Greencreek News

A pig farmer from a small North Central Idaho town isn't worrying about the success of his business thanks to the financial success of his hobby.

The National Fantasy Baseball Championship, a contest paying a top prize of $100,000, draws an elite collection of contestants - computer geniuses, deep-pocketed stockbrokers and money managers, maybe the odd young man or woman looking to be the next Billy Beane or Theo Epstein.

A A A A April's cool, moist weather held off the snow melt and even added to the mountain snowpack according to the latest snow survey conducted by the Natural Resources Conservation Service .

A northern Idaho sheriff's raffle called ``.308 SSS Wolf Pack Raffle'' for a rifle and shovel in a region where SSS commonly stands for the process after killing a federally protected wolf ``shoot, shovel and shut up'' has brought in $13,000. Idaho County Sheriff Doug Giddings says the SSS in the raffle stands for ``safety, security and survival,'' ...