Stories from Saturday, January 16, 2016

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News County commissioners reached a possible agreement Friday afternoon regarding a contract with the company that runs the regional landfill on Simco Road. Negotiations between the county and Idaho Waste Systems and its CEO Jack Yarbrough have continued over the past several weeks after a fire closed the site in November...

Students from the Mountain Home area put their basketball sharpshooting skills to the test on Saturday during this year's hoop shoot competition. Hosted by Mountain Home Elks Lodge 2276, the competition required participants to sink free-throws baskets with the hoop distance shortened for younger participants...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News A rancher from Hailey gained permission to use his ranch in eastern Elmore County to land his private aircraft following approval of a conditional use permit by the county commissioners last week. Chris Stephens, owner of the "S Bar Ranch," built a decomposed granite landing field on his property, located off Hill City Road near the southwestern part of Camas Prairie last summer...

Homeowners who qualify have until mid-April to apply for two different programs that can help with their property taxes. To qualify for the 2016 Property Tax Reduction Program, homeowners must be widowed, disabled or 65 years of age or older (as of Jan. 1, 2016)...