Stories from Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Wesley (Wes) R. Wootan has announced his candidacy for the District 2 Elmore County Commissioner. He will challenge incumbent Larry Rose in the May 25 Republican primary. "After being asked to run, I finally gave the idea serious thought," Wootan said of his decision to run to the position of Elmore County commissioner. ...

The Mountain Home School District will seek voter approval for a $2.8 million supplemental levy in an effort to eliminate the district's projected funding shortfall. The formal decision will be made at a special school board meeting Thursday, April 22. The earliest the board could legally hold the election is May 27, two days after the primary election, but it may push the vote into early June...

Efforts to create a grant program to fund youth sports programs in western Elmore County moved another step forward following the creation of a committee responsible for overseeing the initiative. During a 90-minute meeting April 14, representatives with the Let's Play Committee met for the first time to finalize the grant initiative and nominate its three-person board...

Like many school districts around the state, the Mountain Home School District is facing a serious financial crisis. Because the legislature didn't have the guts to do it, a temporary supplemental levy tax increase is being requested by the school board to tide them over through the crisis. The legislature threw the burden onto local taxpayers...

Rachael and Mike Jacobsen of Mountain Home have announced the upcoming wedding of their daughter, Amanda Jacobsen, to Patrick Stone, son of Tim and Starla Boyenger of Horseshoe Bend. Amanda is a 2006 graduate of Mountain Home High School. Patrick is a 2002 graduate of Horseshoe Bend High School...

For the past 29 years, Kayla Parsons has dealt with pretty much every major crisis and oddball question imaginable. It comes with the job. As manager of Elmore County's public safety answering point -- known locally as the area's dispatch office -- her life is focused on emergencies, regardless of how big they get or how small they remain. Each time the phone rings, she never knows if she'll deal with a routine call or a person in peril...

April 14 • 02:14 Vehicle Stop, MH• 07:50 Hazard, I-84 WB MM120• 08:06 Break-In, MH• 11:11 Found Property, MH• 11:23 Juvenile Probation, Glenns Ferry• 12:56 Traffic, MH• 13:16 Hazard, Hwy 51• 13:52 Vehicle Stop, Hwy 20• 15:44 Medical, MH• 16:06 Hazard, I-84 EB MM76• 16:50 Break-In, Pine• 21:25 Assist• 23:55 Vehicle Stop, I-84 Exit 99...