Stories from Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The dust of powdered plaster coated the floors of the hallways and rooms as crews continued work to prepare the walls along these areas for future coats of fresh paint. Nearby, extension cords plugged into wall outlets remain connected to an assortment of flood lights to provide construction crews a better view inside these rooms as they continued to install permanent light fixtures in these ceilings...

A violation involving scheduled, routine testing of the city’s water system back in October prompted officials to alert local residents what happened while asking them to take steps to ensure the water sent to homes and businesses in the local area remains safe to use...

A sense of magic and a sense of humor take the stage as the Glenns Ferry Opera Theater presents its Winter Comedy Night on Jan. 24. Doors for the one-night show open at 7 p.m. that evening with the shows set to follow at 7:30 p.m. 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...

Students from the Mountain Home area put their basketball sharpshooting skills to the test as they battled for top honors during this year’s Hoop Shoot competition held recently. Hosted each year by Mountain Home Elks Lodge 2276, the competition required participants to sink free-throws baskets with the hoop distance shortened for younger participants...

Friday marks the 35th anniversary of a milestone in U.S. history that may end up going unnoticed in many communities across the United States. On Jan. 17, 1990, U.S. and coalition forces launched their first sorties against Iraqi forces during Operation Desert Storm...

Dear editor, I’d like to distribute factual information about our incoming vice president, J.D. Vance. In 2016, I purchased Vance’s book, titled “Hillbilly Elegy.” It’s a memoir of a family and culture in crisis. It’s part autobiography, part social text and part political economy and social mobility in the United States. Vance was under contract to write his second book titled, “A Relevant Faith for a Meaningful American Christianity,” but the project fell through...

Sixth graders at Hacker Middle School take time to reflect on their personal strengths and what they feel is helping them most as they write these messages on pieces of paper cut in the shape of snowballs as they take part in a program held at the middle school and others schools in the Mountain Home area Jan. 8...

Three months after it closed as part of a scheduled repair project, Idaho Power’s boat launch at the C.J. Strike Dam’s north park area reopened to the public last week. The boat launch at the recreational facility on the Snake River south of Mountain Home was one of a series of projects headed by Idaho Power aimed at updating the existing recreational facilities along the Snake River...