Stories from Monday, April 17, 2017

Members of the Elmore County Extrication Team work to remove the passenger side door of a mini van to free the woman trapped inside as emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of North 2nd East Street and American Legion Boulevard on Monday. ...

Lions Club District Governor Dennis Burks and Mountain Home Lions Club President Bob Ebbs join Mayor Rich Sykes and city hall staff members as he prepares to sign a proclamation making 2017 the Year of the Lions in Mountain Home. The proclamation comes as the national organization prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Since it was charted in 1969, the Lions Club in Idaho has distributed more than 65,000 pairs of glasses and provided vision screenings for more than 30,000 students...

William "Bill, Chip" E. Hunnicutt Jr. was born Dec. 20, 1959. He died April 9, 2017, from injuries he sustained during a farm equipment accident on March 30, 2017. Bill was born and raised in southern Idaho where he met and married his best friend, Terri Swinney. Together, they moved to the Willamette Valley in the spring of 1989...

Laura Renee (Weber) Patzkowsky, 48, of Mountain Home, passed away at St. Luke's Elmore Long Term Care on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. A Celebration of Laura’s Life will be held at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, on Saturday, May 13, 2017, at 11 a.m. Cremation is under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.