Ketchum loses one of its own Bald Mountain avalanche claims the life of 54-year-old Tim Michael Express photo by Todd Kaplan A skier on Bald Mountain’s Lower Broadway run travels below the avalanche that claimed the life of Warm Springs resident Tim Michael, 54.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

• Ketchum loses one of its own
  Bald Mountain avalanche claims the life of 54-year-old Tim Michael

• Storms increase snowpack, risk of avalanches
  Weak snow layer causing danger throughout valley

• 2 men stranded by Hailey avalanche
  Della Mountain slide blocks Big Wood River

• What matters more, plaza or parking?
  P&Z weighs town plaza design against possible parking losses

• Less grass, more water
  Sun Valley adopts ordinance limiting new-home irrigation

• Plants instead of prisoners?
  County contemplates new use for old jail site

• Gun charges lead to probation
  Judge orders treatment for Bellevue woman

• 2 airport boards to meet in closed sessions
  

• Neighbors resist Broadford Road plan
  Colorado Gulch Preserve would bring 94 homes on 21 acres

• City leases land for senior housing
  24-unit project envisioned for River Street

• Juveniles accused in car burglaries
  

• Woman injured in snowmobile accident
  

• Man gets jail for battering girlfriend
  Felony domestic case pleaded down

• Briefs
  

• Soprano Alyson Cambridge to grace Sun Valley
  Rising opera star will perform classic opera and more

• It’s high stakes for Company of Fools
  Fools to hold Casino Royale benefit

• Art Briefs
  

• Caritas To Perform A Beethoven Classic
  

• Celebrate valley musicians
  Live Music

• Slam poet returns home to perform
  Max Kessler to give show on original works

• United States of Corporate America
  

• United by snow
  

• Court gives Wall Street life-or-death power over democracy
  

• Red-meat Republicans
  The politician-as-hunter cliché has bloody well run its course.

• Conan: ungrateful, spoiled, whining—and mega rich
  

• Ski patrol deserves kudos
  

• Teens support live music
  

• Tostitos made right choices
  

• Thank you to the community
  

• Valley needs hotels, events
  

• With 30 wins, Vonn closes in on American record
  Five straight downhill victories

• Watanabe books his Olympic ticket
  A cliffhanger in Stoenham

• Farrow, Roos take Flood Memorial J2 honors
  Baldy Hill Climb king Fink-Debray wins three

• After stormy week, a bluebird day for Billy Goat
  75 Nordic racers up north

• Olympic sendoff for Arritola is Sunday, Ski Club Reunion to start
  

• Kids eager for Saturday’s Arkoosh Cup
  Alpine racing at Rotarun

• “Senior Nights” for prep teams this week
  High school sports roundup

• Sports summary
  

• New uniforms, same spirit in 7-6 OT win over Snipes
  Nikolaisons’ hat trick, Thomson’s stops lift Suns

• Changes proposed for river management
  

• Night crawlers
  When the skiers leave, Sun Valley groomers are just starting their day

• Boxes of rocks
  Skepticism is the proper attitude toward any assertion.

• Sustain Blaine forms new board
  7 members of business community selected

• Sagebrush offers volunteer training
  

• Tim Michael
  

• Carmen von Arend Backman