The year’s top stories of 2019: Part 1 – January through June

The first half of 2019 witnessed many milestones in the community – public official retirements, a centennial birthday, the first baby of the year.
 Sadly, there were passings as well of people who called Weiser home and never wanted to live anywhere else.
 The three big snow months are November, December and January. This year, the moisture – and lots of it – showed up as rain in the valley and snow in the mountains in February.
 The snowpack in the Weiser River basin reached 165 percent of average and the concern turned to how quickly that snow would melt.