Stories from Tuesday, June 8, 2021

It’s a day of reckoning for Thunderbolt Landing. The City Council has set Monday, June 14 at 6 pm for public comment on the proposed zone change and development plans for the 48 acres located at the end of 10th East. Cory Barton wants to place 238 homes in that area, 200 of them on VERY SMALL lots, only 36 feet wide. ...

I would like to send a huge thank you to the Mountain Home Fire Department, EMTs, Bruneau EMTs and Grand View EMTs, for their response to the accident on Highway 51 on 1 May 2021. I was involved, and the care provided was special. They put their lives in jeopardy to save mine and Steven’s, who was also involved. They went above and beyond. I am proud to call many of them friend. Needless to say that I cannot praise them enough. THANK YOU!...

City of Mountain Home Council Members and Citizens, As homeowners in direct impact, we have some concerns with the Thunderbolt Landing Subdivision and the current variances being requested. This letter is not to be construed as we are against the development of the land, in fact we welcome development to mitigate the tumbleweeds and add much needed housing to Mtn. Home. We are encouraging people to attend the meeting on June 14th, 6pm at City Hall...

This June the National Guard Bureau reached out to members of the Air National Guard to ask service members if they would be willing to submit a small questionnaire with a picture to be included on their website for the month of Pride. The questionnaire was short, where do you serve, what do you do, but most importantly-what the observance of Pride Month meant to you. Never have I been asked that very simple, yet complex question, so I sat down, and a few key memories immediately surfaced...

Leni Briggs, age 84, of Mountain Home, passed away on Monday, June 7, 2021 at a local care center. Arrangements are under the care of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.

Esther Thornburg February 11, 1924 ~ May 28, 2021 Esther was born in Spokane, Washington in 1924. She was the 7th of the nine children of David and Grace D. Brown. Esther passed away peacefully on May 28th, 2021 following a long battle with Alzheimer’s at home with her daughter Tisha by her side. ...

By: Brenda M Fincher Local rape cases involving John Stafford, an Airman at Mountain Home Air Force Base and covered by the Mountain Home News in 2014 & 2018 with no local court convictions have finally found some closure for local victims. Military prosecution was conducted by The Office of Special Investigations, who has been the Department of the Air Force's major investigative service since Aug. ...