Stories from Friday, September 12, 2014

Mountain Home opened its volleyball season on the road at Mountain View in Meridian and gave the unbeaten 5A Lady Mavericks a battle before losing in four games. Mountain Home started strong with a 25-19 first game win. They dropped the second game, 15-25, almost won the third game, losing 24-26, and dropped the fourth game, 20-25, to lose the match three games to one...

The Mountain Home Tigers cross country teams traveled to Sun Valley Friday for the Wood River Invitational cross country meet at Sage Willow Athletic Center in Elkhorn. The Tiger boys finished sixth in the 3A-4A division, while Mountain Home's girls were seventh...

For the first time in six years, plans to build a large-scale housing development in Mountain Home are gaining momentum. During a meeting Sept. 2, the city's planning and zoning commission forwarded its favorable recommendation regarding plans to build more than 200 homes on the south side of Mountain Home...

Elmore County Sheriff Rick Layher presents the law enforcement Purple Heart to Deputy Allen Long during a ceremony Friday morning. The deputy received the medal for injuries he sustained while responding to the Teapot Dome fire in the summer of 2012. As a result of the injuries he sustained, Long concluded his law enforcement career following 25 years on the force...

A half million dollars in U.S. Department of Transportation "Quick Release" emergency funds will be used to begin repairs of the Middle Fork Boise River Road to Atlanta. The road, considered the only secure road during the winter to the small mountain community in Elmore County, was washed out in early August by flash floods. Other routes to the community, along Edna Creek from Idaho City and over James Creek Summitt from Featherville, often become impassable once snow falls in the mountains...

As temperatures begin to cool and humidity starts to rise area fire managers have ended the fire restrictions imposed earlier this year. The BLM ended the last of the Stage 1 Fire Restrictions in Elmore County last weekend. Similar restrictions in Ada, Canyon, Payette, Gem and Washington counties also were lifted at that time...