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


Higher Ground Uses Skiing to Help Man Walk Again
The morning temperature registered minus-6 making it the chilliest morning of the 2024-25 winter season.
Thursday, January 23, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sage School to Hold Open House
The Sage School in Hailey will host an Open House at the Quigley Campus starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29. This event will provide prospective students, families and interested community members the opportunity to learn about the school’s educational model.
Thursday, January 23, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Steer Your Sweet Tooth to Death by Chocolate
Are you one of those who counts on chocolate for your flavonoids and other antioxidants? Then point yourself to Twin Falls and get ready to eat chocolate for charity.
Thursday, January 23, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Company Offers a Fun Musical Way to Examine Relationships
Is it best to fly solo? Or, to have company in one’s life via the time-honored sacrament of marriage?
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Dark Sky Dinners to Celebrate Sun Valley’s Special Place Under the Stars
Wood River Valley residents and visitors are invited to celebrate Central Idaho’s dark skies by taking part in a Dark Sky Dinner at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Mental Well-Being Group Wants Your Imput on Behavioral Health Needs
Blaine County residents are invited to share their thoughts on behavioral health needs in a survey being conducted to enhance the quality of life for the county’s residents.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Welcome to the Fridge-SVMoA Opens Snow Show
Ryan Bonilla lives just five minutes from Big Snow American Dream where “every day is a snow day.”
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Aida Explores the Conflict Between Private Emotions and Public Duty
Guiseppe Verdi’s tragic “Aida,” a story of political power struggles and jealousies, will hit the big screen Saturday in the Metropolitan Opera’s live simulcast.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Winter Tennis Camp Offered to Women
Kick off your skis and take up your tennis racquet. A special Winter Tennis Camp is coming to Gravity Fitness & Tennis.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Before the Limelight Hotel There Was the Bald Mountain Hot Springs Lodge
For years, Guyer Hot Springs near the bottom of Bald Mountain’s Warm Springs side, attracted power brokers from throughout the United States to partake of its healing waters and enjoy its dancing and other amenities.
Monday, January 20, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


5B Engine Works to Hear About Suicide Prevention Efforts and More
Wood River Valley residents who are interested in helping to build a better community are invited to attend Wednesday’s meeting of 5B Engine Works.
Monday, January 20, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Billy Goat Loppet Brings Out Hearty Souls
Nine degrees--the coldest temperatures in 20 years—greeted racers at the starting line for the10-kilometer Billy Goat Loppet Saturday. But the Trail Creek and Proctor Loop trails at Sun Valley Nordic Center were impeccably groomed and racers crossed the finish line with smiles on their faces as temperatures climbed into the teens.
Monday, January 20, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Community School Grad Pitches Her Beet and Goat Cheese Starter
Sun Valley Community School alum Noelle LaFleur is about to graduate from Santa Clara University with a degree in marketing. But she could just as easily forge a career for herself that embraces her passion for food.
Sunday, January 19, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Heli Ski Offers Pow Days Specials
Mother Nature has been stingy with powder days the past few weeks, but Sun Valley Heli Ski can find powder stashes for those who need their powder fix.
Sunday, January 19, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Carlyn Ring Co-Founded the Wood River Jewish Community
Carlyn Ring figured that a string of beads could talk louder than she ever could.
Sunday, January 19, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley City Council Member Says Goodbye to Sun Valley’s Adult Summer Camp
The view from the window in her new apartment is nice, Jane Conard says. But it doesn’t begin to match the view of Bald Mountain that she had from her home in Sun Valley.
Saturday, January 18, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Company Features Tony Award Winning Lyrics from Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim fans, rejoice.
Saturday, January 18, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Blaine County Republicans to Host Inauguration Party
The Blaine County Republicans will hold a Presidential Inauguration Watch Party at Ketchum’s American Legion Hall on Monday.
Saturday, January 18, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Second Homeowners Like Fourth of July in Sun Valley
Blaine County averages the equivalent of 35,445 full-time population over a year. But that number increases to 45,637 during the busy summer month of July.
Friday, January 17, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


World Cup Rebels Apres Party to Stoke the Spirit
Get revved up for the World Cup Finals with the World Cup Rebels Apres Party this weekend at Sun Valley Resort.
Friday, January 17, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Skiers Add Podium Climbing to Race Work
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation U14 Alpine ski racers brought home five podium finishes from their first away race of the season Jan. 10-12 at Snow King, Wyo.
Friday, January 17, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Banff Film Festival to Take Viewers to Karakoram Mountains, Jamaican Cliffs and Mount Washington
You wouldn’t normally include the word “kayaking” in the same sentence as Alaska’s Denali.
Thursday, January 16, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Ski Patrol to Get Moment in Spotlight
Learn the history behind the Sun Valley Ski Patrol when the Wood River Museum of History & Culture presents “Skis, Shovels and Stories: History of the Sun Valley Ski Patrol in the 1960s.”
Thursday, January 16, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Skier Headed to Italy to Compete
A member of Sun Valley Education Foundation’s Alpine U16 Team punched his ticket to the Alpe Cimbra FIS Children Cup in Folaria, Italy, thanks to his showing at the Burke National Performance Series.
Thursday, January 16, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Wood River Land Trusts Launches Campaign to Preserve Hailey Hot Springs Ranch
The Wood River Land Trust is launching a $16 million campaign to permanently protect the Hailey Hot Springs Ranch, also known as the Democrat Hot Springs Ranch, west of Hailey in Croy Creek Canyon.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Music Festival Summer Season to Feature Time for Three and Latin Pops Concert
The Grammy-winning, genre-defying Time for Three will perform a new triple concerto written for them by composer Mason Bates.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley’s Alpine Skiers Shine in First Away Race of the Season
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation’s U12 team climbed the podium five times at the conclusion of the North Series Giant Slalom races held this past weekend at Grand Targhee.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Wood River Women’s Foundation Accepting Applications for Grants
It was just a few short months ago that members of the Wood River Women’s Foundation gathered on the lawn of a home in Ketchum’s Northwood neighborhood to celebrate 27 nonprofits for whom they’d awarded grants to.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Writer’s Conference to Feature Doris Kearns Goodwin and Others
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will be among the authors headlining the 2025 Sun Valley Writer’s Conference.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Billy Goat Loppet to Be Held Saturday
The Boulder Mountain Tour is approaching faster than ever this year, what with the big race from Galena to SNRA taking place on Feb. 1. And organizers are hopeful that some of those signed up to compete will want to hone their racing skills by taking part in the annual Billy Goat Loppet ski race.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Nordic Skiers Toast Trails Once Praised by Jessie Diggins
When Rick Kapala took over as head coach of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation’s Nordic program in the early 1980s, he could fit all of the kids in one van when they headed to a race.
Monday, January 13, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Makes the New York Times Best Places to Visit List
Are you one of those who breathed a sigh of relief when the last of the visitors left this busy Christmas season?
Monday, January 13, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Learn How Large Landscape Conservation Can Improve Resilience to Climate Change
Learn about the work of landscape conservation to reverse the fragmentation of the earth’s landscapes and make the earth more resilient to climate change when Dr. Gary Tabor speaks at The Community Library.
Monday, January 13, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Red Barn Granola Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies
Now that the Christmas cookies have been eaten, it’s time to think about baking some nutritious cookies for your cross-country ski jaunts or winter snowshoe hikes.
Sunday, January 12, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Share Your Heart Ball Lots to Include Ashton Jeanty Jersey and Helmet
A dinner with Boise State University football coach Spencer Danielson, and a jersey and helmet worn by Heisman Trophy runner-up Ashton Jeanty are among the items on the auction block at the 2025 Share Your Heart Ball.
Sunday, January 12, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Ski Racers Brave Windy Conditions in Snowmaker Classic
Eighty-nine cross-country skiers ranging in age from five to 83 took part in the 2025 Snowmaker Classic Cross Country Ski Race hosted by the Sun Valley Education Foundation Saturday.
Sunday, January 12, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


The Synthetic Age Explores How Man Is Shaping Earth
When “Tenacious Beasts” author and philosopher Christopher J. Preston addressed a Sun Valley audience last winter, he did so with a note of optimism.
Saturday, January 11, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Snow Queen Hits the Slopes at Sun Valley
This Snow Queen took her snowboard to Sun Valley Resort’s Bald Mountain Friday morning with an entourage of 50.
Saturday, January 11, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Epiphany Serves Up a Night of Light
It was, perhaps, fitting that those seated in the pews of St. Thomas Episcopal Church could look out the triangular window at the front of the church to see the lights of snow groomers working their way to the top of Bald Mountain in the distance.
Saturday, January 11, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Battle of the Bands Rocks the Liberty Theatre
The Liberty Theatre served as the setting for the Wood River Valley’s inaugural Battle of the Bands a few weeks ago. And Liberty Films based in Bellevue was there to capture the rockin’ talent of local bands.
Friday, January 10, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Resort Announces Gingerbread House Winners
A 15-year-old Sage School student won first prize in Sun Valley Resort’s annual Gingerbread House Contest.
Friday, January 10, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Ski Free on Nordic Trails This Sunday
Check out the North Valley cross-country ski and snowshoe trails free of charge on Sunday.
Friday, January 10, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Prepares for World Cup in Fraction of Time Others Have
The world’s best downhill skiers will be treated to something they’ve never encountered on a World Cup race circuit before when they come to Sun Valley in March for the 2025 Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals.
Thursday, January 9, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Mollie’s Pack Tells Unknown Story of Return of Wolves to Yellowstone
Learn the lost story of the first wolf pack to repatriate Yellowstone National Park when the Sun Valley Film Festival shows “Mollie’s Pack.”
Thursday, January 9, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Residents Hope for Free Post Office Boxes
The news that Ketchum post box holders may be eligible for free post office box service beginning Jan. 10 quickly riled some Sun Valley residents.
Thursday, January 9, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Guyer Hot Springs Was Renowned for Medicinal Qualities
Jake Moe and Mariel Hemingway have proposed building a new Hemingway Hot Springs complex in the Warm Springs area near Bald Mountain. The project, which would encompass 12 hot-spring pools, two cold-plunge pools and two teepee massage rooms, is in the area where the famed Guyer Hot Springs used to attract guests from near and afar.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Snowmobiler Survives Large Avalanche Below Galena Summit
A snowmobiler was rescued near Smiley Creek this past weekend after being buried for 15 minutes.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Two-time Olympian to Teach the Aesthetics and Nuts and Bolts of Classic Skiing
Two-time Olympian Betsy Youngman and her multiple-World Masters Champion husband Bob Youngman, who has a PhD in Physics and Materials Science, will hold a clinic exploring the aesthetics and physical challenges of Classic Cross-Country Skiing from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Jan. 15.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Ski Coach Finds There’s More to Biking Divide Tour Than Counting Miles
Jackson Long had a clearcut goal: To bike 2,700 miles from Banff, Canada, to the Mexican border as part of the Tour Divide gravel bikepacking race, considered the mother of all bikepacking routes.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Score Sixty Dollar Lift Tickets and Benefit Sun Valley Air Service
Carve a few turns on Bald Mountain for $60 and support air service in and out of Sun Valley at the same time.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Empty Bowls Can be Reserved Online This Year
Registrations are now being taken for Empty Bowls 2025 for those who would like to purchase their bowl and food ahead of time.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Fashion Show Features Chic Resort Dressings
Diane paraded down a runway that stretched nearly the length of the Senior Connection, wearing a Sersha faux fur vest. Laura wore a black velvet Leeza sequin dress that sparkled with every step.
Monday, January 6, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Tenacious Beasts Author Returns to Discuss Conservation and Climate Change
Author Christopher Preston will discuss wildlife and rewilding, technology, conservation and climate change this coming Thursday at The Community Library.
Monday, January 6, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Senior Connection Vision and Hearing Center Moves
The Senior Connection’s Vision & Hearing Center has moved to Hailey from Ketchum.
Monday, January 6, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Rotarun Ski Area Celebrates Three Quarters Century of Success
Rotarun Ski Area was one of a thousand Mom and Pop ski hills across the upper United States during the 1960s. And, while more than half of those have shut down their rope tows, Rotarun continues to thrive, serving Master’s racers, Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation racers, children learning to ski and families who spend weekends together at the hill.
Sunday, January 5, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Program Looks at the Magic of Winter Flyfishing
Many people put their flyfishing gear away when the snow falls and temperatures drop.
Sunday, January 5, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Wood River Women’s Foundation Members Celebrate Making a Difference in Their Corner of the World
Barbara Thrasher says she became concerned about what the future might hold for the people of the United States following November’s acrimonious election. But then her husband reminded her to just focus on her what she could do in her own community.
Sunday, January 5, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Conservationist Author Kim Frank Releases Elephants in the Hourglass
Ketchum author and photographer Kim Frank will release her new non-fiction book, “Elephants in the Hourglass: A Journey of Reckoning and Hope Along the Himalaya” on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
Saturday, January 4, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Ketchum Residents Rejoice-You’ve got Free Mail
It’s a Christmas miracle! A New Year’s Hallelujah with an exclamation point!
Saturday, January 4, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Ode to Lake Creek
Gliding through tracks
Saturday, January 4, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Sake Man Shares His Heritage with Sun Valley
Shin Hasegawa was riding a chairlift up Sun Valley’s Bald Mountain when he had a satori moment, or an experience of enlightenment.
Friday, January 3, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Go Behind the Scenes at Bald Mountain and Learn to Care For your Car at Far and Wise Camps
Check out what’s under the hood, take your turn at preparing a terrain park jump and learn about the pathways open to caring for seniors during Far + Wise’s upcoming career camps.
Friday, January 3, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Community Invited to Celebrate the Three Wise Men’s Journey
Join the pilgrimage to St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Monday in commemoration of the journey the Magi made to see the Christ Child.
Friday, January 3, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Jack Smith and Jim McLaughlin Receive Prestigious Architectural Awards
Sun Valley-area architects closed out the year by honoring two of their own who have achieved what only one other Idaho architect has achieved.
Thursday, January 2, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Jim McLaughlin Designs Homes with Nature in Mind
Only three architects have been honored with the esteemed Gold Medal Award from the Idaho Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and two of them have been Sun Valley architects.
Thursday, January 2, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Riley Berman to Look Behind the Scenes at World Cup Preparation
Learn about World Cup preparations on Sun Valley’s Bald Mountain when Riley Berman gives a behind-the-scenes look.
Thursday, January 2, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Looking Back at a Year in the Wood River Valley in Pictures
It may best sum up the year in Ketchum—a portrait of the giant crane looming over the Big Hole at Ketchum’s south end.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Alice in Wonderland Radio Play Can Now Be Heard on You Tube
Baby, it’s cold outside!!!
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


The Shoshone Project Scores Big Among Lincoln County Residents
Volunteers with The Shoshone Project are rubbing their hands in glee after wrapping up their Fifth Annual Warm Clothing and food Drive.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 \| Read Full Story.


Even Wet Bathing Suits Could Not Save the Hailey Hot Springs Hotel
Since the Wood River Valley was first settled in the early 1880s, hot springs resorts have been important institutions. They were centers for health and recreation for valley residents and attracted visitors from outside the valley who traveled here by train well before Sun Valley Resort opened in 1936.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Food and Wine Celebration Tickets on Sale
A Celebration of Women in Culinary will be among the new entrees in the third annual Sun Valley Food & Wine Celebration.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Film Festival Announces 2025 Film Festival Dates
The Sun Valley Film Festival has set the date for its 2025 film festival.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Limelight Ketchum Hotel Gifts Wood River Valley Nonprofits
Nine Wood River Valley nonprofits will head into the New Year’s with a little added boost, thanks to Limelight Ketchum Hotel employees and guests.
Monday, December 30, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


BCRD FitWorks Offers Free Classes to Get You Started on New Year’s Resolutions
Did you make one of those New Year’s resolutions about getting fit?
Monday, December 30, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation Welcomes New Board Members
Two new board members have been elected to the board of the St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation.
Monday, December 30, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Red Barn Granola Finds Its Way to Breakfast Bowls Beyond Sun Valley
Julie LaFleur stuck her tongue out as she stirred brown rice syrup into a bowl as large as a kitchen sink full of organic rolled oats, pecans, pepitas, crispy rice, chia seeds, dried cranberries and white chocolate morsels.
Sunday, December 29, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


National Ballet of Canada to Perform in Sun Valley
The National Ballet of Canada will perform for two nights in the Sun Valley Pavilion this summer.
Sunday, December 29, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Old Cutters Preserve Given to Wood River Land Trust
The Wood River Land Trust has acquired Old Cutters Preserve, making sure that that beloved corner of northeast Hailey abutting the foothills will be permanently protected and forever open to the public.
Sunday, December 29, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Bayhorse Bonanza
We always look back as one year ends and another begins. In today’s video we look way, way back to the late 1800s at the richest discovery of silver and lead in the Idaho Territory.
Saturday, December 28, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


SVSEF Holds Apres Snowmaker Fundraiser for the Nordic Community
An Apres Snowmaker Fundraiser designed to bring the cross-country skiing community together will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Sage School Barn in Hailey.
Saturday, December 28, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Raccoon Attacks Infant
Sun Valley-area residents have learned to be on guard for mountain lions and black bears. But it was a racoon that attacked an infant in his home in Cassia County.
Saturday, December 28, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Nick Brandt’s Latest Look at Climate Change Can Be Seen During Tonight’s Gallery Walk
Last summer British photographer Nick Brandt visited Gilman Contemporary Gallery in Ketchum, explaining how he created haunting underwater photos portraying climate change’s impact on residents of Fiji.
Friday, December 27, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Higher Ground Comedy Club to Feature Super Troopers Star
Laugh for a good cause when Higher Ground hosts its second annual Comedy Club.
Friday, December 27, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


St. Luke’s Wants to Add Robotic-Assisted Surgery
St. Luke’s Wood River and St. Luke’s Wood Foundation are trying to raise the money to bring robotic-assisted surgery to the Wood River Valley.
Friday, December 27, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Carol Holding’s Love for Sun Valley Will Live on in the Resort’s High Standards
Carol Holding always contended that Sun Valley’s Christmas Eve Torchlight Parade was one of her favorite things.
Thursday, December 26, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Anthony Geffen to Present New ‘Earth-A Yyear in Orbit’
Award-winning British filmmaker Anthony Geffen will tantalize Sun Valley residents as he does every year at Christmas—this time with a screening and Q&A about his new film “Earth: A Year in Orbit.”
Thursday, December 26, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley Christmas Eve Show on Ice Basks in Warmth
Ashley Clark regaled viewers with her Ring of Fire. And Natalia Zaitseva and Scott Irvine introduced their ice skating children as Sun Valley Resort presented its annual Christmas Eve Ice Show and Torchlight Parade Tuesday evening.
Thursday, December 26, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Sharing the Beauty of the Wood River Valley
John Boydston is a late bloomer when it comes to photography, becoming serious about it in retirement.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Sacred Workings
You can’t set up walls
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 \| Read Full Story.