Stories from Wednesday, July 27, 2011

This article is the second in a series prepared by Hiler that will focus on the background of several parks located in Mountain Home. The fog of an early autumn dawn blanketed the city of Mont Blainville, France, the morning of Sept. 26, 1918. It was so far away from home for people like Carl Miller, who lay restlessly as he absorbed the quiet that followed a three-hour artillery bombardment...

Mountain Home's 2011 Summer Concert Series continues Thursday evening in Carl Miller Park featuring the jazz sounds of The B-3 Side. Free and open to the public, the concert runs from 6 to 8 p.m. and marks the third performance of this year's season. Those attending the concert are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets...

From left, Ron "Elwood" Minegar and Bob "Jake" Kohnke belt out the theme from the classic TV show Rawhide during the Blues Brothers Rock 'n Soul Revue concert Friday evening at Carl Miller Park. Recreating the classic sounds from the '80s movie, the band returned to Mountain Home last week after their previous "mission from God" -- to quote the classic film -- was cancelled due to an act of God that came in the form of a thunderstorm...

Aiming to help local shops attract new customers and increase their sales, the city's economic development office will hold a free workshop today, July 27, for those businesses owners. Scheduled to run from 6 to 7 p.m. at the city library, this seminar emphasizes nine considerations on how and when to use social media outlets, according to event organizers...

Workers with Union Pacific Railroad rolled through Mountain Home last week as part of a multi-million dollar project to upgrade the company's existing rail lines across southern Idaho. Mountain Home in one of several communities benefitting from the corporation's $23.1 transportation infrastructure project, which runs from here to Weiser and from Pocatello to Idaho Falls to the east...

The Mountain Home School District is one of 75 of the 115 school districts in the state listed in a 600-page complaint by the federal Civil Rights Office in Seattle alleging violations of the Title IX program. School district officials, many of whom were on vacation last week when the complaint was announced, said they did not believe a follow-up investigation will show there is any merit to the allegations...

Former police chief Tom Berry was arrested Saturday night on two misdemeanor charges of domestic violence/battery and malicious injury to property, following an argument with his girlfriend at his home. Berry resigned as police chief nearly five years ago...

Laura Lee Ekosky of Canada and Rick Lynn Bohling of Featherville, along with their families, have announced their engagement. Laura is the daughter of Margo Beasley of Mountain Home and the stepdaughter of the late Ira Beasley. She is self employed...

The U.S. Forest Service's Mountain Home District opened several recreation sites in the high elevation Trinity Mountain area this week that had remained closed due to late melting heavy snow fields. Open sites include Big Roaring Campground, Little Roaring Campground, Big Trinity Campground, and Little Trinity Picnic Area along with the rental cabin...