Stories from Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A small group of people gathered at Carl Miller Park on Saturday to pay tribute to military service members across the United States as part of a coordinated, nationwide observance. At exactly 10 a.m. that day, veterans in the Mountain Home community took part in an event that simultaneously began at more than 800 locations in all 50 states as part of year's Wreaths Across America Day observance...

Gilbert and Maxine Hurley of Mountain Home will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on Dec. 28. The couple married in 1963 in Cambridge, Mass. They moved from Massachusetts to Idaho in 2005 after retiring. They had four children: Deanna Harris (Scott) of Malden, Mass.; Dana DeJohn (Gerry) of Mountain Home, and Michael Hurley of North Easton, Mass. Their oldest child, Scott, died in 1986...

A local bus company collected thousands of pounds of canned and non-perishable food during a yearly effort aimed at helping less-fortunate families across the community. Marking its first year of service in the Mountain Home area, the Caldwell Bus Company hosted this year's "Stuff the Bus" food drive with its vehicles located at buses at Paul's Market, Albertson's and the Grace Lutheran Food Pantry...

The procedures used to collect fees for new construction in Mountain Home, theoretically to offset infrastructure costs to handle that growth, could see significant changes after the city council tentatively approved an overhaul of those laws last week...