Stories from Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Mountain Home School District Superintendent James Gilbert checks on the progress of a science project conducted by Alex Aiken, Laura Lee Kuikendall, Nicholas McAvly and Carlos Barroso during a lesson in Ginger Vogt's sixth grade classroom at Hacker Middle School on March 23. The district superintendent led the science lesson as part of an orientation visit to the school. It was one in a series of visits Gilbert conducted in other district schools...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News The Western Elmore County Recreation District board of directors met twice over a 14-day period during the latter part of March to conduct district business. The board of director's main topic of discussion and business revolved around donating money to local community groups to either create or enhance recreation programs...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News Local businessman Jim Carrie has planned to turn a 65-acre plot of land into a 53 home subdivision located just northwest of Mountain Home for more than 1 1/2 years. Those plans stalled due, in part, to a county mandated minimum lot size and community well water requirements on the development...

People in Mountain Home and Glenns Ferry will have opportunities to meet candidates running for political office during a pair of political forums scheduled for this month. The Mountain Home Senior Center hosts a political candidate forum at 6:30 p.m. April 13. Candidates for state legislative District 23 as well as county commissioner, sheriff and prosecuting attorney were invited to attend...

Dear editor, I have driven a Toyota Prius since 2010 and have continually received great gas mileage -- around 50 miles per gallon. When I last renewed my Idaho license plates in 2014, the cost was $85.50 for two years. I recently received my Idaho license plate renewal notice in the mail and was surprised to see that it will cost me $256 to renew my Idaho license plate for two years. ...

Dear editor, We're right back at it! After a period of time, our memory seems to slip. Not all that many months ago, a investigation had proven our local fuel stations had been gouging compared to everyone in surrounding communities. Well Mountain Homies, here we go again. While traveling this past weekend, I soon discovered a fairly big disparity in Diesel...

Dear editor, As a once proud Republican, it grieves me it's no longer the party of Reagan. Mitt Romney. Are you kidding me? The guy who couldn't beat a sorry president with a sorrier first term, and he's out there banging on Trump & Cruz? It was RINO's like Romney, with McConnell, Boehner, McCain, Ryan and the rest of their mainstream buddies who CREATED this primary situation...

A Mountain Home man remains hospitalized after being struck by a truck at the intersection of South Haskett Street and Airbase Road around 11 a.m. Wednesday. According to initial information released by the Idaho State Police, the individual was waiting at the crosswalk to get across Airbase Road when a semi truck in the right lane slowed to let the individual proceed into the intersection...