Valley restaurants pass muster Most eateries show no health-code violations Whiskey Jacques’ pizza chef Ryan Thompson tosses dough Monday in the restaurant’s open-front prep area, while Michael Wadley, center, prepares chicken wings and kitchen manager Cody Bryant, right, gets ready to pull a pizza out of the oven. Whiskey Jacques’ had no violations in the latest round of inspections. Photo by Willy Cook

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

• Valley restaurants pass muster
  Most eateries show no health-code violations

• Cities’ self-insurance pool faces insolvency
  Hailey refuses to pay $123,000 for reserves

• Report: Alleged eavesdropping, favoritism in Sun Valley
  2011 inquiry prompted investigation into city’s affairs

• Ketchum moves toward anti-discrimination law
  Ordinance would protect on basis of sexual orientation

• County pledges to improve website
  Criticism sparks effort to update

• Prison ordered in felony drug case
  Judge issues stay of execution pending case appeal

• ‘At least it’s snowing up here’
  Galena Lodge capitalizes on weekend snow

• County leaders mull airport appointment
  Schoen, McCleary ask Bowman to stay through January

• Man pleads not guilty in felony gun case
  Accused of unlawful firearm possession

• Trial set in debit-card case
  Defendant pleads not guilty to felony charge

• Man stable after hit-and-run accident
  Police looking for driver of vehicle with California plates

• Bartender sentenced to 30 days in jail
  Bellevue man convicted of felony DUI

• Trial set in teenage rape case
  High school senior pleads not guilty to felony charge

• Snow up high, rain down low
  Weekend storm brings powder atop Bald Mountain

• Fall was not cause of skier’s death
  County says man died of heart failure

• Hailey gets tough on parking violations
  Mayor offers $1,000 reward for information on planting-strip drivers

• Briefs
  

• Business Briefs
  

• It’s a Charlie Brown Christmas
  From the strip to the stage, Peanuts gang at the Liberty

• ‘The Nutcracker’
  Holiday classic at nexStage

• The Center exploring race, ethnicity and cultural history
  

• Magic powder
  Celebrate skiing at the Powder Festival

• Back from the crater’s edge
  Stroke survivor chronicles journey that ended and began again at Craters of the Moon

• Mom’s mission: Cookbook
  Says daughter’s spirit pushed her to complete charitable project

• Around Town
  

• Budget Battle
  

• Reckless arrogance
  

• SV voters ahead of City Council
  

• At White House, the fly sees all
  

• Defeat of air LOT was short-sighted
  

• Forensic audit was money well spent
  

• Severe weather is nothing new
  

• Struck twice by the same tree
  

• Pletcher off to Quebec after sprint victory
  Four SVSEF skiers earn World Cup berths

• Great Basin chooses top football players
  All-Conference in 4A league

• Hailey wrestlers welcome a strong lineup
  State savvy wrestlers return for WRHS

• Winger Sides gets call-up to AHL St. John’s
  Local hockey player moves east, again

• Wildcats provide tough test for WRHS boys
  Filer takes 50-20 win away from Hailey

• Red Devils start fast, race past Cutthroats
  Murtaugh boys prevail 57-24

• Panthers clamp down late, beat Pirates 50-42
  First win for Carey boys

• Dies makes All-State soccer squad
  Cutthroat junior

• A Sun Valley musing
  

• Historic building or a tear-down?
  Hailey’s preservation goals may not always be welcome

• Old Cutters bankruptcy ruling near
  $2.45 million payment plan under review in federal court

• In-home health care business opens
  Couple starts Visiting Angels franchise in Hailey

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Arthur Scott Earle
  

• Marlene D. Ellinger