Name: Eye On Sun Valley
Address: P.O. Box 1453, Ketchum, ID, 83340, US


Sun Valley’s First Expert Ski Runs Were on Proctor Mountain
When Sun Valley opened in December 1936, the resort had two chairlift-served mountains: Dollar Mountain for beginners and Proctor Mountain for experts.
Tuesday, December 30, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Alli Frank Releases New Novel Inspired by the Loves of Our Lives
Callie Kingman enjoyed idyllic years at Princeton University. But she begrudgingly followed her husband Thomas across the country as he pursued his career at the expense of her own only to have him leave her with no job prospects in Sacramento, which she considered “the dullest city in America,”
Tuesday, December 30, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Lincoln Day Dinner Tickets on Sale
The Blaine County Republicans will join hands with the Lincoln County Republicans to host a 2026 Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 21.
Tuesday, December 30, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Opera Looks Ahead to Mardis Gras, Phantom of the Opera
The Hurdy Gurdy Girls transported the audience back to the 1800s when the music of Americana was formed and when a trip to Boise would have taken four days.
Monday, December 29, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Airport Passengers Reward Musical Jammers in Triplicate
The Wood River Valley Music Jammers just wanted to equal or eclipse the $400 they raised last Christmas for The Hunger Coalition.
Monday, December 29, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


100 Men Who Care to Meet Up Following Record-Breaking Year
Wood River Valley nonprofits were collectively made $156,400 richer during 2025, thanks to the generosity of those involved in 100 Men Who Care.
Monday, December 29, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Arnold Schwarzenegger-How Much Joy It Is to Chase Something
Arnold Schwarzenegger told a full house at the Sun Valley Film Festival that three words he uttered during the movie Terminator” sounded so weird to him as a German that he asked director James Cameraon, “Why can’t I say it like, ‘I will be back?’ ”
Sunday, December 28, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


OCHI Holds Artists Reception for Vanishing Point Exhibition
Twisted pine trees and whirling fire. They’re part of the “Vanishing Point” exhibition that is debuting from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 29, at OCHI Gallery in Ketchum.
Sunday, December 28, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Christmas Cheer Abounds as Sun Valley, Galena Turn Into Winter Wonderland
Dixy and Mark Campbell Hamby are among those making spirits bright on the slopes of Sun Valley during the Christmas holidays.
Sunday, December 28, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Santa in a Snow Globe—A Blast From the Past
The tiny tot stared at Saint Nick through the clear plastic Snow Globe set up on Main Street Ketchum. As Santa read her name from his Nice Kids list, she reached out and touched her hand on the plastic that protected her from Santa and Santa from her.
Saturday, December 27, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Food and Wine Celebration to Boast New Events
A new Wine Tasting & Seafood Extravaganza will debut during the 2026 Sun Valley Food & Wine Celebration.
Saturday, December 27, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Beloved Red Pony Had a History
It was nearly 25 years ago that Lyn Stallard and Terry Tischer organized Summer of Labs to raise money for Mountain Humane, then known as the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley.
Saturday, December 27, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Charlotte Hemmings Probes the Mythology of the American West in Her Art
Charlotte Hemmings thrived under the tutelage of John Blackman, a former Wood River High School art teacher who achieved worldwide recognition for the tiger and eagle he painted on Olympian Picabo Street’s racing helmets.
Friday, December 26, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Tonight’s Gallery Walk Features New Works, New Artists
The beauty of organic materials and diamond dust will accent the artwork that can be seen on tonight’s Gallery Walk.
Friday, December 26, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Culinary Institute Hosts Open House, Cooking Demos
Sun Valley Culinary Institute is inviting you to its annual Holiday Open House from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27.
Friday, December 26, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Live Nativity Tells Story of an Uncommon Commoner
An angel wearing a gold diadem and gold chains around her waist flapped translucent wings as angels wearing white fuzzy snow hats danced around her.
Thursday, December 25, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Reflections on Incarnation
How does divine
Thursday, December 25, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Idaho Botanical Garden Bursts with Holiday Color
The Idaho Botanical Garden in Boise is bathed in 850,000 lights this holiday season as it celebrates 29 years of Winter Garden aGlow.
Thursday, December 25, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Santa Trades Sleigh for Mini-Fire Truck as He Comes Bearing Gifts
Last we saw Santa he had arrived in Ketchum on a big giant fire truck for Ketchum’s Christmas Tree Lighting, reindeer in tow.
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Stages Ice Show, Opens Up More Runs on Baldy
Get ready for a Norman Rockwell scene on ice when Sun Valley Resort stages its annual Christmas Eve Ice Show tonight.
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Racers Top U18 Podiums
The Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation FIS Alpine team opened their 2025–26 race season at the Western Region FIS Devo Open hosted at Big Sky Resort in Big Sky, Mont., Dec.15-18.
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Christmas Elves Work Out of Wood River YMCA’s North Pole Station
Laughter filled the air as a group of women stood around watching Santa’s elves painstakingly wrap every square inch of two bicycles in blue wrapping paper depicting whales and dolphins frolicking underwater.
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Artists Offer Free Book Illustration and Photo Booth Workshops
Learn to create a book combining drawing and text. And create a portrait of yourself and others to be printed on a FUJIFILM instax camera when two hip artists present free workshops at The Community Library.
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Demi Moore, Ali Larter to Do a Sun Valley Film Festival Cocktail Talk
Take part in a Cocktail Talk with Demi Moore and Ali Larter followed by an episode of “LANDMAN” on Tuesday, Dec. 30.
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Musical Jammers Spread Christmas Cheer
The sounds of Christmas are greeting passengers arriving at Friedman Memorial Airport this holiday season. And, non, it’s not piped-in music.
Monday, December 22, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Snowfall Transforms Downhill and Nordic Skiing in Sun Valley
Just in the Nick of time, Santa has transformed Sun Valley Resort into a Winter Wonderland.
Monday, December 22, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Drive Defensively to Avoid Animal Collisions
Winter is already tough for deer, elk, and other big game animals, and being near busy roads and highways can be deadly, so drivers are asked to keep a sharp eye out and avoid costly and potentially dangerous collisions.
Monday, December 22, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Airport Flies High with the Arrival of New Nonstop Flights
The first American Airlines flight from Phoenix pulled up to Friedman Memorial Airport at 8:25 p.m. Thursday night as airport workers shoveled about five inches of snow on the tarmac. And, with that the arrival of the American Eagle, SUN opened a new chapter in its history.
Sunday, December 21, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Apres Snowmaker Fundraiser to Benefit SVSEF’s Nordic Program
The Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation’s Cross Country Program is hosting its second annual Après Snowmaker Fundraiser on Saturday, Jan.10, at the Sage School Barn in Hailey.
Sunday, December 21, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Wanted-Proposals for Building Climate Resilience
Got an idea for a way to build climate resilience in Blaine County?
Sunday, December 21, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Mariel Hemingway Talks About the Warrior Within in Karen Day’s Video
Mariel Hemingway doesn’t consider herself a warrior in the sense of someone who carries a spear or a battleaxe. But she does believe that women who have experienced trauma and come out stronger have a warrior within.
Saturday, December 20, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Holiday Market to Boast Nussknackers and Vintage Sweaters
Still looking for that perfect Christmas present?
Saturday, December 20, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


‘Where the Forest Roars’ Looks at Elephant Conflicts in Himalaya
In 2018 Ketchum filmmaker Kim Frnak traveled to North Bengal where she came front to front with the daily conflict going on between the people of the eastern Himalaya and the large Asian elephants who live there.
Saturday, December 20, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


UFO and Gnome Sweet Gnome Among Winter Wonderland Attractions
The Advocates are in the midst of a project building 20 new units of housing for families transitioning into a better future. But this Christmas they have a new building that they hope will provide funding for their programs for survivors of abuse.
Friday, December 19, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


SVMoA Celebrates Hidden Gems Tonight
Take a gander at some of the “Hidden Gems” that art enthusiasts in the Sun Valley area and surrounding area have collected when Sun Valley Museum of Art holds an opening celebration for its newest exhibition tonight—Friday, Dec. 19.
Friday, December 19, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Violinist Benjamin Beilman Curates Winter Festival Featuring Copland and Vivaldi
Award-winning violinist Benjamin Beilman, who has been praised by the New York Times for performances that are “muscular with a glint of violence,” will perform at and curate the Sun Valley Music Festival’s eighth Winter Season.
Friday, December 19, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Warrior Women Art Honoring Mariel Hemingway Gets a Night in the Spotlight
Delia Dante has created bold sculptures like “Me Deuce” and “Arbol de la Vida,” both of which have become signature pieces in Boise’s public art scene standing outside the Barbacoa Grill and Coa de Jima.
Thursday, December 18, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Hailey Homegrown Films to Benefit Rotarun, Sawtooth Avalanche Center
Films showcasing the ski talents of hometown heroes near and dear to the Wood River Valley will be shown on the big screen Friday when Hailey Homegrown premieres at The Liberty Theater on Friday.
Thursday, December 18, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


‘Not So Silent Night’ to Rock Church of the Big Wood
It’ll be a “Not So Silent Night” on Friday when the Church of the Big Wood presents a concert spanning all kinds of music from a re-imagining of some traditional Christmas songs to more contemporary songs bursting with rock, gospel and the blues.
Thursday, December 18, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Toasting Tricia-Advocates Director Crowned Nonprofit Leader of the Year
Dusk was settling Monday evening as nearly a hundred men and women made their way into Topnotch Fine Furnishings in Ketchum.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Anthony Geffen to Show the Titanic’s Final Moments
A team of experts used cutting-edge underwater scanning and state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery to create the first high-resolution digital twin of the Titanic wreck.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Rotarun Ski Area Notches a Magic Carpet
Rotarun Ski Area, affectionately known as “The Little Mountain with a Big Heart,” is installing a new 60-meter Magic Carpet surface lift, marking a transformational milestone for the community and for generations of young skiers and riders to come.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Wood River Orchestra Marches Through a Delightful Holiday Concert
Felt snowballs flew around The Argyros.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Documenting Journey to Cuba’s Promising Alzheimer’s Treatment
Journalist and filmmaker Reed Lindsay grew up in Ketchum where he was inspired to tell stories by the artwork his mother Barbi Reed hung in the Anne Reed Gallery.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Katz Amsterdam Foundation Bolsters Local Efforts to Address Mental Health
Blaine County’s Mental Well-Being Initiative has received a $200,000 grant to expand access to behavioral health services, strengthen prevention efforts and improve community-wide data systems.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Tree Lighting Perfect Except for One Missing Ingredient
Santa wasn’t in the mood to field requests for Christmas gifts Saturday night. Instead, he was asking for help.
Monday, December 15, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


The Space Wins Lights on Afterschool Award
The Space in Hailey has been named a 2025 Lights on Afterschool Champion by the Idaho Out-of-School Network, an organization founded in 2014 to provides tools and resources for quality youth programs in Idaho.
Monday, December 15, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Let There Be Light-A Hannukah Remembrance
The first spoken words
Monday, December 15, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Winter Sports Hall of Fame Touts Inspiring Stories
Stephen Holding smiled as he recounted how his first experience on red wooden skis at Park West ski area ended so badly that he vowed he would never ski again.
Sunday, December 14, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Ballet Sun Valley to Screen ‘The Nutcracker’ Today
Ballet Sun Valley is presenting a free screening of Mikko Nissinen’s award-winning “The Nutcracker” at 3 p.m. today--Sunday, Dec. 14--at the Sun Valley Opera House.
Sunday, December 14, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Laughing Stock Benefit to Feature Idaholy Night
Shakespeare’s famous twins seem to appear in most of his comedies.
Sunday, December 14, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Live Nativity Set in Snow Tells Story of Christ’s Birth
One of the shepherds wore a cowboy hat atop his head covering. And Baby Jesus had on a onesie with lamb’s ears. Visit the birth of the Christ Child—Sun Valley style—as today’s Eye on Sun Valley video takes you to the 2023 Live Nativity presented by Life Church.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Camels to Help Tell the Story of Baby Jesus’ Birth
The camels will probably feel more at home not having to trudge through piles of snow like they have in past years.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Footlight Dance Center Teams up With Music Institute for Free Holiday Concert
Get in the “Holiday Spirit with Music and Dance” tonight at a free performance by dancers with Footlight Dance Centre and youth musicians with the Sun Valley Music Festival Music Institute.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


‘Sueno’ Brings Touch of Magic Realism to the Hispanic Experience
A map depicting Mexico and Central and South America fades away leaving only Mexico and Peru as a condor and eagle soar together in the sky. Just as suddenly, the birds begin to fight, claws clenching, their bodies spiraling to the ground as they fight about the right way to live.
Friday, December 12, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Caritas Chorale to Perform Two Holiday Concerts
A 40-member Caritas Chorale will sing such Christmas favorites as “A La Nanita Nana” during two free concerts Saturday and Sunday.
Friday, December 12, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Grange to Offer Old-Time Country Dancing
The Hailey Grange has been hopping the past couple months with dancing and potluck suppers.
Friday, December 12, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Janet Kellam-From Galena Lodge to Antarctica
After the community rallied to save Galena Lodge from the wrecking ball, Janet Kellam became the concessionaire in charge of opening the lodge after it had been closed for three years.
Thursday, December 11, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Resort Opens More Skiing, Gears Up for Tree Lighting and European Market
Some locals have skied Bald Mountain’s College Boulevard so many times since Sun Valley Resort kicked off its ski season last week that they should be awarded Ph.Ds.
Thursday, December 11, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Santa to Pose for Pet Pictures
Santa’s coming to town. And this time he plans to sit with Wood River Valley’s furry population for Christmas pet pictures.
Thursday, December 11, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


‘Anything Goes’ Introduces Spot Young Thespians to Another Era
In 1934 Cole Porter gifted the world with “Anything Goes,” a madcap musical comedy that weaves its way through mistaken identities, an FBI pursuit and even a stowaway attempting to break up the engagement of the woman he has fallen in love with.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Senior Connection Fashion Show to Show Off Elaine Kim Fashions
Selections from Elaine Kim’s Winter Collection will be on the fashion runway when the Senior Connection hosts its annual Winter Wonderland Fashion Show on Friday.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Met Live in HD to Present Reign of Terror Opera
Umberto Giordano’s passionate tragedy about a virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution will be screened Saturday as the latest in The Metropolitan Opera’s live simulcast MetHD.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Film Festival Announces Award Winning Films
A feature film depicting the life of a Northwest logger in the early 1900s won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2025 Sun Valley Film Festival.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Hurdy Gurdy Girls to Provide Country Touch to Sun Valley Opera Christmas
A Christmas concert with country pizzazz!
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


BCRD Begins Grooming Cross Country Trails
Those wishing to scoot some skinny skis around can now do so.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Rocket Man Lamps, Bald Mountain Puzzles Among Holiday Bazaar Delights
The Papoose Club hung out a banner revealing its new name. And its cookie tenders doled out the club’s famous holiday cookies from new sneeze guard cookie cases this weekend as the club held its annual Holiday Bazaar at Hemingway STEAM School.
Monday, December 8, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation Addresses Blaine County’s Most Pressing Needs
The St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation board has approved more than $800,000 in grants for initiatives dealing with mental health, senior care and end-of-life support.
Monday, December 8, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


St. Luke’s Foundation Approves Funding for Training, Construction
St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation board has approved just over $150,000 in funding for several internal initiatives to improve health care and keep staff morale high.
Monday, December 8, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Juli Webb Toasts 60 Years at Sun Valley with Hall of Fame Induction
Juli Webb realized a dream come true last Christmas, leading Sun Valley Resort’s annual Christmas Eve Torchlight Parade 60 years after she first started teaching skiing at America’s first destination ski resort.
Sunday, December 7, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Bob and Gina Poole Show Latest Film on Elephants Tonight
Ketchum filmmakers Bob and Gina Poole, who have been involved with many projects for National Geographic, will show their latest wildlife documentary filmed in Kenya at 5 p.m. tonight—Sunday, Dec. 7—at The Argyros in Ketchum.
Sunday, December 7, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Coexistence-Stories from Wolf Country
The day before Halloween, Suzanne Asha Stone presented a discussion of how the future of conservation lies not in control, but in collaboration, with nature as she discussed the Wood River Wolf Project with biology and conservation students at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Sunday, December 7, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Hundreds Converge at Sun Valley’s Bald Mountain for Ski Season Opener
What would prompt a self-proclaimed Texas ski bum to drive 19 hours from West Texas? Or a Hemingway STEAM School student to skip school for two days, spending the night out in freezing temperatures?
Saturday, December 6, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Resort’s Winter Wonderland Kicks Off Today
Christmas carols…cookie decorating…Sun Valley Resort kicks off its Winter Wonderland Festival today.
Saturday, December 6, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Galena Lodge Now Open for the Season
The snow has been slow in coming to Galena Lodge, although the lodge did get an inch Thursday night.
Saturday, December 6, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Adrienne Haan Brings Irving Berlin to Life in Upcoming Concerts
Hardly a Christmas concert ends without some sort of rendition of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.”
Friday, December 5, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Youth Hockey to Take Shoulder Check Pledge and Honor Seniors
Sun Valley Youth Hockey will host its high School/18U home tournament today through Sunday, Dec. 7, at Campion Ice House in Hailey and the Sun Valley Indoor Ice Rink.
Friday, December 5, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Coffee Talk Moved to Saturday Night
Scratch that Coffee Talk with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The action-movie actor will appear in a Cocktail Talk, instead.
Friday, December 5, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Skiers Welcome a Ribbon of Snow
It was a bit surreal with one long ribbon of snow plunging more than 3,000 feet down Bald Mountain threading its way through brown sagebrush-covered slopes, a snowless valley below.
Thursday, December 4, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Papoose Club Holiday Bazaar Features Great Raffle Packages
More than 75 arts and crafts vendors from across the Intermountain West will hawk their unique gifts at the annual Papoose Club Holiday Bazaar on Saturday and Sunday.
Thursday, December 4, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Community potluck to Honor Silver Creek Steward Nick Purdy
A potluck to honor Picabo rancher Nick Purdy will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Upper Big Wood River Grange, 609 S. 3rd Ave. in Hailey.
Thursday, December 4, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


E.A. KAHANE Asks You to Come Join the Parade
While 34.3 million people watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on their TV sets this year, E.A. KAHANE watched it from her third-floor apartment window at 64th Street and Central Park West.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Hailey Tree Lighting to Feature Art and Soul Dancers
Gather around the Christmas tree in Hailey for a community Christmas tree lighting on Thursday, Dec. 4.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Share the Spirit to Benefit Three Nonprofits
Silver Creek Outfitters will kick off its annual three-day Share the Spirit shopping event to benefit three Wood River Valley nonprofits on Thursday.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Ketchum’s Feli Funke Helps to Tell Story of Barbara Van Cleve
Ketchum fine arts photographer Feli Funke met Barbara Van Cleve when she attended a shoot for Robert Redford’s “The Horse Whisperer” on Van Cleve’s ranch in the shadow of the Crazy Mountains near Big Timber, Mont.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Film Festival Starts Wednesday
Longtime Sun Valley homeowner and box office heavyweight Arnold Schwarzenegger will head up the Sun Valley Film Festival’s popular Coffee Talks this week. And Cedric the Entertainer will be among hose fielding questions when the Sun Valley Film Festival screens “Above the Line,”
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Survey Results Concerning Youth Well-Being to Be Released Thursday
The latest survey results concerning the mental health of youth in the Wood River Valley will be unveiled Thursday, Dec. 4, at the Community Campus in Hailey.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Resort to Kick Off Skiing on Wednesday
Mother Nature isn’t cooperating—much. But Sun Valley Resort is going ahead and opening for skiing, anyway.
Monday, December 1, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Holocaust Survivor to Discuss Harrowing Tale of Survival
Pete Metzelaar was 7 when the Nazis came to his home in the Netherlands, arresting most of his family members.
Monday, December 1, 2025 \| Read Full Story.