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April 3, 2016

Bank retains Bellemont Hotel at auction

U.S. Bank will hold on to the Bellemont Hotel on Main Street in Ketchum after a city resident declined to top the bank’s $4.3 million bid for the hotel at an auction Thursday.

Are There Trends In Our Trash?

Members of the Wood River High School Environmental Club at Roberta McKercher Park in Hailey on Wednesday sort through trash they collected along state Highway 75 earlier in the day. The stude… Comments (1)

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Force savings now to support retirees later
Posted: April 01, 2016

Individually funded retirement accounts were supposed to provide even more financial security than the Social Security and pensions that Americans once counted on. The idea turned out to be a mirage that is about to leave most seniors out of money well before they are out of expenses.

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Political grenade
Posted: April 01, 2016

    Idaho’s Republican leaders want Idahoans to hire graduates of the Tell Them What They Want to Hear School of Law.

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The talking cure for the climate crisis

When it comes to the climate crisis, what nobody wants to talk about is precisely what everybody needs to be talking about. Until now, the climate debate has been premised on a false dichotomy between climate science deniers and everyone else. What the Paris accords have revealed is that this overweening emphasis on the science of anthropogenic climate change fails to answer the real question: Why the disconnect between what we know to be the threat and how we are choosing to respond to it?

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Meet Meklit

Singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero, known professionally as Meklit, was born in Ethiopia and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. She has received critical acclaim for her soulful music, a blend of jazz, American folk and Ethiopian melody and rhythm. She has a warm and ethereal voice and sings in both English and Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia.

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  • Mildred Mary McAllister Briggs

    Mildred Mary McAllister Briggs was born in Moorcroft, Wyo., on Dec. 22, 1913, and passed away March 27, 2016, at the age of 102.

  • Christopher Smith

    The skiing community is invited to a memorial ski run for Christopher A. C. Smith, who died suddenly in his home in Ketchum, Idaho, on Dec. 4, 2015.

  • Robert Don Adamson

    Robert “Tink” Don Adamson was born March 23, 1931, and passed away March 28, 2016.

  • Dorothy Rutledge

    Dorothy passed away on March 26, 2016, following a long battle with MRSA.

  • Stephanie Dawn Hylton Ashby

    Stephanie Dawn Hylton Ashby, 33, of Twin Falls passed away at her home on March 11, 2016.

  • Dolores Mae Sherbine Nisson

    Dolores Mae Nisson, 87, “Aunt Dee,” of Bellevue, Idaho, passed away on Jan. 17, 2016, at The Gables Assisted Living Facility in Shelley, Idaho.

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2016 US Alpine Championships

The US Alpine Championships wrapped up this weekend after 6 action packed days of competition ...

2016 BCRD Basketball Tournament
2016 Blaine County Democratic Caucus

Democrats in Blaine County gathered at the Wood River High School gym in Hailey to caucus on Tues...

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