Residential Construction
Brush fires reported
(07/09/08) At 2:30, two brush fires took place in Mountain Home. The first fire was located at 2395 American Legion Boulevard. Reportedly, the fire was started due to a power pole that fell over and the cables from the pole sparked the area in flame. The second fire was located near in the empty field near the Pilot gas station. The source of the fire is unknown...
Brush fire causes trailer park evacuation
(07/09/08) Mountain Home fire crews responded Monday night to a fire near Meadows Trailer Park that triggered a precautionary evacuation of one section of the park. For more information, see the Mountain Home News...
SRA speakers rip nuke plant
(07/09/08) Representatives from the Snake River Alliance held a meeting Tuesday night in Mountain Home to discuss views on the nuclear plant proposed by Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., to be built in Elmore County. For more information, see the Home News...
City prepares to 'go green' with electric car purchases
(07/02/08) The rapid rise in gas price has prompted the Mountain Home City Council to purchase two electric vehicles. For the complete story, see the Mountain Home News.
Old Carnegie Library building celebrates its 100th birthday
(07/02/08) The Mountain Home Museum celebrated the 100-year ground breaking anniversary of the Carnegie Public Library Building on Monday afternoon. The building now houses the Mountain Home Museum. The special guest speaker for "A Walk Into History," was the son of one of the original architects of the Carnegie Library, Charles Hummell...
Pieces of dynamite discovered near gas pipeline
(06/13/08) About 15 residents from eight homes in the Tipanuk area were evacuated for approximately five hours Thursday night after residue and pieces of an old stick of dynamite, which may have been there since the 1950s, was found underneath a natural gas pipeline.
MHHS gym roof repair begins
(06/11/08) Work to repair the high school's gym got underway June 3. See the Mountain Home News for more information. http://mountainidhomenews.id.newsmemory.com/
Nuclear power info meetings underway
(06/11/08) Idaho Energy Complex, the company that seeks to build a nuclear power plant in Elmore County, held a public information meeting in Mountain Home Tuesday, June 10. Don Gillispie, Chairman and CEO of the company, made a brief presentation to the approximately 60 people in attendance before opening the floor for questions from Elmore County residents...
Nuclear power plant meeting set for June 16 in Glenns Ferry
(06/11/08) Idaho Energy Complex representatives have begun a series of public information meetings meetings to inform the public about their plans to build a 1,600-megawatt nuclear reactor in Elmore county. A meeting was held Tuesday night in Mountain Home. Check www.mountainhomenews.com later today for coverage of that meeting...
Info meeting on nuclear power plant set Tuesday
(06/07/08) Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., which is proposing to build a nuclear power plant in Elmore County, will hold a public information meeting on its plan this coming Tuesday night, June 10, from 7-8:30 p.m. at Mountain Home Jr. High School gymnasium.
Special anniversary activities scheduled all day Saturday
(06/06/08) The Mountain Home Fire Department will celebrate it's centennial anniversary Saturday at Fire Station #1. The day will begin at 11 a.m. with a parade of antique and new fire trucks at Fire Station #1, 220 South 2nd East Street. The parade will go down 2nd East Street, turn around at Albertson's, and come down Main Street...
Newest IP plant turbine goes online
(06/02/08) The new 170-MW gas-fired turbine at Idaho Power's Evander Andrews power plant near Mountain Home officially went on line last week, prepared to provide power for periods of peak demand this summer. The project came in ahead of time and under budget, Idaho Power officials said. Including transmission lines associated with the project, the overall cost of the expansion of the plant was just under $80 million...
Two dogs die in house fire
(05/14/08) A fire heavily damaged a residence on one side of a duplex at 1040 E. 4th North St. Monday, and two of the family's dogs died in the blaze. The cause of the fire, which occurred at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ortega, has not been immediately determined and remains under investigation...
McKenna Charter school breaks ground on new $2.3M building
(05/09/08) Founder Larry Slade was joined by faculty and the entire student body on site last Thursday for the official groundbreaking of the new building to house the Richard McKenna Charter High School. The School will be moved from the current location at 1993 E. 8th North. The school shares the building with the Idaho Department of Commerce and Labor office...
Craig receives commitment for Mountain Home AFB
(05/08/08) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An Air Force representative assured Idaho Senator Larry Craig today that the construction of a new Logistics Readiness Center at Mountain Home Air Force Base will be in the Air Force budget for fiscal year 2010. The commitment came during a budget hearing by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, during which Craig called attention to the dire conditions of the Base's Logistics Readiness Center which was condemned in the late 1990s.. ...
New lodge for Elks may begin soon
(05/02/08)
Leaders of the Mountain Home Elk's Lodge believe construction to rebuild the lodge, which burned to the ground last September, could begin within one to two months. Only final approval from the Grand Lodge remains for the plans of the new -- and expanded -- lodge facility, and once that is received the local lodge already has a contractor standing by to begin construction... |