Stories from Wednesday, September 27, 2017

The ongoing fight between the Friends of Recreation and the Western Elmore County Recreation District took to the courtroom on Sept. 22. The plaintiff’s council, Joseph Borton, representing members of the Friends of Recreation including Betty Ashcraft, petitioned Judge Johnathon Medema to institute a permanent injunction on the WECRD on all non-essential spending...

The Mountain Home High School celebrated homecoming last week. There were many different activities throughout the week including a different dress up theme every day. 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...

The Mountain Home High School Talkin’ Tigers Speech and Debate team will be the first school ever to represent Idaho in the prestigious Jack Howe Memorial Speech and Debate Tournament at California State University at Long Beach Sept. 30 through Oct. 1...

Cropping up throughout the state of Idaho, throughout the country in fact, a Youth Advisory Committee will be forming within Mountain Home. Mayor Rich Sykes along with Mrs. Mountain Home Cristina Drake will be heading the committee, seeking out youth that would like to be involved in the community yet currently are not...

Dear editor, One of the things we should learn from the emergency actions in Houston after Hurricane Harvey is that our public safety organizations can become greatly overwhelmed by a natural disaster, and that ordinary people may find it necessary to do extraordinary things...

On Saturday Sept. 23, 2017 at 10:44 p.m. Elmore County Deputies responded to a report of a man walking in the middle of the right lane of Interstate 84 outside of Glenns Ferry, Idaho. Deputies arrived at 10:46 p.m. and located Mr. Gregorio Montemayor III from Gooding, Idaho deceased, in the left lane, after being struck by a vehicle...