Janet Parry, a retired nurse and entrepreneur, was comfortably retired a few months ago when she got a call from pharmacist Luke Snell at Luke… Read more
Association is a powerful thing. Think about the ability of an aroma or a song or even a joke to cast us back to a particular moment in life. Read more
The Heritage Court, a program of the Blaine County Historical Museum, is ready to return in 2021, after missing out on all its planned 2020 events. Read more
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As the winter snow finally recedes, it inevitably reveals quite a lot of garbage on roadsides, in parks and by trails, but Ketchum-based nonpr… Read more
A large Canada goose, accompanied by a fuzzy little gosling, prepared for a quick swim near Warm Springs on Saturday. The first day of May bro… Read more
Camas County High School will be graduating its class of 2021 at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 8 at Camas County High School in Fairfield. Read more
It may have snowed a little earlier in the week—and indeed it may rain a little over the weekend—but with temperatures blazing past 70 degrees… Read more
The long-awaited reopening of the Blane County Recreation District’s Aquatics Center will take place on May 29. Read more
This week’s Super Moon invites reflection, clarity and a fresh approach. Coupled with the fickle snowy/sunny weather, the changing season beck… Read more
It must be exhausting to so energetically, passionately, loudly and vitriolically hate everything all the time, and yet here we are and it see… Read more
A rainy day gave way to sunny skies over Ketchum Town Square last Thursday, producing this brilliantly defined rainbow, photographed here by K… Read more
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The Blaine County Recreation Districts’ newest playground opened recently and is drawing numerous cyclists of all ages. The Quigley Trails Par… Read more
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After weeks of balmy spring conditions, winter came back for a curtain call Monday night, dumping 2-8” of snow throughout the Wood River Valle… Read more
A big annual push for charitable giving begins this week. Idaho Gives is a program of the Idaho Nonprofit Center. It is designed to “bring the… Read more
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It’s a bucolic scene at Unega Mountain Dog Rescue in Bellevue: The sun casts a warm glow on nearby Timmerman Hill and a sea of tall grass undu… Read more
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This weekend, residents from Ketchum, Hailey and Bellevue can partake in workshops, demonstrations and other fun-filled events celebrating Ear… Read more
Did you know that on this day in 1516, Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria formally endorsed the Reinheitsgebot: the German Beer Purity Law, ensuring l… Read more
Motivation comes in many forms. When it comes to why you do or don’t stick to an exercise program, research shows that physical exercise that … Read more
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The Wood River Community YMCA is ramping up its summer school programs to bolster students’ learning skills after a challenging pandemic year spent largely out of the classroom.
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The Wood River Valley was settled in large part due to a mining boom that took place in the 1880s. Hundreds of miles of underground tunnels and shafts run through hillsides littered with mine tailings and historic construction debris.
Starting Thursday, residents from Ketchum, Hailey and Bellevue can partake in workshops, demonstrations and other fun-filled events celebrating Earth Day.
I’m beginning to consider the reality of once again standing in a crowd, something I haven’t done in… a while. Roughly. Approximately one while.
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While a current topic of conversation, vaccinations for various ailments have been around for generations. Take this photo of a school vaccination clinic, circa 1950s, at the old Hailey High School Gymnasium. In the center is Dr. Robert H. Wright, a pioneering physician for the Wood River Va…
The Latin term for dry eye is keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS). KCS arises from inadequate production of watery tears. A potential cause of KCS in dogs is an autoimmune mediated inflammation of the tear glands. Certain drugs can also be toxic to the tear glands, especially sulfa drugs. In so…
To mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month, The Advocates’ teen interns, in collaboration with The Community Library, are screening the documentary film “Roll Red Roll” on Wednesday, April 21, at 6:30 p.m. via The Community Library’s Livestream.
Last month, when the Sun Valley Music Festival announced its plans to return to the Sun Valley Pavilion for a fully in-person summer music series in 2021, it also confirmed a whole slate of educational programs for young musicians in grades 2-12—held Aug. 2-6—and the Advanced Chamber Program…
Returning for another year, the Nito Soccer Camps will offer ambitious soccer players of the Wood River Valley a chance to learn from a professional.
COVID-19 may have devastated last summer’s events calendar, but Hailey-based Footlight Dance Centre was among the valley’s arts organizations that found workarounds: outdoor dancing classes and performances when weather permitted; masks and distancing; some virtual programming, etc. The danc…
Kids can learn new skills and enjoy the long days of the Idaho summer in the great outdoors at Sun Valley Resort.
As summer vacation draws closer, the Wood River Community YMCA is gearing up for its popular swimming, climbing and general kids’ day camps.
Junior and youth tennis players will head back to Sun Valley Resort for its annual summer tennis camp series in June, July and August. Sun Valley Resort will host 11 camps this summer at its Tennis Center.
The city of Ketchum is offering three exciting youth recreation and leadership programs for kids this summer.
Wood River High School will host its inaugural Mini-Wolverine Sports Camp featuring four sports for both boys and girls entering kindergarten through sixth grade.
After a canceled 2020 summer season, St. Thomas Playhouse is ready to come back with a bang in 2021—its 20th anniversary season.
As in past years, the Sun Valley Community School is offering an array of academic and recreational summer camps and programs for students of all ages this summer.
The Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood’s Camp Big Wood offers a wide range of themed events from June 7 to Aug. 27, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., for ages 18 months to 6 years old.
Galena Lodge’s always popular Youth Adventure Camps are already filled throughout their eight-week schedule, as are Galena’s two sessions of Kids Adventure Camps and four sessions of Youth Mountain Bike Camps.
A good way for kids to keep cool during the summer heat is to get on the ice for a couple of hockey camps at Campion Ice House in Hailey.
Budding gymnasts can spend a week—or the entire summer—at Spirit n’ Motion’s weeklong summer camps, which run from June 14 through Aug. 13.
Wading through the COVID-19 pandemic was long and grueling, and now with summer right around the corner, kids can look forward to wading in rivers and streams to catch some rainbow trout on the fly.
After partial curtailment of its programs last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Idaho Base Camp’s Mountain Adventure Tours will run a full schedule this summer—with COVID mitigation measures in place.
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