Valley snowpack dips below average Snow-covered Griffin Butte towers over the Sun Valley Lodge Tuesday morning. Though the Big Wood River basin snowpack is below average, it’s only by a slight margin. Photo by Willy Cook

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

• County leaders choose Safe Haven
  Private operator to provide senior care

• Valley snowpack dips below average
  Water supplies still expected to be adequate

• Sun Valley leaders delay events funding
  More than 2-hour discussion yields grimaces, but little else

• Real estate market shows recovery
  Bank-owned inventory drops estimated 90 percent

• Study: Costly fire season caused by climate change
  Climate aids beetle kill, harms snowpack, researchers say

• Judge halts subpoenas in Ribi suit
  Orders that Jim Donoval cannot file further pleadings

• Sun Valley OKs $250K marketing contract, again
  Approval comes after months of negotiation

• Mayor: Forensic audit will save $283K per year
  Councilmen stand by votes

• Resort has big plans for Presidents' Day
  Sun Valley to offer night skiing on Dollar Mountain

• Express readers honor 3 women
  Finalists announced for 2013 Woman of the Year

• Greenberg appointed to airport board
  EIS is topic for discussion at Tuesday’s meeting

• Economy drives library to set up new shop
  Gold Mine thrift store will remain open

• City creeps forward with intersection study
  ‘Walmart light’ causes kerfuffle among residents

• Briefs
  

• La Boheme
  The opera for bohemian lovers, and lovers of bohemia

• Pam Houston on love, life after ‘Cowboys’
  The perfect gift for Valentine’s

• Easily ‘Distracted’
  Company of Fools tackles A.D.D. and a world of disturbances

• Gallery Walk
  

• Spare some time
  Share Your Heart Ball benefits camp for kids with cancer

• Around Town
  

• Gun slippery slopes
  

• Postal service is crucial for the nation
  

• IOC’s secret pin
  

• The ghosts of Benghazi
  

• Authorities should consider a wildlife overpass
  

• Time is now for the Fair Tax
  

• Risch vote on violence against women is unacceptable
  

• NAMI of the Wood River Valley is open for business
  

• Let’s make America competitive again
  

• Wrestlers aim for state in today’s GBC meet
  Wolverines shoot for Holt Arena trip

• Leif’s racers enjoy another lively event
  Combined alpine, cross-country skiing

• Busby, Cutler lead SVSEF girls at Brundage
  In super giant slalom, GS

• Carey girls off to state looking for a trophy
  Northside Conference winners, a first time

• Tourney time is here for boy cagers
  Carey hosts Cutthroats tonight

• Suns split with Pioneers, prepare for St. Nicks
  Men’s ice hockey returns Friday to resort ice

• Jackson Hole hosts riders for Big West races
  Snowboard circuit

• Bantams finish season in style at Snow King
  Youth hockey update

• U.S. to host Serbia in Davis Cup quarters in Boise
  Novak Djokovic may compete

• Ligety claims second gold of FIS Worlds
  

• Sports summary
  

• Cowboys, skiers stir up the crowd
  

• Speed limits to change around Carey
  ITD to alter zones on U.S. 93

• Jack Crawford’s literary adventures
  Valley People

• Hailey eyes new rules for cycling
  Crosswalk dismounting would be required

• Legal Notice Summary
  

• Milford E. ‘Willy’ Rose Jr.
  

• James Earl Boatwright