Lights Aglow in Sun Valley Light reflects through a smiling sun ice sculpture last week in Sun Valley Village. The resort village will be ablaze with holiday lights throughout the holiday season. Photo by Roland Lane

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

• Can nursing homes afford Medicaid?
  Medicare, Medicaid patients and certification fraught with complications

• Mountain Rides, Bellevue clash on transit center
  Bus organization looking to Hailey now for $1 million project

• Sheriff: Radio maintenance too expensive
  Proposed legislation would make 700 MHz state-funded

• Mountain groomers offer a Beastly ride
  Snowcat operators manicure about 1,560 acres nightly

• Grant for housing project rejected
  Developers appeal state funding decision

• Mountain Rides narrows options for Ketchum transit hub
  Sites on Sun Valley Road and on Washington and East avenues remain on the table

• Ketchum man to lead Rhodes Scholar program
  Charles Conn will pick up reins June 24

• Idaho jobless rate drops to 6.8 percent
  Blaine County unemployment down to 6.3 percent

• Dispatch surplus funds could go toward upgrade
  Commissioners say partners must agree

• Wild Gift seeks class of 2013
  Organization supports young social entrepreneurs

• Picabo rancher earns weather award
  Nick Purdy honored by National Weather Service

• Recovery effort saves 11,500 trout
  Trout Unlimited teams with water districts to reduce fish mortality

• BuckSnort root beer moves to Boise
  Bellevue startup distributed by Idaho’s Bounty

• Gas prices at lowest point since February
  Idaho’s average price at pump is $3.23 per gallon

• Mountain Town News
  

• Briefs
  

• Judith Kindler shares her notes
  Painter’s work involves universal truths

• Y’all are going to love this
  Learn more about house style influences in ‘Coming Home: The Southern Vernacular House’

• Electric company
  Eliot Lipp brings electronic dance music to Whiskey’s

• A Few Good Men perform
  Awesome acoustics + incredible voices = great times

• An odyssey of the mind
  Surgeon tells of crossing over and back

• Gallery Walk
  

• Around Town
  

• Appoint Hailey mayor to the Airport Authority
  

• Not voting their conscience
  

• Through a lens, lightly
  

• Idaho Power is obstacle to wind generation
  

• Sun Valley has top-notch facility
  

• Beware of the United Nations agenda
  

• Trapping measure shows cruelty
  

• Nordic regimen is always changing for SVSEF
  Junior ski team ready for winter

• 2012-13 Local Nordic and Junior Team Schedule
  

• Suns outscore Utah Rebels 10-3 in holiday opener
  Future Suns exhibition tonight, Moose due

• Eric Hays gates wind up for SVSEF travelers
  Slalom finale at Park City

• WRHS rally falls short on “Fred Trenkle Night”
  Buhl outscores Wolverines 19-4 at the line

• Shiffrin captures first World Cup slalom win
  At Are, Sweden

• Men’s 3-on-3 hoops in Hailey this weekend
  Benefit for WRHS boys’ hoops

• ‘Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem’
  

• Hailey to honor a founding father
  City wants to name park after Leopold Wertheimer

• Idaho caribou could lose protection
  Snowmobilers say population is not big enough to save

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Jack A. York
  Funeral Notice