Stories from Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Concerns regarding proposed increases to the amount of money people in Mountain Home pay for water and wastewater rates took the stage as members of the public met before the mayor and members of the city council during a meeting Feb. 11. At issue were two resolutions aimed at increasing those utility rates by five percent starting March 1 in addition to transferring additional funds from the city’s general fund to cover operating expenses at the Desert Canyon Golf Course...

Love and unity became the key message people took time to share as they gathered at the Mountain Home Elks Lodge on Friday evening during this year’s Black History Banquet. Celebrating its 37th anniversary in Mountain Home, the event provided people in the local community a chance to reflect on this year’s Black History Month observance while sharing their perspectives on how to promote messages to make today’s society stronger and better connected...

A winter storm that swept across southern Idaho last Thursday prompted road closures along the interstate as law enforcement responded to a series of accidents in Elmore County and other counties across the state. The winter storm brought with it winds reaching speeds of nearly 40 miles per hour as several inches of snow fell across southern Idaho that day, creating slippery road conditions linked to these reported accidents...

Kari Agenbroad, a sixth grade teacher at Hacker Middle School, meets with Abby Schaefer and her mother, Ashley, during a parent-teacher conference held Thursday afternoon at the school. Parents across Mountain Home met with teachers at each of the district’s schools for a progress report on their children shortly after the third semester of the academic year began. ...

Eighth-grade students at the Rimrock Junior and Senior High School continued their efforts to collect various items to support the Elmore County Domestic Violence Council’s domestic violence shelter in Mountain Home. Students at the school asked for the public’s support to provide women’s and children’s clothing along with non-perishable food items, kitchen and house supplies as well as personal hygiene products...

Having spent nearly 33 years of my life as a newspaper reporter and editor in various communities, I’ve seen firsthand many things others in today’s society never face. On one hand, I saw positive instances in which people took time to help one another. This included one in which a brother helped save his older sister’s life as she battled a rare but potentially fatal medical condition most of her life...

Dear editor, This letter is about our kids. I hope Mountain Home News readers are aware the Idaho legislature is attempting to spend $50 million of public funds for private schools while our public schools are woefully underfunded. This is simply wrong!...

Jess Bowman, an advanced emergency medical technician with the Elmore Ambulance Service, holds the ambulance doors open as she highlights the amount of canned and other types of non-perishable items members from the three county agencies collected during a food drive held Saturday at the local Wal-Mart...