Stories from Friday, March 25, 2016

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News Four months after they began work to start their own businesses, eight local students met with local business owners to pitch their ideas. A crowd of roughly 80 people watched as the students made their six-minute presentations as part of their next step in the Young Entrepreneurs Academy, or YEA! for short...

The Bureau of Land Management will begin accepting public input next month on an updated environmental impact plan regarding on a large-scale powerline upgrade project that, if approved, would run through Elmore County The BLM will release a supplemental environmental report on the Gateway West Transmission Line Project nearly three years after the agency released what was expected to be its final report...

Looking at refining their skills on the court, five players from Mountain Home High Scool's Lady Tigers basketball team participated in a national training camp earlier this month. Juniors Jacey Carr and Anna Pedroza, sophomore Kylie Meadows, and freshmen Alexis Hiler and Adrie Blanksma were five of the 45 high school campers that took part in the two-day "Attack and Counter" post player program, held at the Suwanee Sports Academy in Marietta, Ga...

Roger Dale Barnhill, age 69 of Mountain Home and formerly of Grand View, passed away on March 25, 2016, at St. Luke's Elmore Long Term Care. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.

Delbert "Bud" O. Decker, age 80 of King Hill, passed away at Poplar Grove Assisted Living in Glenns Ferry on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.