Mountain Town News: A lot of what-ifs in case of hospital switcheroo
KETCHUM, Idaho — In 2002, Thomas Johnson Jr. retired as the longtime fire chief in Ketchum. Only recently did the 77-year-old learn that he wasn’t really Thomas Johnson but instead Herbert Benjamin Reibman. By whatever...
Opinion | Lark Ascending: Escape to Wine Country
It’s 5 o’clock at the Palisade Café. The chef called in an hour earlier with news of a broken tooth — he won’t be showing up to oversee tonight’s wine tasting dinner. That, and about...
Letters| Advocating for wilderness: Please no chain saws
Advocating for wilderness: Please no chain saws The U.S. Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Regional forester, Brian Ferebee, recently approved the use of chain saws between June 1 and Aug. 17, 2019, to clear beetle-killed trees...
Mountain Wheels: Ford’s mid-size Ranger pickup returns with turbo power
An ongoing spree of trucks continues this week with some observations on the much-anticipated return of one of America’s favorite small pickups, the Ford Ranger — which is finally back on the U.S. market after...
Walking Our Faith: Observations from a stranger at a funeral
Do you remember when we were kids? We’d take a piece of notebook paper and crumble it up and crumble it up and crumble it up until that piece of paper became as soft and...
Ask Eartha: Spring cleaning in Summit County
Dear Eartha, I have been doing some spring cleaning around the house but now I have all this stuff and I don’t know what to do with it. How do I dispose of it responsibly?...
Opinion | Knopf: Your Rx may be killing you and other fun facts
Little Anderson Moreno of Ann Arbor, Michigan, was awaiting a transplant when he was given a bacteria-tainted stool softener. The harmful bacteria were later found in Moreno’s lungs. The Port Huron Times Herald reports Moreno...
High Country Baking: Make oatmeal jammies at home
Editor’s note: High elevations make cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level. This twice-monthly column presents recipes and tips that make baking in...
Summit Daily letters: ‘Enough is enough,’ or is it?
‘Enough is enough’ or is it? Editor’s note: A version of this letter, written after the Parkland shooting in Florida, was published in February 2018. It has been updated and resubmitted in response to the...
Opinion | Liddick: The politics of fear
Oh, it’s a constitutional crisis, all right. And it’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Just not in the way Jerry Nadler and Nancy Pelosi think. The comic irony behind...
Walking Our Faith: A new Mother’s Day
On Tuesday I told Mom I hadn’t settled on a topic. She replied, “Mother’s Day is Sunday, but don’t write about me this year. You write about me too much.” Instead, Mom wanted me to...
Littwin: We are thankful for heroes, but we must ask why any hero must die for going to school
I hate to admit this, but I take too little comfort in the heroics of Kendrick Castillo, who took down one of the STEM shooters at the cost of his life. Castillo, a genuine hero,...
Summit Daily letters: Message to college graduates
Message to college graduates Congratulations, college graduate! What an exciting moment in time as you experience the independence you’ve been chasing since high school. So much awaits you at 20-something as you start this next...
Opinion | Knopf: Fakenomics and the Kochtopus
The Trump administration has “cut homelessness by 50%,” claimed Kevin Hassett, the chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers in an NPR interview last week. I was shocked, and asked another economist about it....
Ask Eartha: Drought still a concern despite snowpack
Dear Eartha, With all our big spring storms, do I need to be concerned about drought this year? — Lindsey, Dillon Valley Great question, Lindsey. I sure had a fun ski season, and I hope...
Home Cooking: quick and easy pastas for spring and summer
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of joining the High Country Conservation employees and volunteers in putting the plastic roof covers over the greenhouses that will soon house the summer vegetables for the community-supported agriculture...
Summit Daily letters: Liddick stoops to a new low
Liddick stoops to a new low Morgan Liddick is wrong, as usual. Without any proof whatsoever, he asserts that “(f)or decades the left has labored diligently to persuade us and our children that our country...
Littwin: Why are Bennet, Hick running for president? For the same reasons everyone else is.
The first question any candidate for office has to answer is why he or she is actually running for the job. You’d be surprised how many have no real answer beyond, well, it seemed like...
Opinion | Liddick: When did we turn into such a self-loathing country? Look to your Left
“Arbeit macht frei.” Yes, it’s German. On a sign made out of wrought iron. If you don’t know what it means, where it was, or why you should care about it, look it up. If...
Opinion | Letters: What makes a teacher great?
What makes a teacher great? I have had the honor of witnessing a number of great teachers. Great teachers who work for endless hours on lessons, understand the complexities of student engagement and tirelessly strive...
