Chris Melville

Published in the High Desert Advocate Newspaper, May 5th, 2023 Edition. By Chris Melville, City Manager Last Monday May 1, 2023, West Wendover Animal Control Officer Alex Peterson received his 20 year service award by City Manager Chris Melville. Officer Peterson began working for the City on April 21, 2003 as a Police Dispatcher and in May of 2004 transferred to the position of Animal Control Officer, the position he continues to hold today.

With the Magic Lantern in Ketchum, Hailey’s Metropolitan Big Wood 4 and the Sun Valley Opera House, cinemagoers in the Wood River Valley are, frankly, spoiled by the quality and quantity of movie-watching options.

Since the first stages of reopening in late spring and early summer 2020, the Wood River Valley’s artistic community—normally overbooked with all kinds of programs and events—has done its best to entertain and enlighten under innumerable restrictions. Local- and state-imposed limits on gatherings, financial constraints, endless guidelines from Actors’ Equity: the list of obstacles stretched far and wide. Still, community members did what they could.