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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 … Read more
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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 an… Read more
Starting Thursday, residents from Ketchum, Hailey and Bellevue can partake in workshops, demonstrations and other fun-filled events celebratin… Read more
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. Read more
To mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month, The Advocates’ teen interns, in collaboration with The Community Library, are screening the documentar… Read more
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 ser… Read more
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. Read more
COVID-19 may have devastated last summer’s events calendar, but Hailey-based Footlight Dance Centre was among the valley’s arts organizations … Read more
Kids can learn new skills and enjoy the long days of the Idaho summer in the great outdoors at Sun Valley Resort. Read more
As summer vacation draws closer, the Wood River Community YMCA is gearing up for its popular swimming, climbing and general kids’ day camps. Read more
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 Val… Read more
The city of Ketchum is offering three exciting youth recreation and leadership programs for kids this summer. Read more
Wood River High School will host its inaugural Mini-Wolverine Sports Camp featuring four sports for both boys and girls entering kindergarten … Read more
After a canceled 2020 summer season, St. Thomas Playhouse is ready to come back with a bang in 2021—its 20th anniversary season. Read more
As in past years, the Sun Valley Community School is offering an array of academic and recreational summer camps and programs for students of … Read more
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 age… Read more
Galena Lodge’s always popular Youth Adventure Camps are already filled throughout their eight-week schedule, as are Galena’s two sessions of K… Read more
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. Read more
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.
The libraries of the Wood River Valley are again offering summer reading programs for young children and teens.
Aspiring whitewater kayakers can learn the skill at the Learn to Kayak camp with White Otter Outdoor Adventures near Stanley. Middle and high school students will learn to kayak safely on Idaho’s Salmon River. The camp for 12- to 14-year-olds runs from July 22 through July 25, while a camp f…
The Sun Valley Museum of Art is offering its two annual, weeklong summer camps again this year, one for younger kids entering grades three through five, and another for students in grades 6 through 8.
At the Bellevue Academy of Riding and Natural Learning (BARN), young equestrians can learn basic horsemanship and safety, English or western riding skills, equine care and stable management. Camps run from May 8 to Sept. 19.
The Sun Valley Resort will have opportunities for kids to get a jump on mastering their golf skills this summer.
Sawtooth Martial Arts of Hailey has been hosting Warrior Arts summer camps for the last 18 years. This year, the camps will be offered at the Gravity Fitness facility in Woodside subdivision.
Though the Sawtooth Botanical Garden’s popular Bug Zoo festival has been put on hold this summer, the garden has plenty of free programming up its sleeve for younger valley residents.
At Boulder Mountain Clayworks in Ketchum, kids will have the chance this summer to learn the basics of pottery throwing, sculpting and glazing—all the while watching their own creations spring to life.
Preparing for a nice flow of mountain biking in the Wood River Valley is important in 2021. The all-encompassing sport is ready to speed past the COVID-19 pandemic faster than a steep berm on a clean trail ride, and Sturtevants in Ketchum is here to help youngsters get reacquainted.
The Hunger Coalition and The Community Library are teaming up this summer for the sixth year in a row to offer free lunches, books and activities for kids throughout Blaine County with their Bloom Truck.
The Blaine County Recreation District’s popular summer day camp program is open for rising first through sixth graders. The BCRD camp is headquartered at the Community Campus in Hailey. From there, campers will participate in age-appropriate sports, swimming at BCRD’s Aquatic Center, outdoor…
A lifetime in music provides a lifeline for professional music teacher and violinist Alyssa Joy Claffey who came to the Wood River Valley after playing in the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra for four seasons.
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With spring weather flowing into the valley, the Sun Valley DEVO club cycling team has begun its season. On Wednesday, Wood River High School senior Elias Svennungsen leads the team during a group ride down Bullion Street in Hailey in front of Hop Porter Park. Sun Valley DEVO’s season runs t…
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a disease in which the heart muscle becomes flabby and weak, and the heart chambers dilate. The heart cannot effectively pump blood to the body, so the animal lacks energy and fluid accumulates in the lungs, abdomen or both. There has been recent evidence tha…
Carey School Principal John Peck and Silver Creek High School Principal Mike Glenn will both retire at the end of the 2020-21 school year, the Blaine County School District announced this week.
This skiing banana braved the slippery slopes this past Saturday as the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation held its 24th annual Janss Pro-Am race on Baldy. Costumes were required for this major fundraising extravaganza—what SVSEF dubbed the “Boulderdash” this year. Racers could register for…
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It’s Easter weekend, and for those angling to celebrate the holiday with an outdoor egg hunt for the kids, it looks like the weather might actually accommodate. Assuming the forecast can be trusted, Saturday and Sunday look to be partly cloudy and in the high 60s in Hailey, mid 60s in Bellev…
Writing this column from the beach, I was enjoying the sunrise, waves crashing, rustling palm fronds, and reading a chapter in my book about workaholism and how peak performers have one thing in common: they rest.
Last week I wrote this long introduction all about how it’s spring now: birds singing, bees buzzing, flowers blooming, etc. Then the temperature dropped 30 degrees and it snowed. That felt a little spiteful.
Atrial fibrillation occurs in both people and dogs. Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm caused by rapid, irregular contractions of the upper chambers of the heart, which are called the atria. Because the heart is beating faster and more irregularly than normal, it does not fill o…
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When Tammy Davis was named one of three nominees for the Idaho Mountain Express’ Woman of the Year contest this year, she came to a troubling realization.
Sheep-shearing demonstrations, vendor booths and live music will return this fall at McKercher Park and Lions Park, the Hailey City Council decided this week.
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