Stories from Thursday, November 20, 2014

Mountain Home High School will be hosting an Orange Out Night this Friday night during the Mountain Home Lady Tigers basketball game against Gooding in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. Mountain Home High School Activities Director and Assistant Principal Mark Cotton indicated the Orange Out Night is an offshoot of the school's Black Out Committee...

A partnership between government agencies and YMCAs in other states proves a similar venture can work here, according to information gathered by local officials during a recent fact-finding trip. City representatives and members of the Western Elmore County Recreation District traveled to communities in the Seattle and Tacoma area Oct. 27 and 28 where they visited six YMCA facilities...

Election night for Sherri Ybarra was "exciting," as she waited to find out if she would be the next superintendent of public education for Idaho. "It ranked right up there with getting married and having my son," she said. Ybarra didn't realize initially how close the election was, or that she'd been trailing in the returns over the first few hours of the evening...

The Mountain Home Police increased their presence in the local schools Thursday following a post on the anonymous website Whisper this week vaguely suggesting a gunmen in the schools, but police believe there is no credible threat. According to Police Chief Nick Schilz, the concerns began following a post Tuesday referring to someone at a school, apparently in Mountain Home, with a gun. ...