Kids Pedal Hard, Live Strong Six-and-under kids all win in the LiveStrong Day criterium race Saturday, Sept. 12, around Ketchum’s Forest Service Park. Everyone who participated had lots of fun and left with a prize and a smile. Avid supporters encouraged all kids in multiple criterium races. Event participants enjoyed a party with live music by Hickory Blue in the park to support the LiveStrong Lance Armstrong Foundation, which supports those battling cancer. Photo by Willy Cook

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

• Pilot, 3 passengers walk away from Friedman accident
  Airport closed for more than hour after Sunday incident

• Flip side of the housing market coin
  To many, short sales seem to be only way of avoiding foreclosure

• Feds release salmon recovery plan
  Conservationists see major flaws, are disappointed by Obama

• Hailey woman hits the jackpot
  Money will pay off pending medical bills

• Civics, Corollas welcome in Hailey
  City will allow developers to build compact parking spaces

• Pot committee breaks new ground
  Members agree to research medical uses

• Blaine County approves $24.3 million budget
  Over $1 million shaved from expenses for 2009-10

• Businessman gets jail time
  Goldberg sentenced to 21 days for probation violation

• How does Sun Valley measure up?
  Consultants compare the area to 3 successful resort towns

• County eyes call boxes near Galena Summit
  

• Pot funding case goes to trial
  Marijuana advocate suing national pro-pot group

• Willis airport study still incomplete
  Actor has plans for new airfield near Soldier Mountain

• County seeks nominees for airport advisory committee
  Process set for member selection

• Should Blaine County manage Ohio Gulch?
  Change seen as way to better coordinate recycling

• County leaders to discuss H1N1 flu
  Awareness and hygiene touted as best prevention

• Police investigate battery theft
  

• Wolf supporters to hold vigil
  Hunt in Wood River Valley set to begin Oct. 1

• News Briefs
  

• A walk in the wild
  After getting laid off, carpenter Mike Geile hit the trail

• SV Film Fest turns 5
  Festival will screen all films at SV Opera House

• Basecamp Feastival debuts for good times
  Eat, dance and gather on Big Lost River

• Entertainment guru to visit Ketchum
  Ernstoff will be nexStage Theatre artist-in-residence

• Art Briefs
  

• No vacancy
  

• Make a memory of the red fish: Take your children
  

• A higher standard
  

• Joe Wilson loses it
  

• Quigley annexation should be approved
  

• Don’t blame all Republicans for the ‘freaks’
  

• Tower debate was mythical
  

• Hailey ignores its citizens
  

• Raise the speed limit
  

• Willich got most votes
  

• Carey sends Devils home early, Mackay awaits
  Just 24 minutes needed for 52-6 win

• Hailey defense throttles Twin 2-0 in soccer showdown
  Great Basin lead at stake in first meeting

• WRHS football team stuns Wendell 14-13
  Placekicker Thompson boots the winner

• Burley, WRHS draw 1-1 on boys’ soccer pitch
  Hailey boys whip Twin Falls 2-0 Monday

• First week of meets for WRHS swimmers
  Season debuts at Rupert, Ketchum

• Bigwood Open brings out 37 golfers
  Club champions are crowned

• WR Invitational volleyball Saturday, Cutthroat girls win 3-0 in soccer
  

• Fishing Report by Bill Mason
  

• Sports summary
  

• Nordic days and nights
  2010 Sun Valley Nordic Festival premieres this winter

• The language of obfuscation
  

• Legal Notice Summary