Spring Has Sprung Like a herald announcing the change of seasons, a purple crocus bulb opens under sunny skies in Hailey Wednesday afternoon. The first day of spring is Saturday, March 20. Warm, spring-like weather is expected to continue through the weekend. Photo by David N. Seelig

Friday, March 19, 2010

• Fewer businesses offering health insurance
  Cuts mainly apply to businesses with 10 or fewer workers

• State Sen. Clint Stennett to retire
  Wife Michelle Stennett files to run for District 25 Senate seat

• Steelhead fishermen report big returns
  Anglers already seeing high catch rates downstream from Salmon

• Blaine Manor levy vote delayed
  Commissioners say vote in August is still possible

• Blaine unemployment above national average
  Idaho’s jobless rate within one-tenth percent of record worst

• Plan proposed to restore Silver Creek
  The Nature Conservancy schedules public hearings

• Felonies charged in alleged vodka theft
  Hailey man accused of being a persistent violator

• Hailey bus service just weeks away
  Town Bus will operate 9 hours a day

• Woman pleads guilty to police battery
  Other charges dismissed from Halloween night fracas

• Briefs
  

• Green thumbs are up for gardening
  Sawtooth Botanical Garden begins educational series

• Are CFL bulbs really that green?
  Ask Ida

• Intuitive eating
  St. Luke’s Health Watch

• Find a treasure at the nexStage
  Great Ketchum Tag Sale takes place this weekend

• Census
  

• Plan, don’t wait, for recovery
  

• Welcome to the far-out politics of Ida-‘No’
  

• Colorado Gulch—the truth unwrapped
  There are no home sites in the floodplain as part of this application.

• Preserve access to the river
  

• Ski Patrol deserves kudos
  

• Trustee ignored public input
  

• Express wrong about McCarthy
  

• Scott USA races to Town Series title
  Winter series wraps up on Cozy run

• Figure skaters pick it up a notch at Jackson Hole
  Sun Valley kids impress at Snow King

• Swimmers first in YMCA regionals
  11 make winning visit to Boise

• Here are top scores from city bowling tourney
  At Mountain Sun Lanes

• Last chance for a ski club GS
  Final race Wednesday on Cozy

• Hobson Memorial set for March 27
  Sign up by Thursday, volunteers sought

• Lurching between one turn and the next
  

• Out of the mouths of ...
  

• Ruth Delmar
  

• Jeffrey Lynn Ogden