Voters Flock To The Polls It was standing room only at Hemingway Elementary in Ketchum Tuesday, as a record number of Blaine County voters headed to the polls. Election officials said heavy turnout was the norm at polling places throughout the county. Blaine County Clerk JoLynn Drage said that by 5 p.m. Monday at the close of absentee balloting, some 4,771 in-person and mail-in ballots had been accepted. The previous record was set in 2004, when 2,806 absentee ballots were submitted. Photo by Willy Cook

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

• Jaquet pulls away from Faulkner
  Candidates battled over District 25 seat

• Election results from the Idaho Secretary of State
  

• Hailey keeps its fees
  Special election could cost city millions

• Bellevue voters choose three of four candidates for City Council
  

• Open space levy up in early returns
  Lands eyed as part of $3.5 million levy include Silver Creek and Big and Little Wood rivers

• Dispatch levy down in early returns
  Failure could lead to mediation

• Femling takes lead in sheriff’s race
  

• Schoen pulls away in early numbers
  Dale Ewersen makes second try

• The Y sweats out its first year
  Organization exceeds expectations

• Bicycle coalition seeks public input
  Where do you want the community to ride?

• Newspaper archives now under wraps
  Express publishing begins to sift through valley history

• Local athletes struggle to keep and find sponsorship
  Slowing economy complicates funding

• Latino college night inspires youth
  

• Sex crime leads to seven-year sentence
  Illegal immigrant convicted of sex with 13-year-old girl

• Trial set in Carey burglary spree
  Surerus pleads not guilty to burglary charges

• Witness intimidation case goes forward
  Trial set for man who allegedly threatened his brother’s wife

• Rapport pleads guilty
  Former Ketchum official jailed on burglary charge

• County looks to future of ambulance district
  Possible changes include a standardized fleet and review of first-responder policy

• Idaho gas prices continue to drop
  The last time Idaho fuel prices were in the $2.60 range was April 2007

• Twin Falls woman allegedly bites officer
  Arrested for battery and indecent exposure

• Healer speaks at Wood River YMCA
  Uses energy to heal chronic diseases and fatal illnesses

• Pesky Center and school district pair up again
  Career academies to be focus at international seminar

• Will it work for Warm Springs?
  New zoning aimed at mixed-use development

• County takes step toward land for new airport
  New governing body also on agenda

• Judge criticizes prosecutor’s dismissal motion
  Elgee alleges ‘procedural gamesmanship’ in sex crime case

• Hailey votes on repeal of development-impact fees, business license fees
  Special election could cost city millions

• Bellevue voters choose three of four candidates for City Council
  

• Nearly time to tune
  

• Mountain Town News
  

• Mountain Town News
  

• News Briefs
  

• Holy superhero !
  The Center is comic fun and super powered

• A couple by design
  'Deathtrap' benefits from professional input

• Explore intellectual and abstract art
  Northwest artist William Ingham shows at the Y

• Journey to the last frontier
  Doc film traces history of Palomar telescope

• The end is here
  

• A once unimaginable feat
  

• Valley needs to get out of its own way
  

• Days of rage
  

• Sabotaging voters' rights
  

• Music problems won’t kill Ketchum
  

• Article was unfair to ranchers
  

• Whiskey’s could be better
  

• Conference missed a solution
  

• Gun art doesn’t belong
  

• Counting our blessings
  

• Caulkins, Bowman pace Wolverines in state run
  Eagle Island footrace for 730 runners

• Shootout victory gives Sunsets a sweep
  Women’s hockey over Jackson Hole

• Swimmers march to another regional title
  Fifth straight for WRHS girls

• High Desert names All-Star soccer teams
  Cutthroats take 2008 honors

• Panthers (9-0) take Cowpokes out for a spin
  Eight-man playoffs next, North Gem again

• CAREY Line Score
  Carey 48, North Gem 6

• Sandpoint rolls to 4A volleyball title
  Wood River makes early exit

• Sports summary
  

• Ten years later, a state championship is revisited
  Wood River boys won it all in Nampa, on Halloween in 1998

• Merchants Alliance dresses up Hailey scene
  Collaboration with Hailey chamber has been a success

• Homework: method or myth?
  Organizations partner to present annual fall conference

• Nonprofit Week boasts accomplishments
  

• The power of a vote
  

• Correction
  

• How to make heating green
  

• Gordon Clarence Dussell Jr.
  

• Patrick John Schwab
  

• Sandra L. Nelson
  

• Bernice Kathryn Hobart
  

• Robert W. Patterson