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Idaho crash that killed Kuna city official also took lives of her infant son, sister Jacob Scholl, The Idaho Statesman
May 4 After a prominent official in Kuna and Meridian was named as one of three people who died in a multivehicle crash on an Idaho highway, local officials said the other two killed were her infant son and sister.
Lisa Holland Kuna s director of economic development and a member of Meridian s planning and zoning commission was killed Saturday afternoon during a seven-vehicle crash on Idaho 51 south of Mountain Home. She was 34.
Idaho State Police said after the crash that the two others killed were 38-year-old Portland, Oregon, resident Laurie Bloomquist and an unnamed juvenile.
Updated: 8:50 PM MST January 26, 2021
MERIDIAN, Idaho Nearly one week after Meridian Mayor Robert Simison made his recommendation for the city s next police chief, Tracy Basterrechea was officially appointed to fill the position.
The city council voted unanimously to confirm Basterrechea. He was sworn in immediately following the Meridian City Council meeting on Tuesday and will serve as Meridian s fifteenth Chief of Police.
“My vote to confirm Chief Basterrechea was one of the easiest in my tenure as a City Council member,” said Meridian City Council President Treg Bernt. “Everyone residing in Meridian is impacted by the public safety efforts of our law enforcement officers. Tracy has been a huge part of leading those efforts and will build upon the great relationship established between Meridian Police Department and the community.”