Stories from Friday, August 3, 2012

Three Island Days organizers have been busy planning for this year's event in Glenns Ferry that will run Aug.10-12. For more than 25 years, the annual celebration, which was originally tagged Three Island Crossing and included a reenactment of the pioneer crossing of the Snake River, was held at Three Island Crossing State Park...

More than a year after it broke ground on its first official fire station, members of the Oasis Fire Volunteer Department will mark the completion of the project during a grand opening celebration Aug. 11. Scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. that day at the station on Tilli Road, the event will start with a free breakfast and a tour of the department's "fire wise" garden...

Gary Spackman, the director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources, has taken the unusual step of going public to encourage a water project proposal -- in this case one that would impact Mountain Home Air Force Base in a positive manner. Spackman stressed there is no current threat to the base's water supply, either concerning its quantity or its quality. ...

The Rainbow Basin area, near Trinity Mountain on the Mountain Home Ranger District of the Boise National Forest will be temporarily closed immediately due to an aggressive and injured black bear in that area. The closure began, Aug. 2, due to the concern with public safety...

Curtis Wayne Zahourek died Friday, July 27, 2012, as a result of a work-related accident in California. Services will be held on Monday, Aug. 6, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel with a viewing from 9-10:45 a.m. and funeral services at 11 a.m. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...