Stories from Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Voters living in the Bruneau Grand View School District will decide the outcome of a $1.4 million supplemental levy during an election March 10. It marks the second time in two years that voters in the rural district have faced a supplemental levy decision, which could determine the immediate future of their school district...

As a legal dispute continues involving the acquisition of hospitals in Mountain Home and other communities by the St. Luke's regional medical center, hospital taxing districts are standing behind the mergers. The Idaho Attorney General's Office and St. Luke's Health System are working to settle a lawsuit involving the health provider's acquisition of rural community hospitals formed with special taxing districts...

A committee of local parents is urging the Mountain Home School District to move forward with plans calling for a plant facility levy later this summer as the district struggles to make urgent repairs to its buildings. During a school board meeting last month, the four-person committee submitted a recommendation calling for a $5 million plant facility levy that would appear on the district's Aug. 19 election ballot...

Retired Chief Warrant Officer Howard Isaac Chitwood (CWO-2), age 88 of Kissimmee, Fla., died Aug. 1, 2014. Mr. Chitwood served 20 years in the USCG at various posts from Annette Island and Eldred Rock, Alaska, to Nantucket Island, Mass. He loved his time in the Coast Guard, especially his years on an 83-foot Coast Guard sub chaser out of New Orleans, La...