Crews contain Sun Valley wildfire Ketchum residents watch Friday as Morgan Ridge is engulfed in flames. The wildfire burned a total of 300 acres and was battled by crews from the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Sun Valley, Ketchum, Wood River and Hailey fire departments. Photo by Willy Cook

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

• Crews contain Sun Valley wildfire
  Authorities still investigating cause of 290-acre blaze

• Fire season arriving early this year
  Current fire danger normally not seen until mid-July

• Crime rate drops in Blaine County
  2006 continues 5-year decline in serious offenses

• Hailey man charged with rape and kidnapping
  Suspect accused of sexually assaulting former girlfriend

• Convicted robber sentenced to Cottonwood correctional facility
  Samudio to undergo evaluation before determination of prison or probation

• Councilman to leave at summer?s end
  Shafran resigns URA post Tuesday evening

• Councilman to loan URA $1 million
  Shafran resigns from URA board

• Stanley wolf killed illegally
  Lost River Valley resident charged with shooting

• Sun Valley appoints new councilman
  Dave Chase replaces Ann Agnew on four-person panel

• Donation to help preserve Ernest Hemingway?s home
  Foundation dissolves with gift to The Nature Conservancy

• WiFi may fly through the air downtown
  City postpones decision on one-year pilot project

• Hailey?s water rates to change in July
  Monthly base rate increases

• Hailey leaders eschew regional planning
  City declines to join countywide council

• Hailey bike park starting to roll
  Riding opportunities to expand in Hailey

• Unwelcome wings fly into airport
  Mourning doves descend on Friedman tarmac

• Hailey outlines next year?s budget
  2.6 percent decrease in funds anticipated

• July 4 coming to Fourth Street
  First phase of Fourth Street Heritage Corridor nearly complete

• Sun Valley considers raises for public officials
  Potential pay raises spur heated debate

• Must be summer ? airport noise picks up
  Air traffic set to peak in July and August

• Shakespeare Festival set to relocate
  Sun Valley approves $23,600 grant to assist move

• Gooding man faces road rage charges
  

• Elk perish when struck by pickup
  At least 2 animals killed north of Ketchum

• Shifting winds blow in new priests
  Father John Morgan to move to Boise Aug. 1

• Heritage Court crowned in Hailey
  County museum honors quartet of ?Idaho gems?

• Mountain Town News
  

• News Briefs
  

• Helping the world?s children
  Children?s poetry book plans to make a difference

• Experience the power of music to heal
  Sierra Leone?s Refugee All Stars to perform Friday

• Fish and Game officer hangs up his badge
  Roger Olson leaving state agency after 30 years

• Opera for the masses
  The Three Tenors perform for the valley

• It?s a Fools fest
  Company of Fools does repertory theater

• Whaddya want?
  

• Warn people of fire danger
  

• Homegrown immigration ?reforms? won?t work
  

• So this is what you call compassion?
  Illegal immigration is, by its nature, a breakdown in the rule of law

• Comprehensive immigration reform needed
  What?s needed is a workable program to allow for recruitment of temporary agriculture workers from a

• Cheney: just arrogant?or disturbed?
  

• Barbara Lee and American dissent
  

• Crash report was off mark
  

• Say no to CIEDRA
  

• Plan is a rare opportunity
  

• Spud mitigation could work
  

• Keep the highway clean
  

• Vonnegut had it right
  

• Safety first
  

• Support salmon and steelhead
  

• The Electric Horseman
  Bellevue?s Kade Smith wins third consecutive state cow cutting title

• Wood River packs its swagger for road trip
  Nelson?s nine stagger eastern Idaho opponents

• A running jones
  Community School headmaster fourth in Western States 100

• Valley Club unveils its new West Nine
  Tom Fazio course opens full time July 1

• 2007 Ketchum Coed Softball League
  

• 2007 Custom Plumbing Hailey Coed Softball League
  

• Fishing Report by Bill Mason
  

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Levi Creed Stinnett