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I have lived in Emmett for the past seven years. This is the first I have heard of this.

I do not recognize the names of any of the people talked about here, and do not believe the town is in any type of an uproar.

The Rumour Mill is a small, inoucous place that is not at all a part of the "main stream" in Emmett...and main stream and main street in Emmett are not big things at all (we like it that way)...so whatever is happeneing at the Rumour Mill is very small indeed.

There are quite a few Dairy Farms, but the valley is much more well known for its Cherry festival and fruit trees, which sadly have been on the rapid decline the last five or six years inparticular as most of that has gone "off shore".

I'll keep my ear to the ground, but the eastern press is making much, much more of this than what I have seen here.

One glaring issue for me is this. Ada county, the most populous county in the state and the county in which the state capital, Boise, is located, lies on a direct line between Gem County (Emmett) and the test sites. Ada County is not mentioned in the studies. Why? It would seem to me that it would have a lot greater chance of producing higher numbers of those impacted, yet it is not mentioned.