Misty Flip Highlights Rail Jam Sun Valley Freestyle Park and Pipe Team member Colter Brehmer, 18, completes a 270-degree Misty Flip during the second event of the Lunar Eclipse Rail Jam Series, held Saturday on Dollar Mountain in Sun Valley. Participants launched off a jump onto a two-story high rail extending over a stretch limousine parked in the snow. Brehmer won the Skiers division of the high-adrenaline competition. Twenty-two skiers and snowboarders took part in the affair, watched by about 100 spectators. Photo by Willy Cook

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

• Feds aim to boost participation in census
  In 2000, Blaine County got an F

• Cox answers cable-quality queries
  Company says new signal will solve Channel 7 problems

• Hailey attorney challenges Judge Elgee
  Werth confirms candidacy for district judge job

• Hailey man dies from gunshot wound
  Coroner determines injury was self-inflicted

• Accused rapist sent to prison
  Hailey man gets 6 years for felony injury to a child

• Pay up or go dry in Bellevue
  City could soon disconnect water service to past-due accounts

• Nonprofits get lesson in sustainability
  Philanthropy expert sheds light on ‘nonprofit ecosystem’

• Idaho Power plan cut down to size
  Hailey substation towers reduced by half

• Rodeo upgrade plan gets thumbs-up
  City Council to review funding possibilities Monday

• Briefs
  

• Magic Lantern celebrates 35 years
  Movie theater is a cornerstone of community

• EI breaks out snowshoes and bubbly
  Dinner and auction to benefit breast cancer research

• Health care, according to Donna Shalala
  Former U.S. secretary of health to speak in Ketchum

• Go MAD for Haiti
  Silent auction and ski race to raise funds for earthquake victims

• Reggae, blues and rock take over valley
  Live Music

• Ultimatum Gulch
  

• Common-sense change
  

• The Texas twist: textbooks unfit for consumption
  

• Saving the world, one woman at a time
  

• Israel faces harsher criticism—from Jews
  

• Express should be ashamed
  

• At Garmisch, Lindsey Vonn becomes most decorated Yank ever
  Ligety adds GS title in World Cup Finals

• Storey earns J2 skate silver at Junior Nationals
  Classic races at Presque Isle

• Powell picks winning line in the Parrish
  A spring skiing special

• Growing Concern upsets Jivaro 63-62 in Outlaw League final
  Injury ends deciding game in Hailey twinbill

• Paralympics in full swing at Whistler
  Soule takes biathlon bronze medal

• Turzian takes silver in NCAA 15k skate
  Univ. of Colorado Nordic skier

• Results from the slopes and trails
  

• Sharks carry top seed into Hutch Cup playoffs
  Starting Sunday

• Sports summary
  

• Joking matters with Saul Turteltaub
  Valley People

• Holding falls in ranking of billionaires
  Drop occurs despite increase in net worth

• Sage grouse saga far from over
  Hailey-based group files lawsuit to protect wide-ranging bird species

• Briefs
  

• Injured skier dies in Boise hospital
  

• Jeffrey Kevin Adamson
  

• Mo Barry
  

• Teddie Eldora Bell
  

• Lynne Crofts
  

• Shane C. Sanders
  

• Preston “Kent” Shaw