Slow ski season ends on high note Final weekend packed with sunshine and skiers Warm weather and blue skies brought throngs of skiers to Bald Mountain on Sunday, the final day of the 2008-09 season. The closing weekend ski count of 5,406 was the highest ever, since data for the statistic began being recorded in 1995.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

• Slow ski season ends on high note
  Final weekend packed with sunshine and skiers

• School district proposes teacher salary freeze
  Superintendent asks staff to ‘just stay where we are’

• First Bank of Idaho faces capital shortage
  Federal agency sets deadline to increase assets

• Merger debate twists and turns
  Mayor eyes resolution to keep Sun Valley independent

• County will pay avalanche rescue costs
  Payment is for recent efforts taken on by Sun Valley Heli Ski

• Idaho delegation sides with new airport
  Senators, representatives cite importance of replacement facility

• No opponents on new airport board
  

• Developers eye homesites above Sun Valley
  DeNovo Properties plans upscale homes on former mining lands

• Bellevue to raise parks fees
  $50 soccer games, $500 for ‘major events’

• Hailey considers closing skate park
  City officials say park is being vandalized and misused

• School administrators to discuss U.S. 'education deficit'
  Education foundation sponsors series of community presentations

• Whiskey's resurrection set for December
  Construction likely to begin this summer

• Jury sequester motion denied for Marsalis trial
  Hurlbutt reserves right to sequester jury after it’s impaneled

• Hailey ends marijuana fight
  Forms committees to handle policy

• Sheriff cites driver in truck collision
  Wreck shut down highways

• Hailey cuts operations by 7 percent
  Second quarter analysis reports $205,000 less revenue than previous year

• Heart attack caused Sun Valley dorm death
  Man died after fight in February with roommate

• Mountain town news
  

• News briefs
  

• Where the buffalo roam
  American Classics Theatre to present Mamet’s 'American Buffalo'

• SV Pavilion to debut summer season
  Planners encounter hurdles for bookings

• It's a skating safari
  Skating club to present spring show

• Farmers gather at Center
  

• Tea with the GOP
  

• Obama's iron and gloved fists
  

• Another committee?
  

• How do you say faux pas in Austrian?
  

• Gulliver learns to fight Lilliputians
  

• Whither KB's?
  

• Make it cheaper
  

• Just the two of us
  

• It’s Obama's turn
  

• Saving Silver Creek
  

• Sun Valley vs. whitefish
  

• Century, Wolverines tie 6-6 on tennis court
  Great Basin powers clash in Jerome

• Farrington, Ballou dazzle in USASA pipe
  On the podium at Copper Mountain

• Huge goal gives Vipers the Hutch Cup
  B+ hockey winner by McCoy in close battle

• Warriors post first win 8-3 over Borah
  Lacrosse victory

• Sports physicals set for April 30
  Money given to the schools

• Sports summary
  

• Mixed doubles lifts Cutthroats over WRHS 7-5
  First prep tennis meeting of spring

• Hailey girls nail down 6-1 win at Preston
  Great Basin weekend twinbill

• Jerome, WRHS clash on baseball field
  Home games set for Wolverines

• 10 golds for WRHS track team in weekly meet
  Wood River’s teams second at Jerome

• High school rodeo debuts at Glenns Ferry
  Carey rodeo set for May 8-9

• Memorial is Sunday for Andrea Mead Lawrence
  At Mammoth Mountain

• Café culture makes a comeback
  

• When meta-narratives go bad
  

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Finding the low-carbon diet
  Clearly, we cannot keep eating this way.

• Ronald Jay Fisher