Bike Or Walk To School Day A Big Success Youngsters Danny Graves, Carter Ros, David Ros and Brogran Ros head to Hailey Elementary School on Wednesday as part of Bike or Walk to School Day. Mountain Rides Transportation Authority sponsored the event and reported that 773 Blaine County students in grades K-8 participated in the program. Routes to School Coordinator Jim Finch said the county’s 36 percent participation rate was "awesome" and far exceeded a nationwide average of about 20 percent. Bellevue Elementary School had the highest participation, with 48 percent of its students biking or walking to school. “It was an excellent turnout given a cold fall day, and we’re excited about the program,” he said. Nearly 5,000 schools participated nationwide.

Friday, October 10, 2008

• Idaho’s forests granted a quiet wildfire season
  Just 98,894 acres have burned across the state this year

• Gary Rapport leaves town
  Former Ketchum official extradited to California to face burglary charge

• St. Luke’s Health System CEO to retire
  

• Consultant: Valley economy would surge with new airport
  Friedman slammed over limitations

• Younger donors wanted
  Wood River Arts Alliance to hold workshop

• Bellevue council contenders face off
  Pizza and Politics raises south valley issues

• Cove Springs developers work on new plan
  Revised plan for Bellevue Triangle project could be ready by Dec. 1

• They Walked In Her Shoes
  

• Blaine County Women Gather For Obama
  

• Hailey Mayor calls town meeting
  Officials to discuss repeal of development-impact fees and other issues facing the city

• A family of photographers
  

• Town to homeowner: lose the theater
  A crawl space was intended to increase the size of a home to 10,000 square feet.

• Mountain Town News
  

• News Briefs
  

• From Here to Waziristan
  

• Sorority debuts in Sun Valley
  Girls Academie offers global opportunities

• Create 'Planetary Peace' mural
  

• The Travelin' Lady sings again
  Sorrels brings sense of tradition to festival

• Sun Valley girl qualifies for McClay
  

• Scare Tactics
  

• Excuse no one for the financial debacle
  

• A leap forward
  

• A Hillary supporter ponders Palin
  

• The DeMoss paintings
  

• The race elephant
  

• Print them all
  

• Scary encounter
  

• The same old politics
  

• On Murphy’s"bile"
  

• Biased reporting
  

• One more big Saturday for youth football
  Long slate of home games Saturday

• Cutthroat girls stay home, and boys don’t
  High Desert soccer starts Saturday

• Eighth-grade grid team beats Burley 28-12
  Middle school team improves to 3-1

• Mushers stay hot on the turnaround trail
  Camas spikers dispatch Cutthroats in three

• Seniors have come a long way with swim team
  Four honored for contributions

• WRHS spikers on an "even" keel
  Get to host Great Basin tournament