Stories from Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The Glenns Ferry community paused to honor one person's dedication to the community and the countless hours she's spent in different volunteer roles by selecting her as the city's citizen of the year. Honored during the Glenns Ferry Chamber of Commerce's Installation Banquet on Saturday, Melinda Sterling joined the 57 other individuals that have earned the distinction since 1968...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News The fate of a community recreation center remained in doubt as debate resumed on a possible new direction for the agency overseeing that project during a public meeting last week. The Western Elmore County Recreation District held its first meeting following the resignation of director Mollie Marsh earlier this month, leaving behind directors Art Nelson and Judy Mayne, who were elected to the board in November...

Three years after it opened its doors to help at-risk students in the local area, Bennett Mountain High School expanded its outreach to help those struggling at the junior high school level. The Mountain Home Junior High Intervention Center opened at Bennett Mountain on Jan. 6 with 10 seventh- and eighth-grade students currently enrolled...

Dear editor, Forty three years ago, a very husky and out-of-shape Mountain Home High School student began a part-time job at the studios of KFLI Radio in downtown Mountain Home, Idaho. The studios were located right in the middle of The Sunset Bar and La Mode Cleaner's...

Dear editor, Now it seems to me that the "loudest voices in the room" or the most "extreme voices" are winning, and the taxpayers of the Western Elmore County Recreation District are losing. The new Board Members of the Rec District have seen fit to not only cancel the proposed Rec building across from the Mountain Home Jr. High but to suspend all work and incur a fee of about $14,000 a month paid to the construction company until they make up their minds what to do...

Denise Elaine Fitelson (formerly Nelis) passed away on Jan. 14, 2016. She went to her heavenly Father after succumbing to her battle with liver disease. She was surrounded by family as she passed. Denise was born in Presque Isle, Maine, on Sept. 17, 1957, to Robert and Nadine Fitelson. As a child, she traveled the world with her family (her father in USAF), ending up in Mountain Home, Idaho...