ITD awards new highway contracts Knife River has winning bids for work in county Contractor Knife River Corp., which resurfaced portions of Highway 75 in the Wood River Valley last year, above, will be back in Blaine County this spring and summer for more highway work. However, the company won’t be replacing a failed “micro-seal” coating on a 3.25-mile section of state Highway 75 south of Ketchum. Photo by Roland Lane

Friday, April 20, 2012

• ITD awards new highway contracts
  Knife River has winning bids for work in Blaine County

• Group starts new Alzheimer’s program
  Senior Connection now offers support gathering

• Radio group seeks support of leaders
  Fledgling organization makes pitch to county ‘leadership council’

• Hound’s nose pays big dividends
  Dog saves woman, home from flames

• City takes step back on transit hub
  Ketchum officials want to review alternatives for downtown plaza

• Is skate park closure a case of blaming victim?
  City officials gathering information on vandalism and bullying

• Town hall meetings to end legislative year
  Lawmakers will visit Ketchum, Bellevue

• Bus ridership declines in first quarter
  Drop attributed to lower skier numbers

• Mountain Rides to reconsider transit hub site
  Organization to look at up to 9 alternative sites

• Briefs
  

• Celebrate the Earth, hug a millipede
  Valley honors Earth Day with a Bug Zoo, picnics and plastic-bag-free grocery stores

• Hailey man publishes photo history
  Triumphs and tribulations of city put into historical perspective

• Another marketing breakthrough
  

• Don’t ignore the demand side
  

• Health insurance under the microscope
  

• Dorworth, Palmer inducted into ski shrine
  At Seattle, Wash.

• Tight tennis matches tilt Wood River’s way
  In 9-3 home win over Twin

• SV opens 9 golf holes Saturday
  Early opening on Trail Creek course

• Freestyle team earns honors
  At awards fete

• Warmth and unrest