Stories from Friday, July 1, 2016

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News Last Tuesday, the Mountain Home School District board approved its 2017 fiscal year budget during a public hearing. No one from the public chose to speak during the meeting although there were about eight residents in attendance...

Four high school girls from the Mountain Home area received a first-hand look at the government process following their participation in this year's Girls State event, sponsored each year by American Legion Auxiliary Elmore Unit 26. Held from June 12 to 17 at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, the citizenship event gives these students the opportunity to work together as self-governing citizens while they are introduced to their duties, rights privileges and responsibilities of American citizenship, so they can understand and participate in the functions of government, auxiliary officials said. ...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News With an influx of new people and a promise to make the Elmore County Fair a yearly event to remember, members of the fair board organized a pre-fair kick-off parade planned for July 9 through the streets of Mountain Home...

Stanley Grant Cole, age 85 of Bruneau, passed away at his home, on Wednesday, June 29, 2016. A celebration of his life potluck will be held at Black Sands Resort at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, 2016. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home...

Richard Crabill Roller, age 66 of Mountain Home, passed away on Wednesday, June 29, 2016, at Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.