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How are today’s teens faring? Meet Lilli Womack. She’s 17 and a senior at Buhl High School. Some of her high school classes are dual college credit classes, thus giving…

If you want to learn to love science, meet Donovan Dahl, the multi-talented 7th grade science teacher at Buhl Middle School, plus Stem teacher, plus Athletic Director. Mr. Dahl is…

Have you ever thought about jobs that require doing two opposite things at the same time? Like serving the general public while removing the bad guys among us = police.…

Hoping to escape the smoke and heat, I headed for the mountains and ocean. Mount Rainier filled the bill with 45-degree temperature and no smoke. Of course transitioning from 100-degree…

ATTENTION: The Buhl Banner will be on break for the following week; no new issue will be published on August 7th, 2026. Our next issue will be published on Friday,…

In the midst of summer heat, wild horses could not drag me away from my air conditioned house. But they almost did! When I first got word of the Saylor…

On our 250th birthday, how are we doing as a nation?  This is what Americans say about our nation and its institutions in a recent Wall Street Journal-NORC survey: 40%…

The title is how I’ve been talking after the exhausting July  4th celebrations which is to say in tongue twisters supplied by random snatches of thoughts. Just in time to…

The biggest event of the year in Buhl is the Fourth of July. The two-day celebration is appropriately called Sagebrush Days, one of the few plants in existence before irrigation…

Summer brings family reunions.  I was born and raised here so I have a lot of cousins in the area.  My family on both sides came from Germany.  They ended…