Teacher loses hair wager with winning auction Iditarod musher’s eight-year beard tamed for school Making a clean cut for the Community School, fourth-grade teacher Trent Herbst, a five-time Iditarod competitor, loses his beard Monday after a school auction surpasses goals. Photo by Willy Cook

Friday, April 15, 2011

• County audit shows drop in expenses
  Cutting spending helps compensate for reduced revenue

• URA tries to put affordable-housing issue to rest
  URA borrowed $1.49 million of city’s housing money

• Gardeners, Don’t Despair
  

• County moves cautiously on airport funding
  Commissioners cite need for more information

• Ketchum company awarded $6 million military contract
  

• Teacher loses hair wager with winning auction
  Iditarod musher’s eight-year beard tamed for school

• Hailey could ban use of disposable plastic bags
  Wood River High School students inspired by Hailey’s “Just Bag It’ campaign

• Energy summit could turn visions into reality
  Consultants, stakeholders to meet this month

• Mountain Town News
  

• Briefs
  

• Baldy skiers model retro skiwear
  Apres by CK Bradley skiwear is a hit in Sun Valley

• Get the gardens growin’
  Garden partnerships help people grow and sow

• Don’t take your heart for granted
  St. Luke’s Health Watch

• These ‘air strikes’ are humane
  

• It’s not fair
  

• Five Star women capture Ogden hockey title
  Unbeaten in “B” at Utah Icebreaker

• First league win goes down to final pitch
  Wolverines trim Jerome 9-8 at Founders Field

• Girls’ singles boosts WRHS tennis at Rupert
  In Great Basin meet

• Sizzling hot, Hailey hitters sweep Bobcats in softball
  Senior hurler Levy tosses no-hitter

• At Snowbowl, next season is here for freestylers
  SVSEF bump skiers in Sunrise Bowl

• Wolverine boys tour Riverside at Gate City
  

• First team win for Cutthroat tennis
  9-3 over Gooding Tuesday

• Something I Ate…
  

• Christine DeCarufel
  

• Jim Hitson