Flying high in Sun Valley Sun Valley on Ice ensemble member Cari Maus does a jump while practicing Wednesday at Sun Valley Resort. Maus and her fellow ensemble members will perform Saturday at the resort’s outdoor ice rink with a special guest, Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek. The show will be the last of the 2014 Sun Valley on Ice summer season. Photo by Roland Lane

Friday, August 29, 2014

• ITD: Congestion likely at bridge south of Ketchum
  Agency prioritizes construction of new span near St. Luke’s

• Air board approves nearly $2M budget
  Schedule changed on Denver, San Francisco flights for fall

• Heavy rains delay highway paving
  ITD still hopeful of September finish to project

• Bellevue goes to work on Eccles annexation agreement
  Hailey mayor calls for town hall meeting to discuss potential impacts

• Farmers remain in limbo on crop damage
  Barley crop could suffer 50 percent loss in value

• Tax receipts show strong summer sales
  Ketchum businesses appear to be making recovery from 2013 lows

• County approves project to improve fish habitat
  Changes at Pole Creek designed to benefit salmon and steelhead

• Ketchum adopts $14.275 million budget
  3 fire department salaries, new 1 percent tax factored in

• Bike path project delayed by rains
  Paving work stalled in downtown Hailey

• Idaho could get $22M to help wildlife
  Money would satisfy Bonneville Power Administration’s obligation

• Jerk line guides the Big Hitch
  How do the mules safely transport the historic ore wagons?

• Judge Elgee DQs himself in arson case
  Case now assigned to Judge Brody

• ‘Poets and Pickers’ to liven up weekend
  New Wagon Days event will run Saturday and Sunday

• Rape suspect pleads guilty
  Man accused of sex with underage girl

• Briefs
  

• Celebrate Labor Day
  

• Bring down the ‘blue walls’
  

• License cyclists
  

• Hailey girls score early and post 1-0 soccer win
  WRHS slips past Madison for first victory

• SV Solemates women run deep into the night
  At the 173-mile Grand Teton Relay

• Skateboarders wow crowd on Coles concrete
  Waters, Brehmer post top finals scores

• WRHS spikers take first swings of 2014 season
  Wolverines travel to Buhl today

• Register now for BCRD youth soccer
  Programs start in September

• High school sports continue their rise
  U.S. numbers increase for 25th straight year

• FISHING REPORT
  

• SPORTS SUMMARY
  

• Lloyd William Beadle Sr.
  

• Jimmy Lou Nisson