Swimming With The Sharks Fearless 8-year-old Zach Younger tries to conquer Rotarun ski hill Saturday during the 11th annual Snow Box Derby event, which has become a local spectator favorite. Many of the 22 participants crashed, got back inside their contraptions and finished. Made of only glue, cardboard, paint and duct tape, this shark was joined by a sphinx, an ambulance, a grandma’s slipper and a Batmobile, to name a few other entries that descended, crashed, tumbled and slid down the hillside.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

• Efforts aim to boost mental-health services
  Idaho ranks near bottom in per-capita spending

• Fairfield farmer has eye on Capitol
  Steve Miller plans to run for Jaquet vacancy

• Sun Valley defamation hearing postponed
  

• Inn liquor bill killed in House
  Dems step down, ‘Add the Words’ resurrected

• District considering new science textbooks
  Public invited to participate in new text selection

• Fire consumes 100-year-old house
  Carey firefighters raise ‘water curtain’ to save nearby equipment

• Hailey leaders look to bonding and levy options
  Capital Improvement fund getting tapped out

• Ketchum council OKs appointee
  Charles Friedman to serve remaining weeks of Larry Helzel’s term

• For Blaine students, a journey into the mind
  Kids practice Mindful Awareness to handle emotions, learn compassion

• Jail ordered in felony marijuana case
  Defendant claims he’s trying to change his life

• Women treated in 2 vehicle crashes
  Accident victim Tony Randall still in serious condition

• Outdoors with a Big Top circus of animals
  Pretty day for Animal Shelter benefit

• Robotics team just misses ‘worlds’
  ‘T-800’ team finishes 2nd in regional competition

• Fairfield woman admits to embezzling
  Police claim defendant stole $35,000 from Farm Bureau

• Public invited to Parkinson’s disease forum
  Free event set for Saturday in Sun Valley

• Public invited to cancer-research forum
  Leading scientists, researchers in Sun Valley

• Mountain Town News
  

• Briefs
  

• Business Briefs
  

• Image wars
  The self-esteem struggle is explored in film, artwork

• Good company
  Crowd pleasers return to the valley

• Marquees and memories
  A tribute to books turned into movies

• Concert of hope
  Suicide prevention handbook to premiere

• Gallery Walk
  

• Around Town
  

• Inner chauvinist pig
  

• Another face of immigration
  Neighbors/Vecinos

• Cocktails and contradictions
  

• Candidates should not have to explain faith
  

• Rush the uniter
  

• Airport expansion isn’t the answer
  

• Use common sense in parking enforcement
  

• Live bait proposal is shocking
  

• Don’t make me pay for contraception
  

• Hockey hats off to OC
  Demment adds hat trick in Suns sweep

• Nezperce shuts down Carey 62-47 in rubber game
  Panthers make title game a third straight year

• Driver Robinson has dusty times at Primm
  Off-road racing

• Big paychecks for Kaitlyn at Mammoth
  A $36,000 weekend for U.S. rider

• Once again, the game flows back to Fred Trenkle
  A basketball coach returns to the court

• Vonn soars over 1,700 on World Cup
  Stiegler earns first podium

• Five Star gals sweep to Chix with Stix title
  On McCall ice

• Turzian top woman in Yellowstone 50k
  495 finishers Saturday

• Sports summary
  

• A life without wheat
  Local businesses respond to gluten-free movement

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Thomas Joseph Bertrand
  

• Jack Blumenstein
  

• Edie Beeson Smith