Stories from Friday, September 3, 2010

Students at Richard McKenna Charter High School continued this week to count the amount of energy they've saved as they learn more about their new alternative energy laboratory. During an event witnessed by students and faculty last month, the high school finished a year-long effort to build a wind turbine at their Mountain Home campus...

Members of the Mountain Home Police Department, along with family and friends, paused last week to honor the memory of a former member of the city's police force. Bonzai, one of the department's canine officers, died Aug. 19 after succumbing to complications from old age...

One man's dream of building a beach volleyball court in Mountain Home grew into a grassroots effort aimed at benefiting the entire community. The new volleyball court in Richard Aquirre Park represents "one of the most significant improvements to Mountain Home parks this year... a total volunteer effort that cost the city nothing," said Floyd Beck, who spearheaded the project...

After opening the season with a third-place effort at the Firth Mud Run Jamboree on Aug. 21, the Mountain Home girls breezed to a big win at the Camel's Back Classic Friday at Camel's Back Park in Boise. At the Firth Mud Run, the Mountain Home girls won the award for the muddiest team...

Thomas Lee "Tommy" Parsons, 64, of Mountain Home, passed away on Monday, August 30, 2010 at a Boise hospital. A graveside inurnment was held at 3:00PM on Friday, September 3, 2010 at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Idahoans will pay a premium price for gas this Labor Day holiday. Though AAA expects about a ten percent increase in the number of holiday travelers this year compared to last, motorists are no doubt aware of the disparities between prices in this region and elsewhere in the country. Check out the spread of prices statewide, including the lowest to the highest. Idaho's average price is just shy of $3.00, compared to a national average price that's 31 cents lower...