Search for missing Scout scaled back

Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. The search for a 13-year-old Boy Scout who fell into the fast-moving Yellowstone River was scaled back Monday as hope of finding him alive gave way to grief.

Shoes believed to belong to Luke Sanburg were found in the river over the weekend, but the math whiz who loved to hunt and fish remained missing. He fell into the river Friday evening.

“The family has come to the acceptance of not finding Luke alive,” JeNae Lay, the boy’s aunt, told rescue workers Sunday night.

On Monday, National Park Service officials said the number of park officials and volunteers involved in the search decreased. Observers still were expected to man 24 observation points, which include bridges and high points along the river.

“We’re going to have a very small contingent out there,” Yellowstone National Park spokesman Cheryl Matthews said. “We’re still going be out there searching and out performing our operations, but on a scaled-back level.”

On Sunday, about 250 park personnel, family and church members, and other volunteers searched along the river’s rugged banks for any sign of the missing teen. His parents, Tom and Vicki Sanburg, have been combing the area since early Saturday and remained part of the search Monday, Matthew said.

Sanburg, of Helena, was pushing logs into the river with other Scouts on Friday when a log clipped his legs and knocked him into the river. He was last seen, head above water, floating toward a stretch of rapids, park officials said.

Searchers continue looking for Moscow man

Riggins, Idaho A search continues in the main Salmon River for a Moscow man missing since his raft overturned in the rapids.

An Idaho County sheriff’s dispatcher said late Monday afternoon searchers still had not found any sign of Steven Campbell, 48, who was rafting with his 7-year-old daughter and the family dog last Friday afternoon when their boat flipped in Time Zone Rapid about a mile north of Riggins.

The girl and the dog were both wearing life jackets, authorities said, and witnesses reported the dog rescued the girl from the river. Authorities believe Campbell was not wearing a life vest and was swept downstream.

Voters get another chance at schools levy

Grangeville, Idaho Voters in north-central Idaho will be asked today to reconsider a $978,000 supplemental override levy for schools in Riggins, White Bird, Grangeville, Elk City and Kooskia.

Less than one-third of the Grangeville district’s 6,000 registered voters cast ballots in the May 17 levy election, with 54 percent voting against the property tax increase.

Trustees of the district initially decided to make cutbacks after the defeat, but reconsidered after a group of patrons pledged to increase turnout and campaign for passage if the levy was resubmitted.

“I feel very confident that the enthusiasm in our communities is higher than I have ever seen it,” said Chandra Eimers of Grangeville, one of the organizers of the pro-levy committee.

Massacre site closer to being renamed

Enterprise, Ore. The Snake River site where horse thieves once killed more than 30 Chinese gold miners moved closer toward being named Chinese Massacre Cove.

The Oregon Geographic Names Board voted this weekend to make the recommendation. The U.S. Board of Geographic Names has the final say and is expected to meet later this year to consider the recommendation.

The site, an inlet off the Snake River on the Oregon side of the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, is accessible only by boat, horseback or a three-mile hike from the nearest road.

“What happened to these Chinese was an egregious event that should never happen again,” said Jeff Ford of Boise, former chairman of the Idaho Geographic Names Advisory Council who formally proposed the name. The killings began on May 27, 1887, when a group of armed men appeared above a camp of 10 Chinese miners and opened fire. The killing there and at nearby locations continued all afternoon and resumed the next day.

Starbucks to release CD of Dylan bootlegs

Seattle Bob Dylan made his mark playing in one cafe. Soon, he’ll be in thousands.

Starbucks Coffee Co. has reached a deal to produce and exclusively release a CD of 10 Dylan recordings from New York’s Gaslight Cafe in 1962, when Dylan was just finding himself as a songwriter. The Gaslight, in Greenwich Village, was a focal point of the folk revival in the early ‘60s.

“Bob Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962,” will be available at Starbucks stores in the U.S. and Canada on Aug. 30. It includes the earliest known recordings of “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright,” as well as folk standards “Barbara Allen” and “The Cuckoo.”

Fans have circulated bootlegs of Dylan’s Gaslight performances over the years, but these are the first to be professionally produced and remastered, Starbucks said.

The CD’s release will coincide with the release of director Martin Scorcese’s feature-length film about Dylan, “No Direction Home.” Starbucks will also sell the two-CD soundtrack for the movie, though the soundtrack will be available through other stores.