Stories from Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Sarah Trimberger rakes up leaves in the front yard of Gaylene Gries home in the Park Central trailer court during a volunteer clean up effort Saturday morning. A combined team of children, teens and adults braved the morning chill to help local senior citizens by picking up leaves and other debris in their yards during a community service project...

Dear editor: Don't people who have dogs know they should have dog houses for them to go into, when it is cold out -- when they aren't home, to let them in the house or garage. How would they like to be out in the cold weather all day and part of the night? No where to go. To get warm...

We are fortunate to live in a state that produces a wealth of quality agricultural products. To illustrate Idaho's remarkable agriculture production, I have often cited statistics from the Idaho State Department of Agriculture indicating that if Idahoans had to consume all products produced within the state, each resident would need to consume the following each day: 234 slices of bread; forty potatoes; two pounds of cheese or forty-two glasses of milk; one eight-ounce steak or 1.5 quarter-pound burger; two onions; and two cups of beans.. ...

A Mountain Home attorney kept convicted triple-murderer Paul Ezra Rhodes alive for an extra hour last Thursday, after Terry Ratliff, the Elmore County Public Defender, filed a last-minute motion to stay Rhode's execution. For Ratliff, it was purely a matter of procedure, to make sure all the rules had been followed. "The death penalty is qualitatively different than any other penalty," Ratliff noted...

It has become a tradition at the Mountain Home News every Thanksgiving to ask second- and third-grade students in local schools to write stories about how to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner. The newspaper prints the recipes on "How to Cook a Turkey" for our readers' enjoyment just as they were turned in to us, complete with the students' current expertise in spelling and grammar. ...

Bullies and the risks that teens face on the Internet highlighted a series of briefings last week aimed at educating local junior high school students. Hosted by the Mountain Home Police Department and RTI-Rural Telecom, the briefings were aimed at breaking the chain of emotional abuse in addition to educating students about criminal activity targeting them when they go online...

November 16 • 00:11 Vehicle Stop, American Legion Blvd/E2N• 01:22 Suspicious, Hwy 30/Frontage• 02:03 Citizen Assist, Oregon/Arthur• 02:30 Alarm Law, Canyon Crk Rd• 06:25 Intoxicated Subject, MH• 07:33 Vehicle Stop, I-84 WB MM110• 07:58 Animal, I-84 WB MM120• 09:57 Motorist Assist, Slick Ranch Reservoir• 10:57 Animal, Beaman• 11:11 Vehicle Stop, E 1st St• 11:28 Vehicle Stop, E2• 12:48 Animal, I-84 EB MM121• 13:23 Animal, SW Jet Stream• 14:03 Collision, Unknown, I-84 EB MM114• 14:50 Domestic, Glenns Ferry• 16:45 Vehicle Stop, Bennett• 17:30 Traffic, Hwy 51/Beet Dump Rd• 17:51 Motorist Assist, I-84 Exit 125• 19:30 Assist, Glenns Ferry• 20:00 Animal, I-84 WB MM95• 21:15 Warrant, Garfield/Martin• 22:33 Vehicle Stop, E15N/Phelps Cir• 23:10 Vehicle Stop, E12N/N3E• 23:14 Animal, S10E. ...

To better help local residents with questions and issues concerning federal agencies and policies, a representative from Senator Mike Crapo's office will visit Glenns Ferry on Monday, Dec. 5. Bryan Ricker, the senator's regional director, will visit citizens at the Glenns Ferry City Hall, 110 E. 2nd Ave., from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m...