Stories from Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Susana Gomez, of Mountain Home, and JR Cardenas, of Homedale, were united in marriage July 5, 2014, in the Legacy Park Rose Garden in Mountain Home, with Pastor Debbie Hodgerson officiating. The bride is the daughter of Dora Rios of Mountain Home and the granddaughter of Juan and Maria Rios...

With public bus services in Mountain Home facing cuts starting Monday, a last-minute funding request submitted to the county commissioners was not expected to move forward. "I don't think we have the money this year," said Commissioner Al Hofer. Earlier this month, the Treasure Valley bus company approached the commissioners with the $25,000 budget request. The money would've tied in with additional subsidies from Mountain Home for the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1...

Registration for the 2014 to 2015 school year in the Mountain Home School District begins with online signups this Friday, Aug. 1, and with in-person registration following at most district schools on Tuesday. Schools will open from 8 a.m. to noon and 1-4 p.m. for in-person registration, although the district encourages parents to register returning students using the online option...

Providing alternative education for teens in the local community, Richard McKenna Charter High School continued this week to register students for the new academic year. Classes at its campus, located at 675 South Haskett St., are scheduled to start Monday, Aug. 4...

Dear editor: The Western Elmore County Recreation District (WECRD) has been taxing the people of this community for 13 years now under the premise of building a community center. A community center that we have been taxed for and that many will also have to pay to join -- in addition to being taxed for! The WECRD has taken in, through taxes, over $4.2 million since 2001. That is a HUGE sum of money for an invisible building and nearly non-existent funding of youth programs through the WECRD...

Dear editor: I would like to thank the folks who were willing to put the time, thought and support into controlling fire starts off the interstate. For years, efforts have been made to turn the I-84 corridor into a grass savannah. Hundreds of thousands of dollars and many hours were spent on this task. Success was achieved. Grass was grown. But with nothing to harvest it but fire, this corridor became the greatest concentration of human-caused fire in the nation...

Embattled Idaho GOP party chairman Barry Peterson has been stripped of the office he contended he continues to hold. Fifth District Judge Randy Stoker ruled Tuesday that Peterson's term of office ended a month ago when the fractious state Republican Convention failed to elect a new chairman. Peterson had contended that failure to replace him meant he continued in office...

Paul E. Palmer, Sr., 95 of Mountain Home, passed away on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at a Mountain Home care center. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.