Stories from Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Mountain Home police have identified two teenage suspects in connection with vandalism involving two local schools last week. City police prepared charges against both high school-age individuals, whose names were withheld by authorities. Mountain Home police spokesperson Officer Melanie Broughton said both .....

Some overcame personal and emotional struggles. Others were working full time to support their families. At least one had survived their fight against cancer. On Thursday evening, each of them stepped forward to cross the stage to accept their diplomas as graduates from Bennett Mountain High School...

Dear editor, On May 1, 2016, my family was going down the freeway on our way home from Boise to Arco. At Exit 90, we had a rear tire explode and sent our vehicle into a roll into the median. I think we rolled about five times. I was knocked unconscious. My husband was driving, and my 17-year-old son was a back seat passenger with our small dog. We lost our dog in the crash. He was ejected from the car during the rollover and ran off only to get run over by a passing car...

Dear editor, I would like to thank the community of Mountain Home for renewing the Mountain Home School District supplemental levy on May 17. Thank you to all of you for continuing to support the school district and for supporting the students in our fine community. Mountain Home is truly an amazing place...

The members of the Mountain Home Fire Department would like to thank Ron Thompson of Thompson Electric for his long and continued support of our department. For as many years back as we can remember, Ron each year has brought in donations of leather gloves, bandanas and cases of water and Gatorade. As Ron retires his contributions will stop, but we will not forget what he has done for us though out the years...

FYI: A hardcopy of this entire story can be found at your local American Legion Post, the Elks Lodge, chamber of commerce and in Mountain Home News office as well as various other retail stores in town. The sound of "Taps" echoed across the flag-marked gravestones in Mountain Home, Pine and Prairie as hundreds of people gathered to remember America's fallen veterans during local Memorial Day observances...

A man was safely recovered from the South Fork of the Boise River following a rafting accident between Prairie and Neal Bridge on May 31. Bradley Chatlin, 48, was floating with a friend down the river when they ran into the rapids where Buffalo Creek and the South Fork meet.