Old Man Winter Wakes Up Early The first days of autumn in the Wood River Valley have felt more like winter, as a cold front brought the first snow of the season on Wednesday and Thursday. North of Ketchum, snow covered the banks of Boulder Creek on Wednesday, above. To the south, snow also covered the hillsides east of the valley between Hailey and Bellevue, lower right. Near Hulen Meadows north of Ketchum, Ketchum resident Carol Updyke didn’t let the wet snow and rain on Wednesday keep her from walking her dogs, Salty and Rascal Photo by Roland Lane

Friday, September 27, 2013

• SBA offers help to businesses affected by fire
  Offices are open in Blaine, Elmore counties

• State doles out funds for wolf losses
  

• Mountain Rides plans to trim bus service
  Organization seeking public input before plan is finalized

• Smooth transition predicted at Blaine Manor
  Safe Haven Health Care to take over facility on Tuesday

• Work begins on new Galena trails
  Plan is for 48 miles of summer trail loops

• Fire chief reflects on long career
  Mike Chapman set to retire from Hailey squad

• Groups protect ranch near Stanley
  Historic 157-acre property hosted 1930s rodeos

• Poindexter withdraws from Sun Valley race
  

• Groups seek ESA protection for fisher
  Animal lives along Idaho-Montana border

• Study: Private school boosts local economy
  Community School injects estimated $15.4 million

• Sage School enrollment continues to grow
  Self-awareness emphasized at private school in Hailey

• P&Z approves Sturtevants addition
  Retailer plans improvements to Main Street building

• Search for missing woman continues
  

• News Briefs
  

• Good credit
  

• Look both ways
  

• Stop the brain drain
  

• Affordable housing at any cost
  

• Inspired by Johanna, Team Joha rules in Oregon
  Best result in Hood to Coast 200-miler

• Tyler Palmer to receive “Spirit of Skiing” honor
  In New Hampshire Nov. 2

• WRHS soccer teams put up 5-0 wins over Burley
  Great Basin tightens up

• Spikers off to Idaho Falls for Bonneville meet
  Weekend volleyball

• 70 road runners help support “Meals on Wheels”
  Saturday’s Senior Connection fun run and walk

• :Dale Karst returns as Middleton cage coach
  Former WRHS, CSI, Coyotes player from Bellevue

• FISHING REPORT BY BILL MASON
  

• Local skaters pass USFS tests
  This summer

• James K. Berman