Stories from Thursday, July 21, 2016

A Mountain Home man linked to an arson case that caused significant damage to the Day Meadows Apartment complex back in October 2014, was sentenced to five years in prison during a recent hearing. Storm Woodin will spend a minimum on one year in confinement for his role in the apartment fire after he pled guilty to harboring and protecting a person who committed a felony back in April...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News County officials announced Tuesday morning that a recall petition seeking to unseat Art Nelson and Judy Mayne as directors of the Western Elmore County Recreation District didn't have enough validated signatures. On April 18, former recreation district secretary Betty Ashcraft filed two sets of paperwork with county officials to recall Nelson and Mayne...

Fourteen wrestlers from Mountain Home went undefeated and took home the championship title following their recent appearance at the Northern Idaho Wrestling Camp. Held at the University of Idaho in Coeur d'Alene, this marked the fourth consecutive year that Mountain Home has attended the camp, which included 16 schools from Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington...

Leonard Lee Bartlett, age 86 of Sammamish, Wash., and formerly of Mountain Home, passed away on July 20, 2016, in Issaquah, Wash. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 23, 2016, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Burial with military honors will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...

City officials are warning local residents regarding a scam that surfaced in the Mountain Home area on Thursday. Local businesses are being contacted by an individual claiming they are selling ads for what is being describing as the School House Folders for East Elementary School...