Stories from Wednesday, August 5, 2015

A small town roughly the size of Mountain Home virtually grew overnight in the foothills north of town last week as the community hosted southern Idaho's inaugural country music event. More than 14,000 country music fans from communities spanning southern Idaho joined others from cities across the United States to be a part of the Mountain Home Country Music Festival, which wrapped up Sunday evening...

Despite nearly doubling the population of Mountain Home in just a matter of days, the Mountain Home Country Music Festival remained a mostly uneventful event, according to local law enforcement officials. Traffic remained fairly congested at times as concert goers made the 35-mile trek between Mountain Home to the concert site north of the Pine-Featherville turnoff...

A Mountain Home family escaped injury after an early morning fire caused extensive damage to their residence on Sunday. The fire was reported around 5:40 a.m. that day regarding the house at 465 North 8th East St. For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper's online edition...

Dear editor, A special thanks go out to Brenda Fincher and Brian Orban for the kind words in last week's Mountain Home News. You have been great to work with, as well as Melanie Brown at the Glenns Ferry Gazette and past MHN editor Kelly Everitt. You all have been great to me...

Dear editor, On May 29, 2015, I started a petition to dissolve the Western Elmore County Recreation District. The reason I was driven to do this was due to the fatal accident with four teenagers (two survivors) that frequently visited the Youth Center...

Reenie Burton Burgess, 85 of Las Vegas, Nev., died July 14, 2015, at Heritage Springs nursing home. Reenie was born March 1, 1930, in Italian Canyon, Nev., to Bob Burton and Nora Hall Burton. Reenie was married to Lt. Col. Charles Burgess for many years. She traveled abroad with her husband, Charles, to many interesting countries. Reenie loved the outdoors which included hunting, fishing and trap shooting...