Stories from Friday, May 14, 2010

The Mountain Home City Council unanimously approved plans to annex 20 acres of land into the city for future use as a community recreation center. In a meeting Monday evening, the council also approved a separate request to rezone the property for commercial use by the Western Elmore County Recreation District...

On April 24, while hiking and climbing at the edge of the Bruneau Canyon, Senior Airman Jake Rodenhaber, 21, of Mountain Home Air Force Base, felt some rocks give way before he fell about 30 feet to a rocky ledge. Then, he slid and tumbled, hitting several more outcroppings before coming to rest. Rodenhaber had fallen 330 feet into the canyon that can be up to 1,200 feet deep in places...

Eighth-grade students at Mountain Home Junior High School were treated to a visit Friday from an AH-64 Apache helicopter. Flown by Idaho Army National Guard members Capt. Thomas Budge, pilot, and Lt. Cameron Ryffel, co-pilot and gunnery officer, the attack helicopter from the 183rd Aviation Battalion landed on the lawn outside the junior high's commons room...

Dear editor: The political season is upon us again and I have been watching things unravel as we get ready to vote on May 25. I, like most people, am trying to decide who to vote for. I know most of all the people running for office or at least are aware of who they are. ...

Dear editor: I refuse to give into the political banter and lambasting that tends to fill the editorials on the forefront of election day. I was raised to search out the facts and make a decision based on facts, not on media or those that claim they know the facts and have studied up...

The Mountain Home Tigers ended up playing Nampa three times last week but managed just one win as they opened the district baseball tournament with a tough loss to the Bulldogs at Bishop Kelly. Tigers 10, Nampa 2 Mountain Home snapped a two-game losing skid last Tuesday with their 10-2 conference win over the Nampa Bulldogs for Senior Night in Mountain Home. The Tigers had 11 hits, eight of them for extra bases, as they jumped out to an 8-0 lead and never looked back...