Stories from Thursday, September 16, 2010

Mountain Home High School will celebrate homecoming week next week, concluding Sept. 24 with the homecoming assembly, parade, game against Middleton and crowning of the queen. Homecoming's festivities will conclude with the homecoming dance in the junior high school gym...

A Tipanuk man faces up to 20 years in prison for felony drug possession and trafficking following sentencing in Fourth District Court last month. As part of an earlier plea agreement, Albino G. Pedroza received a total determinate time of six years in prison with an indeterminate time of 14 additional years, along with a $10,000 fine...

A Wendell man will return to magistrate court Nov. 19 to face four counts of felony vehicular manslaughter for his role in a fatal car crash. Eusebio J. Pineda stands accused of causing the head-on collision near Glenns Ferry that killed four members of a California family Aug. 12...

Two Mountain Home residents filed their paperwork two weeks ago to run for one of two seats on the Western Elmore County Recreation District board of directors. Judy Mayne challenges board president Marsha Sellers in the District 1 race during the Nov. 2 elections while Art Nelson takes on Jana Borgholthaus for its District 2 seat...

Recently, Idaho Governor Butch Otter lauded the health care and hospital sectors as drivers of Idaho's economy. When considering the impacts community hospitals have on Idaho's cities and towns, it's recognition that's well deserved. As one of the state's largest economic sectors, community hospitals employ a significant number of Idahoans...

Back-to-back interceptions allowed the Timberline Wolves to break open a close ball game with 27 third-quarter points to pull away from the Mountain Home Tigers during a 33-13 win Thursday evening at Bronco Stadium in Boise. Timberline was the first to get on the scoreboard, going 65 yards in eight plays on their second possession, including a 48-yard pass play...

The Idaho Library Association Book Award Committee has chosen its selection for the 2009 Book of the Year Award. The Book Award winner for 2009 is God's Dogs: a Novel in Stories by Mitch Wieland. God's Dogs is published by Southern Methodist University Press...

The Mountain Home Ranger District plans on igniting several prescribed burns this fall and could begin as early as the week of September 27, 2010 and continuing through the end of November. If weather conditions are favorable, burns will take place in the Trinity Creek, Cottonwood Creek and Parks Creek areas...

A GED and basic skills improvement class will soon be available for residents of Mountain Home and the surrounding area who are 16 or older and no longer enrolled in public school. The class, sponsored by College of Western Idaho Adult Basic Education and Richard McKenna Charter High School, will be held at Richard McKenna at 675 S. ...

Two small fires broke out in Elmore County Thursday. A small grass fire on U.S. 20 at milepost 127 between Glenn's Ferry Road and Louse Creek Road was quickly put out by BLM crews. The fire reduced visibility across the road until it was extinguished...

Retired Captain Duane Edmond Falske, 88, of Mountain Home, passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, at a local care center in Boise. A viewing will be held on Sunday, Sept. 19, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Funeral services will be held on Monday, Sept. ...