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New Sidewalks, New City Impact Area Proposal, New Neighborhood

  New Sidewalks! After a lot of good work by city staff, we've been awarded a $250k Child Pedestrian Safety Grant from the state. In the image above, you can see the plans for the money. The solid blue and green lines show the existing sidewalks and walking paths. The solid orange lines show the planned sidewalks, and the kind of dotted orange line along 3rd South is a planned walking path.  Also, the black circles are where we currently have those flashing-light crosswalks, and the yellow circles are where we are planning to install new ones. All of these projects will be done by fall of 2023, but we are hoping to get some of them completed before snow flies this year, particularly the projects around the new intermediate school (jr. high). It's great to see the connectivity these new walkways will bring to the city. New City Impact Area Proposal After the recent rejection of Rexburg's impact area expansion proposal by the combined committee of representatives from Sugar

Sugar Days, Sprinkler Backflow Inspections, City Dumpster and Clean-Up

Sugar Days 2022 Thanks to our sponsors and volunteers for this year's Community Breakfast and Sugar Days Celebration! Special thinks to Stone's Toyota, Idaho Central Credit Union, The Jaggedge Salon, Mountain West Water Works, Fuzion Dance Studio, Broulims, and PSI for their generous donations. Sugar Days is a great community event: wonderful vendor and organization booths, good food, cold drinks, bull riding, bouncing, wall climbing, raffle prizes, sunshine, music, and I even saw a little two-steppin' going on at one point. The ICCU t-shirt cannon was busy all day--shot water bottles and foam balls as well! Joyce Cromar was recognized as the Citizen of the Year for her many years of dedicated service to the Cemetery District and the community at large. Dave Thompson also received the Civil Servant of the Year award for his many years of dedicated service to the city. Kids lined up each hour for the raffle drawing. We're happy for the lucky winners, and hope those wh