Rodeo on track for Fourth of July A new rodeo arena—funded by a bond issue approved by voters—is nearing completion in Hailey. Rodeo organizers say the annual rodeo will take place as planned on the weekend of the Fourth of July. Photo by David N. Seelig

Friday, June 10, 2011

• District considering new elementary school
  Enrollment trends point to future classroom crowding

• Leaders ask FAA to pay more for new airport
  Board wants to reduce county’s share of costs

• City leaders find value in Aspen trip
  Ketchum elected officials and staff impressed by common vision

• Feds to continue battle with beetles
  Helicopter dispersal of MCH flakes could start today

• Rodeo on track for Fourth of July
  Quarantine keeping deadly horse virus in check

• Rivers continue to rise
  Flows in Big Wood have doubled in the past week

• Dogs bitten by rattlers near Hailey
  Lamb’s Gulch, Rock Creek and Slaughterhouse Canyon known for snakes

• Dispatch funding model will remain—for now
  Commissioners delay switch to calls-for-service plan

• St. Luke’s begins search for new CEO
  No timeline set to replace Kee

• Tour the Pioneers by bicycle
  Ride will explore the Little Wood River landscape

• Man gets probation for pot possession
  Rhoades appeals felony case to Idaho Supreme Court

• Briefs
  

• Folk Fest is ramping up for August
  James McMurtry to play Northern Rockies Folk Fest

• Short films focus on girl power
  Lunafest film festival to benefit Girls on the Run

• Embracing your age and your changing body
  

• Kick up cultural learning with CSI
  Summer Spanish Institute is a unique opportunity

• Creditability or dignity
  

• Americans love Medicare
  

• If boys got pregnant
  

• ‘Hire One’ to help Idaho’s economy
  

• Bradshaw takes helm of WRHS boys’ basketball
  New coach is a Wolverine alum

• Internationals on top in Boise soccer
  Division 2 repeat champions

• 2011 Poggi Bros. Electric Hailey Coed Softball League
  

• 2011 Sun Valley Half Marathon results
  

• Fishing Report by Bill Mason
  

• Things change
  

• Chuck Boushele
  Memorial Service

• Beth Duke
  Memorial Service

• Bob Guffy
  Memorial Service