind →
  Main Office - Twin Falls Real Estate Agent at Keller Williams Realty Sun Valley Southern Idaho, 647 Filer Avenue, Twin Falls
  6:00 pm
• FREE Beginner Essential Oils Class →
  Twin Falls ID
  6:00 pm
• Sound Bowls & Stillness →
  The Locale, 162 Main Ave W, Twin Falls
  6:30 pm

Thursday November 12

• Business Start Up Seminar →
  Twin Falls ID
  12:30 pm
• JH GB v. Valley
  Hansen District #415 Hansen, ID 83334
  3:00 pm
• The Roadmap to Home Ownership →
  647 Filer Avenue, Twin Falls
  5:30 pm
• Twin Falls Thanksgiving pie and roll tasting class →
  Kneaders Bakery & Cafe, 1575 Washington Street North, Twin Falls
  6:00 pm
• Sold out! Twin Falls Sewing Classes →
  510 2nd Avenue South, Twin Falls
  6:00 pm
• Art Class: Beginner Acrylic Landscape →
  Magic Valley Arts Council, 195 River Vista Place, Ste 1, Twin Falls
  6:00 pm
• Twin Falls Sewing Classes →
  510 2nd Avenue South #100, Twin Falls
  6:00 pm
• Men's Basketball at College of Southern Idaho →
  Twin Falls ID
  7:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Wendy's posted a job opening for Kitchen Manager in Twin Falls. Apply here.
• Olive Garden posted a job opening for Busser in Twin Falls. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Kimberly here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Twin Falls

• Twin Falls mayor picks Lucy Wills and Kelly Hergesell to fill two vacant City Council seats this fall (kivitv.com)
• Twin Falls' Bohrn named top volleyball player in Great Basin (magicvalley.com)
• Idaho's only screening: Faulkner Planetarium premieres ‘America the Beautiful' this Veterans Day for vets (kmvt.com)

Filer

• From Idaho farms to Tinian's runways, southern Idaho B-29 pilots helped win the war (magicvalley.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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