Paralympian Breaks New Ground Paralympian Beth Livingston, center, is helped out of a helicopter by her friend Jill Holder and Sun Valley Helicopter Ski Guides employee Sigi Vogl, left, and heli-ski company owner Mark Baumgardner, right, on Thursday, Feb. 14. Livingston was the first disabled athlete to visit Sun Valley Trekking’s Tornak Hut, north of Ketchum, which was rebuilt last summer to be fully wheelchair accessible. Paralympian Takes to the Backcountry Photo by David N. Seelig

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

• Parents say school district expulsion policy is unfair
  Abuse of nonprescription medicine is a common reason for being expelled

• Frontier sidesteps Sun Valley
  Airline excludes Friedman service from expansion plan

• Western wolf delisting looms
  Notice of delisting will be published in the Federal Register next week

• Recreation plan gets green light
  BLM plan will guide recreation on more than 160,000 acres

• Campaign for office, lose your job?
  County employees could be terminated for campaigning against superiors

• Long weekend lures skiers to slopes
  Presidents? Day skier count up over last year

• Lodge Dining Room could close for dinner during summer
  Facility would likely be used for banquets

• Bellevue cell tower gets final nod
  Lease agreement to bring $12,000 per year to city

• Hailey Ice eyes new site for rink
  Project could tie in with Life Church annexation request

• Golf course and homes in Quigley?
  Blaine County Recreation District sets meeting to discuss development plan

• The Main Street shuffle
  Dirty Little Roddy?s to make way for McClain?s

• Looking for the solution
  Economic summit highlights goals, challenges for valley organizations

• Police have suspects in LDS vehicle break-ins
  Men allegedly burglarized four vehicles in church parking lot

• Alcohol sting nets 18 violations
  Establishments sold booze to teenagers

• Delegation seeks funding for ?specialty crops?
  Farm Bill consideration ongoing in Washington

• Valley residents report seeing meteor
  

• Investigation into YMCA accident continues
  Climbing wall remains open

• Mountain Town News
  

• News Briefs
  

• River restoration group dips toes back in the water
  Whitewater park would benefit fish, children and kayakers

• Leading together, at La Alianza
  Group seeking to promote cross-cultural alliances

• Paralympian takes to backcountry
  Tornak Hut, Sun Valley Heli Ski help create opportunity

• Imani Winds plans to blow the roof off
  Quintet makes tradition modern

• Molière reveals the truth
  The Community School players present ?The Hypochondriac?

• The woman who dared cry rape
  ?Shame? will be screened as part of film festival

• Northern Exposure
  Company of Fools lets it all hang out

• Super Delegates
  

• Why Republicans should fear McCain
  

• Stennett sets service example
  

• Until waste problem is resolved, no more nuclear plants
  

• The federal stimulus package
  What is to be done about America?s looming boob-tube crisis?

• State should invest in essential programs
  Only 30 percent of our high school children go on to college, primarily because many cannot afford i

• Fidel Castro exits on his own
  

• Penalty for dog owners?
  

• Obama is the future
  

• Democrats to improve caucus
  

• Global warming debate pointless
  

• Thanks for the rescue
  

• Enough talk about Africa
  

• ISTARS is not the answer
  

• Eradicate elk shooter pens
  

• Villy (4 goals) joins the 400 Club, Suns roll 12-5
  Back on ice, Sun Valley splits with Team Utah

• Suns Hockey Summary
  

• 2007-08 Sun Valley Suns Season statistics
  (9-3-0 overall: 9-3-0 home, 0-0-0 away)

• Figure skaters in limelight at Winter Games
  SVFSC stages 19th annual competition

• Kids collect coins at Rotarun?s Slush Cup
  Sunny day for alpine races

• McCall?s Bear Basin is final Nordic stop
  Sun Valley sends 18 to Junior Nationals

• Freestylers tame bumps at Bridger Bowl
  The latest from the slopes

• Carey girls (13-10) finish promising season
  High school sports summary

• Three from WRHS off to state wrestling
  At The Idaho Center Thursday

• Midgets third in Great Western hockey
  Bantams grab Jackson Hole title

• World Cup racers take a look at Whistler Mountain
  Vonn and Hosp remained tied at the top

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Nancy Felts