Sports Facility Construction
County Fair opens Monday in Glenns Ferry
(07/10/08) The Elmore County Fair will kick off next week, July 14-19, at the Glenns Ferry fairgrounds. The fairgrounds are located just off the second exit I-84 to Glenns Ferry (from Mountain Home). There is a $3 per person cost for admission to the fair with free parking provided...
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...
Fair carnival tickets on sale
(07/05/08) The Elmore County Fair will be held July 14-19 in Glenns Ferry. The theme for this year's event is "Country Dreams and Old Blue Jeans." Beverly Lucia, a longtime volunteer and supporter, will serve as the Grand Marshall of the fair. For the first time, the rodeo and the fair will be run at separate times. The ICA/IPCA Rodeo was moved to July 25 and 26 (starting at 8 p.m.). The rodeo date was locked in for this year and the county fair had to be moved up so it could include a carnival...
Christian kids help clean up city
(07/03/08) In the middle of a hot summer day about a dozen teenagers, wearing matching T-shirts, spent the day doing yard work for someone they've never met before. "We're not in trouble, we're doing this on our own," one of them called out. The group was one of five teams from Commission, a week-long, nondenominational church camp for junior high and high school students that focuses on community service...
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...
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...
Grand View Days set for June 21
(06/11/08) Grand View Days will be held June 21 this year with the theme of "Young at Heart." The tentative agenda is: Festivities in the park will begin immediately after the parade, including food, games, crafts for kids, and "the marketplace." In addition, the "story lady" will be present and a bike rodeo and softball tournament will be held. A dance will be held from 5-10 p.m. with the Sunset Riders providing the music...
Relay for Life changes venue
(06/11/08) Relay For Life has announced a change in venue for the 5th Annual event which will be held Friday/Saturday, June 27-28. This year's event will take place at Eastside Park on South 14th East Street, utilizing the track at that location, rather than the Tiger Field track at the junior high...
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.
Relay for Life gearing up for walk
(06/05/08) Walkers will go around the clock in the battle against cancer during the fifth annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Elmore County/Mountain Home at the end of this month. Teams from Elmore County and Mountain Home AFB will gather at the Mountain Home Junior High School track on June 27 at 7 p.m. for an overnight relay against cancer...
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...
Representatives from every MHHS sports team make state
(05/14/08) A representative of virtually every spring varsity sports team at Mountain Home High School -- either the entire team or individuals from the teams -- are heading to state competition over the next ten days. The administration at Mountain Home High School likes to send a member of its staff to attend state meets where it has students participating...
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.. ...
High school drama group plans "Treasure Island'
(05/07/08) The MHHS Design and Production team from the high school drama department will present "Treasure Island" May 7-10. Performances begin at 7 p.m. in the high school gym. Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, the high seas adventure finds Jim and the villainous pirate Long John Silver traveling across the ocean to find Captain Flint's legendary fortune. ...
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... |