Stories from Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Recognizing his contributions to the Mountain Home community, officials with the city police department took time last week to recognize its top performer of 2024. During a ceremony held Jan. 27 at city hall, Mountain Home Police Chief Jon Thompson recognized Police Sgt. Jake Dudley as the department's law enforcement officer of the year...

The impact of future housing developments on the city’s wastewater system highlighted a series of discussions the city council addressed during a scheduled meeting Jan. 28. The council meeting began as members from the city fire department packed into the council chambers to officially celebrate the retirement of firefighter Gary Fletcher. ...

A Mountain Home woman faces up to 10 years in prison along with additional punishments in connection with her infant child’s death two years ago. During a district court hearing at the Elmore County Courthouse on Jan. 17, the jury found Tera Hathaway guilty on two counts of injury to a child...

Chris DeVore dons a helmet featuring a makeshift basketball hoop as Marcus Wilson prepares to present a sense of magic at the Glenns Ferry Opera Theater during its Winter Comedy Night on Jan. 24. The show featuring Wilson and comedian Dan Paulus raised $9,200 with opera theater officials planning to use that money to support a parapet restoration project aimed at restoring the theater building to its 1914 grandeur...

When my family and I moved to Mountain Home back in 2006 after I received orders to serve at the local Air Force base, the one thing that seemed to annoy me involved the naysayers in this community who repeatedly shouted there was nothing to do in this town. I lost count how many times I saw them spread this message on social media and other online resources...

Dear editor, “It is a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” In the book “1984,” George Orwell’s character, Syme, makes this comment when describing his employers, the misnomered Ministry of Truth, justification for the debasement of the English language. For the Ministry of Truth, English is far too complex. The ambiguities and subtleties of language are cumbersome obstacles to the Ministry’s primary objective of propping up a totalitarian government...

Dear editor, What’s happening with our city? First, from the Jan. 15, 2025, issue of the Mountain Home News, it was reported that “city crews failed to complete and submit a scheduled inventory of the city’s water service line,” thus causing a water advisory to be declared. In the Jan 22, 2025 issue, it was reported that a “failed yearly payment” between the county and the city may cause the city to lose its dispatch service – a cooperative agreement between the city and county...

City firefighters continued their investigation into the cause of a fire that damaged a home on Beaman Road north of Mountain Home on Jan. 29. City firefighters were dispatched to the home, located near the intersection of North 18th Street at 3:55 a.m. after a member of the home woke up and noticed something was wrong and immediately alerted others living there, said city fire chief Mark Moore...

Patrick Courtin and Nico Rhodes get into character as they prepare to entertain the audience as they presented the “Piano Heist” concert Thursday evening. Held at the Mountain Home Church of the Nazarene, the musical comedy show highlighted various forms of music representing the greatest composers, songwriters and performers of the past 300 years, members of the arts council said...

Title Mountain Home and Bruneau Nonprofits invited to Apply for Youth in Philanthropy Grants Mountain Home, Idaho — The Idaho Community Foundation is proud to announce that applications are now open for the 2025 Idaho Youth in Philanthropy Project (YIPP). Nonprofit organizations serving Bruneau and/or Mountain Home are encouraged to apply for grant funding of up to $2,000. The deadline to apply is March 7, 2025...