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Did you know? Jed Rice made his first pair of chaps when he was just 14. The store has made chaps (pronounced with a soft “ch” like chaparral) for rodeo riders and rodeo queens for decades. Chap availability, according to the website, is subject to “demand and customer attitude.”

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Hap Tallman Stockman's Supply is part of a vanishing breed in ever-urbanizing Boise.

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Idaho dumps prison contractor

Corrections Corporation of America admitted to understaffing and overbilling for its work. 2 hours ago

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Taliban express new readiness for peace talks

The group opened an office in Qatar signalling a move toward Afghan negotiations. 2 hours ago

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Starter Trey Lang struggled mightily with his control in his Hawks debut on Tuesday night at Memorial Stadium. Lang had six wild pitches and two hit batters in four innings while allowing four earned runs. "He might make seven, eight, nine quality pitches, and then he'll lose his rhythm and struggle to find it back," pitching coach David Rosario said. "That's where we are at right now."

Top of the Hawks rotation returns tonight

Here's what every Hawks fan should know when deciding whether to attend Wednesday's game against Salem-Keizer: The top of Boise's pitching rotation is back to work.

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A worker prepares a rebar arrangement at JUMP.

JUMP design is putting construction workers' brains to the test

From concept to permitting to construction, the Simplot family's Jack's Urban Meeting Place project has been a story of design complications, regulatory...

Entertainment

2013 Best of Treasure Valley: The top dog's silver anniversary

When the Idaho Statesman's readers survey debuted in 1988, it was named the Best of Boise. In those early years, we discovered things about ourselves that would raise eyebrows nowadays. Best Fries? McDonald's. Best Video Store? Blockbuster. (What ...

Living

A picnic can be elegant while still being easy enough to put together in an afternoon. Just add a few refinements into the mix.

Pan bagnat adds polish to picnic: A few easy changes upgrades standard picnic fare

Although we are a nation of committed picnic lovers, we do not, on the whole, give our picnic foods their due.

Outdoors

Boise's MK Nature Center gets chinook salmon. By Pete Zimowsky.

Boise's MK Nature Center gets chinook salmon (video)

Boise's MK Nature Center gets chinook salmon. By Pete Zimowsky.

Opinion

Letters to the editor-06-19-2013

In response to your list, the Best of Treasure Valley: What? No Best Local Author? Best car wash. Check. Best food truck. Sure. Best florist. Gotta have that. But what about the talented local writers? Nope. They've gone completely ignored. So I ...

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