Stories from Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Following their win at this year’s district finals earlier this month, the Lady Tigers from Mountain Home High School’s varsity team faced an uphill battle during this year’s state finals to finish third overall as the season wrapped up last week. Mountain Home’s road to the state tournament began Feb. 12 when the Lady Tigers battled it out against the Lady Tigers from Jerome High School during the district championship game held in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium...

A proposal to expand one of Idaho Power’s local power plants gained people’s attention as they gathered at the local Elks lodge Monday evening during a meeting hosted by Idaho Power. The discussion focused on the Bennett Mountain Power Plant on the city’s north side with details of this meeting scheduled to appear in the March 5 edition of the Mountain Home News...

A portable space heater triggered a fire in a fifth-wheel recreational vehicle that claimed the lives of a woman’s seven pets Feb. 13. According to city fire chief Mark Moore, the fire began inside the trailer that remained parked on a family’s property off South 18th East Street near the Hamilton Road intersection...

A “communication gap” between the mayor of Mountain Home and the city’s elected officials possibly led to misinformation regarding the dual roles involving the community’s military liaison officer, according to the city council’s president. In a meeting with the Mountain Home News, Scott Harjo addressed his concerns involving a video Mayor Rich Sykes recently posted to social media in which he apologized for alleged actions a member of the city council took with regards to Marty Anderson...

As Thomas Wolfe’s famed book clearly states, you can’t go home again. Granted, when he wrote that novel back in the early days of the 20th century, he illustrated how American society had changed so drastically between the economic prosperity of the Roaring ‘20s and the subsequent disaster that followed during the Great Depression...

Dear editor, Water rights are complex, complicated and confusing. The purpose of obtaining a stock water right is to legally secure the right to use a specific amount of water from a source, like a river or stream, solely for the purpose of watering livestock and ensuring access to a reliable water supply, especially in an area where water availability can be limited...

Efforts to restore a chapter of Glenns Ferry’s history continued this week as maintenance crews worked to renovate the community’s historic opera theater building. Water damage and falling plaster in the building’s backstage and cast area over the past several years, along with additional heat loss problems, left this part of the Glenns Ferry Opera Theater in a state of “general ugliness,” theater manager Dorothy Drake said in a post shared on social media...

Step by step, four firefighters from the Mountain Home Fire Department continued to prepare to tackle a yearly challenge as part of an ongoing quest to find a cure for cancer. Elsa Guillen, Tim Schwanke, Bret Young and Nate West will join an estimated group of approximately 2,000 firefighters competing in the 34th Annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb, scheduled for March 9 at the Columbia Center in Seattle...

It seems that farming and agriculture remained a key part of Joel Haas’ youth. Growing up in Sonoma, Calif., north of San Francisco, he grew up in a community roughly the size of Mountain Home that provided him the chance to hone his gardening skills on his family’s half acre of land. While it wasn’t necessarily dedicated farm land, his efforts developed his interest in growing various plants as well as learning more about the various insects that help benefit that land he cared for...