Stories from Friday, November 11, 2016

Plans to build a water pipeline from the Snake River to Mountain Home Air Force Base continued to move forward last week as the Idaho Water Resource Board met on Thursday. The Idaho Department of Water Resources expects to put out a request for proposal to hire an owner's advisor by January to oversee the project...

City officials are currently accepting applications from individuals interested in joining the community's Develop, Improve, Grow -- It's Time, or DIG-IT committee. "This group of volunteers is continually looking for ways to improve Mountain Home and make it the best community possible," city officials said...

Dedicated, positive, polite and smart... These are some of the adjectives teachers at Mountain Home High School used to describe Pierce Mederios, who was recently selected as the school's student of the month. For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper's online edition...

A stage coach makes its way along the Indian Creek Reservoir area from the Boise Stage Stop west of Mountain Home during a recent historical reenactment. Hosted by High Desert Horses with involvement by the Mountain Home Historical Museum, the Wild West Stage Coach Ride and Dutch Oven Cowboy Luncheon offered participants a chance to see firsthand some of the challenges travelers faced as they crossed through southern Idaho's high desert terrain enroute to an authentic recreation of a western town. ...

Vyonda June Rice Riddle, 91, our beautiful mother (Honey Mama) died Nov. 9, 2016, in Mountain Home. Born June 23, 1925, at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise to Margaret Wagoner Rice and Virgil Rice, she had two sisters, Lois and Virginia, and a brother, Robert. She spent her childhood in Southern Idaho attending Twin Falls High School through her Sophomore year. When her parents divorced, she acquired a wonderful stepfather, George Peck, and four step-siblings...