Fire Near Stanley Burns Out Of Control Smoke from the Halstead Fire billows over the mountains about 18 miles northwest of Stanley on Monday. The lightning-caused fire exploded from 60 acres Monday to more than 3,700 acres Tuesday morning, with no indication of when it would be contained. The fire caused the evacuation of the Bradley Boy Scout Camp, as well as the closure of Beaver Creek and Lola Creek campgrounds. According to the Salmon-Challis National Forest, 92 personnel are battling the flames, including hotshot crews, hand crews and smoke jumpers. The fire started Friday, July 27. Courtesy photo by Jason Kindred.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

• Bowman resigns from County Commission
  Mid-valley commissioner leaves for job in private sector

• McKinstry and district split in first court battle
  Judge dismisses racketeering claim, allows fraud allegation to remain

• 5 injured in crash at Timmerman
  Sheriff reports conditions safer since lower speed limit put in place

• State declares drought emergency for Blaine County
  Streamflows at 20 to 70 percent of normal

• Power line discussions rev up again
  Options for valley include tall, steel poles along Highway 75

• Twin Falls driver sets new rally record
  Drug Coalition expects to gross more than $250,000

• Olympic training site designation inches closer
  Announcement expected Aug. 16

• Ketchum philanthropist Jim Cimino dies at 92
  Ketchum resident supported students throughout county

• Horses bring 4-H to north valley
  64 children learn care, keeping and riding

• Doctor’s airplane flips at Stanley Airport
  Pilot unharmed in accident

• Bellevue sewer rates rise less than expected
  City raises water rates, too

• Man treated and released after crash
  Sheriff reports vehicle rolled 4 times

• Knife River Returns To The Valley
  

• Mountain Town News
  

• Briefs
  

• Nature’s Twitterers
  Artist/scientist captures intimacy of insects

• Art, politics merge
  White Zulu musician Johnny Clegg makes hard messages palpable

• Northern Rockies Folk Festival starts Friday
  Hailey hosts 35th family-friendly music fest

• A compelling center
  Summer Symphony’s midpoint is Mahler concert

• Prefer your music from a bar stool?
  Great bands abound inside and out

• Downtown dwellings
  Community Library Tour of Homes focuses on in-town life

• Gallery Walk
  

• Museum-caliber artists with international cache
  Gail Severn Gallery shows work rarely seen outside metropolitan venues

• Quantum art at Boloix Gallery
  

• Around Town
  

• Lousy T-shirt
  

• Need a lure to the cure
  

• Roll Up Your Sleeve
  

• Expect higher food prices this fall
  

• Vision needed for valley to compete
  

• Wrong time for a pay raise
  

• Commissioners’ raise is shameful
  

• It’s our turn to spend on seniors
  

• Animal trapping is barbaric
  

• Keep congressmen at home and out of trouble
  

• Protect the Hulen pond
  

• Valley lost a wonderful person
  

• Support Walkable Ketchum project
  

• Locals come correct for Concrete Rodeo
  19 skaters compete in local skateboard competition

• Sawtooth Pony Club Members compete at regional event
  

• 2012 5B Photo Hailey Coed Softball League
  

• Firefighters hose down competition for repeat
  No. 3 seed takes Ketchum City Tournament

• Real estate transactions on the rise
  Deep price cuts are incentive for qualified buyers

• A look at history with Mary Jane Conger
  Valley People

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Scott Robertson
  

• Thomas G. Unger