Fire season arrives early Blaze in brush north of Ketchum bypasses homes Ketchum Fire Department volunteer Rebecca Rusch, front, and KFD Engineer/Paramedic Ed Binnie work to contain a small brush fire north of Ketchum Saturday afternoon. Fire fighters are warning that summer fire conditions are arriving early this year, and people should use caution with cigarettes and camp fires. Photo by Willy Cook

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

• Bellevue voices concerns about Blaine Manor plan
  

• Voters to consider sale of Blaine Manor
  Simple majority would allow transfer of funds to nonprofit foundation

• Bellevue citizens consider tax increase?again
  

• Sun Valley seeks $4.357 million bond
  Water and Sewer District special election Tuesday, May 22

• Sun Valley asks voters to lower LOT
  Special election set for Tuesday, May 22

• Fire season arrives early
  Blaze in brush north of Ketchum bypasses homes

• County moves toward drought declaration
  Plan would allow emergency water rights transfers

• Three Hailey teenagers charged with sex crimes
  Men accused of using cell phones to record child pornography

• Hotel plan gets mixed reviews
  Ongoing debate remains economics versus town character

• Ketchum P&Z overhauled
  2 commissioners step down

• County hires full-time administrator
  City manager from Florida to replace McNutt

• District launches preschool program
  May 22 pre-registration offered throughout the county

• Could airport reopen early?
  

• Grant swells Ketchum theater?s coffers
  Campaign to buy nexStage Theatre continues

• Trials scheduled for drug bust suspects
  

• New brochure details dangers of meth use
  Publication cites high use of meth in area schools

• Vice principal tabbed to lead Wood River
  Blackman ?excited? to take the reins

• Act locally, think globally
  Kennedy to speak on environmental destiny

• Ketchum poised for change
  Lawmakers take a look under the hood of the new Ketchum machine

• Bellevue denies plan for 100-foot cell tower
  Difficult decision for P&Z

• Hailey LOT on track to reach target
  

• Carey boy treated for gunshot wound
  Sheriff?s office determines shooting accidental

• Ketchum bar owner faces charges in Boise
  

• Mountain Town News
  By Allen Best

• News Briefs
  

• State of emergency? What is the value of partnership?
  South valley authorities consider greater cooperation between fire departments

• Should others follow the Ketchum example?
  Successful merger of Ketchum and Ketchum Rural fire departments began in 1957

• Celebrated author is one of the ?Big Girls?
  Susanna Moore will be fêted at book party

• Run for fun
  Girls on the Run brings community together

• Ballet School showcases deep talent
  Catch the final performance for two senior dancers

• A drop of arsenic puts the laughter in Laughing Stock
  'Arsenic and Old Lace' opens at the nexStage

• Ketchum's New Gateway
  

• Go for tax changes, nursing home, and finishing water projects
  

• Stop funding bad air
  

• America can?t afford another ?faith-based? president
  

• ?I Love Lucy? comes to Ketchum
  The city can never have too much land. It's how the city acquires the property that counts.

• ?The Shakespeare Principle?
  Adults can be just as guilty of misplacing the burden of proof.

• Entropy is the plan, the plan is God
  The trouble with entropy being God is that He hates concentrations of energy.

• Vote to support senior care
  

• Community needs hotels
  

• Support sale of Blaine Manor
  

• Vote to lower option tax
  

• A presence we shall miss
  

• Vote yes for Bellevue
  

• Support valley?s elders
  

• Support our local merchants
  

• Vote for sale of Blaine Manor
  

• Vote ?yes? on LOT initiative
  

• A ?yes? means 'no new taxes'
  

• Main Street?s not a park
  

• Believe in Bellevue
  

• Honor fallen on Memorial Day
  

• Keep the highway clean
  

• Six Wolverines gear up for state track trip
  Miniard, Fox capture conference titles

• WRHS sends seven to state tennis meet
  Century shows off in singles at Great Basin

• Cutthroats poised to defend state tennis title
  Sun Valley (15 to state) runs away with district honors

• 2007 Fourth District 3A tennis tournament
  May 11 at Sun Valley Tennis Club

• 2007 Great Basin Conference 4A tennis tournament
  May 9-10 at Sun Valley Tennis Club

• 2007 Blaine County/Hershey track meet results
  

• Carey, Camas send 29 athletes to state track
  Successful district meet for Panthers, Mushers

• District cowpokes come to Carey
  Spring circuit stops for two go-rounds

• Parnes helps Stanford to team title
  In national bike championships

• Elaine O?Connor
  

• Kenneth Gordon Fuller
  

• Ruby Lee Green
  

• Mary Gladys McAtee