Sun Valley Life

Bruce Willis' Mint Bar (which may have a limited future according to The Idaho Mountain Express) and Hailey resident Lori Brutsche-Ely may have just become more famous than either desired after a bizarre altercation with the police in the Mint's Chester Jakes restaurant on Halloween night.

The guns are running! After a light dusting of snow on the Valley floor earlier this week and a more significant accumulation (eight inches) atop Bald Mountain, the Sun Valley Company has turned on the snow guns on Bald and Dollar Mountain in an effort to meet their Thanksgiving Day opening.

It's Election Day 2008 and excitement is in the air across the Wood River Valley, and across the country. A wet morning didn't seem to keep people from the polls and Plum's own Justin Ross sent in this report and these pictures of the scenes at Ernest Hemingway Elementary and the American Legion Hall in Ketchum.