FOR THE WEEK OF:
September 20-26, 2000

• New high school caught in land crunch
  The Blaine County School District may build a new $19.6 million high school on the existing Wood River High School's sports field if it cannot resolve problems purchasing property from neighboring land owners
  

• The largest gets larger
  Cozy snowmaking expansion underway
  

• St. Luke's sign slips through loophole
  P&Z commissioner: 'We've got to be more careful'
  

• Gannett Road golf course discussed
  Trial balloons for developing south-of-Bellevue land
  

• The Feldenkrais Method
  It sounds a bit like a religious cult. Well, it's not.
  

• Picabo is back to slopes—with Olympic dreams
  If Picabo does win at Snowbasin in 2002, says her coach Jim Tracy, it will be "the biggest comeback of all time."
  

• Best food turns into best party
  Five years ago the Blaine County Recreation District began a small and little know event—Best of the Valley.
  

• Season pass prices go up
  Other Western resorts cut prices
  

• Wells Fargo moves out, Mountain West moves in
  Wells Fargo will be moving out of Ketchum and Hailey as part of its merger with First Security Bank.

• Staying focused
  Hailey teen fights cancer with willpower and help from friends
  

• Opera in the valley
  The Western Opera Theatre brings Die Fledermaus to Hailey
  

• Surplus should nourish education
  No group in recent years has endured more political whipping boy abuse and derision than America's public school teachers, condemned by their critics as ill-prepared liberal social engineers who're labor unionists at heart or worse.
  

• Powerful cooperation
  With the world so fraught with naysayers, how refreshing to see a little patience and persuasion resulting in unity and civic responsibility
  

• Going private may not save Idaho public TV from right-wing attacks
  No less an authority that Idaho Republican party chairman Trent Clark describes the cranky claque in the state Legislature who constantly carp about Idaho Public Television programming. Commentary by Pat Murphy

• Powerful cooperation
  With the world so fraught with naysayers, how refreshing to see a little patience and persuasion resulting in unity and civic responsibility. Commentary by JoEllen Collins
  

• Maughn drives Blue Devils past Carey 40-38
  Wild Sawtooth Conference grid showdown
  

• Public Notice Summary
  

The Idaho Mountain Express is distributed free to residents and guests throughout the Sun Valley resort areas. Subscribers to the Idaho Mountain Express will read these and other stories  in this weeks' issue:

• Council likes height revisions

• Finally—Friedman Airport's appreciation day

• Resort report

• Stealth cell tower not so stealthy

• Nancy Faye Dunlap turns 100

• Baldy Hill Climb

• SNRA to reclaim rec sites

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