Stories from Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A recent renovation project at the Mountain Home Airport paved the way for new types of aircraft to use the city's airfield. Upgrades to a long-unused underground fuel storage tank will allow the airport to start carrying jet fuel in addition to standard fuel used by the propeller-driven aircraft based there...

Classes in the Mountain Home School District will get underway next Tuesday, Aug. 17. Elementary registration was held last week with the remaining schools in the district conducting registration this week. All registration activities will be held from 8 a.m. ...

The annual Air Force Appreciation Day Run and Walk will be held the Friday before AFAD, on Sept. 10, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Carl Miller Park. The cost to participate is $20 per person for all entries postmarked by Aug. 25 or hand-delivered to the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce office by 5 p.m. on Aug. 31. Late entries will be charged $25. Race packets can be picked up on Sept. 10 from 4-6 p.m. at Carl Miller Park...

The company backing an initiative to build a nuclear power plant in southern Idaho halted its plans to construct a generating facility in Elmore County. In a letter sent to the county commissioners Tuesday morning, Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. withdrew its application to rezone 1,280 acres of agricultural land near the city of Hammett for use as a heavy industrial zone...

It took Helen Peters a few minutes to get the musical instrument to play. Her frail hands glided gently over the spinning glass bowls as her teacher helped adjust her finger pressure -- not too hard; not too soft. A smile of delight washed across her face as she finally got the elusive deep note to resonate from the glass. For Peters, the lesson taught by William Zeitler also illustrated just how challenging it is to make such an instrument work...