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Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 11 years, 11 months AGO
| October 14, 2014 9:00 PM

Idaho Potato Museum eyes improvements

BLACKFOOT - The Idaho Potato Museum in southeast Idaho is undergoing improvements which include opening a restaurant so visitors can eat potatoes.

Museum Executive Director Tish Dahmen told KIFI-TV that artifacts at the museum in Blackfoot will have better interpretive information.

Dahmen said opening the restaurant is important because tourists want to eat potatoes when they're in a region she called the potato capital of the world.

Dahmen said a future project includes expanding and organizing the gift shop.

Small plane crashes in southwest Idaho

NAMPA - Two people received minor injuries in a small plane crash at the Nampa Municipal Airport in southwest Idaho.

Authorities say the light sport aircraft called a Kitfox slid off the runway while attempting a landing and ended up on its top at about 4:15 p.m. Sunday.

Nampa police say the two people were treated at the scene and not taken to a hospital. Their names haven't been released.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.