COMMUNITY PAPER

Sun Valley residents band together to buy local paper

A group of investors is hoping to take the idea of a community newspaper to a new level.

A dozen Sun Valley residents are pooling their resources in an effort to purchase the Wood River Journal, one of the resort area's two weekly papers. The move would bring the established paper back to local ownership and give it some needed financial capital.

The sale would also mean a local board of directors and an editorial board made up of valley residents.

The recently formed Newsies LLC is headed by John Sofro, a Wood River Valley developer and real estate agent, who said he was approached to buy the paper after a …