Winter Olympics begin, and all that jazz She’s halfway around the world today, in Sochi, Russia. But on Monday afternoon of this week, 22-year-old Jasmine Campbell of Hailey paused for a moment at the base of Bald Mountain as she prepared to travel to the 2014 Winter Olympics. Jasmine, known as “Jazz” in her days studying at the Community School in Sun Valley, is the only representative of the U.S. Virgin Islands at the Olympics. She plans to compete in alpine giant slalom and slalom. She will carry the Virgin Islands flag in today’s opening ceremonies. Here, she wears the powder-blue Virgin Islands parka at the bottom of the hill where she has learned much about the alpine sport that both her father John and mother Jen also love. Learn more about Jasmine in a story on Page 13. Photo by Willy Cook

Friday, February 7, 2014

• U.S. House passes bill to protect hunting access
  Bill also preserves use of lead shot and fishing weights

• Bud Purdy inducted into Idaho Hall of Fame
  Rancher joins Ernest Hemingway and Picabo Street

• Bill would reduce testing at elk farms
  Hunters, environmentalists raise concerns about wasting disease

• Shopko looking to open in Hailey
  Can local leaders shape commercial development?

• Hailey public works director resigns
  Tom Hellen leaving longtime post for Colorado job

• Cook, Lamoureaux reappointed to Ketchum P&Z
  Mayor chooses to keep continuity on commission

• Ketchum leans toward revising URA board
  Council wants balance between elected officials and members

• Federal farm bill includes PILT funds
  Blaine County hopes for $1.74 million check

• School board searches for new trustee
  New board member would replace Paul Bates

• Housing Authority touts successes
  Director optimistic of future home ownership in the valley

• SNRA to host meeting on travel plan
  Officials to review trails, roads north of Ketchum

• Idaho Power forms new working group
  Company hopes to create ideas for local projects

• BRIEFS
  

• Sochi 2014
  

• CVS deserves thanks for a bold move
  

• Chicken-and-egg question answered?
  

• Court action ‘corrosive’ to St. Luke’s
  

• No Nate, but Carey kids tame the Lions 60-58
  Panther girls nipped at buzzer

• Jasmine Campbell takes high hopes to Sochi
  Competing for the U.S. Virgin Islands

• Chicks on Sticks sits atop Town Series
  Team results in the books

• Sign up for Presidents’ Day baseball
  Clinic at WRHS

• Yoga College adds another hockey win
  “Senior A” league play

• Squirts score big in Idaho Falls win
  Weekend youth hockey

• Dartmouth ski team will finish Torin Tucker’s race
  Heart defect caused death, autopsy states

• Senior wrestlers are honored, Bailey signs
  Final home dual meet in Hailey

• Jean Cameron Arkell
  

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