FAA snubs appeal for tower funding Support for air traffic control set to end in coming weeks A SkyWest airplane prepares for takeoff in Hailey on Monday night. SkyWest and Horizon Air have announced that closure of the tower at Friedman Memorial Airport would have a minimal impact on their operations, but airport staff and board members are striving to keep the tower open. Photo by Willy Cook

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

• FAA snubs appeal for tower funding
  Support for air traffic control set to end in coming weeks

• Hailey sewer bond could exceed $5M
  April meeting scheduled to answer questions

• Victim said she lied, but not about details
  18-year-old man awaits sentencing after pleading guilty March 19

• Hailey woman to run for school board
  Incumbent Guthrie to be challenged, Bates unopposed

• Marriages, divorces declined in 2011
  State releases annual Vital Statistics report

• Fish and Game expands wolf, elk quotas
  Quotas set higher for 2013

• Women get probation in theft case
  Pair sentenced for stealing from one defendant’s grandmother

• For Bellevue leaders, patience pays off
  Business moving to site once targeted by Mountain Rides

• Well water measuring starts April 1
  Devices must be operational for 5 acres or more

• Cancer camp loses key affiliate
  Rainbow Gold vows to continue programs

• Report: Trail users outnumber skiers
  Sustain Blaine study touts value of trails system

• Idaho jobless rate edges downward
  Blaine County figure continues to fall

• Community Library hires new leader
  California woman accepts executive director post

• Leadership forum says ‘take charge’
  Top tech gurus convene in Sun Valley

• Briefs
  

• Home looks the same
  But war experience leaves inhabitants forever changed

• No bad transmitting
  Short Circuit Tour is hot hip-hop

• Grassroots groundswell
  Since recent local screening of ‘The Invisible War’

• Be the rooster
  How the Chinese business model breeds success

• Art brings perpetual spring to hospital
  

• Around Town
  

• Don't Worry
  

• Do no harm
  

• Still shaking down Main Street
  

• The rape of decency
  

• Cold Springs zoning plan misguided
  

• Silver Creek plan poses big risks
  

• Project would damage fish habitat
  

• Trustees ignore opposition to Barber contract
  

• Ketchum URA follows strange selection process
  

• Schools comment was incompletely reported in paper
  

• Threepeat for Jivaro 55-50 over Coeneo
  Outlaw League champs 46-2 since 2011

• Janss Pro-Am returns April 4-6
  At Sun Valley

• MVP Knight on Boston Blades hockey champs
  Clarkson Cup winners in Canada

• Rathfon, McGrath grab U-14 overall race titles
  170 young skiers compete on Baldy

• WRHS tennis team collects first GBC wins
  Over Twin Falls, Jerome

• Cool, windy day for track athletes
  Thursday in Twin

• Aardvarks make Hutch Cup final
  Senior hockey

• Sign-ups starting for BCRD baseball, softball and T-ball
  Youth programs are a big hit with kids

• Ski, snowboard news from the slopes
  

• Squaw Valley a sunny showcase for U.S. Nationals
  

• Sports summary
  

• Resort preps for end of winter
  Roundhouse to close Sunday, Seattle Ridge on April 7

• Ketchum radio dials get new stop
  Community radio station to hit airwaves April 12

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Marvel Edholm McGehee