Stories from Tuesday, June 28, 2016

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News A new city-wide pay scale system and funding of local civic groups headlined a list of topics the city council reviewed during a meeting June 13. The meeting started off with a public comment period where residents receive three minutes to address issues they have with the city...

Medical services at St. Luke's Elmore Medical Center in Mountain Home took another step forward this month as work wrapped up on its new magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, suite. Located in the area along North 6th East Street that once served as the hospital's ambulance bay, the suite houses a fixed 1.5 tesla machine...

Thelma E. Howard, age 82 of Mountain Home, passed away on Monday, June 27, 2016, at St. Luke's Elmore Long Term Care Unit, in Mountain Home. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. at the Human Development Center in Owyhee, Nev., on Friday, July 1, 2016, and burial will follow at the New Cemetery, in Owyhee. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

The Elmore County Sheriff's Department has identified a Boise valley man as the individual who died in a rafting accident on the South Fork of the Boise River on Sunday. Richard Arave, 61, was rafting on the river with his son and friends when the raft overturned while attempting to negotiate the rapids at Buffalo Creek approximately 1 1/2 miles upstream from Neal Bridge on Blacks Creek Road. Witnesses reported seeing the overturned raft continue to float down stream but didn't see Arave come up out of the water.