Dear Community Members and Patrons,
We are grateful for the way our community continues to make use of our track and facilities. It’s encouraging to see families, athletes, and neighbors staying active and enjoying this shared space. This is the reason we went through the work and fundraising to build this facility.  To help keep our track in excellent condition for walking, running, and fitness activities, we kindly ask that bicycles, scooters, and skateboards not be used on the rubberized track surface. These wheels can cause damage over time, reducing the quality and safety of the track for everyone.
Small strollers are welcome, and we encourage families to continue bringing their little ones out. By working together to protect the track surface, we ensure that it remains a safe, high-quality resource for all who use it. Thank you for your continued support, respect, and care for our school facilities.
Sincerely,
Ryan Hasselstrom
Cottonwood School District

To the Editor
I recently attended Russ Fulcher’s virtual town hall event on 8/16/25. It was the usual format, a short introduction on all the good things he is doing, followed by questions from the audience (pre-filtered) on issues. After a while, I decided to ask a question on a constitutional issue, but the one-hour meeting conveniently ended before I could ask it.
If a congressman really wanted to connect with his constituents and make himself vulnerable to standing on an issue and accepting dialogue on that issue, he could simply create a blog for himself with articles on issues that constituents could comment on, and he could respond to. But this is NEVER done because the main job of every representative, with few exceptions, is to get re-elected.
How it is right now, you can pull up the contact form for your congressman and fill out all your particulars (again and again and again), which will usually result in a response in about a week that sometimes actually addresses your issue. Naturally, the response is a read-only email you cannot reply to, so no true dialog can ever happen. I have tried to get a dialog going by resubmitting another contact form and quote from my original question and his answer with my response added, but this has never resulted in a satisfactory response.
The efforts of having local offices for the representative seem like it is reaching out, but it feels more like playing interference for the busy representative.
There is a fundamental problem here. According to https://www.census.gov/mycd, both our Idaho congressional districts have close to 1 million people in each of them. James Madison seemed to think that 30,000 people per district was a good number and proposed this as an initial size in an amendment to the Constitution.
Seems to me we are due for a multi-level form of representation.
Sandy (Sanford) Staab
Kooskia, ID