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Our View: Rural towns need a variety of economic solutions

Today’s opening of the first ski season at Tamarack Resort may give an economic lift to a part of rural Idaho.

The resort alone won’t lift the economy in Valley County, about 100 miles north of Boise, which lost jobs when Boise Cascade’s lumber mill closed in Cascade three years ago. No town can afford to be a company town, and that’s true whether the company is in the tourism business or the logging industry.

Other rural areas, unlikely to land a resort of Tamarack’s magnitude, can and must keep searching for creative ways to curb joblessness and broaden their tax bases.

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