Stories from Friday, January 28, 2011

When he became the Elmore County sheriff more than 20 years ago, Rick Layher accepted the fact that not every emergency was within easy reach. On a given day, his deputies could respond to an emergency on the southern edge of the county then head north into the mountains for another...

Elmore Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors has named Connie Cruser to assume the position as Foundation Board President. Cruser replaces Larry Ashcraft. Ashcraft was elected president of the EMC Foundation Board when the foundation was started in 2001 and has served in that role for ten years...

Art students at Mountain Home High School pulled their creative energies together in recent weeks to promote efforts aimed at finding a cure for cancer. During their community outreach project, members of the school's Artopia Club used an assortment of art mediums to decorate dozens of white paper bags for use during the upcoming Relay for Life rally in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Tigers picked up a conference dual win at Middleton last Thursday night, and finished fifth at the Parma Tournament over the weekend. Tigers 48, Vikings 35 The Tigers went to Middleton last Thursday and came away with a 48-35 conference dual match win over the Vikings...

Mountain Home Air Force Base will join a growing list of military installations seeking to transfer ownership of their on-base housing to private contractors. Community and business leaders in Mountain Home and across the Treasure Valley will get their first look at the initiative during a meeting the morning of Feb. 2 on base...

Emma "Emmy" Maria Elston passed away on Jan. 23, 2011, at a Nampa care center. A viewing was held on Thursday, Jan. 27, from 4-6 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. A private graveside service was held at Mountain View Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30, at the Kingdom Hall Church in Mountain Home...

Jacqueline ( Jackie ) Nulle 62 passed away Wednesday 1-26-2011, at Dell Webb Hospital Surprise, Arizona. There will be no service at this time, a memorial will be held in Mountain Home at a later date. She was born to Flo and Nathaniel Black in Enfield, England, 8-3-1948. She had two children from her first marriage, a Son Martin Ruffell and a Daughter Tina Ruffell. She met and Married Otto W Nulle, in 1979, they had a son Paul W Nulle...

Nine livestock animals owned by an Oasis couple were seized by state agriculture department representatives Friday afternoon. Deputies with the Elmore County Sheriffs Department, in cooperation with a state veterinary investigator, served a search warrant at 13542 West Tilli Road around 11:20 a.m. to take custody of the seven horses and two donkeys...

IPTV will replace a missing mascot in Diane Murphy's kindergarten class at North Elementary School.

Officers with the Mountain Home Police Department launched an investigation Friday morning regarding an string of vandalism cases involving damaged vehicles across the city. The police department received 25 calls involving broken vehicle windows that apparently happened overnight, said Police Sgt. Rick Viola, a department spokesman...