Just Call Me ‘Bob’ Youngsters of all ages got into the fun Sunday during the Sawtooth Botanical Garden’s annual Harvest Festival. The event at the community garden south of Ketchum offered hay rides, a cornbread competition, various arts-and-crafts projects, and, of course, bobbing for apples. Express photo by Mark Oliver

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

• Inmate hangs himself at Blaine County jail
  Fairfield man was awaiting transport to state prison

• Seasonal flu vaccine becomes scarce
  Suppliers switch to H1N1 production

• Idaho Power re-examines new line
  Planning begins for line to keep Ketchum and Sun Valley safe from blackouts

• County approves raises for officers
  Sheriff Walt Femling not included in adjustment

• Sweetwater faces foreclosure
  City Council to consider amending development agreement

• Board picks Chicago firm to guide airport funding
  Ricondo & Associates won out over 2 other finalists

• Designers propose Ketchum eco-building
  City Council impressed by plans

• Elk and deer hunts open with success, frustration
  Wolves seen as factor in changing populations and behavior

• Company drops plan for Galena cell tower
  Idaho Tower will not appeal Forest Service decision

• Man charged with attempted strangulation
  Suspect previously convicted in Gooding County rape

• Spinelli mum on exit from Chamber
  ‘Different visions’ and personal reasons cited by associates

• Ketchum seeks to cut carbon emissions
  Energy use increases by 14.4 percent in 3 years

• Changes proposed for Stanley Lake
  U.S. Forest Service seeking public comment

• Condition upgraded for accident victim
  Glasmann listed as ‘fair’ at Saint Alphonsus

• Evan Bear gets 88 days in jail
  Sentence pronounced in police battery case

• Telephone scam targets Idaho Power customers
  

• Grants available from foundation
  About $100,000 will be awarded

• Mountain Town News
  

• News Briefs
  

• Ride out biking season at Crosstoberfest
  Annual cyclo-cross race and festival welcomes winter

• Hemingway festival becomes a symposium
  Hemingway scholars to give free talks at library

• Mamet’s ‘Oleanna’ to be read at nexStage
  NexStage Theatre kicks off play-reading series

• U.S. water: pools of toxic menace
  

• School plant facilities levy is a winner from every angle
  

• The deranged hoaxers among us
  

• Our children deserve the best
  The school district is committed to responsible business practices.

• Make an informed vote on school levy
  This is a new tax (if the levy is not passed, taxes go down).

• Hall has the vision
  

• Burke works for citizens
  

• Levy would bring benefits
  

• Can’t we save Quigley?
  

• Leverage and you
  

• Vote for Hall, Gourlay
  

• Levy is proactive
  

• Councilman weighs in
  

• Vote for Shafran
  

• Barovetto is the choice
  

• Vote for St. George
  

• Let’s feed the elk
  

• Council Circle supports levy
  

• Make the right choice
  

• Support Ribi and Adam
  

• Nina for City Council
  

• School district snubs taxpayers
  

• Article was divisive
  

• Panther defense, special teams provide 72-6 win
  Two games left until Sawtooth playoffs

• Great Basin king Twin Falls wins 45-0 in Hailey
  A scoreless Homecoming night, finale at Canyon Ridge Friday

• On a mild night, Homecoming royalty is crowned
  At Friday’s Wood River football game

• WRHS boys, Cutthroat girls headed to state soccer
  State 4A starts Thursday in Caldwell

• Shootout victory sends WRHS girls to state
  Goalkeeper Gove shines at crunch time

• Runners honor the memory of Willie Neal
  91 join Saturday’s footrace at Hulen Meadows

• Promising skater earns silver at regionals
  Two SVFSC medalists at Medford event

• Caulkins is a winner again, so are swimmers; volleyball tries to stay alive
  

• Sports summary
  

• Cheryl Welch: Entrepreneur
  

• ‘Evaded Cadence’
  Chicago writer earns 1st place in Prose for Papa contest

• Rotarun starts work on snowmaking
  Ski area near Hailey continues to upgrade facilities

• 350 actions this Saturday
  Movement seeks to lessen impacts of climate change

• Rex Albrethsen
  

• Viki Lynn Kohler
  

• Helen Dow Whiting