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The mayor of Mountain Home issued a formal apology last week in connection with the actions a member of the city council took regarding the community’s military liaison officer. In a video posted to social media last week, Mayor Rich Sykes addressed the actions the councilmember took with regards to Marty Anderson...

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...

Students from the Richard McKenna charter school district perform a selection of songs as they celebrate the debut of the district’s newly formed orchestra during a concert held in late January. Featuring students from fourth to twelfth grade, the band formed at the start of the new school year after the district received a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts...

Members from Mountain Home’s Black History Committee invite others in the local community to come together to reflect on love and unity in Black history during a banquet scheduled for Friday evening. Celebrating its 37th anniversary in Mountain Home, the semi-formal event begins with social hour at 6:30 p.m. that evening at the Mountain Home Elks Lodge, 325 South 3rd West St., with dinner set to follow at 7:15 p.m...

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...

Recognizing their contributions to Mountain Home and communities across Elmore County during the last three months of 2024, officials with the county sheriff’s department named four of its employees as its quarterly award winners. The sheriff’s department named Reserve Deputy Clayton Brown as the recipient of the department’s top patrol officer honor with Vicki Parrish as the recipient of its emergency communications officer and dispatch title...

City police continued their investigation into ongoing incidents of vandalism targeting local businesses and other buildings in the local area. The latest report involved the Mountain Home Rural Fire Department building at the corner of South Main and East 6th South streets in which at least one suspect used spray paint to vandalize the doors of the building last week...

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...

Sometimes, I end up discovering things in ways I never saw coming. While some of those discoveries leave me feeling either happy or sad, there were other moments in my life where I found myself caught completely off guard as I started looking deeper into what I had discovered...

The talents of local musicians took the stage last month as the Mountain Home Arts Council hosted its second concert of the new year. Directed by Betty Ashcraft, the “Music the American Way” event included more than a dozen soloists and groups featuring a variety of music that included classic American rock ‘n’ roll from the 1950s to the early 1980s, all of whom donated their time and talent to support the local arts council...

In early December, outgoing President Joe Biden took action to essentially forgive his own son for a series of federal crimes he personally committed or took part in committing over the past 10 years. However, instead of holding his own son accountable for his actions, the president chose to give Hunter Biden a full pardon before he leaves office on Jan. 20...

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, I sent this message to our U.S. senators and representatives. To me, it seems to be a good way to help the folks who rely on tips to receive a fair amount of their income from these tips. I am writing to ask you to help pass legislation that will stop the IRS from taxing the tips that I give to people who wait on me in my local coffee shop and not a Starbucks’ or large chain business. ...

Yon Ae (Mi Jin) Jackson, age 67, of Mountain Home passed away on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, in Boise from heart failure. She was surrounded by family and close friends, including her dedicated husband of 36 years, Richard Jackson, and daughter Jennifer Jackson as she left this earth to be with her Heavenly Father. A memorial service will be held at the All-In Church on Friday, February 10, 2023, at 10:30 A.M. Cremation is under the care of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...