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There are two school board seats up for election on Nov. 2. Early voting started on Monday at the Blaine County Courthouse and runs Monday thr… Read more

Over the last 20 years I have been fortunate enough to work for some great mayors in the Wood River Valley. My name is Robin Crotty, and I was… Read more

Public education is one of the most important aspects of a healthy country. Blaine County schools have been excellent for many years. In the l… Read more

Wolf bounty system ... I was hoping your Oct. 13 article regarding wolf bounties was an April Fool’s joke until I remembered we live in Idaho,… Read more

When will the Ketchum City Council require the developer of Bluebird provide the financials of the project? To date, the developer has refused… Read more

As some of you may already know, my dad, Dan Turner (aka Pop Pops to my boys), is running for Trustee of the Blaine County School District. If… Read more

After years of talk-talk under prior administrations, Ketchum Mayor Neil Bradshaw is actually getting things done. A new fire station, a new c… Read more

We’ll keep this short and sweet, just like Courtney. We are going to vote for Courtney Hamilton for Ketchum City Council, and we urge you to also. Read more

With Idaho health care facilities straining under the weight of COVID cases, it’s tempting to say that a vaccine mandate is a necessity. The p… Read more

Gretel Ehrlich is a skilled writer, but she is wrong to suggest that “grazing animals benefits the world, or that grazing can reinvigorate and… Read more

Last week, my husband and I received a tax refund from the state of Idaho. Apparently, the Idaho Legislature cannot think of anything to do wi… Read more

Express Staff Writer Greg Foley wrote an excellent article on establishing a real estate transfer fee. This small fee would be paid by the buy… Read more

I have a simple solution to the vaccine dilemma. No vaccine, no problem. But choices have consequences. Keep half of the ICU units available o… Read more

Idaho’s redistricting efforts are underway. The bipartisan Idaho Commission for Reapportionment has drawn and publicized draft maps for new Fe… Read more

Bellevue Historical Museum would like to thank the city of Bellevue for having Jason and his crew rebuild both the front and back porches on t… Read more

On Monday, Sept. 13, President Biden visited Boise to talk with wildfire crews and offer federal support to the current wildfire crisis happen… Read more

Since the reinstitution of mask mandates throughout the valley, some businesses’ employees have been turning a blind eye to free breathers (an… Read more

Idaho Power is proposing to study the value of privately owned rooftop solar power generation. It should include the benefit of reducing depen… Read more

The anti-vaxers are holding the nation hostage. They are knowingly endangering innocent lives, especially those of our health care workers. Th… Read more

In reading the recent letters concerning confusion about needing the vaccine and the mask, they have inspired me to make a suggestion to the C… Read more

A letter to the editor recently said “Someone please explain…why the heck would Sun Valley mandate that I wear a mask and submit to all other … Read more

The newspapers and local TV news keep publishing a design for the Hailey town gathering place which is simply a hole in the ground with an Ast… Read more

As a lifelong Idahoan, I’m thankful to Governor Brad Little for issuing an official proclamation recognizing September 20-24 as National Clean… Read more

The Argyros has recently implemented a new policy called M.O.V.E. (Mask On, Vax Essential). I’m sure many of you are happy about this policy. … Read more

When Governor Little had a chance to stop the latest mutation of COVID, he shirked his responsibility as an elected representative of Idaho.

Rebuild the intersection of U.S. Highway 20 and state Highway 75 with a traffic circle.

Just when you thought the world couldn’t get nuttier, the city of Sun Valley spends $400,000 on a wisp of a bike lane along Elkhorn Road that pinches off into the city’s busiest four-way-stop intersection.

Someone please explain the following: My wife and I (ages 74 and 71) got the vaccine because we believe it works. We have remained very healthy.

Kudos to the Sun Valley City Council for considering requiring Covid vaccines for participation in all Sun Valley indoor events. To those of us who consider it a civic duty to protect our community, let alone our own families, this is a breath of fresh air. Anticipating that there will likel…

Once again, the city of Ketchum is spending another $51,000 for yet another out-of-the-area “consultant” to address our housing crisis. In the eight years I’ve been back, I’ve seen numerous city contracts about affordable housing, none of which have borne fruit. Bluebird Village is a good id…

The recent winning bid by Western Watersheds Project for a 640-acre state grazing lease on Champion Creek in the Sawtooth Valley demonstrates the multiple ways livestock grazing harms Idaho residents, including in the pocketbook.

I’ve participated in all 22 Sawtooth Salmon Festivals. This year we truly have something to celebrate, other than the fish themselves. Congressman Mike Simpson is all-in on salmon recovery, and, although I’d heard this from very reliable sources, I wasn’t completely convinced until I heard h…

I am sitting at my computer at this moment with a heavy heart. The news of 13 U.S. servicemen and women killed in Kabul has give me a tremendous amount of sadness and anger. This sadness and anger is also felt by many of our veterans who have served in conflicts in the Far East and Middle Ea…

The artists that opened their studios this weekend want to thank the community for their participation in making their open studio visits a huge success. This past weekend, 21 valley artists from Sun Valley, Ketchum, Hailey and Bellevue, greeted hundreds of people, eager to see paintings, ce…

Quoted from Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary:

Gentlemen of the Custer County Commission:

Thanks to the Blaine County School District’s Board of Trustees for its leadership in instituting a mask requirement for the start of the school year. We have watched other school districts across the nation open without such mandates and then be forced to quarantine, go to virtual learning,…

It doesn’t matter what your views on masks are when a school board member says this: “The board of trustees, whatever their individual views of masking, will conduct their meetings and reach their decisions uninfluenced by the thuggish, anti-American behavior of a few.” (“Protestors halt BCS…

Idaho Power has applied at the PUC for case IPC-E-21-25 in which Blaine County residents will pay extra tariffs on their utility bills for 20 years to pay interest of $13,281,197 to Idaho Power at 9.59% and fat fees to underground power lines for a mile at the hospital and some distribution …

Why were the citizens of Blaine County denied the right to hear the duly elected Board of Trustees for BCSD deliberate and decide on the agenda items established for Aug. 17, 2021?

I look forward with relish to the new-found commitment to worker housing that those who opposed Bluebird Village claimed to support strongly—just not at the proposed Bluebird site. Now that Bluebird has hatched into a feathered something that Ketchum can be justly proud of, it’s time for mor…

As the summer progresses, we have received increasing amounts of evidence pointing to the dangers of the delta variant. And while people who are fully vaccinated are largely safe, those who have yet to receive the vaccine are at high risk. While the vaccine has been available to all adult ci…

I read with deep concern in the July 29 paper that the Ketchum mayor and City Council plan to create an $800,000 slush fund to allocate to their own “preferred projects” outside of the normal budgetary process. The mayor left this little item out of his regular blast email—I wonder why? Give…

Hailey’s so-called “Heart of Hailey” idea is a very poorly thought-out proposition. As has been pointed out, the alley between the proposed land purchase is a vital part of any firefighting efforts and the main delivery access for vendors supplying the businesses along Main Street and will n…

Very disappointed to read last week’s guest opinion (“Forest health plans offer false hope,” published Aug. 4): basically an uninformed diatribe, from someone professing to know about the efforts being made to keep Bald Mountain from turning brown or black. The Forest Service, BLM, Sun Valle…

I recently listened to Dr. Jane Goodall speak about having hope in spite of all the challenges facing our planet. I, like many environmentalists, have been left wondering if there is any chance that our society will muster the resolve to make the necessary changes to prevent the worst impact…

Given the seriousness of the drought and possible trajectory of it continuing, we need to decide if we want water coming from the tap, growing food, or watering our lawns. Vast expanses of green are coming to seem inappropriate in the WRV.

We need workforce housing in downtown Ketchum. The developers of the Bluebird have responded to community comments and have reduced the number of units from 56 to 51 units, provided new landscaping and have changed the design to give it a more interesting visual aspect. Unfortunately, oppone…

The City Council of Sun Valley responded to their residents when they closed the Fairway Road terminus to parking for the Proctor Loop. As someone who regularly hikes Proctor, I struggle with the decision, but I respect that Sun Valley responded to its residents’ interests.

Even after endless weeks of living inside the “heat dome” and watching Blaine County’s “extreme drought” turn into “extraordinary drought,” the recent minutes of rain reminds me of summers past and almost washes away memories of this season’s weather stresses.

Alastair Neale conducted the best Eroica I have heard, and I have heard it in New York City as a college girl at Sarah Lawrence studying music, after that, the cites I lived in: Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. This performance here in our little mountain town was the best. Why?…

The past weeks have brought compounding evidence of the extreme efforts that the Trump Administration were willing to undertake to overthrow a fair election. The news barrage culminated this week with reports that Trump directed the Department of Justice to declare the election corrupt and “…