WRHS music students sweep Anaheim competition Champions are made through practice and community Wood River High School Music Department faculty and several music students representing the Wood River Concert Band, Jazz Band, Dixie Band, Chamber Orchestra, Concert Choir, Colla Voce and B-Tones stand with their winnings from the Heritage Music Festival Competition in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday, April 16. Photo by Willy Cook

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

• Teacher contract negotiations are underway
  New law requires discussions to be held in public

• Old Cutters deal blows up
  Hailey could face lawsuit from Mountain West Bank

• Oklahoma crash claims Hailey pilot
  Art Lazzarini didn’t walk away from this one

• Snow volcano rises in Sun Valley
  Filmmaker uses Dollar Mountain for gargantuan jump

• Home values on the rise?
  Federal survey doesn’t tell whole story, county officials say

• Group Effort Helps Feed The Hungry
  

• Deadline passes on Starbucks’ lease with no agreement
  Lines of communication between Ketchum URA and Cairde Group still open

• School district patrons share views
  ‘Listening session’ attendees discuss quality education

• ‘Subject to whackage’
  Will loss of water-loving cottonwoods harm valley wildlife?

• Proposed plastic bag ban draws critics
  Students now working with city staff

• WRHS music students sweep Anaheim competition
  Champions are made through practice and community

• Ketchum P&Z offers praise, suggestions for affordable housing project
  Skeptics call for more parking and some retail

• Ketchum Firefighters’ Union initiates litigation
  

• Briefs
  

• Spring film fest to celebrate independent film
  Magic Lantern Cinemas will screen film through May

• The Russians are coming
  St. Petersburg String Quartet to play for concert series

• Crawling, creeping and fascinating
  Sawtooth Botanical Garden Bug Zoo is back

• Live music
  Philly’s Phunkestra is phat and all that

• Storyteller Teresa Jordan to share her collection
  Free presentation will include CSI students

• Dirty Feet to present ‘Retrofit’
  Dancers to perform at Liberty Theatre

• Betsy Pearson to exhibit at Green Antelope
  Paintings show off valley and travels abroad

• Ryan wants to repeal the 1930s
  

• Unquenched consequences?
  

• Washington’s 52-year charade to topple Castro
  

• A complaint too far
  

• Robotics team thanks donors
  

• Praise for new herbicide policy
  

• Ketchum talk
  

• Ignorance, fear of wolves
  

• Softball field dedicated to coach Martin
  Wolverines host Canyon Ridge Saturday

• Baseball, softball group sets Nelson golf tourney
  May 21 at Valley Club

• Relays, field points lift the Carey boys
  Musher girls edge Carey in weekly meet

• Alpine awards fete wraps up season
  Thursday at nexStage

• Knight’s OT goal lifts Team USA over Canada
  Yanks win third straight world title

• Busy stretch coming up for WRHS tennis
  Wolverines handle Jerome 10-2 in the Basin

• Updates on WRHS track, baseball, golf, rodeo
  

• Sports summary
  

• Sun Valley season ends on high note
  Festivities, frivolity mark final day of season on Baldy

• ‘American Ground Zero,’ a review and reminder
  

• Eggs On The Brain
  

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Christine Ann DeCarufel
  

• Phyllis Leona Houk
  

• Roderick ‘Rocky’ Alan Johnson
  

• William L. House
  

• Rusty Marti
  

• So, what are you doing this summer?
  

• So, what are you doing this summer?
  Programs, fun and writings from 5th-graders

• Shooting and scoring in the summer
  Top-level basketball camps for boys

• Memorable days, nights at Sawtooth camps
  Camp Sawtooth and Camp Perkins

• Beat the heat at Camp Boing this summer
  Gymnastics and more for ages 3-12

• Lifeguard course needed to work at BCRD pool
  For potential lifeguards

• Alpine climbing for confidence
  Check out Sawtooth Mountain Guides program

• Hoops for girls, and an awesome T-shirt
  Wood River High School girls camp

• Add Natural Resources Camp to your summer
  Exploring the outdoors, kids 12-14

• Horse around at River Sage this summer
  Camp for kids who want to ride

• Learn about nature by being there
  ERC is offering “wild” camps

• 4-H summer camps make the outdoors fun
  Use your head, heart and hands

• Wanted: Budding botanists
  Learning how the garden grows

• A fly and a line
  Fishing camps for kids

• Enviro-tainment
  Mountain Adventure Tours for kids

• Why not have fun at the Y?
  Foodalicious, aqua adventures and more

• Fun and learning, yours for the taking
  Community School summer

• 2011 BCRD Swimming Programs
  

• 2011 BCRD Summer Youth Program/Day Camp
  

• Red-hot rides and more fun at resort
  Sun Valley unrolls the red carpet for kids

• BCSD summer school starts July 18
  Brush up on reading and math

• At Mountain School, kids work on farm
  Hands-on summer camp

• Filling the air with music
  Symphony workshops are classic

• Jump on the energy train at Atkinson Park
  Local kids, visitors can become Park Rats

• Cooking or surfing, anyone is welcome at Bible school
  Spend a week learning the word

• Outdoor skills and fun at Galena Lodge
  Kids Camp full of adventure

• CSI’s College for Kids has more than ants
  Science and nature classes

• The pool is only the beginning
  At Zenergy summer camps

• Kids do it all at Elkhorn Kids Camp
  Now in its 19th year

• Theater camp brings out the talent
  St. Thomas Playhouse summer

• Discover treasures at Clayworks
  Young potters inspired to love clay

• PAL promises summer fun, at no charge
  Police Activities League offers ‘positive’ recreation

• Sleep-away drama camp is a dream
  Camp Little Laugh is a keeper

• Writing camp, creativity go hand in hand
  Kids become published authors

• Lunch Connection provides hot food for kids
  Free meals at Woodside

• All kinds of dance, stretching the limits
  Footlight Dance, Sun Valley Ballet

• One world, many stories
  Summer reading circles the globe

• Brushing up on blocking for football
  Building Wood River’s grid program

• Get your kicks with soccer camps
  SUFC hosts popular camps in 2011