Stories from Wednesday, August 26, 2009

A Mountain Home man has been arrested after he allegedly drove a 2008 Dodge pickup into a house at 570 Teton Drive at about 2:10 a.m. Saturday morning. Christopher Elliot, 23, was charged with felony joyriding, leaving the scene of an accident and suspicion of DUI after he was arrested on Daniels Road later that night about a half a mile away from the scene of the incident...

Despite fewer students in the Mountain Home School District, hallways remained heavily congested at many of the city's schools as new and returning students adjusted to their first day of school Monday morning. As part of a plan unveiled during the previous school year, the district moved ninth graders to the high school, adjusted the junior high school to accommodate seventh and eighth graders, and kept fifth and sixth graders at Hacker Middle School...

Roger and Karen Law of Mountain Home have announced the engagement and forthcoming wedding of the daughter, Bethany, to Eric Smith, son of Kenneth and Maralee Smith of Mountain Home. Bethany and Eric both graduated from Mountain Home High School in 2006...

It's not a good sign that virtually all of the opponents running against Afghan president Hamid Karzai are alleging widespread voter fraud. Beyond protecting the citizens of Afghanistan who tried to go to the polls last week, the United States and its allies tried to stay out of the process itself. Maybe we should have been a little more involved in ensuring the integrity of the ballot boxes, themselves...

Dear editor: I always enjoy your editorials and read them first thing. You are a very good newspaper reporter. We are lucky to have you. You must have good people working with you also. Your Aug. 19 notebook titled "Objective news reporting is a dying art' was especially good. I have noticed we had lost that...

Dear editor: Okay. I am not the smartest person on the face of the earth but I have enough sense to know when we are being sold a bill of goods by people who say over and over again that they are "going to fulfil a mandate." What that really means is that "we are going to do what we want regardless of public opinion because we can and there is nothing anybody can do."...

Dear editor: Last winter when my husband slipped and fell on the ice and broke his ankle and no one stopped to help, I lost my faith in human kindness. But now my faith has been restored. On Aug. 9 my husband, son, grandson and my son's friend went up to Trinity Mountain on their ATV's. On the way down my grandson hit a rut in the road and went over the side of the mountain on his ATV. He was smart enough to bail off, but he slid down the mountain, hit a boulder and broke his leg...

Dear editor: Remember the guy in the suit? Well, he's back in the commissioners' office and states: There are a few I neglected to mention when I was here last. 1. You will need to secure a large tax increase to your county citizens for the needs of my private endeavor...

Dear editor: I live in Elmore County. I am expecting my second child, but neither me nor my husband can find work. My husband and I moved to Elmore County four years ago, then we moved to Nampa, but he lost his job there and we've moved back to Elmore County...

Dear editor: I have lived in Elmore County for six years. During that time, I've seen significant economic decline, especially in the downtowns of Mountain Home and Glenns Ferry. I just don't understand why the Elmore County Commission sits on their hands and can't decide this economic opportunity of the nuclear power plant...

The sounds of Mississippi Delta Blues filled the air last Saturday as Optimist Park hosted the third annual Great Basin Blues Festival, presented by Lone River Productions and Ratliff Law Offices. Fans from all over Idaho flocked to the park to check out their favorite artists and listen to some vintage blues music...