Stories from Wednesday, April 26, 2017

A piece of history rolled through Mountain Home and Glenns Ferry in recent days as a vintage steam engine crossed southern Idaho. Union Pacific's "Living Legend" Number 844 steam locomotive and tender is traveling more than 1,600 miles during a round trip run to Boise to celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the historic Boise Depot and attend other events in communities across Idaho and Utah...

Music of the Appalachian Mountains and stories of Alaska will take the stage this week as the Mountain Home Arts Council presents fiddling poet Ken Waldman. Waldman begins his four-day residency here during a concert featuring banjoist Scott Knickerbocker today, April 26 at American Legion Post 26...

Mountain Home's Lady Tigers found their niche at the plate as they scored a number of runs during wins against Skyview and Wood River but saw themselves coming up short in a loss to Ridgevue. Mountain Home 11, Skyview 5 Mountain Home 0, Ridgevue 6

Mountain Home High School's tennis team found the going tough as they battled Bishop Kelly and Emmett last week. Mountain Home boys 0, Bishop Kelly boys 7 Mountain Home girls 1, Bishop Kelly Girls 6 Mountain Home boys 0, Emmett boys 7 Mountain Home girls 0,...

Rimrock High School student's project illustrates consequences of drinking and driving "Wake up! Come on!" Mylee Meyers frantically stood over her friend yelling at him to respond. It took a few minutes for the teenager to free herself from the wreckage of the car, and now the shock was starting to set in...

Dear editor, A group of Mountain Home counselors has established a free support group called SHARE (Support, Help and Resources for Encouragement). The group meets Thursday evenings from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Jones Center, 950 North 7th East St., across the parking lot from the main Nazarene Church building...

Elmore County Sheriff Mike Hollinshead announced on Monday that a burial site discovered north of Mountain Home on April 15 actually contained two sets of human remains. During the course of the investigation, authorities determined that two children were buried on top of one another in the vicinity of Hot Creek Road...

Dear editor, It was inevitable. Sooner or later, another piece of the open, natural space that is part and parcel of a community with a positive quality of life ratio would be targeted by a developer and his bulldozers. The signs for what has been given the moniker, "Morning View Subdivision," have been posted. The one that caught my eyes is stapled to a post at the intersection of South 5th West Street and Smith Road, or about one mile uphill from Airbase Road...