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Young Idaho woman raising money for a new eye

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 1:26pm

LEWISTON, Idaho -- At the age of 2, an accident left Alaina Kaufman completely blind in her right eye.

Now, the Lewiston 19-year-old is hoping to raise enough money for a prosthetic eye that will give her a new outlook on life. Since elementary school, she's kept the damaged eye covered by a swoop of hair, but this can lead to awkward inquiries.

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The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity stands ready for its launch at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. The rocket scheduled to launch Saturday morning will deliver a science laboratory to Mars to study potential habitable environments on the planet. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

NASA project uses Idaho sites in Mars teacher project

Kevin Gaboury Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Friday, November 25, 2011 - 3:04pm

When the Curiosity Mars Rover blasts off from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas Rocket Saturday, two area science teachers will know they had a small part in its success.

Jeff Karlin, astronomy, marine biology and zoology teacher at Idaho's Lewiston High School, and Jim Gustin, science teacher at Orofino Junior/Senior High School, accompanied the man behind Mission Curiosity -- NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay -- this summer on the NASA-sponsored Idaho Spaceward Bound study. The five-day expedition took 10 teachers from Idaho, California, Massachusetts and Nevada, three University of Idaho delegates and seven NASA Ames Research Center teachers across Idaho to explore sites such as Hells Half Acre, Craters of the Moon National Monument and Shoshone Ice Caves and bring their discoveries back to the classroom. The trip also had a second focus, according to Karlin.

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Uncivil war waged in Idaho over capital

Kevin Gaboury Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Friday, August 5, 2011 - 10:49am

LEWISTON, Idaho -- While the Civil War was raging thousands of miles away, another war was brewing in the Idaho Territory.

Historian John A. Mock discussed the bitter battle between Lewiston and Boise for the title of capital of the new territory in his lecture "Lewiston and the Great Seal: The Territorial Capital is Moved to Boise" Thursday night on the Lewis-Clark State College Campus. The lecture was part of a series of talks commemorating Lewiston's sesquicentennial.

"It was one of the most exciting periods of Idaho history," he said. "There's a continuing rivalry between north and south Idaho today."

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Organic Act, which created the Idaho Territory out of a 325,000-square-mile area that is now Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Lincoln named William H. Wallace as the first governor of the territory, and Wallace chose Lewiston as the new capital. The Seal of the Territory of Idaho was also designed in Lewiston in 1863, Mock said. It included the words "The Union" to indicate where the territory stood in the war between the states.

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100 Idaho schools face Title IX complaints

Kevin Gaboury Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 9:23am

BOISE, Idaho -- The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights in Seattle is looking into allegations of Title IX violations at 100 high schools across Idaho.

According to 600 pages of complaints dated June 23, schools in 78 out of the state's 115 school districts have been accused of not providing female athletes equal opportunities to play sports.

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Feral cats outrun helping hands

Kevin Gaboury, The Lewiston Morning Tribune

Last updated Monday, January 24, 2011 - 10:11am

-Sue Schubert received a phone call this winter that broke her heart.

The caller informed her an elderly neighbor with several pet cats in the Clarkston Heights had died. His family, not knowing what to do with the animals, turned them out into the subzero weather with bowls of food and frozen water.

Unfortunately, scenarios like this are not uncommon in rural Asotin County, Idaho, said Schubert, a volunteer with Helping Hands Rescue and an avowed cat lover.

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