Stories from Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The 54th annual Air Force Appreciation Day in Mountain Home -- the community's largest celebration -- kicks off the morning of Sept. 6. The event is designed to honor the men and women stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base and to recognize all uniformed members of the U.S. armed forces...

City officials honored four officers from the Mountain Home Police Department for their efforts to save the life of a critically injured man in late May. On Monday, Mayor Tom Rist presented the city's life-saving awards to Police Cpl. Stan Winings, Police Sgt. Tom Mogolich and Officers Melanie Broughton and Brian Thomas...

The one-year, $600,000 emergency levy for the Bruneau-Grand View School District was approved by the voters Tuesday night with 379 yes votes to 248 no votes. Two previous efforts to pass the levy, earlier this year, had failed, but both of those efforts were for two years at $600,000 each year...

I had waited nearly half a lifetime, and now I was down to the last hour. The pins and needles in my stomach continued to remind me that I was not only nervous and anxious but equally excited. Just a few days earlier, I had flown back to my hometown in northeastern Ohio so I could attend my 30th high school class reunion. It would be the first time I would see most of those individuals since we graduated...