Stories from Wednesday, August 1, 2012

After years of planning, an initiative to build a new animal shelter in Mountain Home has taken another step forward. During a meeting before the city council July 23, city police and animal control officials outlined the latest in a series of design revisions aimed at keeping the project within its set budget...

An ongoing effort to build a community recreation center in Mountain Home will require $600,000 in donations before construction can start, according to preliminary findings from a report that went public last week. The draft version of the study comes nearly three months after a consulting firm based out of Eugene, Ore., conducted a survey regarding the feasibility to build this type of facility here...

A three-day music festival scheduled to start last Friday evening at a new event center in Oasis was shut down by county officials just as the concert was set to start. Sheriff Rick Layher confirmed that deputies shut down the music venue known as Neon Oasis, which had planned to use the Oasis Event Center for the concert...

For the fourth consecutive year, city leaders expect no major changes in spending as they proposed a $22.5 million budget for the next fiscal year. A public hearing on the fiscal 2013 budget will begin at 6 p.m. Aug. 13 at the city council chambers on South 3rd East Street next to city hall...

Merle and Joyce Young of Mountain Home will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 5. The couple were married in Hunter, Okla., in 1962 The couple have two children, Cheryl Anderson of Anchorage, Alaska, and Michael Young of Mountain Home. They also have five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren...

Dear editor: A group of local residents and taxpayers have met on two occasions recently to address some of their concerns regarding the future of Glenns Ferry. These meetings were advertised by flyers and word of mouth and were open to anyone who cared to attend and exchange ideas, and were exempt from the open meeting laws...

Vance Baldwin, 52, of Boise and Pine, was taken from us suddenly on Friday, July 27, 2012, during an afternoon of being in the great outdoors. A Boise memorial service will be held on Friday, Aug. 3, at 2 p.m. at Fire Station #14, located at 2515 S. Five Mile Road...

Arson is suspected in a range fire that broke out Tuesday afternoon near a newly built community event center in Oasis. Members of the Oasis Rural Fire District responded to the blaze at the Oasis Event Center around 2:30 p.m. and were able to contain the blaze within 30 minutes, said district fire chief Bob Ruth...