Stories from Wednesday, February 17, 2016

In a press release Monday afternoon, Albertsons Companies announced plans to enter into an agreement to purchase the Paul's Market chain, which includes closing the store in Mountain Home. As a part of the transaction, Albertsons will acquire and rebrand the Paul's Market stores in Homedale, Kuna, Boise and McCall while closing two others in Caldwell and Nampa...

St. Luke's Elmore Medical Center in Mountain Home will return to the local hospital taxing district as part of a settlement that resolves an investigation from the Idaho attorney general's office involving St. Luke's Health System in the Treasure Valley...

People in communities like Mountain Home have a moral obligation to serve as role models and guide children into positive directions, according to a city councilwoman from Tacoma, Wash., who spoke at a yearly gathering here on Friday. Victoria Woodards focused on these and other issues during the 27th Annual Black History Banquet, which also allowed those in attendance to pause and reflect on more than a century of African American life, history and culture...

Don and Judy Dow of Mountain Home will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Feb. 26. The couple married on Feb. 26, 1966, in Quanah, Kan. Following their wedding, the coupled traveled to communities around the world due to Don's service with the U.S. Air Force...