Stories from Saturday, May 27, 2017

A celebration packed with an expanded lineup of food, fun and music returns to Mountain Home this week as the community celebrates this year's Crazee Dayz festival. Sponsored by the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce, the event fosters the spirit of community involvement, according to festival organizers...

Mountain Home will host Memorial Day services beginning at 11 a.m. Monday at Mountain View Cemetery. Americans pay tribute on Memorial Day to those veterans who have fallen defending this country. The observance traces its origins to the days following the Civil War when Southerners marked the graves of those who died fighting for the Confederacy...

The results of an experimental year of project-based learning in a classroom at Hacker Middle School was the focus of discussion as the Mountain Home School Board met May 16. Teachers Kristopher Wallaert and Brett Young, who taught the program, were joined by multiple parents, who urged the board to let both teachers continue this teaching method...

In an announcement Monday, officials with the Boise National Forest announced that additional roads and trails and campgrounds in the Mountain Home Ranger District remain closed due to flooding that's leading to road failures and putting the public safety at risk...

A drop in the number of unemployed Idahoans and people looking for work pushed the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate down to 3.4 percent in April, according to a report released last week by the Idaho Department of Labor. Idaho’s labor force — the number of people working or looking for work — dropped by 2,500, which represents the second consecutive decline after 48 months of increases...