Stories from Friday, August 19, 2016

With its second year under its belt, the Mountain Home Country Music Festival benefitted some local area businesses while others saw fewer customers and lower sales over that weekend, according to officials that oversee economic development for Mountain Home and Elmore County...

Home prices in Mountain Home and across Elmore County remained on the rise earlier this year while the demand for houses in the local area indicated continued recovery following the housing market collapse eight years ago. According to information from the Elmore County Board of Realtors last week, the average price of a single-family home from January to March stood at more than $133,291...

With hunters seeing excellent success last year as deer and elk populations remain strong, Idaho's fall hunting season is expected to be one of the best in many years, according to an official with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. This year's season comes on the heels of an all-time record white-tailed deer harvest in 2015 and the highest harvests in more than a decade for mule deer and elk, said Roger Phillips, public information specialist with the state agency...

Willard Weston May passed away peacefully on Aug. 16, 2016, in Jerome, Idaho, surrounded by family. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 22, 2016, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, and burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...

Hunter T. Lehman, age 23 of Glenns Ferry, died on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016. A viewing was on Aug. 12, 2016, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. A funeral Mass was on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Mountain Home, and burial followed at Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry...

Mary L. Christophersen (Shrum), 88 of Glenns Ferry, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise. A rosary will be held at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home on Monday, Aug. 29, at 6 p.m. A funeral service will be held at Our Lady of Limerick Catholic Church in Glenns Ferry on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at 11 a.m. with Father Jerry Funke presiding...