School starts Monday Joni Cashman, art teacher at Woodside Elementary School, gets supplies in order for the start of school on Monday. Some 3,300 children are expected to attend Blaine County Schools this year. Photo by David N. Seelig

Friday, August 22, 2008

• School starts Monday
  Impact of residency requirement still unknown

• A tale of two valleys
  Expense of proactive wolf measures makes duplicating local project difficult, officials say

• Larocco aims for D.C. again
  Former congressman seeks open Senate seat

• Otter talks fire bill with Ketchum officials
  $1.5 million still owed to Forest Service

• Convicted sex criminal is back in Idaho
  Marsalis gets 10-day tour of the U.S. in extradition to Blaine County

• The future of Hailey’s rodeo grounds takes shape
  Hockey teams, cowboys and skateboarders are involved

• Modern-day heroes fight after the battle
  Sanders’ documentary finds healing from war

• Victim says it was an accident
  Woman claims former boyfriend didn’t run over her on purpose

• Sun Valley Co. keeps on rolling
  Council gives tacit approval to Gun Club development

• Visa limit hits Sun Valley
  Ski industry out in the cold on H2-B program

• Veterans praise local sports program for wounded
  Wood River Ability Program seeks more funds

• Neville Brothers play to a ‘Yellow Moon’
  

• $5.5 million in local forest projects could be deferred
  Trail reconstruction, new bridge, forest thinning involved

• Volunteers sought for Special Olympics
  Events will be held at Sun Valley, Dollar

• P&Z limits Quigley development
  Loss of upper-canyon home sites could be deal breaker

• Council contemplates hiatus for Fourth Street
  Funds from Shafran loan remain for capital improvements

• Regional wildfires continue burning
  Northeast of Featherville, the South Barker Fire has grown to 7,391 acres

• Build it, and they will come
  Inmates transferred to new county jail

• Women are leaders in philanthropy
  Wood River organization awards grants to non-profits

• Officials make progress on dispatch funding
  Groups backing open-space levy override are optimistic about ballot initiative’s chances

• News Briefs
  

• Humor and Hiaasen
  Satirical writer to be at writers’ conference

• New Nutritional Paradigm
  

• What Yer Emergency
  

• Living artfully
  

• Businesses can't pay
  

• Funding recreation the right way
  

• Cougar protocols
  

• Castle Rock redux
  

• Close call
  

• Water tips?
  

• Wood River girls’ soccer aspires toward title
  

• Senior leadership provides positive outlook on WRHS soccer
  

• Local girls swim well in Western Championships
  

• 2008 Blaine County Title SV Men's Adult Baseball League
  

• It’s a glad, glad, glad world
  2008 Cutthroats roll with the punch lines

• Community School kickers hope to ride the fast track to success
  

• Bound For the Faire
  

• James Francis Coonrod
  

• Kerry Spizel
  

• Bruce Tettemer