Silver Creek Rebounding After Flood Brent Tuohy casts for finicky trout on the legendary Silver Creek near Picabo, which some anglers say is fishing as well as ever months after a major spring flood. When the waters opened to fishing in late May, many fly fishers complained that the physical structure of the creek had changed dramatically. Express photo by Jennifer Tuohy

Friday, August 11, 2006

• Risch opts out of mercury trade program
  

• ?Impossible? river project defying the odds
  Plan to restore flows to 12 miles of Big Wood River gaining support

• Dollar Mountain gains snowmaking
  Sun Valley Co. promises good snow, full season

• 5Does the Big Wood need more wood?
  Wood River Land Trust to construct engineered logjam to benefit fish

• IDWR accepting comments on groundwater research
  

• Silver Creek rebounding from spring flood
  Solid fishing expected to get better

• Child?s generosity looms large in Bellevue
  Second-grader gives back after house burned down

• Ketchum LOT receipts decline
  All categories still on plus side year-to-date

• Heightened security in place at Friedman
  

• Sale of Louie?s finalized
  $1 sale price, plus $10,000 donation, close deal for church

• School foundation raises $157,000
  The foundation announced that in the next two years it hopes to bolster annual fund-raising efforts

• Reynoso forgoes final BC year, signs with Braves
  Atlanta wants former WRHS star as pitcher

• Arts & Crafts Festival opens with bonus group
  Sam?s Picks will showcase valley artists

• Idaho gets Northwest?s first geothermal plant
  

• Does size really matter?
  Political activist turns author, much to his cohort?s surprise

• Congress Defends Occupied Territory
  

• Sun Valley?s gateway
  

• Oil giant poses as innovator, operates like rogue
  

• Soccer tournaments arrive for men, women
  Lefty?s, Laurent Perrier teams in action this weekend in Ketchum

• Fashions On Ice Entertains Sun Valley Audience
  

• Todd Eldredge headlines ice show