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Rexburg
Friday, May 22nd, 2026
Good morning, Rexburg. Here's your local news at a glance for Friday, the 22nd of May.
COMMUNITY NEWS
- ➤ Rows of flowers will soon brighten Main Street and Center Street when residents join Flow-Bor Day — a yearly event hosted by the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Group to add spring color to downtown. Volunteers can plant provided or personal blooms to enhance the local charm. Local News 8
ACCIDENTS NEWS
- ➤ Eight structures were lost after an outdoor cooking fire spread quickly near Thornton on Wednesday night at around 6:16 p.m. near 4856 S. Yellowstone Hwy., and firefighters from several districts evacuated Wind Willows RV Park — no injuries were reported. Local News 8
CRIME NEWS
- ➤ On March 29 the Goodsell family discovered that their special outdoor mobility chair was stolen from their storage unit, leaving their 8-year-old daughter unable to join family hikes & the case under investigation. East Idaho News
CULTURE NEWS
- ➤ On Thursday, May 28, the ‘Just Add Water: The Dam That Broke Us and Built Us’ Exhibit will open at City Hall with a ribbon-cutting (marking the 50th anniversary of the 1976 flood) and begin a weeklong celebration with a 5k, 10k, and half-marathon (June 6). BYU-Idaho Scroll
ENVIRONMENT NEWS
- ➤ F&G is inviting locals to join its citizen science project to monitor monarch butterflies this summer in Rexburg as volunteers record sightings to support conservation efforts. Rexburg Standard Journal
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